THE LONG ISLAND SENSATION.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9173, 22 August 1908, Page 5

THE LONG ISLAND SENSATION.

SERIOUS ALLEGATIONS. "THE VILLAIN OF THE TRAGEDY." Received August 21, 8.40 a.m. NEW YORK, August 20. In connection with the sensational shooting at Long Island, New York, of Mr Anniss, a well-known publisher, Captain Peter Ha ins, who fired the Mhots which mortally wounded Annis, was stationed at Fort Hamilton. He had sued for a divorce, -while Mrs Hains, on Anniss's advic, counter-sued lor divorce, alleging grave misconduct, involving several military officers. She declared Thornton Hains, who is the author of "penny horribles," to be the villain cf t.ie tragedy, and makes serious allegations regarding army life at isolated poata. All the parties are well-known, and tl e case attracts attention like Thaw'.. A cablegram published on Wednesday morning stated that Captain Hains, of the United States Artillery, and his brother Thornton, the s.j is of" General Hains, who distinguished himself in the Cuban and Spanish ware, waited at tha landing stage of the New York Yacht Ciub, at Long Island, amid a crowd of i'asiionable pleasure-seekers, until Willhm Annis, a New York publisher, landed. Then Captain Hains shot Annis six times, killing him, while his brother, with a loaded revolver, kept the crowd back. Captain Hains dechr-33 that Annis rjined his young wife. Foreseeing a collision be-.ween the two, Mrs Annis vainly tried to her husband landing.