Show PARENTS J AGED TAKE JAKE TALETHE THE S General g n raL n AMr C 1 mi Trying frying to Save Sons SODS 1 From m the Scaffold Flushing N Y Dee Deo Peter C hams Hains United States army and his wife Mrs Virginia P hams parents of Thornton J Hams Hains now on trial as us a It prin principal principal cipal in the slaying of William E Annis were were witnesses in their sons Ons 1 behalf today and their testimony y brought out in full detail the h relationship rel of Mrs Claudia Rains Hains and William G E that caused tho the estrangement es of Captain Hams and his wife Heard Confession Made General Hains Hales declared that In his pres pros presence presence ence once and before his two sons sons Peter and Thornton Hains Hams tho captains wife Claudia hams Hains made a full confession of her bar misconduct and that subsequently sub Captain hams manifested such poignant grief from the disclosures that hIs Ins men mental mental mental tal condition became affected The con confession on which General Ge l ral trains Hains declared his sons wife wi e Claudia had lied signed on the pay hay of the return of Captain hams from the tho west was vas read to the jury General trains Pains made a strong witness for his son and ad nd counsel for the defense asserted to tonight tonight tonight night that the evidence was now con conclusive cOnclusive conclusive that Captain Rains Hains was as mentally mental unbalanced when he be shot Annis and that was one of his solo sole doing The general will wUl be under again Monday I Aged Mother on Stand Through Mrs General Hams Hains who wept mary many times during her story the defense defenso drew out facts that Hams Hains In HIS IUS early life evidenced physical weaknesses which co counsel will endeavor to provo prove through three experts were a predisposing cause to insanity General Hains Rains was permit permitted ted ed to say that his father died from in insanity Insanity sanity Justice Crane directed d District Attorney Darrin whose term of office expires to tonight tonight tonight night to continue as the prosecutor in inthe Inthe Inthe the case The direct testimony of or General G Hains llama was in nowise shaken by the long Justice Crane held hold that the general had only been permit permitted ted led on his direct examination to state what he be had told the captain and what the captain had told him General Hales Hains said that he never heard his son s n Thorn Thom Thornton Thornton ton express animosity towards William WilliamE E AnnIs I S |