Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-01-07
HAMS. LEAVES STAND
Shows Depression at ConcIu-
sion of Four Days Ordeal.
THINKS HE HAS AIDED CASE
District Attorney Says Defendants
Story Is Shattered.
HIS MISTAKES MULTIPLIED
Medical Testimony to Consume Trial
During ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Questions to Be Put.
THINKS HE HAS AIDED CASE
HIS MISTAKES MULTIPLIED

FLUSHING. n Y. January AFTER
many hours on the witness stand, wnere
his story OF the killing OF William r..
Annis was probed in its most minute
detail, Thornton jenkins Hams was ex-
cused today from further examination by
counsel for both sides.
Hams showed signs Of great depression
as he took his seat beside his counsel on
leaving the stand.
Medical testimony regarding the sanity
Of Capt Hams will consume the after
noon session.
District Attorney Darrin says he has
shattered the defendants story beyond
repair. This was the fourth day that
Thornton Hams has faced tie jury. To-
day he asserted his belief that next week
would find him free man.
II have told only the truth to the
court said Hams. "and Mr.. Darrin has
not forced me to deviate from It, When
l could not remember the smaller de-
tails-a broken sentence. an insignificant
| action--I have frankly said so.
my story in the material points is UNI
shaken and will be believed. Men are not
convicted for failure to recOllect some in
consequential utterance Of a few days
past
Medical Expects Next.
The defense to it's medical experts
will PROFOUND its hypothetical question,
containing all the lay facts regarding
Capt. Hams sanity. Prosecutor Darrin
| will conduct the cross examination of
Hams medical experts under the
coaching Of DR.. Austin Flint. who was
one of the central figures in the array of
alienists at the Thaw trial.
| Justice Crane insists that all the evil
dence in the case must be in by Saturday
| night.
The summing up of counsel for both
sides will require all OF two days, and
the jury will probably retire for its de-
liberation on Wednesday.
Hams said in answer to an Interrogation
from District Attorney Darrin, when court
opened, that he had authorized some
statements printed under his name In
New York newspaper last November
| The witness was shown another newspa-
per clipping. He stated he had made
some statements contained in the article.
did you tell any one that the sight
Of Annis inflamed Peters mind?'
| NO"
Did you say it all happened so quickly
I was powerless to do anything
| Ne"
Hams Denies Statements.
The district attorney read from the
newspaper clippings and asked the wit
ness IL he had not said that on their
motor boat trips he and his brother al
ways were armed. Hams denied he had
made any such statement.
Dropping the line of inquiry, Darrin
| developed from the witness that prior to
August Is he had never seen the witness
| Tierney, and except on the witness stand,
had not seen him since the shooting.
| On cross-eXamination yesterday Hams
said he saw Tierney on the float for a
! further
saw no children on the dock. which
| Tierney, the defense's witness, testified to.
| The defendant was questioned carefully
about what he said and did after the
| shooting.
| Hams was shown a paper purporting to
have been written by Capt. Hams while
in the police station CELL In Flushing
The witness said 1t did not look like his
brothers handwriting.
Darrin then showed Hams other tel
egrams which were sent by the defendant
| soon after his arrest. He admitted that
the signatures on the kilograms were his.
| did you write to Mr.. Ripley: I'm not
through with Billy Annis'?'
| 81 don't recall"
This closed Thornton Hams long cross
examination.
Why He Did Not Tell Brother.
Mcintyre. on redirect examination,
called Hams attention to his testimony
under cross-examination Of the incident
In Marblehead in which Annis and Mrs.
Hams figured Hams said the reason he
did not tell Capt. Hams was because he
! did not want to wreck mans home
when he had only heard that Annis and
Mrs Hams had been at a hotel.
MY brother had child at that time"
said Hams; land, further. l did not see
my brother for year, and then only for
| a few hours"
In explanation of what he meant by the
| word gear" which he said on direct
examination had been taken from the
boat to his some, Hams said that gear
in nautical sense meant anything taken
from boat, and. in this instance. meant
a. fishing reel, q revolver, a penknie and
| q small flask Of whisky.
Asked why he had left Capt. Hams
standing on the dock alone when Annis
was so near, Hams said:
always before. when L took him by
the arm and told him to come, he had
always done SO. 1 though this time also
he would come with me-.
| On re-crOSS- examination Darrin asked:
Did the fact that Annis told you not
to tell your brother Of the incident in
Boston the next day after it happened
have any part in the reason for your not
sp .es!k,, to Capt. Hams about it?'
Thornton Hams left the stand at r.
O'Clock.
Urged Brother to Go Home.
The prosecutor took up the killing at
Bayside yesterday afternoon. after recess,
and cross-eXamined Thornton Hams on
all points Of his story. Hams related the
story substantially as it appeared in his
first testimony.
Hams said that when he saw Annis'
boat nearing the dock he turned to his
brother and said that Jesperson was not
there, and that he was going home
what did you do them
81 put my hand on his arm and he
1 threw it off. l then said I was going
home, and walked about thirty or forty
feet up the dock. ! turned around when
had gone about thirty feet and could
not see my brother. l saw only Mrs.
| Annis on the dock.
What did you do next?
Il went to look for my brother"
Hams said that when he put his hand
on his brothers arm the latter's eyes
were CLASSY, his arms were folded across
his breast and his head was bent down.
! Did You do any other act to induce
him to go homer?
Eyes: 1 twice told him that 1 was going
home. I was excited because Annis was