Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-11-29

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| same gray skirt / am now wearing" The
witness asked permission to examine the
SKIRT. Mrs. Bonine went into an adjoining
room and passed out the skirt. When she
returned she said: II can tell Won now
ABOUT that scratch on my hand. ] received
1t while reaching for some lilacs'
me witness conversed with Mrs. Bonfne
every day and every evening from the day
or the tragedy until the following Monday
Ihe latter day the witness was in the ser
geants room at the sixth precinct police
sea,ion; Ihe witness sent for Mrs. Bonine
ano asked IL she had anything to say to
h1m Mrs. Bonine inquired IL Detective
Horne would receive any monetary con-
slderation for what he might learn and he
secIalea .s tnat ne would not. Mrs. Bonine
| then said to the witness that she was I'm
Ayres' room when the shooting occurred.
Ayres came to her room and raped on the
door: she opened the door and Ayres stat
ed tnat ne was sick, and asked her if she
had any medicine. She told him she
| thought she had.
Continuing. Mrs. Bonine told the witness
SO the latter testified. Ayres put his arm
around her and wanted to enter her room
but she told him he could not 60 in there
as the boys might be awakened He then
asked her to go to his room as he wanted
10 TAX over with her difference that ex-
lsted between them. She said that she
would see him in the morning but he de-
ciared there would not be time, as he was
going to leave the hotel. She then consent
su 10 90 TO ms ROOM Ayres left, and she
dressed, putting on clean linen, a wrapper
ana slippers, but did not don corsets
! asked her If she raped on his door"
testified Detective Horne, land she replied
tnas she half turned the knob. whereupon
Ayres opened the door from within and
boited 1t. He had a pistol in his hand She
started to run, but her foot caught in the
bedspread, her skirt or something. and she
stumbled. Ayres threw his left arm around
her waist. She grasped his right hand
holding the pistol, first with one of her
hands and then with the other
II was at this time she received the
scratch on her hand. 1 then asked her
how about the shots. and she said she
dlont know. Ayres fell on her and blood
gushed over his shoulder. She slipped
from under him. She found that she had
grasped the barrel Of the pistol. She start
ed Tor the door, but heard some one holIer-
ing in the hail. Then she laid the pistol
on the trunk, went down the fire escape
through the parlor and up the annex stair
way; proceeded to the bath room and
washed her hands, went to her room AMI
cleaned some blood spots from the collar
OF her wrapper and retired
According to the witness, Mrs Bonine
when she had completed her statement
asked his advice as to what she should do
detective Horne suggested that she tell
her story to United States Attorney Gould
The latter was summoned and heard tha
recital, after he had cautioned Mrs. Bonine
that ANYTHING she might say to him would
very likely be used against her. With the
aid OF Crfer Joyce, the witness illustrated
Gould the manner in which Ayres grasped
her when she entered his room that fateful
morning. The dark wrapper worn by Mrs
Bonine when she went to Ayres' room was
produced In court and identified by the
witness.
Upon cross-examination Detective Horne's
direct testimony was gone over thoroughly.
1t was brought out that the Sunday morn
ing preceding the Monday the statement
was made, Mrs. Bonine, while in lunch
room with the witness, said to him:
Il nave thought ! would like to tell
you. but might be doing the dead man an
Injustice"
Detective Horne replied: 81 do not think
you can do the dead any injustice"
The witness further told of Mrs. Bonine
being taken to police headquarters and re-
peating her statement to the offienls there.
Edward B. Hesse. clerk at police head
quarters, was the next witness. He testi-
ned that last May he recorded stenograph-
ically the statement made by Mrs Bonine
to Major Sylvester, Captain Boardman and
others Mr. Hesse pronounced a typewrit-
ten statement shown In court as his tran
scribed notes.
At this point, it being 1905 o'clock. a,
recess was taken until 1 o'clock. In order
to allow counsel for the defense an oppor-
tunity to examine this typewriter state
ment.
Mrs. BOnine's Two Statements.
After recess, Mr.. Hesse stated that Mrs
Bonine first made a statement at head
quarters the 18th Of May in the presence
Of Major Sylvester, Captain Boardman AMI
the witness. A second statement was made
May 20 within the hearing of Major syl-
vester, Captain Boardman, Detective
Horne, Detective Weldon Lieutenant
Moore, United States Attorney Gould Dr.
W. P Carr, Coroner hewitt and the wit
ness.
On the occasion Of making the first state
ment, so said the witness. Mrs Bonine was
calm and acted as though she was giving
the police all the information she could
When she made her second statement she
was little excited at first but she soon
calmed down.
United States Attorney Gould then read
with telling emphasis the statement made
by Mrs. Bonfne at police headquarters the
18th of May. She had been summoned
there by Maj. Sylvester, and made the
statement under oath.
In that statement Mrs Bonine told the
superintendent Of police that Ayres some
times drank; that 1t was common opinion
that he did drink. She knew that he kept
company with a certain young lady, and
that he expected to get married and have
a home OF his own some day. Ayres often
spoke to her Of his studies, his future and
his relatives.
Mrs. Bonine further told the superinten-
dent OF police that the morning the body
was discovered she saw Miss Minas in the
dining room. She asked Miss Minas why
the latter had not pushed the button of the
caH-bell in her room on hearing the pistol
SnOtS. MIS-. bonlne. SAID, according to her
statement of May IL, that her first thought
was Of the call-bell.
She further declared that she did not
think a woman could have done the kill
ing. She could not tell how 1t was DONE
there were SO many ways possible but
she did not know Of any reason for killing
him. Mrs. Bonine admitted to the superin-
tendent Of police that she had once stopped
at Ayres door while a locksmith was work. |
ing there, but denied that she had made |
any unusual comment regarding the re-
pairing of the lock. Mrs. Bonine further |
told the superintendent of police that she |
thought good deal Of Ayres. She did not |
believe any woman residing at the Ken |
more had done the shooting, but thought |
that two persons in addition to Ayres-pos- |
sibly one of them a woman-had been in |
the room at the time.
Mr.. Gould next read to the jury the state
ment made by Mrs. Bonine Monday, Nav
20, which has heretofore been published in |
full in The Star, and which is generally |
familiar to the public.
The Lock on Ayres' Door.
William W. Pierce. a painter of Takoma |
Park. the next witness, testified that the |
early part OF the present year he was en- |
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