| Show m i. i WINS HAINS CALLS GALLS HUSBAND HASCAL Declares Brother Poisoned His Mind Should Be Strung up jp TELLS STORY OF MISERY Captain Mains Hams Recites Troubles and Makes Assault on Brother Aig Aur 20 Ucro O.-Ucro Hero Is IB tile the t complete stol story as toI t told by Cap Cap- Cp- Cp C C. Hains Jr of l lj his Ids trouble wih with his beautiful wife It It differs radically front from the 1110 many disjointed l el that regions that have been printed and c contradicts emphatically Mrs Irs Jd 3 assertion that the confessions lons she ie J mad J to 0 her hr husband to hl his aged luLI- luLI cr er an and her in law T. T Jenkins o were extorted I fl val this tills story the young rouls soldier soldier was its to t Ml today ii in Iii Queens coun county jail jai to Joseph A. A Shay who hu I is associated H with wih John F. F 1 t tyro ro as cOln counsel 1 for tIl the thc J Mains brothers brothels he lie had related one-fourth one o or of Jt it however the memory m of or the thc wrongs he believes 1 had he-had had suffered seemed to lo drive o into a frenz frenzy Ho Tie 10 sprang pran at hl his eldest Major Hams ain i who who had had hat entered the tho coun counsel el room roon I IJ J while Mr lr Sha Shay was there then and und tried I to strike him hint I Mi- Mi f Sha Shay reali ed that it i was U use use- c I f sto to attempt to pet gt t an army any more of or I stun story from front the tho young ou captain and abandoned the l task l for lor the time The Tue encounter r created a i L great rc een- een 1 at n in th the jail jai and evidenced the Ine tate state of or mind Captain Hains hams is Ia In Could Not o c StO Story I J L never had tho the slightest t suspicion suspicionS S 0 of or my wife the iho captain said sid in his Ito until about three months ago afO when hen in lil the Philippines s i received a warning warning letter leter from my brother Immediately Im- Im mediately I 1 dropped everything e and andi i hurried back home home I 1 could not Ilot be- be 4 hove lieve c 10 the time story stony was true There J must be 10 some some ml mistake somewhere I 1 thought It I is impossible Claudia could be faithless Oh Oh God d. d I cannot believe 1 t kept r repeating to o m myself elf The Thc month mouth or more I r knew It I would take me to pot got ot homo seemed like 10 Eternity 1 I dont don't believe I slept a ank In Jn all aU the three lon long weeks of the limo voyage aClO across S the Pacific I could nothing but Claudia and the horrible stories about herAnd her And bo so Ol between fear ear and hope 1 I passed a ed tho tim long weary wean days day and tho the longer nights until Int we reached the tc t c United States l rom Prom tho the coast I sped nome home and arriving arriving- url at Fort lort Hamilton Claudia as I bad hoped and expected d denounced lo tho awful accusations accusations' as n Je Hoz Her Jo J removed mp d tho gloom loom I from rom i hi my mind as a the tho fun t-n t dispels tho thu thug g 8 faSKa f y k k d E Em m It y rny Ur Ji lifo L o X wf t to 0 o op speak peak Ck i to lo lomy my brother who 11 h had ll lt written n no no about Cl Claudia and I determined to ta toc c r 10 how Tier ber toes roes that their t d dastardly at attempts at- at tempts to 1 a a good True rue woman had failed mi miserably h Suddenly I 1 rc remembered lt a slight discrepancy n arid and d determined tp question ques tion her ner more un fully lully hext lct da lay day I ton To Mountain in In a Boat i lot Her ncr ab r. c rJ from home homo she sho had bad explained by ly s saying in she had gone on ona ona a visit 19 the mountains Previously she he R vist had mentioned a trip b by bo boat t I could h co not quite understand now ow Silo she could get ct to tho tha mountains by hy boat and I a asked ked c more questions To Tom Tomy Tomy m my horror I ll reel discovered in her replies I several sQ other points of or difference between between be be- tween them and anel the story she had told mo the night before wanted to discontinue questioning question question- I I 1 tn ing ng her but I could not The rhe moro more we talked the more she he contradicted herself herself her her- self Eel At last sh she broke down don n and con con- She Shu had not gone one to tho the county count at atall all nU sho admitted In iii tears but had accompanied ac ac- ac accompanied companied to an nn apartment inthe In the tho upper part of Manhattan She thought It Jt was an apartment of ur some bachelor friends of or I thought I should lose m my mind Then men It W was as S true hue after all al What should I do I loved Tho blow was awful No one who has not cared cred for fer a woman can tell tel what I suffered 1 Perhaps my mr ears had deceived do- do rae rne I J sent Bent for or m my father Cather To TO him of or her own volition without without with with- wih- wih out being asked aked one que question tol she re repeated repeated repeated re- re the frightful confession she the had mado made to me My 1 father who at ut marriage had first had opposed td 1 my frt wife and had afterward accepted my hat her In silence nce become cr very fond of f ho listened an and at the end we decided to send end for or my brother Decided on Dl DIorec Before Defore him she he made mude mu e time the same samo confession lon Th Then n we sent ent for a 3 lawyer law- law instantly I If had made mado up my lot for vcr yer Instant to for impossible me inc mind that it was cont continue to live with her My 1 father Sd brother lve agreed I must obtain a and sent for a law lawyer er erand divorce at once Wo We 0 t and before at all nih four of u us s she hc for fOl tho the of her disgrace Us told race l third Tho The lower lawyer reduced her story to night That paper and t she tho h signed It like on one was r f hou house c lkc left the tho I possessed lef sc ed but still di I would 10 not take investigated her JO story for fOl tile the truth I het Annie Annl Jt it and I to bo be only to too her tory I t found fount he hc had m made madeI d dI true Every Ever It I verified In d doing so f I found fount than J Ju In l J Y 1 I I lU r p c I I cc T until I r felt that I 1 i must 11 tae e t from th the roan man I 1 who with such devilish design and anti i 1 In such Ruch a 1 cold blooded manner had m f deliberately ly wrecked d m my home and I defamed d my poor POOl little Innocent chil chil- dron dren ehl- ehl l Hains Statement Boston Aug ln 20 lu an nn unauthorized I interview with Mrs Mrs Claudia Claudia LIbbey Halna tho the wife of or Captain Peter C C. Jr who ho shot and and killed William B. B Annis gives tho and only complete corn com com and accurate stor story of or tho time wenan woman wo we nan man In the case to csc case tho tho wife wite who when the tho non essentials non aro swept aside Is the thc real crux of ot tho the amazing army tragedy In this interview 18 Mrs Hains Hams declared deliberately and emphatically In her own words word My 1 husband and his brother arc rascals I 1 hope they thoy will viiI both be strung upI up I I 1 was beaten beten starved and crazed With until I 1 signed somo fome papers In which the alleged confession conCession Is Is They must mut bo be punished Why Wimy h my husband would have hn shot mo too I had often oCen thought that he would seek seel me rae out and amid kill kil mo me These dramatic statements summing up tersely tho the wife's wIes wIe's causo cause In the tho te tra tragedy tragedy trag trag- edy elly in which Hains hams the tIme husband backed by his armed brother riddled his man in iii the presence of a throng of oC merrymakers contains tho the substance o of oC the tue wife's story Mrs hams's story was told tol In tho time presence of ot her father and her mother molher Charles W. W V LIbbey and his wife at their home 85 Crest avenue Winthrop near Boston oston Call I wondered that It I had not happened hap hap- I one before sho he declared referring referring to the shooting The rascals I hope they the will wi both be le hanged Yes I the they will wil both be bu strung up Tho They richly deserve It H And of tho the two Thornton hams Is the worst He lie Is la lathe the tho fend arch Ho lie Is for Cor forIt forit it all 1 It I a was a conspiracy puro puru ami simpie simple sim sim- pie pl she said My Iy husband was a dupe But Hut he ho was also a beast Oh Oh to thin think of or the abuso abuse I have stood from that man and anc his hits brother Thornton I It HI would have hare been hiko Ik Thornton I to have lone done the shooting Yes Yos like hike 1 0 them both Thornton la Is t a mUIde mum mur mUI- mUI de derer r. r Ito IIo shot hot a man In lu the time South ealS ago and would have bo boon been n punished Jun- Jun pun hail hu he not been heen raved by h bribery and amid powerful Influence All Al this is well wel known lb IIo le Is lii a 0 murderer at heart horl and my any husband was wal a n willing tool I tool Oh I pity poor Mrs 11 Sho She IH iii one of the loveliest of or women Her for leI 1 poor children hl ren 01 Then In Iii my husbands husband's absence I Thornton Thorton hams the villain tried to lo Continued on un Two Tuo MRS HAINS MAINS CALLS HUSBAND RASCAL Continued From ro 1 Page One make mako love to mo and I hated him Y Yes s and he hated mo me for tor refusing him and ho got my husbands husband's car ear and poured poison into ItI It I I repeat repent that that man Thornton Rains Hains Is to blame blamo for It it all He poisoned poi pol- my husbands husband's mind against mo me I ho he helped abuse me he ho helped starve rind and drug IruS' me mc and was present when beaten starved etI and crazed until I do llo donot donot not to this day remember ju Just iut t what I Idid Idid did dill they made mo mo me sign some sort of ot paper which may be a blank paper for all aU I can recall Gave Guc Her Whiskey What hat drugs did they give you Mrs Rains Hains was asked So far as ns I can tell just Juat plain ke key I dont don't know what they ther put In It I didn't want anything I didn't want whiskey I have havo only a confused confused con con- fused recollection of It all Did your husband actually strike you your OU r Looking up slowly and wiping the tho tears away Mrs Irs hams HAins replied earnestly earn earn- Ca estly esth Yea Yei he lie struck me mc Yes ho beat bent me mo me his wife wife not not once but mon many times how many times limes I cannot re re- re call I have hac no desire to recall them The They boot boat mo me and starved me The They would not give gie mo me anything to eat I 1 Iwas Iwas was a prisoner If It I undertook to help my myself elt In an any way It Il would mean macan more moro beatings It was awful I wanted to die With nothing In my stomach but drugs for two daya days and nights passed without sleep steep they shoved some somo papers n across the tho table and stood over mo ma I threateningly I 1 did not know or care I cannot positively say that I signed them Most Moat likely ly I 1 did There my may mynot not have been a word upon thorn them Idid I Idid Idid did not know or care My y moth mother r has hns told me mo that for days day afterward my mind was waa a blank Throughout tho the Interview tho the Libbey Lib Lib- boy bey family displayed solicitude for tor the I victims family They must be bo punished repeated I Mr Mrs Irl Rains Halna at Intervals lie He would have shot me mo also i went on I L 1 have thought often orten of late that Inspired b by his brothers brother's falsehood falsehoods false hoods hood Captain hams Halna would seek seele me mc out and kill me mo Not that I would carso care car so muen except for my babies I must live e for them |
