The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-11-28
STRIPPED COURT
CR|ER TO WAIST
Used Him 10 Show Location
of Wounds.
MRS. BONNIE LOOKS ASIDE
Doctor Glazeb. ook Does Not Think
Wounds Self.Inficted.
MRS. BONNIE ILLUSTRATED THE TRAGEDY
Had the Doctor Put His Arms Around Her, the
Pistol Being in the Right Hand
The Decor Was Un-
convinced.
(By the Associated Press.)


Washington, ID. c., Nov. 27-The prin-
cipal witness today before the Criminal
court in which Mrs. Lola Ida Bonine Is
being tried for the murder of James
Seymour Ayres Jr, was Dr. Martin w.
Glazebrook, the deputy coroner for the
District of Columbia, who conducted the
| autopsy upon the body of Ayres. He de-
scribed in detail the three wounds on the
young mans body and the court crier,
stripped to the waist, was used TO Illus
trate the location and course OF the
wounds for the instruction Of the jury.
DR.. Gazebrook also testified that Mrs.
Bonine had given him her version of the
manner in which Ayres came TO his death,
claiming that the wounds were inflicted
while the pistol was in Ayres' hands, and
illustrating how the tragedy occurred,
but he thought that it was impossible
for the wounds TO have been made with
the weapon in Ayres' own hand. She had
told him that he was at her back and
had his arms clasped about her when
the shots were fired
Johnson J. Hooper, John A. Taft and
Michael Kane testified that Ayres was
sober on the night OF the tragedy
DR.. Glazebrook described the three
wounds In the body of the victim One
was In the left arm, one in tho left thigh
and one in the breast, all except the
thigh would showing powder burns and
indicating that the weapon had been In
close proximity to the body when at least
two shots were fired. The witness said
he had experimental with the pistol found
in Ayres' room, and he was about to re-
late the particular experiments when
counsel on both sides, desiring to have
surgeons present to hear the statement,
secured a suspension of this testimony
Until the afternoon.
Three colored female servants related
incidents of Ayres' life at the Kenmore
Hotel. One OF them said that she had
heard Ayres. order Mrs. Bonine to get
out OF his room and remain out; another
that she saw Ayres and Mrs. Bonine
coming out of the formers room togeth-
er, and a third that upon an occasion
Ayres had showed Indifference when told
that Mrs Bonine was ILL.,
After recess Deputy Coroner Glaze
brook resumed his testimony beginning
with description of mis- experiments
with the pistol with which Ayres was
killed, to show the distance necessary to
make powder burns such as were found
on Ayres undershirt He concluded
that the wound in Ayres' thigh must
have been made by weapon held more
than twenty-four inches from the spot
He also concluded that the arm wound
must have been made by a pistol held
about fourteen inches away In the
chest wound he thought the muzzle OF
the revolver must have been eight inches
from the body.
Court Crier Joyce was then introduced
as lay figure to- illustrate the location
of the wounds on Ayres body. Mr.
Joyce was stripped to the waist and Dr.
Glazebrook described the wounds at
length, making careful measurements
and using colored court plaster cut
round to show the appearance of the
spots where the bullets had entered the
body as the nude figure stood in the wit
ness box. Mrs. Bonine did not glance
at Joyce, most of the time that he wan
on exhibition she conversed with hen
attorneys and her husband.
Continuing his statement and still us
ing Joyce's body for the purpose of IL
lustration, DIR. GlaZebrook said that the
wound In the chest had penetrated the
wind pipe and the lungs on the left side
and had ranged to the right and upward
lodging In the back. This wound, he
said, was necessarily fatal. He thought
from the appearance of the blood found
In Ayres' room that it was caused by
the chest wound and had been vomited
In reply to questions DIR. Glazebrook
said he did not thing the wounds were
self f-innicted.
He also stated that he had a conversa-
tion with Mrs. Bonine at the Jail the
Tuesday after the tragedy and that at
that time she ha dgiven him her version
Of the tragedy ell had called at the Jail
professionally to make an examination
OF bruises said to be on Mrs. Bonne's
body, when she had volunteered to illus
trate to him how the tragedy had oc-
CURED. He said that Mrs Bonine had
had him place both arms around her,
the pistol being held in the right hand.
She had, she said. elasped the revolver
and the hand which held 1t and the pis-
tol was snapped three times in the |
struggle which ensued.
Assuming that the relative positions
OF the two were such as thus described.
and that the pistol was in Ayres' right
hand, could the wounds which you found
upon his body have been inflicted" ask
ed District Attorney Gould.
Taking into consideration the posi-