ANOTHER THAW CASE

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 282, 22 August 1908, Page 5

ANOTHER THAW CASE

AN AUTHOR-VILLAIN. CHARGES BY ACCUSED'S WIFE. REFLECTIONS ON OFFICERS' LIVES. |BT TBLEQttAFH—PRESS ASSOCIATION-COI'VItIOUT.) Now York, August 20. Further details' are published of the -tragedy at Long Island, where ~ Captain Peter Hains shot and killed Wm. Anniss, a' Now York publisher, declaring that Annis had ruined'his young wife. Captain Hains was stationed at Fort Hamilton. He had sued for a divorce, while Mrs. Hains,- on Anniss's advice, counter-sued for divorco,' alleging grave misconduct involving s'evqral military officers. Mrs. Hains' declares Thornton Hains— who is the author of "penny horribles" — to bo the villain of the tragedy, and makes serious allegations regarding army life at isolated posts. '. ' All the pariies aro well known, and the case attracts- attention like that of Thaw and White. . NOVELIST-NAVIGATOR. Thornton Hains, author, is, according to the cablegram, brother of the Captain Hains who fired the fatal shotsr.their father'is, it seems. General P. C. Hains, a United States officer of note, who. served in the Spanish War and oh the Canal Commissions, retiring in 1901 It would appear that the' brothers, armed with revolvers, ■' waited ' for Anniss at Long Island, and when the publisher landed from a steamer, the'' captain snot him six times, while the. authdr held back the crowd with his revolver. Mrs. Anniss, fearing trouble, had vainly tried tojrevent her husband landing. ' . . The. author, Thornton Jenkins Hains, seems to be a man of many parts, for one account of him states that "he has served his time at sea, and is a licensed navigator of oceans for vossels of moTe than 700 tons gross, having passed the United States inspectors, and holding both English Board of Trade and American navigator's licenses. In 1899 he took up writing as a. profession." Since 1896 eight volumes —impolitely described above as penny' horribles''—have fallen from his pen.