ANOTHER AMERICAN TRAGEDY.
DELIBERATE MURDER BY A GENERAL'S SON. United Press Association — By Electrio Telegraph— Copyright. (Received August 18, 8.40 a.m.) 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-Spanish war, waited at the landing stage of a yacht club at Long Island, amid a crowd oP fashionable pleasure-seekers, until William Ann is, a New York publisher, landed, when the captain shot Annis six times, with fatal results. While the tragedy was being enacted, the captain's brother, with a revolver, kept the crowd back. Captain Haina declares that 'Annis ruined his young wife. Foreseeing a collision, Mrs Annis vainly tried to prevent her husband from landing.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 9317, 18 August 1908, Page 2
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123ANOTHER AMERICAN TRAGEDY. Star (Christchurch), Issue 9317, 18 August 1908, Page 2
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