The Ocala Evening Star

HINMAN'S SLAYER

A dispatch from Boston has the following regarding George B. Perkins, the man who shot F. W. R. Hinman, business manager of the Times-Union, on the steamer Mohawk on the night of the 11th:

George Batchelor Perkins left here Monday for New York, bound for a tarpon fishing trip in Southern waters. He had complained recently of sleeplessness and was forced to take an opiate to remedy this complaint, according to Herbert Holton, his brother-in-law, at whose summer home in Swampscott he had been staying recently.

Mr. Holton said at times Perkins had shown what might be considered indications of mental derangement.

"These little things were laid to an artistic temperament and they never seemed at all serious," said Mr. Holton. Perkins never carried a revolver, according to his brother-in-law, who said he was sure he did not have one during the time he stayed in Swampscott.

Perkins was graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as an architect and gained wealth and fame as an interior decorator and designer. His work is to be found in many places throughout the country. He had traveled much in recent years, having gone around the world twice. He had planned to spend this winter in the West Indies and in South America. He is 43 years old and unmarried.