St. Louis Post-Dispatch
August 19, 1908

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MRS, HAINS TO BE. EVELYN THAWED W SELF-DEFENSE —_

Wife of Slayer Coins Word to Describe Ordeal She Ex- pects to Undergo.

READY TO BE WITNESS Says She Should Cléar Her Name for Her Own and Her Children’s Sake. TRIAL WILL BE SHORT

Insanity Will Be Plea, but State Will Not Call Ex- perts to Testify.

By Leased Wire From the New York Bureau of the Post-Dispatch. NEW YORK, Aug. 19.—Mrs. Peter C. Hains, whose charges of inhuman de- Pravity against her husband are be- Meved to have been the immediate cause of his killing William E. Annis, seid today that she would take the “witness stand at the trial of her hus- band as a means of vindicating her own mame. She said she dreads being ‘“‘Ev- elyn Thawed," as she calls it, but that she will try to go through the ordeal unflinchingly as a matter of justice to herself and to her culidren. It has been said that she will forgive her husband and take her place by his side at the trial, but her attorney denies this and declares such a course impus- sible. Mrs. Hains says the same. “It is not right that a musinformed man, wild with jealousy, should drag his wife's name in the dirt—the mother of his children,” said Mrs. Hains. “I Owe it to myself and to my children to clear up this part of the case. It seems too bad that an insane man—insane on some things, at least—can make the ,@batges my husband has made and not be punished. I was willing to let him get a divorce, but not in New ‘York State. : ““Capt. Hains’ parents and I did not @gree on the way the children should _ Be raised. I never claimed to be an . {@eal mother, but I loved my babies and raised them according to my views. These views were opposed by Gen. Hains and his wife at every turn. And them that brother!’”’ said she scornfully. - Does Not Feel Herself Wife. “I do not feel tnat I am the wife of Capt. Hains. He extinguished all my love when he made those charges. Some “Women can love a man after they have been struck and abused, but I am'not one of that kind. “T have friends in the army, just as Capt. Hains has. but I fear I have more of the gossips against me. That is one of the greatest curses in the army—people who will gossip and put '@ wrong construction on the actions of @ man or a woman. _ Frank G. Wild, attorney for Mrs. Hains in her divorce action, said he had never seen the confession Mrs. Hains is alleged to have signed under threats. "I have yet to find any one who has 80%) it,”" said Mr. Wild. ‘“‘When it is preduced in court—if it ever is—we will have an answer to it. “We are certainly satisfied that if this ease is ever brought to court on di- vorce proceedings we can show beyond any possible doubt that the charges brought by Capt. Hains against his wife are false in every detall.’’ No Reconciliation Possible. “It has been suggested that Mrs. Hains may become reconciled to her ‘husband,” Mr. Wild was informed. “Buch a thing is impossible,” he re- piled. “Do you think it probable that & woman of good blood, of any self- respect would go back to such a man? I know she will not.” ° ’ Frederick: L. Norton of the Tremont Building, Boston, who has represented Mrs. Hains in a portion of her legal proceedings, said:

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BALL PERS! Norman E. Mack, chairman of the National Democratic Committee, has failed im a personal effert to induce David A. Ball to withdraw h‘s com- plaint of fraud in the State primaries, and support the State ticket headed by William 8. Cowherd. According to Edward A. Glenn, Ball's campaign manager, Chairman Mack a few days ago wired Ball, asking the de- feated candidate to meet him at na- tional hegdquarters in Chicago. Ball went to Chicago, and calling on Mack, was told that he ought to desist from complaints which could not help himself and might harm the party In Missouri. “Who asked you to send for me?” Ball asked Mack. The chairman would mention no fames, and sai left, re- marking that it was necessary to deal frankiy with*him. — Ball in for Bryan. “Ball ia for Bryan,” said Gienn to a Post-Dispatch reporter in telling of the Chicago incident, “but he aoes not be-

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a i ee Ow STS IN INQ DESPITE MACK'S PROTEST fads co. BEX Defeated Gubernatorial Candidate Visits Nation- al Chairman and Is Asked to Desist From Complaints About Primary Frauds.

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the Southern. The Ninth District Con- gressional Committee had a resolytion prepared censuring Rubey for this re- moval, but it was not taken up for lack of time. Threats for Gov. Folk, . “Tt have been told that the Stone cam- paign managers threaten to give Gov. Folk, In the senatorial primary, the same dose that Ball got." Two newly elected State committee- men from the Ninth District, C. B. El- lis of Vandalia and Houston Johnson of Montgomery, are Folk men, while Brice Edwasds and Gen. M. Fred Bell, whom they defeated for places on the commit- tee, are Cowherd-Stone men. Le ' ri 32 asset and he was also a member @ : nearly all of the Catholic f . organizations.

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