Evening star., 1901-11-20

HEs bOh1ne.
strung organization. Despite these out
ward indications of weakness however she
is a perfect Joan of Arc, so far as vitality
Is concerned, and is altogether a marvellous
woman.
Matter of Speculation.
How such little woman could have gone
through such experiences as she related
| in her statement regarding the killing of
Ayres and still be equal to meeting an or
deal scarcely less dreadful is what all in
the court room marvel at, and as they mar
vel they wonder if she will hold I'D as game
| ~ to the end of the trial.
When recess was reached at IL 30 O'clock
without an additional juryman being Sc
cured, the hangerS-on around the court
mouse, who have past records at their
tongues ends, indulged in "Reminiscences
Iney teld how long it took to get jury in
this, that and the other case away back in
the days of Aud Lang Syne and then gave
portentous views of the probabilities in the
Bonine case. The most optimistic put to-
| morrow as the limit, while some of the pes
simists regarded some time next week" as
the jury completion time.
When court reconvened at 1:10 Mrs Bo-
nine came in to the court room preceded
py her TWO little boys and accompanied by
MT Bonfne and her sister and brother.
This sextette occupied two rows of three
chairs each and presented a speaking pic
ture. Within the oaken frames of the seats
was SlSIeTly ana DrOtherlY love and conf
dence, motherly devotion and flial affec-
ton, and an epitome of domestic faith and
steadfastness between husband and wife
which could not be more impressively ef-
fecuVe. There was nothing perfunctory in
the picture. The absolute naturalness of
each and all of the figures prevented even
fieeting idea that the grouping might have
been for effect. There was naught of the
| theatric, the artificial, the forced. Husband
and sons, sister and brother, were merely
| there by her side to give her the natural
helpfulness of such presence and so in
every sense 1t was striking composite of
the family.
Said He Didn't Know
A colored man named Jones, who lives
near Little Falls station, stated in reply to
a question propounded by Mr.. Gould, that
he did not know what circumstantial evil
dence was. He had displayed equally woe
full Ignorance in replying to Justice Ander-
sons previous questions, having stated
among other things that he could not find
verdict according to the evidence that
might be given by witnesses.
Victor Anderson was of different intellec-
tual caliber. He was very free to say he
did not believe in capital punishment in
murder cases where women were defend
ants. He was Immediately excused, but his
name was not ordered permanently out of
the jury box, as was done with that OF
Jones and of Thomas, white man, who
had said he would put his private judgment
ahead of anything evidence might present.
Jurors I'm the Box.
At the opening of the session of the court
today the twelve men who qualified yester-
day to serve jurors in the case occupied
the box. All of them, however, were SUBJ
ject to peremptory challenge The defense
yesterday exercised four challenges in ex-
cusing H. R. Shippen r. H. Lewis. Will
lam T Smith and Anthony IeuriS oil 90,
ored. When court convened this morning
the defense had sixteen challenges remain
ing and the prosecution had five, not hay-
ing exercised it's privilege in any case The
court yesterday excused the following for
cause: B. B. Earnshaw, fixed opinion: Lee
r. Martin, physical condition; s. Clarence
Redman, fixed opinion; George w. Mont
gomery, illness In family; BENJAMIN M
Mundell, H. N. Eiker and Richard Gaskins
conscientious scruples on the subject of
capital punishment; Joseph A O'Hare fixed
opinion, and Charles E. Jones, physical con-
dition.
The twelve men in the box this morning
were:
George H. Vermillion, John d. Robinson.
Walter j. Fry, William p Colley, William
L. koontz, George B. Bury, Cornelius J.
Carmody, George P. f. Downey Harry E.
Armstrong Thomas F. Keane, Arthur
Moore and George w. Thomas
Additional Talesmen Instructed.
To the sixty additional talesmen sum
moned after the adjournment of court YES |
terday, and who reported this morning,
Justice Anderson explained the matter at |
issue by the following brief statement:
Lola Ida Bonine is charged with the |
murder of James Seymour Ayres, jr, at the |
Kenmore Hotel, Washington, D. c., the |
morning of May 10, 1901, by shooting him |
with revolver"
The talesmen examined yesterday COM |
prised the regular panel Of jurors of Crmi- |
nal Court No..1 for the present term hav-
ing been impaneled the 9Th instant There |
fore, when called yesterday they were not |
interrogated as to their age other simi- |
lar qualifications. The additional talesmen |
for today, however, were required TO dis |
close whether or not they were residents of /
the District of Columbia, and as to whether |
they were less than twenty-one or more |
than sixty-five years of age.
Governments Challenge.
The effort to secure a jury was begun
when, it being his turn, United States At
torney Gould exercised the first of the gov
ernments five peremptory challenges and
excused George H. Vermillon. To fill the
vacancy the clerk called Andrew Loff1er
1t was soon learned that Mr.. Loffier had
served as juror for more than twenty
days within year, and therefore was en- |
titled to be excused, IL he decided The
talesman decided that he did not care to
serve.
Wnilam n onoeroire, colored, who was
next called to the front, was not willing
to convict defendant on cireumstantial
evidence. and the governments Challenge
for cause was sustained
Asserting that he could not approach the
question OF punishment. as between life
and death, with an unbiased mind, Frank
]. Tibbetts was excused. upon challenge for
cause as was Francis Pearson.
William H. Burch. then called when ask
ed IL he had served as a juror within the
past year, replied Last October" This
was taken to mean in October, 1900 He
said he was acquainted with one individual
who had resided at the Kenmore Hotel but
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