ANOTHER THAW CASE.
NEW YORK SENSATION. A PUBLISHER SHOT. THE UNWRITTEN LAW. (By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright.) (Received 8.40 ajn.) NEW YORK, August 17. Captain Hams, of the United States Artillery, with his brother Thornton, the sons of General Hams, who distinguished himself in the Cuban and Spanish Wars, waited at the landing stage of the New York Yacht Club, at Long Island, amid a. crowd of fashionable pleasure-seekers, until William Annis, a New York publisher, landed. Then Captain Hams shot Annis six times, killing him, while his brother, with a loaded revolver, kept the crowd back. Captain Hams declares that Annis ruined his young wife. Foreseeing a collision between the two, Mrs. Annis vainly tried to prevent her husband landing.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 197, 18 August 1908, Page 5
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119ANOTHER THAW CASE. Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 197, 18 August 1908, Page 5
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