Thornton Jenkins Hains

Thornton Jenkins Hains ( 1866 - August 19, 1953 ) was an American writer.

Life

Hains came from a family of officers: his father was General Peter Conover Hains (1840–1921), his maternal grandfather Admiral Thornton A. Hains (1811–1893).

Hains is still known today as an accomplice in the Regatta Murder criminal case , because this case not only preoccupied the rainbow press for a long time , but also influenced the judiciary of the United States for some time.
On the morning of August 15, 1909, Hains' brother, Peter C. Hains , learned that William Annis - like a McIntosh Monthly employee - had a relationship with his wife. In the afternoon of the same day, the two Hains brothers met and surprised Annis on his yacht in a New York marina . While Hains threatened Annis's wife and two sons with a gun, his brother shot his wife's lover in front of his family. In the following court hearing, Hains was charged as an accomplice and convicted, but was pardoned by Governor John Alden Dix in 1911 .

reception

Between 1894 and 1908, Hains wrote twelve novels under his own name. For one of his most important novels - "The Cruise of the Petrel" - he evaluated the logbooks of his grandfather Thornton A. Jenkins from the British-American War (1812/14).

From 1912 he only published under the pseudonym Mayn Clew Garnett ; sometimes he supplemented this with the title of captain, which he was not actually entitled to . Only in "Sea Stories", a pulp magazine , did two short stories appear under his own name in the twenties .

Works (selection)

• The strife of the sea . Books for Libraries Press, Freeport, NY 1969.
• The windjammers . Books for Libraries Press, Freeport, NY 1969.
• Mr. Trunnell. Mate of the ship "Pirate". Salzwasserverlag, Bremen 2010, ISBN 978-3-86195-282-4 . (Reprint of the Freeport 1900 edition)
  • Chief helmsman Trunnell. Sea novel. (Aegir series, vol. 6). Lutz Verlag, Stuttgart 1903.
• The black barque. A tale of the pirate slave-ship "Gentle Hand" on her last African Cruise . Books for Libraries Press, Freeport, NY 1971. (Reprinted from Boston 1905 edition)

literature

• Jacob M. Apel: Murder at the Regatta . In: The New York Times . August 10, 2008.