The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-01-05
CHILLING CROSS= EXAMINATION OF
 JENKINS HANS P Prosecuting Attorney Sever al Times Confuses Wit~ nes and He Denies
 Previous State
 ments.
But on the Whole Accused
 Made a Good Witness in
 His Own Behalf-End of the Case Will Come Soon.
(Snecial from IInited PreSS.l

l UIlC CdSC " LII OOIllC OOJu. l Especial from United Press.) 1 Flushing, Jan. 5.-Primed witta a very lengthy typewriter list of aues-
 tions and a copy of the story Tharn-
 ton Hains told in his own defense lses- 1 terday, District Attorney Darrin qnes- toned the witness for two hours and l fifteen minutes with very great de- tail. Hains bore it well and gave his
 answers in splendid shape for an hour
 and three-quarters and then the strain began to show. He lost his temper l a couple of times and then as ques- | tion after question was fired at him | he began to contradict himself. 1 Flushing, L. l., Jan. 5.-Plainly | examination which he had been warn | would consume the entire day, Thorn l ton Jenkins Hains resumed the witt | ness chair in his own behalf to-day. His story of the killing of William E.. l Annis by Captain Peter c. Hains. on the float at the Bayside Yacht Club, August 15, was nearly completed last l night and Mcintyre said he would fin- ! ish within half an hour.
 AltOAilGy NClHLyI0 dl OlC0 lOOk up his task of having Thornton close up
 the loose ends of his story as he left them last night
 Mcintyre took up the question of the Dear Billie' letter. "Tell us what you know about that letter?' asked Attorney Mcintyre. 'I received that letter a few minutes after Mrs. Hains
 made her confession. Claudia came downstairs and asked 4Toraie, will you mail a letter for 1ne?' said I would. She handed the letter to me and as she did so the captain snatched it out of my hand and when he got out of the house he opened and read it, I reading it over his shoulder He became much
 excited over it and I took it away
 from him.
 "When you reached the yacht club did you at any time ask Burchfield, Funke, Storms or Ellison where Annis was?' tI did not.''
 This ended the direct examination
 and cross-examination was begun. What hour of the night of May 31
 was it when your brother broke into your home at Bay Ridge?" Nearly midnight '"Tell us how he acted when he broke in?'' The witness then repeated his story of the captain breaking into the house and acting in an excited manner. For half an hour led the witness through the mazes of his direct testimony without getting any important alternative than the original story.
 In the middle of the early cross animation Mrs. w. B. Annis came into the court room and was escorted to a seat inside the rail where she sat with pursed lips intently regarding the wit ness.
 Hains did well under cross-examina- tion He leaned we'll forward in his chair, apparently trying to anticipate the questions that were being framed by Prosecutor Darrin. Darrin ques- toned the witness at length regarding the Dear Billie'' letter. He declared he took the letter because he was ask ed to do so and made no attempt to keep the captain from reading it be- Cause he saw that it was addressed to Annis. He knew from it's contents that Annis was expected at the fort that morning and so gave his brother a heavy dose of bromide to keep him from getting up early and going back to Fort Hamilton.
 ''You did not want your brother to manded Darrin. My brother had just learned Annis was responsible for his wife's infidelity."
 "Yes, but what did you interfere for?" "I was afraid that if my broth CT came suddenly upon Annis that it would drive him mad.
 "You were not afraid that it would cause your brother to do him bodily harm?" 1No, he was in no condition to do anyone bodily harm"
 The peculiar manner in which Darrin conducted the crOSS-eXaminatiOn en- abled Thornton Hains to get into the record all the testimony he gave in de- tail yesterday. Darrin fared well when he took up the incident of the meeting ;c of OnI Thornton Hains to state positively that at that time Annis was not mentioned by his brother nor was there anv state rrfent made by hiffi then What do you mean, demanded Darrin, When you say now that he did not speak. Did you not tell the jury yesterday that he spoke. Did you not say, T took him into the store and he turned and pointed with his finger at the man who was passing and said. There he goes, that's him. that's him-Annis.' Did you not say so and why did you plussed and for a second was con- fused 'I simply don't remember" he said, taking refuge behind the conven- tiOral excuse.
 Darrin pounded home this lapse of memory. finally getting the witness to admit that he was not now sure just what happened that day.
 Flushed with this success Darri1: l soon scored another. getting the wit ness confused in his account of mo- tor trip on July 26. Yesterday he testi- fled that he had run into fishing boat | through the captain checking the en- zine too soon. To-day he declared he l went alonside the boat to ask how the fishing was. Why did tell one thing to-day and yesterday another?' de- manded Darrin. "I don't know and | what's more. I don't intend to be trapped in this way by you, MT. Dar- rin,' snapped the witness. 1T don't want to trap you. I want you to tell | the truth. that's all I want" declared | the prosecuting attorney.
 Darrin and the witness fenced at l length. Finally when the witness en- tered into a lengthy explanation Dar- 1 rim checked him with Answer these 1 questions as I put them. I don't want any of your explanations.' ''Of course you don't. You only want what you think will bother me. I am doing my | best and trying to tell the truth as wcll as can. But you don't want the truth"