The evening world. Newspaper, January 4, 1909, Page 2

cg erence A ere Tt was Tho Evening rid that hammered and t M@way untii the whote gas question was wrought out from under a smother egal twiats and tacos and exposed to She Nght of pubdiielty iy community, at Out of this deelsion will grow great reforme in the government of public eel Hight Connie watked the floor,’ sald service corporations, By setting up the (Continued from First Page.) Thornton Hains, Ail night he was contention that a corporation serving the oe orying out, My God, Eean't stand tt people has a right to claim profits on “and he ered ont T broke down your That man has wrecked my home Hoy what the people give it, tle Consolidated door, LT apologize, 1 apolorize! 1 Lstand {1 He spent most of the Gas Company lias rendered a great T sald ‘Why, Peter, what brings you) next day silting in oa chaty wit, lig service to the public of the United here L thought you were in the South head hanging But at regervais he States, The Consoildated Gas Cony Pucitle” He sald. ‘it is terrible, Claudia | jumped up, eluteling his head) and ee eres eT Niue: has contessed to me that she loves Annis. ycreaming out at the top of his voice 1 know everything She's told me every: My God, ‘Thornton, T can't: stand ite Fight vwasted Six Year: The S) cent aus matter lias been before thing. Twas so shocked fora minute 1 When he walked he staggered ar stum- the public In ative shape, through this couldn't do anything, Then Tsatd: ‘It's pied, like one exhausted. He often held Paper, for tle past six years.” Kyen too bad, but he broke fn and said jis arms rigid, with hands trem: When the question had been relegated spon't sympathize with me Thornton, 4) and loneacoriiwice U noticed: Whe Heard/ob Fi Couare the: Drdlaary. Chane [help me, help me, help me to do some-| sativa wag trickling from the corners of nels, The Evening World lifted the Md thing,’ He spent twenty or thirty mins! pis mouth once fi a while and todk a peek for it8 utes telling me of His wife Imissions During the next few dave he grew Fete venting World, by collecting and to him and then, at his suggestion, we! quieter, but seemed to take little or no resenting an-artay of incontrovertible went to find my father” FeHGE: GE WHEL WAR) RABSRAINE. Gl facts and figures, and by the formation — “nescribe his appearance when you wanted to take him antomobiling, but Roout the Investigation etn tas altace first saw him He was very wild.’ PT didn't know how to run the car and fon in New York by a legisiative com- gald Thornton Hains, ratsing lis voive yw didn't, 1 took him about with me and shaking his clenched fists above his | often during the early part of June, | overnor, Was appoint a iMustr Bella hone smears a daiatatia ¥. Virtue of the evidence gathered by the | head again, In vivid Hlustration s/t brought him over to New York | committee a law was passed by the | brother's behavior ils eyes glared, once, and we were walking down the | Legislature of 196 fixing the price of his face was drawn and distorted and) east side of Broadway @ cents per thousand feet "nected." when he suddenly stopped, grew rigid, This Jaw war have gone Into effect Good Actor on the Stand. [trembled all over and sald, ‘Annis.’ T on May 1, 1%6, The authorities failed to, i ; 4 ft fake aay steps to enforce It and the Con | “Did you go with him to see your | looked across the street nnd saw a man | golldated Gas Company, except where father?’ ‘I did. We spent practically | that looked lke Annis, although 1 egiepeed By, due Ges Heise the Leagues all of that day—it was Sunday=with my | wouldn't be sure. My brother's face! nored It, On May 18, 1908, the Consol! enn ‘ a tified Gas Company, upon the advice of father down at the fort, Father ate a [turned ghastly white and his teeth Joseph Choate, secured from Judge La- | little lunch, as T remember, but neither clenched. 1 sald ‘That's not Annis: | scombe, in the United States Circuit] myself nor Connie, as T have elways come away,’ and took him by the ‘ourt, ati injunction restraining | the) caved Peter, ate anything. After lunch jarm. He shook my aand off. He stood y and State authorities from enfot the provisions of the law. The fourt held that pending final decisior ¢ gag companies should deposit the 2% r cent. difference on all bills w ‘Waited States Commissioner Shields. \ | }T took my brother down to the battery | still, trembling, for half a minute or | of j-tnch guns and we sat down together | so, but [ took him by the arm and led | jand T trled to get a connected story | him down the street to the Fourteenth jfrom him, but all he would say waa: | street subway station Masten as Referee, ‘My God, she told me all about her rela- | “On the way home he eald. ‘I don't | tions with Annis.’ Then he would sink | Know what to do with myself, I don't Justice Lacombe ap) BE ita head in his hands, tearing at his| know what's the matter with me. I ipasten, a lawyer, of 3 ‘Sp octal Master to hear evidence and| hair and say: ‘My God, my God, she’s can't control myself when I see Annis.’ \larguments on both sides. The Con-/ told me everything.’ ” Then Peter added something like this: Gas Ci y set up that the H b Maated Taw wae confiseatory and | At this point, Thornton Hains having | pute erefore unconstitutional jdeen on the stand about twenty-five Counsel for the Consolidated (as Com: minutes, Justice Crane announced a re- \ \ mab vanittien to tat Hurl aeanilta ‘cess. But In that short time Thornton | brother from early in June up to Aug. idnvestment—at least § per cent. Then | Hains had proved himself to be con- 47" “I took him to the train when he (he put tn, under the head of Investment, | siderable of an actor, Telling of his It went to Washington franchises which cost the Consolidated {Gas Company and associated zag iner had fairly radiated with the pride my house jjaerving corporations not a cent, at a waluntion of $12,000,008), "They also putin, of authorship, A little further along, |all day and often at night. 1 ies the valuation of the real eatate used when the Justice admonished im to saw him sleep all that time. He may | the manufacture and supply of gas, walt for possible objections from ne | have elept, but v {the eum of $198.18, upon which they | B ont eeNe Hea Bias neter say, Mines He) Le eee eee eer acttetttg. | Prosecutor before making his replies, |spent most of his days sitting in a Bpecial Master Mastin, in a long de-| Hains, who had been snapping his re-| steamer chalr on my upstairs porch, lon, after hearing evidence and argu- mts of an exhaustive nature, upheld every contention of the Consolidated lGas Company. He reported to th United States Cireult Court that t Consolidated Gas Company should allowed to tax the people a percenta sof the value of the franchises. The Report Confirmed, Judge Hough, to whom the raport of the referee submitted, confirmed the report, largely as a matter of rou tine, hecause his decision would have been appealed from had he deciled the yother way. He let the whole matter go. to tie United States Supreme Court with the statement that the fundimental point in quickly, said ‘Ail right,” brisk- | often staying there tt dark He ate ly and emphatically, In the voice andj very little, Sometimes he would be- | with the air of a sea captain used to | come almost violent, stamping up and, giving orders. [down whistling, singing, waving his As he approached the place where he hands and often crying out, ‘Oh, let's! told of Peter Hains’s sudden entry into forget It! It's all right. Let’ his house the night after Claudia Hains confessed her wrongdoing, he threw a lot of fervor and dash into his description of his brather's behavior, yet | constantly sweeping the faces of the jurors with a sidewise, Iightning-like turn of his eye to see what effect his narrative might be having upon them. ; | i { ( pli be on sang, ‘Oh, How Happy to Be Married! | over and over again.” Saw Victim on Broadway. Did you take him out motor-hoat- ing?” fs, I took him out at least thirty thmes that summer. We would) run at top speed all day covering 10! at issue Was the right of the Consoll- dated Gas Company to capitalize its) He Was smiling with seeming satisfac- or 0 miles, and once circling Staten | . nclilees for ron aking purp tion as his guards led him, handcuffed, [sland twive the same day. My father nole estion of ca} fi A & ky Bi ed about. this paint j out to luncheon, asked me to keep him out on the boat | that. with the franchises das) The biggest crowd that had yet been as much gs possible.’ tangible property, the company could th toch ¥ fi ’ make and sell gas at § cents and earn Hi ‘i A spied? Mas drawn to “Do you remember what happened on a of 8 per cent Ne afternoon session by the news that or about Aug. 42” “Yes, we went to Judge Parker, Mr. Whitney, Mr. Bur nton Hains had finally taken the the Army farary aks , pid AttornesGeneral Jackson argued | stand. Flushing townepenple, eich otis AuHY Bullding on Whitehall street, the case » the United States 8 thin ‘ding ee . b and from there rode uptown on a prene Court rr the Consolidated | UHM sprinkling at Manhattanties, Brqadway car, We had just got off the Gas Coy vd eek, C1 oa JAtinmed the room wher Hes es 5 ee MRhEw ane erat ae Peau tered. Wit Thornton Deine sat rar and were walking toward the door placed i explanati A £U-| the chalr, McIntyre went at him In th a og tie tore when he stopped and shook Merits i eth august ti Tahar Mimin thit aii over, T said, ‘What's the matter? | eects 6 -court Was not ex. | fas He pointed to a man who was crc pected to-day The record as so 1 ‘as cro) Vohiminous that it. was belleved. the Gave Him Sedatives Herald Square and sald; ‘There he govs Justices mu: consume many additional ‘Tell us more about that Sunday —there he goes! That's Annis!—that FE GIUARBeRPathese montemenes morning, May 31, wien Peter fist ap- the inan'” He stood there several min- heart of the contraversy—thev el: neared Well, T was asleep on the utes, and I had a hard time getting him hernias idated Gas second floor and te burst In the front ty on. He trembled all over, his ATL « ofits 1 anehtses door do: stairs ‘ump » Oo ac 7 4 ey SAS tae TAT CTT LA Gre Rate ee oe Hoehne see al pedupian he akin ara tan over his face and his f eat = T00 he AP: eyes Were glassy, shining like a snake’ Gas Combines Affected peared rusting up steps. Among | eyes, us KAS companies affected by th ye white a ecall } 7 Late HABA? e things wht hod r all ne sald In a day or two le was sent to Fort Amsterdan Mis this, ‘Help me. Thorny!’ He sald Hancock at Sandy Hook, and my fatier u Hon i t e s He ree ve a eens ue and mother came up from Washington ' fia arm and a food of ty the house for him. T used to take j { i # : 1 dd ean tee mone him out in the motorboat every day silice Inst eaning pe rom fits lips. Then be On duiy 26 we went up the Shrewa the money held by the sank into a chair with hie feet extend- pypy we Haat SEEN enters as joven it were in his cha Fi) didenly he jumped up, erving out. ary River. ® were coming back | yand it will be retur: t ns Na ee i aa + owhen w vo Kode | ers as per thelr pr It's all right! Ite all right! Let's forget Mase aani Chorne Mer nahingsiais Sin . t te ; al boat off the hospital just inside Sandy f y i at le hummed a tune whieh Giook, He asked me te t rR De oO tH 4 me This went on halt uM: Me as (ee » a up to whet companies have printed on fn hour. Te was shaking all over and (ave He i ' ve wUb pl Be ut Paid A coneplcurue Warning to the con. | In a tate of nervour excttement, Ltried {Wevt Knots, my brother suddent sumer to save that particular An | to get him to eat, but he refused, Finale Jumped up and threw open the switch, interesting. Aention to! he! settled sncttly Needy G4 see pa.’ 7 BPeatly Snereasing our speed. 1 threw their Wills are entitied to. rebates ed Im to the fort. Because of his Ue pes) hae hard and as we brushed game ag those w ited exetted appearance |S: narrowly escaping stelking thelr a Ite BRET eel ORT boat, he jumped on the seat of our ROOSEVELT NAMES WATCHORN| “fv long time tovrench the MAAL end cursed the goldiers, WASHINGTON, Jan 4—Am tha | Mort because bis teet dragged Ike an eld ; ‘When we had got by I sald, ‘Wh3 Appointments sent to the Senate r and he seemed thoroughly exhaust. “lt! throw open the switeh He by President Ri a ; ed. When we reached the Post [ sent Said) ‘Switch, hell! T never touched it Haber varehorn for Dr. Wilaon, who arrived after luneh, Ub Until that time he had seemed to me Of Immigration att | the front porcli of Peter's to be improving mentally, About ee | Wilson felt Peter's pulse and [o'clock that afternoon he came into me “Oitinian Wate IN ONE pay |*x#tined him. closely and prescrived | and sald to me lake LAXATIVE LIOMG Que { potassium for him, which 1] Speaks of Suicide. ru refund money’ If it fails vdministere \ 0 7 alm 1 E. W'GROVE'S statuiure ts on each box iene tered, We also” gave him) sorhorny, T have just sean father, ‘S ery ie Heron Neer teaty (E88 soldier and a gentleman Alor ere) yarrin repentediy: Help Wate irri ceroniisnns tute sus Ace ime 1 cant ve under © permitted Hains to go ahead. Most '?'* rata) Ie GR? Cl) tk Halia's thing to do—I must dle He haa wrecked 0-Day ! frawl that bespoke his my home and now he has killed me. 1 " stress, he am a gentleman and an ofMfeer, and a (As advertised for in The Morning “i came from a whip las | Solder, and | must dte p . e. 1 sald ‘You shan't die, you shall live Werld's Went Directory. ODE peal Repeats Confession Details. area Staines Pestlen Lemay now De MONDAY, GAN 4, 1900 ailinelae hewn anes s ten monstrous to Hows de 15 Baker pala aceuse you of suet things “ 2 H ors 1 meant anon tice te DE sald, ‘f tell you T saw the papers anc atedas Hy . Mv tr ennai, ust die’ T cann@t deserthe his ap: Pekoxbina nny vee except to say that te i . sare \ ta er, sa ng do s cheeks and “rll Ay i) vadia Hains had made a second cone NU" Hi ens joy 4 aiiors <1 ! ereaine! par { festion, Capt Hains put in, saying, Lo Stn your opinion were his acts ra- Tut ci @ ran't think, J ca ) anything: I'm tional or irrational?” asked Mr. Buttonhole Makere | Mana {tired out’ Mr. Bennett, the lawyer, Intyre They were most trrational,’' Cabinet Makers. 1 Manicures 4 came in a little and in about an. said Hains Canvassers M ere MW \ a went In the house to the Before your brother's return from bs foe st cele 1 par the Philippines had you been nego! {Charmbermaids sinters "|! Hains detailed the scene during | ing for erty at Bayside?” “had ' } - of Mrs Claudia Hains, [ had heen dickering with Mr. Jesper E ontorming cl that son and Mr Bugg, who have both testi P * During thir meeting, Baek in March I met Jes FC: 4 i © Captain would pup, pers 1a Broadway car and re | Sap A if his hands to his head, and ‘r He told me he was now in [Dressmakers ss * y God! My God’ How the rea) estae business, and It Dentists finen 2 1 wa gt (Diahwashers Salesiatien tt rte down her admis. on wh Drivers 11 Sales 8 e continued, “and asked it girl He Druk Clerks tang ! c She said t vere las Manor mitiarintasal. | gene tie WH kel her to sign I agreed to g # office that after icibrolden Pin too FS e came over to the table and noon, but failed to do so, After that he Sicirieers te her name ajled at my house, and then I went t Engravers ea iF gave another dramati: his office, and there I found Mr. 1 Feeders r ‘ brother's excited Huge, who showed me upon a map two patoners 6 mmers audia Hains put her aig ts on the shore at Bayside, near the remen enithe t alled Bayside Yacht Club pewriters (F Walters {ter the woman had go! 2 10 Ko out and look at the altrens aire ty rnton Hains said that ] understand it, Mr. Bugg said 40 Misceltancous sat at apa requrati| tooke tale Ue at Hayside or at the Bay to Bay (Ridge and kept alde Any Saturday. | think pine Bs ¢1¢-¢18 LOG th him all night. 7 eK te Ro out an autom The World printed to-c 1,022 | ton Hat s required now to descr that next Saturday or the followitis 2 i at her's actions during the en Saturday, but I fatled to go, and aft 4elp Ads, O43 more than all other thers: a CENT nsulng sa EL Sate days. that Mr. Je y came down to see me ww York papers combined. “From 9 o'clogk that night umtil day- and we talked (le project over, | Hancock Mr. THE EVENING WORLD, MONDAY, JANUARY 4, 1909, He cane again on dune and 1 jag to we with him as soon as 1 ould, bat t told him that on aecount ot westio trouble 1 was taking eof my brother, Jesperson sald: he thought he could make the priee rhet for the two Bayside lots, adjacent. t the clibhonse I understood Jesperson to say he would be at Douglas Manor any Satur day or at the Bayside Yacht Club That is what E thonght he sald. ° He " fe sail there was usu jelub on Saturdays told me YY wl tind him This was a partial contradiction ! th of both Jesperson Bugg, who expressly stated that had no engagement of any sort testimony w of and they ith TELLS OF THE KILLING OF AN. | a erowd at the the races, and ‘Thornton Hains for midsummer at Bayside His Motorboat Dismantled Did mond Weaver you talk with Charles T who has testified here between | anout the Bayside project?” "Yes, he| came down one night in June or July, | and we talked ab concrete houses He thought he could build me a cons crete hinuse very cheap if f bought the Bayside lots “Did you at any t during the sea- son suffer a breakdown in your motor boat?’ “Yes. late in the afternoon of Aug. 1. as we were coming inside the Hook the gasoline ran low. ather was threatening sow landed at the Goverr™...: dock. aside and After | trying to get some g.sollne we decided Fort Hamilton on So we took out of motor-boat all Kear and porta fixings and my gun, which T carried with me on those trips ta come over to Government tug. boat, crossed to Fort Hamilton on Bevepilen a the ble always Then ‘When I see Annis T want to get at We put a canvas cover over the motor- | the “T was very tired when we got home, He came back and 1 slept late next morning. About 1 erary achtevements, his volce and man- about the middle of June and stopped at | o'clock we started back to Fort Han- 1 was wit! him constantly cock, intending to take the Sandy Hook never boat to the Hook and then go over to the Government Dock and get the motor boat, We came over to New York on the "Lh." As we came down from the Brooklyn Rridge right in front of the World Building we met Char Raymond Weaver On the Way to Bayside, Then Hains testified exactly as } went uptown on the way to Bays to go to Bayside and then went alone. aver. He Peter from his told of they started up Broadway and of going | 4uswer. back in the crowd to find him. “How far back was he? asked Intyre. “Only about the length of t room." | les ad forget it!) | Weaver—how they talked until it was He frequently quoted ‘The Vampire’ or | too late to gn to the Hook, how they ide |and how Weaver found it was too late on his Weaver had sald that Thornton went back fully a block before he found the Captain, Mra. Annis and her faithful trie Mrs. Birchtield, entered the court ro at this point and took the seat wh nd om ich she had previously occupled. She looked white and sick in and her huge black hat Having the various strands of the narrative into one se woven her widow's weeds separate mite column—the motor boat and the craze for going armed, the water stde lots the reason for going to Bay t meeting with Weaver for going to chance PXCUSE not Fi and daintily, pointed his toward the climax of his stor: count of the shooting of Annis, in course of which, it was known in Thornton Hains would hav tradict the a hesses to the tragedy excepting one. Thornton Hains saw Mrs. Annis, his votee did not falter. He ents f. —his con McIntyre working deftly as je and as ‘ort t are the 1 to ts of all eve-wit- but a “Dd you go anywhere else with your | tug and spent the night at my home In| Id k Hd neat gf opar did not ‘ Lo fast sald it Did know that Annis was a Dit & yom es hove t otha said Dare lub-house 1 have alread a 4 4 Wered: | did not.” reptied the defend ! Darrin Gets a Rebuke, Itched and Burned Terribly —Arms ant tells, “vent Jago the) recto » vi tian’ asked segue Affected, Too—Could Not Move ELH GICTINMEEEETEY (is NIA i Wanuneg Thumbs Without Flesh Cracking verson. | left Peter in the ci ' 5 Lido," su —Sleep and Work Often Impos- The colored man did noc know Jes Wel, 1 it out.” said ible—Was Fairly Worn 0 fon, but referred me to another young ou put a revolver at the back |the Justice RuRGCTIC sible—Was Fairly Worn Out, [man a white man, who had just en Annis? Di et any: atten t 5 e he shoot. ——— tered, Bul he did not know Mr. Jes ML su “Move. or ing, ished Mie work. ti i person, but a answering fo get the sume?” we came ere to rai Mr. Jesperson’e description was dow: Was Mrs. Annis on that Moat at any | not pe aid av oe aie CUTICURA SOON CURED on the float with nei ybody else, time’ She wak not. She was never | cine 7 LEN # Me eine med ng lees el that my brother had gotten out What happened when you said t0/droye the ot else Dott EE f the carriage and had gone en wl) Roberts, ‘Sand back? They noe sands We tof put my “About a year ago an itching humor wk excused myself and fol-' bac Some ran and some Iked. Rob- 4 a ae . £ bids ore lowed him" . ae > hea a } fn e ae iden ue iL sx began to appear around the back of my p oe oe ‘al sa ’ he float with on en the hand, “It started in to spread, and All this was in direct dentel of the Mnt a gun at me or Vil have you at | came t turned my princes pretty soon it covered both my hands statements of three witnesses—-Skura sted. You're as guilty as he $8" Thang said, “Take me. t Ther and got up over my wrists and even. the eab boy erson, the negro, and said, ‘He's my brother, what could I) that Roberts said | was a " he to the élbows,” The itching and i ie is bait Ld M1 ” M4 * terrible, a united In swearing that the two pid you say to Re ts. ‘came! saved lis was doing a good part of the time, the Hainses left the surrey together and gown here to protect rother? Did you think surface would be covered with blisters whispered to gether In the club house «No, What f said was, 1 tumped here! boatman seize your and then get raw, The eczema got so Did you talk to the colored man ito protect my brother,” 1 meant Thad | atte, marine Sie paet up Gane the pit of my thumbs about Annis at any time?” "LT never jumped off the dock to the float to pros | was in danger of gr ly narmee without seeneni GORA iene dreamed of Annis,” said Hains tect him,’ 1 certatnt think. (hate PN tsiny doctor, ‘Hitt dicine could Did see Mrs. An go toward Now, then, after this unhappy oc- | “During the inquest 1 only stop the ite! id did not seem the dook?" ‘There was no woman on ourrence, what then did you do” asked | Annis in this h fea te heal my hance at all, At night the road to the dock that Ysav. Ul! yotntyre, when Hains, exhausted by OMmcer 4 rain fai ae oa ao ep Ga could ny Joined Peter and walked down to the) ‘the fervor with which } told his | not. Inominge aiken cararine: We, RAITT e real an k ane presenily te Mt a story, leaned back tn his cha Did he sit by you and ape Tam a chef and ste rade and that I'd seen up at the club came own : | ‘airy ; “Thad to give up my piace, hands I met one man who did know Jesperson Pleased With Himself Br ARIS De ately ae {UM weresso; terrible. (9 look ‘at that they but he not seen him that day.’ Hainss face was wiite even uniley r BRAN : did not like to heve me around about “Now afl that, wh asked. Mr. the jafl-pallor’, but hits exes glitter te OT didn't see i the Che food, T could not bear to touch Mvintyre, ‘There was Mr. Birchgeld,| with satisfaction at tie impressing tian set UP Rerr WIL weabee, Due w ent past ti vel awhom [ have mentioned He walked! whteh his narrative, so at vartanen with ‘ FepOn ted) HO Fem y mend clean vould beside me to the dock when he called that of every ot sp had 1 “This sc rt of business went on for down to @ man on the float, whom he| created on his audier ‘ F three months and I kept trying zine told of my desire to purchase real es- Well, sald HH ‘ockily ime s t and tar ointments and stich remedies tate, This stout man was Mr. Storm. interrupts, Ill tell what happened.” tom with no particu I did not I told Mr. Storm that there wee no! ere'll he interruptions, be sure of yi er wus enon wnat tod Mla 20h heed of him to miss the race on my that. eald dir. Daveth i ly the Pant neki ine CULL count In order to talk real ate Mr Melntyre protested: at 0 len hie Cura and at T would, me, as I was going to do business wit! iy Mite toad diva 1 13 = First I got the Cuti Soa then | the advertising manager.’ } In one particular he contradicted | having missed | ( ‘ de at Worth street ag | Person is not here; let's go.’ He made : sharp, quick glance at her, and then | turned his eyes awalted the toward next Mr. and qugstion. Mf Annis, after seating herself, fastened her eves on the witness and never once mover) them for several minutes defendant went on to tell of Weaver and starting for Bayside Intyre introduced the 1 tlons of two excursion tickets to shi that the brothers Intended to come ba “Did you know Mr Annis was a me: ber of the Bayside Yacht Club that 4 when you started for Maystde? not When you left for the lay did you know IT did not The witness satd that or Bayside the Captain M Bayside A th here the ride do was pale to qT leaving | Io. return por- ow ck m- jay T did hat is was?" wn He tired and exhausted and spoke but Little We got to Bayside a iittle before 2," went on the prisoner, “When we got out of the train [saw a lot of rigs, but they all med to be engaged | looked around and found a bey who, I have since learned; was Martin Skura, with a surrey. 1 told him T wanted to look at some lots and asked him to drive us round ‘Tasked the boy {fhe knew Mr J Tasked him where him to drive me there. stand! behind me and I {f we did not find Jesperson, look at the lots Did yy Annis?" Did y platfoi some rked th boy if he kr a stage at the stat! partt Wy. 1 8 thera, tut p ages and & attention to them. Did vou Know Mra Annis time?” "Tor r had seen or a Mrs. Annis You have seen Mrs Annis hera eurt that day did get in or out of the rtage? ot see her elther get in or 9 at ai on the way Yacht Club? °1 at 1 near on you * i it ge I didn't Did you see a Bayside stage Rayside not Did te boy to keep hundred feet back of the stage, all way over and to pull up close beh t when the stage stopped?” "I did see any mtage—how could]? Did you say within hearing of boy of the surrey: ‘Now we've 1 dtdnat that any tim thing to you the ike it anything Id you tain? Yes. but the Captain made no answer. made few replies (o my remarks.” say the C1 rf something about the lot © Captain was at at ew MeIntyre | ton | aw | ald hat | of in her ald any to ald one the} ind the Rot or He another man, At that time IT had idea Annis was down there at all sall- Ing a boat or doing anything else. ‘All of a sudden Mr. Rirebfield turned and sald, ‘Hello, Mrs. Anis" T turned and saw a larze, fine looking woman standing at the head of the float. I sald, ‘Annis? What Annis” He said, That's Mrs. Willlam E. Annis, wife o¢ For a mo- ment I was shocked. When I «ot over my surprise [ sald, ‘Is Willtam down here?’ Birchfield said, “Yes, he's out there now in boat No .7,' and he pointed toward a small boat out in the bay. The Murder of Annis. “T awaited a moment and turned to my brother and sald, ‘Come on Pete, Jes- He was stamiing with his arms folded, his face pale and looking out steadily from under his brows. Twice more I said, Come on, Pete, Tin Annie) |speak out, to refute his wo | Mirebfield touched her arm and sie sunk THORNTON HAINS ON THE WITNESS STAND NIS AT YACHT nk It would he prog ake objections and per f lefendant language regar that the Mrs. Annis sat rigid ass defend band's st ' |so mat t orself jhad told most every detail fr by those members Chib who had test! witness stand. F defendant made Ils denial sault upon her seer back fn her chatr The description of the tragedy e scenes preceding tt, as alled by the prisoner, had varted in many points from the one by the prosecution's witnesses, the material point of differ ence being In the time that elap: got; He made no answer. Then I} tween the discovering of Annis e said {t more decidedly and put my hand] brothers and the shooting of | e n s arm. He threw my hand off! captain. The defendant's story made Oe ea eeals Ha cRRE HERI IR core ouiaNere cance CRTRSE standing on the dock about six fret the witnesses for the prosecution all hind Mn Annis, So T turned and agreed that the tine was between started up the dock towand the cluly twenty and thirty minutes telling him | was going home.” After | had said repeatedly that | Did vou Fnow he was armed?" “No. would take care of my brother until ar i had no {dea he was armed.” oMcer came, nearly everylody ran uy What did you a “T walked ten oy the dock, continued Eains af rt or fifteen feet and then looked back for sghort recess, “1 led my brother t vim. He had disappeared, [knew he contre of the runway. In a fe tniigt have gone down the float, so T BRU OR CEA OE went to the runway and started down Just as [ got to the head of the run- way T heard shots—several shots com- ing Ike this,’ rapping one, two, three, four, five, six, as fast as he could clap his hane Then he continued aw my brother “As the shots ended [ standing on the edge of the float below hands a seen before, T saw Iding the gun, As inway a big man, dressed like a ralior, rushed across the float, struck my brother with his left hand on the shoulder or left side of the neck, like that—another violent ges- ture—"anil seized T rushed for- ward to get between them Why He Drew His Gun. “My brother dropped his gun at the in reve me, holding his whieh [ had never him stand up, still I started down t! r him blow and as the big man raised his arm to strike him in T got between them. This took only a fraction of a second, At the same instant another man, whom I know to be Mr. Roberts, came forward, pleked up my brother's dropped gun and swung {ts muzzle to- ward Tcan't say he aimed ft, but it looked to me as ff h 1 natural- ly supposed the gun had more loads In It, and so T pulled on wn gun like this and threw it down in Roberts's face like this'\—-more spirited panto- | mime—"and I eried out ‘Get back, get back. don't you shoot him. Don't you shont, get back.” Did you point your pistol?” “Only at Roberta, I just waved it toward the others. Men were rusling about wildly It was arlot. Men were screaming and cursing. [ waved the gun to and fro, this way and that, shouting out, ‘stand back. You can't hurt this man, He's my brother jet an officer.” Lerled this out at the top of my voice at least six times while holding them off." to shoot Roberts?” before. brother. Did you Intend No, I never saw the man was only protecting my didn't mean to shvoot anybody “Were there any threats “Yer Lots of shouting and whooping. I heard one man swear, I suppose it was like any other fight, I heard orles of ‘Get a rope’ ‘Lynch lim. ‘Throw him over- hoard,’ and things tke that.” “Did you take any hand in the shoot- Ing or try to keep back those who would have saved Annis?” ‘The shoot- ing was all over before I got there. I had no chance to interfere until It was all over.” “Did you go down on the float to pre- vent anybody from Interfacing the Captain shooting Annis?” not.” with “1 did Court Asks Questions, The Judge broke In with the ques- tlon: “You say you did not pull your revolver until after Koberts had pleked up your brother's pistol?” ‘I did not.” ‘Did you go down on tho float before your brother did?" "No," Did you turn to your brother and beckon him to Ko down to the float?’ No, tell you” Did you say coma on, and then run down to the float?’ “No, I did not. 1 only sald: ‘Come on, Tm going home.” “Did you say to Robert's, ‘Stand back or TH ki! you “No.” “Did you say to Birchfield, ‘Stand onds several -came down the run One of them in a yellow silk pongee shir, whom © know now to be Downs, was carr ing my brother's automatic gun. M Downe sald to me very politely, ‘This is a gentleman's club and If must ask you to give up your reve T saul, TN give it up when an officer comes Gave Up His Gun. “Being fir satisfied that an oftleer was coming, T opened my own revolver an old-fas }ooSintth & WW which T have carried for twenty-five years—and dumped the out, then handed Downs my holster alse after putting the cart nt pocket. I led my brother to some up: turned skiffs and we waited there for an officer, I was very much upset and I took out an old pipe that I smoke vous. But 1 had no tobacen, ked the pipe and chewed the ste ‘fomebody sald that In his country men settled these things with the fists. and I 1 guess youre net an American, Im just as serry as you are for all this—he is my brother Roberts sald something, and T sald to Roberts, ‘I probably saved your life He might have shot you! Mr. Da sbjected to Mr. MeIntyre’s | question, asking the defendant what he | meant when he sald "Iam here to pro- | tect my brother.” The Court here Interrupted with the owing: “If his brother's pistol was out or his hand before he himself drew hx revolver [ believe he should be given A chance to explain himself, The witness explained 1 was the to protect 1 trom himself or anybody ele. I didn't know he had a gun on \lm. 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