SENSATIONAL.
THE LONG ISLAND TRAGEDY.
SERIOUS OHAEGES. CASE EXCITING GREAT j INTEREST. I in By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyright.^ (Received August 21, 8.40 a.m.) NEW YORK, 20th August. , In connection with the sensational shooting at Long Island, New York, of Mr. Anniss, a well-known publisher, Captain Peter Hams, who fired the shots which mortally wounded .Annis, was stationed at Fort Hamilton. He* had sued for a divorce, while Mrs. Hams, on Anniss's advice, counter»6ned ( for divorce, alleging grave misconduct involving several military officers. She; declared Thornton Hams, who is the . author of "penny horribles," to be thevillain of the tragedy, and makes serious allegations regarding army life at isolated posts. All the parties are well known, and ' the case attracts attention like Thaw's... It is stated that Hams, with his brother Thornton, waited on the land-ing-stage of the Yacht Club, amid a crowd of fashionable pleasure-seekers, until Anniss landed ; then the captain shot Anniss six times mortally, while his brother, with a revolver, kept the crowd back. Hams declares that Anniss, a married man, ruined his young wife.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXVI, Issue 45, 21 August 1908, Page 5
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178SENSATIONAL. Evening Post, Volume LXXVI, Issue 45, 21 August 1908, Page 5
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