The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-16
Magazine Publisher of New York Shot to Death At
 Yacht Club House
WIFE Is LED ASTRAY
 WHILE HUSBANDS AWAY
Killing Is Outcome of Confession Of Wife Followed By Divorce Suit. All Concerned Are Promi-
 nent In Social Life.

New York, August 15.-(Special.) )-Capt- Peter Conover Hains, Jr., son of Gen. Peter Conover Hains, and one of the best known younger officers in the United States army, today shot and fatally wounded William E. Annis, a magazine publisher of this city, on the pier of the Bayside Yacht club. at Bayside, L. I. Annis died later at the Flushing hos pital.
 Annis-once numbered among Hains' most intimate friends-took advantage of the captains absence on duty in the Philippines to lead astray his young and beautiful wife. She confessed to her hus- band A divorce suit, instituted in June. with Annis as the correspondent, and then the shooting were the results of the confession.
 After the young officer had fired five shots into Annis body his revolver was empty and a crowd of yachtsmen and village people swarmed upon the pier to- ward him, with the intent, perhaps, of giving him rough treatment
 Captain Hains' brother, T. Jenkins Hains, the novelist and writer of sea tales, held them at bay with his revol- yer
 This is a matter for the police only, gentlemen" he said calmly. we will not attempt to escape. Just summon the police while we wait"
 Wait for Police.
 Then the brothers, each with weapon in his hand, sat down upon the dock and quietly smoked until the Baysde constab- ulary came to take them to the village lookup. < An ambulance, meanwhile. rushed An his to the Flushing hospital Everyone of the betrayed husbands shots had tulT ARfl 90 f...ff pierced Annis' stomach; two more pene- trated his legs; the fifth went through his arm.
 At first the hospital surgeons would not i predict whether Annis would live or die. i They said he was in a very critical con dition- There was a slight chance that he might live, but, as feared, he could 1 not survive so many wounds. l T have nothing whatever to say" Cap tain Hains told the village authorities when they questioned him. Annis was the proprietor of the Burr Mcintosh magazine as well as several other pictorial publications. He was handsome, fairly wealthy and rather well known as clubman. About a year ago he was a frequent l visitor to Fort Hamilton, where Captain Hains left his charming young wife when he was called to command a transport go- ing to the Philippines and then was de- tained by other duties in the islands It was not long before the acquaint- anceship of Annis and the young wife took on certain aspects that aroused the suspicion of T. Jenkins Hains, the brother.
 The latter sent an urgent cable message to the army officer who without waiting for the formality of obtaining leave from Washington made arrangements with his immediate superior in the Philippines and started for home.
 Wife's Confession. In a dramatic scene at the fort Mrs. Hains confessed to her husband and his brother She withheld nothing. and the husband learned that matters were even more serious than he had heard. He immediately brought suit for d- vorce, naming Annis correspondent, and then, it is said, laid his plans for a more complete vengeance. He and his | brother trailed Annis everywhere, waiting coldly and patiently for the proper mo- ment
 This came today, when the brothers found Annis on the Bayside Yacht club pier
 Capt. Peter Conover Hains, Jr., is 36 years old He has an income of 5000 a year besides his service salary, and owns considerable property. He WAS graduated from the artillery school in 1902.
 His wife whom he married secretly in 19OO was a Miss Libby, the daughter of a boarding house-keeper in Boston. She was then only r years old. After the divorce proceedings were be- gun Mrs. Hains returned to the home of her parents In Boston.
 Victim Is Warned.
 Annis' wife, accompanied by her two young children, witnessed the shooting from the clubhouse piazza. Just mo- ment before the first shot was fired she caught sight of Captain Hains uniform. Fearing danger, she called to her husband and tried to warn him. but he didn't hear her She collapsed in state of hysteria as she Annis fall.
 He was in a small catboat at the end of the pier when Hains opened fire, and his body fell into the water when he was wounded. A cabman saved him from quicker death by drowning.
 Mrs Hains, in Boston this evening, de- nounced her husband as a murderer and said:
 q hope they string both of them up. They wronged me- I made confession. yes, but 1 merely signed a paper they wrote out for me, after they had forced me to drink lot of whisky and had nearly starved me. It was a case of my husband being jealous of MT. Annis, who was only very good friend.
 The brothers will be arraigned in the Flushing court at o'clock tomorrow morning before Magistrate Fitch. Cap tain Hains will be charged with murder in the first degree and T. Jenkins Hains : with complicity
 Immediately after their names had been placed on the police blotter today. Cap tain Hains sent the following message: Gen P c. Hains, Fort Hancock N. Y.:
 Have shot Annis. He is dead Come to Flushing police station. Peter
 A detective read the message and called Captain Hains attention to the fact that Annis was not dead; that the latest re- port from the hospital showed him to be stilling living. f
 Damn him, he ought to be dead; he wrecked my home!' exclaimed the officer with his first show of emotion.