[7th Avenue at 21st Street, IRT West Side/Seventh Avenue Line, Manhattan, NY]
Northwest corner of 7th Avenue at 21st Street, Manhattan, NY. Survey photograph of the street prior to construction of the IRT West Side-Seventh Avenue Line. Northward view of two trolleys, pedestrians, a shoe shine stand, and a newspaper stand.
New York Transit MuseumNorthwest corner of Seventh Avenue and 21st Street, January 25, 1914.
The newspaper stand on the corner has a poster which reads:
"Why I shot Wm. E. Annis. Capt. Peter C. Hains Jr. USA lays bare for the first time the full facts of the surprising domestic tragedy which reached its climax when he shot Annis dead. In the next Sunday's American."
This flashy headline refers to an event that had occurred eight years earlier. Believing that Annis, a magazine publisher, was having an affair with his wife while he was stationed in Manila, the Army captain shot the man six times at a regatta in Little Neck Bay. Hains was found guilty and served only two and a half years of his 8-16 year sentence. Presumably he was telling his story so many years later to cash in on the fame.
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