The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-08-18
CHARGES BROTHER
Of HAMS LOVED
CAPTAINS WIFE
Prosecution Will Argue Army
Man Was Tool in Hands of
Writer.
COURTS OF NEW JERSEY
TO FIGURE In THE CASE
Mother to Demand That Children
of Prisoner Be Given Into
Her Custody.
Especial to the Evening start

EACdtNh POI III ~ toAot VI <AiillO "
Captain Peter C. Hams. jr., United
States army, than was at first sup
posed.
81 have statements of persons who
will be Witnesses" said Prosecutor
Darrin, land letters which will show
these facts: Tha Captain Hams cruelty
and brutally beat his pretty wife sc
that she lost any love she might have
had for him. That Thornton jenkins
Hams was madly in love with his
brothers wife; that he was jealous OF
the attentions Mrs. Hams showed
Annis and that he sought to remove
Annis. He did not really believe that
Annis was in love with Mrs. Hams.
but he did believe that Mrs. Hams,
whom he himself loved, was infatuated
with Annis.
That L. Jenkins Hams deceived his
brother by disappearing the rela-
tons of Annis and Mrs. Hams; that he
induced his brother to cast his wife
out; that he wrote certain letters which
led his brother TO believe that Annis
was continuing the attentions to Mrs.
Hams, and that he finally goaded hiA
brother, who has been in shattered
physical and mental health for some
time, into killing Annis.
VIII Drag Out Skeletons.
Following the return of CAPTAIN
Hams from the Philippines, in response
to his brothers call in which he hao
been informed that many orgies were
being held in his home, his father,
General Peter c. Hams, caused an in
vestigation to be made which resulted
In the transfer of three captains from
Fort Hamilton and caused the COM
mander to Issue an order barring
strange men from the reservation after
dark.
1t Is now said that the three captains
transferred were not the only officers
of high station involved. Several of
the men had their own families at the
fort and at that time the efforts of Of
ficers very high In the service success
fully suppressed the scandal which was
smouldering. But now 1t is said tina
all of this will be brought out at the
trial and that the names of many I'M
portant army officers will suffer.
That young and beautiful Mrs. Hams
still has powerful friends in the army
is indicated by the fact that 1t was
Mrs. Hams who sent the warning to
Annis to stay away from the Bayside
Yacht Club the day he was killed.
May Appeal to New Jersey Courts.
The district attorney has informa-
ton that Captain Hams, who had been
living with his father at Fort Han
cock, had informed a brother officer
there that he proposed to go to Bay
side Saturday, when he knew Ami
would be there, and kill him. This Of
ficer. in whom Hams had the greatest
confidence, wired the information to
AIRS. Hams at Winthrop, Mass, with
whom he had been very friendly at
Fort Hamilton, and Mrs. Hams wrote
the letter to Annis, which he received
Friday, warning him that Hams pro-
rosed to go to the yacht club on Sat
urday to kill him.
Mrs. Hams Is now mt Atlantic High
lands. ". H., and is expected to make
n move to gain possession of her three
young children, who are with their
grandparents, General and Mrs. r.. G.
Hams, at Fort Hancock, sandy Hook.
She called there on Sunday, after
having hurried from Massachusetts
after hearing of the tragedy. and made
an unsuccessful effort to get the chill
dren. Then a guard was placed over
the children and today 1t was expected
that she would ask the New Jersey
courts for an order to have the chill
dren turned over to her.
Says Captain Beat Her.
When young Mrs. Hams was seen
at her hotel at Highlands today she
said:
II was afraid of the captain~-deathly
afraid of him. He had beaten me in
his mad rage. His eyes were like those
of a wild man. His voice would choke
and he could hardly speak. He would
not let me explain why he was making
a terrible mistake. He YOU only wave
his hands in the air, pull his nair and
swear. He acted like a crazy man.
'It is hard to tell the story in a con-
nected way. I don't see why l should
tell it, but such terrible reports have
been circulated that l am justified in
branding them as false.
1T was not old enough to know what
real love meant when l first met Cap
tain Haines. Now l see what a terrible
mistake 1 made. He was an army OIL
cer,' and, like many other girls, the
glitter of it all caught my fancy.
"The army has some very dear peo-
pie, but the life at best is a narrow
one. They can only READ, ana thdl
grows tiresome at times. So they talk
about some one. i know many poor
girls in the army who are tied hand
and foot. They Low their husbands,
but they have no future. They ara
whirled from one place to another and
can't have a home.
"As l said, l did not know what real
love meant, but l was all a wife should
be to a husband. / knew Mr.. Annis
and l liked him. He was a very fine
man, and his wife and 1 were very good
friends Mr.. Ami was a jolly man and
seemed to TAX a delight in trying to
give either man or woman a. good time.
Forced to Sign Paper.
"He always tried to have some little
surprise ready for any one he liked, and
1 am proud and glad he liked me, but,
oh, that / should be the innocent cause
of his DEATH That is the terrible thing
TO me. What can I say to Mrs. Annis"
She knows the real truth; she knows
that the terrible stories circulated by
Thornton Hams were lies; mean, terri
BILE lies. every one of them. That is