Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 34, Number 26, 4 December 1908 — Page 2

f AGE TWO. TIIE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1908. CAPTAIfl HAIMS LIKE A GHOST IN HIS CELL Is But a Shadow of His Former Self The Real Xmas Store For Men

Former Handsome Army Officer Is Very Pathetic Figure Since His Arrest for Murder . Of Annis. . HIS LOVE FOR PRETTY WIFE HAS ALL FADED

Declares She Has Betrayed Him and Disgraced Their ChildrenDetails of Killing Blank to Him.

By Dorothy Dlx. New York, Dec. 4. "I want you to say one thing for me I want you to contradict the assertion that has been made that I still love Claudia. It is monstrous grotesque, that I should have one particle of lingering affection for her after the way she betrayed me and disgraced my little children." So spoke Capt. Peter Halns to me, i his brooding eyes that never lightened and never brightened, fixed upon the table, where his restless hands that are never for a single second, were tracing meaningless marts, upon the soiled Jail table cloth. Is Pathetic Figure. He was the most pathetic figure on earth a young man broken on the vheel of fate in his youth, the joy of living quenched forever for him, old in sorrow before he is old in years. He is the tallestof the three brothers, a line soldierly upstanding figure of a man that must have been handsome enough to have captured any girl's fancy when his face was lit up by happiness, but now he looks wan and pinched, as if some cruel wind had blown over him and blighted him. He is thin to the point of emaciation. His clothes hang on him loosely. His hands are transparent and bony. The kin is drawn tightly over his cheek bones and across his forehead. He has the pale, ascetic look of a young monk who has fasted and kept lonely vigils until he is ready to faint from exhaustion. His face is the saddest human face I ever saw and his voice -when he speaks is like the voice of a ghost, so surcharged with deathless woe is It. ; You don't need the doctor to tell you that melancholy .has marked him for Its own. You see it in the drooping figure and stricken face; you hear it In the tired speech that trails off into forgetfulness every now and then, as the dim memory struggles to bring back firBt one fact and then another, and tries to weld them into a coherent whole. . For Peter Haines' mind now is slowly emerging from the eclipse that darkened it on the day after his wife shattered his universe by her confession to him. He still remembers many things only in part, and be is pathetically nervous, with twitching hands and trembling lips that he cannot keep fctill for all his efforts. But he says he is better now Oh, much, much betterthat he is beginning to .sleep a little.. ' '.v : i . "It Is the first. time I have been able to rest since I got those terrible letters of Claudia's in San Francisco, and it lias done wonders for me. I hope to be well very soon now if I can only sleep. "Those Terrible Letters." j "Those letters those terrible, terrible letters," he went on, his hands fluttering over the table. "You know I bad been gone for three months to the Philippines and back with a transport, and I had not heard one word from Claudia or my babies. When I reached San Francisco I was already wild with anxiety about them, for she had never failed to write before, and so when I saw the great package of letters with her dear handwriting on them, I fell on them like a famished dog on a bone. But I could not understand them. Everyone was filled with accounts of her smoking and drinking and going about-with Annis, and doing things that she never did before that I knew of, and then I read ' on to where she mentioned that gossip was busy with her name. , Then I knew something was wrong at home, and it made me crazy." "I rushed like a mad man to my superior officer and told him I must go home, that something dreadful had happened. I didn't know what, but I must go, even if I had to resign my commission to do so. He saw that I was awfully upset and so he stretched a point and let me go. can't tell you anything about that trip. I only know that I was insane, that I never ate now slept between San Francisco and New York; that all I thought of was that Claudia, my poor Claudia, was In trouble, and I was going to help her. That way I came to FU Hamilton, and I suppose I looked like a crazy person when I burst in upon her." He stopped, with face bowed and the sorrow of sorrow upon him. Coming to the time when as alleged Mrs. Haines confessed to him her rrong-doing with Annis, Capt. Halns said: "After that I remember things only in part I went to Tony's (his brother and we were together, nd I couldn't xleep nor eat. I would ralk the floor night after night, Irtld with grief and shame, tortured beyond endurance, and ihen came . that awful r-charge that Claudia made against ' me a charge that would make me an outcast among my fellow men. They told me of that, and that Annis had put her up

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to it. He had not only debauched her but killed her every sense of shame, for in this monstrous charge she accuses herself along with me. It was too much. I don't know what happened. Everything is a blank to me until I found myself here and they t61d me I had killed the man who had broken up my home and ruined my life. But of what happened at Bayside, I have absolutely no memory whatever." Then his mind drifted back to 'an old wound. "I blame Claudia's mother for much of this," he said. .She knew what her daughter was doing and did not Btop .her. She is a terrible woman, one who loves nothing but money. When she came to my house after her daughter there was no horror nor shame for what Claudia had done, but she turned furiously on Thornton. 'This is your work!' she cried. 'If you had not told Peter he would never have found it out.' But Tony never told me. She told me herself." His voice trailed off into silence again, his brooding eyes bent upon the table, where his hands were drawing, drawing drawing, meaningless plctures while his thoughts, as in a treadmill, went their dreary, hopeless rounds of a sorrow for which there is no cure. HIGH SCHOOL EXPECTS VICTORY "Fighting Five" Meets St. . Mary's Tonight. The "Fighting Five" of the Richmond high school team left this afternoon for Dayton, Ohio, where it will open the bat-ket ball season tonight with the fast basket ball team, representing the St. Mary's academy. A hard game is looked for as the Ohioans have already the reputaion of being one of the fastest aggregations in the state, and according to present rumorsare after the championship. " During the past week the Richmond quintet has been going through strenuous practice under the direction of Coach Horton and is playing 4 good game. Undoubtedly the team of this year is better than the team of last year. The Quaker lineup for the game this evening will be: Spangler and Thornburg, forwards; Marlatt center and Allison and Schaffer, guards. Ackerman will act as sub. A number of the students accompanied the team. FEARED M LI B WOULD MURDER Accused Negro Assailant Taken to Jeffersonville. Brownstown, Ind., Dec. 4. Will Moore, the regro who was arrested at Watson, Clark county, charged with assault upon Mrs. Harold Dannettell, who lives near Seymour, Monday, has been taken to Jeffersonville for safekeeping. The feeling In this county ran so high that it was feared a mob would have formed to hang him had he been kept here another night. While the prisoner strongly denies his guilt he answers the description of Mrs. Dannettell's assailant. He says his home Is at Franklin, Ky., and that he has a sister living in Louisville.

CAPT PETER C. HAINS. In a remarkable Interview yesterday, granted to Dorothy Dlx, Capt. Halns. who is charged with the murder of Annis, said ho would never forgive his wife. His physical condition is rapidly breaking down under worry and confinement In the Tombs, New York.

LEADING THE LEAGUE Freshmen of Earlham College Again Successful at Basket Ball. UPPER CLASSMEN BEATEN. LEAGUE STANDING.- ; Won. Lost. Pet. Freshmen 2 0 1.000 Juniors 1 1 .500 Sophomores 1 1 .500 Seniors 0 2 .000 In a fast played came the Freshmen, of Earlham defeated the Juniors yesterday and stepped into first place. Morrison was the bright particular star of the Freshies, playing a whirlwind game and pitching in three field goals. The game was anybody's until the last few minutes of play, when the third classmen were swept off their feet. Final score: Freshmen I), Juniors 9. Seniors Again Defeated. The Sophomores shoved the haughty fourth classmen back into last place yesterday in an extremely fast played and spectacular contest. The brilliant play of Conrad for the Sophomores 19, Seniors 17. The game was not decided until the last two minutes of play in the last half. TAKE LEAGUE LEAD BY WINNING

A's Defeat D's in the City League. STANDING OF CLUBS. Won Lost Pet. A's 11 4 .733 D'S O 7 .5. Cs ( 0 .400 B's 5 10 33

Games tonight Pirate vs. monds. RichIn a hard fought contest between the leaders of the Business Men's league, at the city bowling allies last evening, the A's nabbed three straight games from the D's, thus stepping Into first place and sending the D's to second. All the A's played a magnificent game. High scores were made by Glomes, 20G; Craighead, 1S8 and Haisley. 102. Score by Games: A's 722, S20, 7S3. Total, 2,32.-). D's 600, 625, 741. Total, 2,056. TWENTY-FOUR OTHERJNDICTMENTS Grand Jury Still Works on Reelfoot Outrages. Union City, Tenn., Dec. 4. Twentyfour additional Indictments were returned by the grand jury investigating the recent raids of the "night riders of Reelfoot Lake, bringing the total number to 125. Other than that the majority of the indictments charge capital offenses, strictest secrecy of which is maintained at to their contents.

Expected to Defeat Paulson In Wrestling Match at New Phillips.

LARGE CROWD EXPECTED. One of the largest crowds of the season at the New Phillips is expected tonight. The drawing card will be the middleweight wrestling match pulled off at the conclusion of the vaudeville Dill by Paulson and Dwyer, said to be two of the cleverest men of their class In the country. Neither of these mat artists have ever been seen in this city and the sporting fraternity is anxious to get a glimpse of them. Dope has it that Dwyer is the natural favorite, as he has defeated nearly every man of his class that he has so far met. The referee of the match has not yet been announced but it is probable that some local man, acceptable to both principals, will be selected. WM. PENN-'WOULD HAVE SHUDDERED Noisy Basket Ball Suits Quaker Team. for It is rumored that the color scheme of the suits to be worn by the Quaker basket ball team is such that had these suits been perpetrated in the days of Wm. Penn, the wearers would have been excommunicated from the church and sentenced to death. These suits are Eaid to be so noisy that they make the college cheer listen like the silence of a deaf and dumb works. These suits have been muzzled and packed away by Maryiger Jones and he refuses to disclose th m until the opening of the basket ball season. Earlham students are considerably wrought up by the information that the state oratorical contest will probably be held at Indianapolis, February 12, on which date Earlham has a game with Wabash at the coliseum. This conflict In dates would mean small attendance at the game. It was thought that the contest was to be held February 5, at Indianapolis and Manager Jones wrote to the manager of the DeFauw team suggesting a game at the capital on the afternoon of that day. In, reply, the DePauw manager stated that it was more probable the oratorical contest would be held on February 12. He probably speaks with authority, as the president of the state oratorical association! is a DePauw man. Mrs. Cobden Sanderson is very resentful of the suggestion that the women of England have a separate legislature. It was a major-general In the army who suggested the plan, but the ladies will have none of it and declare that it wonld be most absurd. Lady Warwick is also opposed to the idea, as are the other suffragettes. Battling Nelson says that when he decides to fight again he will take on Freddie Welch, the English lightweight, instead of Packey McFarland. Welch wants to meet Nelson in a forty-five round bout and says he will bet 5,O0O on the side. Wrelch has declined to meet McFarland.

VI m- j "COLONIAL VIRGINIA" n-i ffi . II 110 II UlUUU Song: "Won't Yon Give life Back the Old Love, U I U U UU II 10 Mollie Mine."

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Affairs of the Sporting World

For the first time in twelve years Jack McAuliffe. former lightweight champion of the world, has decided to indulge in public boxing exhibitions.. He is on the road with a sparring partner and got an ovation in the Hub the other day. Old Joe Choynski has caused much merriment among sporting men by expressing a desire to meet Stanley Ketchel. Those who have seen Ketchel put up his hands say that Choynski in his prime could not have beaten him. Some of these old time fighters who do not know wheii they have had enough seem to be in need of friendly advise. G. Stallings sure has enough southpaws. He has . five on his staff already. They are Doc Newton, who showed little class last season; Vaughan. ' the big Arkansas recruit; Wilson, from the Connecticut league; Schmidt, from Baltimore and Friel, whom Stallings brought over from Newark. Joe Birmingham of the Cleveland team has gone Mike Donlin, Harry Howell et al one better by becoming) a theatrical magnate instead of a' mere actor. Birmingham is proprie-j tor of a moving picture establishment at Elmira. It begins to look as though C. Comlskey won't have any team next sea- i son. Jones says he has quit the game j for good; Dougherty writes that hisj oil weljs need his entire attention;' Donohue claims his health will keep WI M-H I I ! M I I I I I 1 I 1 1 I I I 1Feet Cure We have an antiseptic healing ; compound that cures and pre- . vents perspiring, sore and tend- ) er feet, soft corns and callouses and removes all offensive odors. Positively will do the work. Price 23c. : HAISLEY'S 820 Main St. ' 1 1 ! I 1 1 1 I I 1 I I 1 1 1 M ! 'M-H-1 1

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