Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-01-14
SUM MING UP.
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fence should be insanity and that the
defendant only went to buy real estate
and tried to prevent his brother from
killing the publisher
The prosecutor waxed sarcastic when
he referred to the fact that men carry
checkbooks and not revolvers when
they go to buy real estate. He asked
the jurors it they believed the testi-
mony OF Capt Hams cook. a Negress
who said that in an early morning
hour the wife of an army officer had
come to her room and turned somer-
sault3.
Justice Crane said after adjourn
ment that he wanted the case to go to
the jury tomorrow night.
The prosecutor called attention to the
Ripley letter in which Thornton Hams
said after the Claudia Hams confession:
I'VE now have your Mr.. Annis on a
criminal charge
you have heard the alienists state
that the Claudia Hams confession made
Capt. Hams insane" continued the pros
ecutor. land the evidence shows that the
next day he went over to New York and
began suit for a divorce, a very sane
thing to do"'
Mr.. Darrin said that on Aug. 8 Capt.
Hams was shown in his lawyers office
the counter charges made by Claudia
Hams to the divorce suit.
Now the defendant, on direct testi-
mony," said Mr. Dar1in. Showed how
the captain acted when he returned from
the lawyers office and the next day Oh
cross-examination l asked him to again
state what the captain said and how he
acted and he could not remember how
he did it,
"And then after Aug. - for three days
they planned how to kill Anns. Upon
the framework of what had happened in
their lives they hung the cloak with
which to conceal the ghastly crime. And
the defendant remembered that he met
Mr. Jesperson in April and renewed an
old acquaintance"
The prosecutor recounted the testimony
of Mr.. Jesperson and Mr. Bugg. lne real
estate dealers.
Mr.. Darrin said that although the de-
PENDANT had made an appointment to go
to Bayside in April he never kept the
engagement. and that Thornton Hams
had never communicated with either of
the real estate dealers after that
THAT was the framework" said Mr..
Darrn, but there must be a defence for
both and it was agreed then and there
that the captains should be insanity
and that tho defendant went to buy real
estate and tried to prevent his insane
brothers act"
Mr.. Darrin referred to the defencc's
Iii
of Mr. Weaver as the "Twelve-year bus
mess associate of General Hams and
Capt. Hams" and Chester .teed as THE
lifelong friend of the Hams family
Mr.. Darrin spoke of the motor boat trip
and. picking up Capt. Hams revolver.
said:
"And this insane man went with this
fearful thing under his coat because he
feared river pirates. Think of this thing
strapped around his body in a neavy
holster over his shoulder and his coat
buttoned up on hot day in August. And
this defendant said he did not know his
brother was armed"
Now the framework has been made"
said Mr. Darrin. land the cloak is go
ing on. Mr.. Weaver is to show that the
defendant went to buy real estate. But
in planning out such a scheme they
could not help dropping stitches down
the team. The mask of falsehood never
did fit over the face oc truth and it
never will. So the defendant prepares
his mask of falsehood and he corrohor-
ates Mr.. Jesperson and AFR. Bugg insofar
as it suits his plan of defence. But when
this defendant went to Bayside he did
not remember Mr.. Bugg's name and he
asked for Jesperson. l doubt if he ever
knew Bugg's name or even that he was
members of the Bayside Yacht Club.
Now, the defence has asked some
questions in the last two days and I'll
answer them. The defence told you that
return tickets showed that they intended
to come back. but that was part of their
plan of defence and was it not strange
that when they were searched by the
police after their arrest the tickets were
not found? They wanted those tickets
as evidence.
at is usual that when men go to buy