The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1909-01-21
HAMS DECLARES
He WOULD DO II
ALL over AGAIN.
Author, Not Daunted by Two
Murder Trials, Boldly JUS
titles Brothers Act.

New York, Jan. 20.-"I'd willingly do
II Owe again. If my brother, the major
mere, got into trouble and needed me
FOR protection. I'd do the same thing"
is the position of Thornton Jen-
III Hams, whose acquittal of partici-
patton in the killing of William e. An
MS mas caused more discussion in New
YORK tina any verdict in recent years.
Hams does not hesitate to state that
the jury acquitted him under the .un-
written law" and he promises to write
q book setting forth his views upon the
right of a deceived husband to set at
defiance the law of the land.
Hams, now that he is free, boldly
and aggressively takes the position that
his brother, Captain Peter c.. Hams,
was justified in killing Annis
When he was seen by a reporter he
was the profane, domineering, voluble
L. Jenkins Hams, who took his broth
er's domestic affairs into his wv
hands.
Il didn't sleep well last night" said
Hams. Sleeping in the brass bed
stead in a luxuriously furnished room
was an experience that did not tend to
compose me to slumber. I slept better
on he iron cot in the Queens county
Jail.
There's n thing Darrin did to me
that was dirty. When we were first
put IN jail, Connie and I had comfort
able quarters. Then, at Darrin's or
ders, we We're put in rotten cells. They
put Connie in a cell with two prisoner
stool pigeons, who tried to force dam
aging admissions from him.
I may write a story Of the trial right
away. l have already mapped out a
book | am going to write on The I'm
written Law The only way I know to
lake money is by my pen, and I've got
to get busy. ! expect to spend some
time in the next few days going over
stacks of mail that are beginning to
come in.
Il was worried when the jury went
out. ! wouldn't have given a nickel for
my chances. That man Darrin, say
what you want about him. made a mos
terly summing up. He had me going.
l thought he had impressed the jury.
'Darrin made a good prosecutor. I'll
say that much for him. But If the case
had been left with the jury when he
asked me those questions about Claudia
if had ever made improper proposals
to her?-I think they would have
shouted, Not guilty l looked al. one
and said to myself, It's acquittal now
sure
1T was a hard thing to sit there and
have Darrin refer to me as "a com
mander of light artillery and a master
mind who plotted a murder You re-
around while he was doing it-ugly
looking things, weren't they?-and how
he glared at me. 1t was funny, but it
had it's effect and / could see it vas
influencing some of the Jurors"
Hams had a pretty good idea of how
the jury stood up to the time it filed
into court. Asked o he got his in
formation, he replied:
VIVA do you suppose I was doing ali
the time2 L knew how they We're go-
ing. ] got word during the night that
only two men We're standing Oil
against me.
Il depended upon the Irishmen on
that jury. / believed they We're for me.
Jardine, the Indian juror. is a brick,
i understand he fought for me flonl
the time the jury went out. He under
stood, you see. He's all right. 1 pinned
r.y hopes on him from the minute he
went into that jury box.
although l know that Mrs. Ann
lied on the stand, / am sorry for her
She couldn't be blamed for trying ne,
best to get revenge.
A for. my brother, Connie, he S gone
bugs. poor fellow. When I went dow.
to the Jail and told him / mad beer
acquitted. he didn't know what 1 was
talking about"
will you continue to carry a re.
volver?' Hains was asked, since YOU
twice figured as a defendant in a tria
for murder in the first degree?"
Certainly I'll carry a gum" he an,
sWered. "a man can't tell when he
might have 10 use it,"
Hams rambled along a lot more, talk,
ing about himself and his plans. HI
wound up his discussion of his case II
this shion Being on trial for YOU
life is like a game of poker. The &C
cused goes in holding a pair of deuce.
and the prosecution holds three aces. I
is all in the draw"