The age-herald., 1901-11-23
Lay With Arms in Front of Face and No Clothing
 But Undershirt
WAS SHOT AT CLOSE RANGE
Floor of Room Covered With Blood. Cartridges Found on Table Fit Revolver With Which
 He Was Shot.


 Mrs. Lolla Ida Bonine. for the murder of James S. Ayres, Jr., was resumed today in Justice AndeFson's court.
 Mrs. Bonines party was augmented to- day by the addition of her brother, U. S. Grant Henry, who had come from his home in Missouri in order to be present with his sister during the trial. Mrs. Bonine's two young sons also were pres ent, as were her husband and her sister. Mrs. Meacham. The prisoner came in advance of her attorneys, and when they arrived she cordially shook hands with them.
 Policeman Walter s. Brady was the first witness called He was on duty near the Kenmore Hotel on the morning Ayres' body was discovered, and he was summoned to the hotel about S:2o o'clock by the proprietor. Mir. W. w warfield who told him that he thought he had a suicide upstairs. The witness was then escorted to Ayres room in company of three or four other persons Finding the door fastened, he had. under Mir War fields instructions. forced 1t open. Upon subsequent investigation he had found that the door was bolted and not locked
 Position of Body.
 The body of the dead man, he said was lying on the floor near the window in sent position, and with the arms draWn up In front of the face Tho head lay across one of the rounds of a rocking chair, and the only clothing on the body was a light undershirt The shirt was open at the neck and the up- per portion of it was covered with blood. There was also some blood on the left sleeve of the garment. The hands and feet were also bloodyretf1e latter looking as if he had stepped in the blood which was on the floor in considerable quantity. Three wounds were found upon the body, one being in the breast, another in the arm and the third in the thigh.
 The bed looked, he said, as if some one had lain in it and had gotten up, throw ing the cover back as he did so There was other disorder about 1t and there was only one indentation in the pillow. Ayers coat and vest had been carefully laid over the hack of a chair. He said that a pistol and small-sized barreled shotgun lay on a trunk in the room and that the barrel and chambers of the pis- tol were covered with blood.
 The pistol was exhibited to MT. Brady and identified by him. He handled it free ly as he described the condition of the weapon. Mrs. Bcnine regarded the witness and the weapon with close scrutiny, but gay no evidence of any emotion.
 The Dead Mans Clothes. Continuing his description of Ayres room as he found it MT. Brady said that the young mans trousers were carefully laid over the back of a chair and that his collar, cuffs and necktie had been Ioid hn hI1ra Nn q m were found either on the bed or its im- mediate vicinity, the first blood stain being near the spot where Ayres head lay The pool of blood near the body was larger than the pool near the window. There were also bloodstains on the win dowsill the washboard and rocker. On table in the room there were nine cart ridges laying loose. The gas was burn ing when he entered the room but was turned low. The lower sash Of one or the windows was up as far as 1t would go. The string on the window was cov- cred with blood as if 1t had been drawn through bloody fingers. He did not think there was room enough between the bed and door when the latter was open for man to stand there.
 In concluding his examination in chief of the witness District Attorney Gould put in evidence the undershirt from the body of Ayers. It was well stained with  ently affected the prisoner more than any preceding incident in the course of the trial.
 On cross-examination Officer Brady said boy had first notified him of the tragedy. Mrs Bonine's oldest son was told to stand up and Lawyer Douglass asked the witness if he was the messen- ger. The witness failed to identify him He had not noticed any finger prints on the pistol lie found in the room. The blood on the handle was unappreciable in quantity He had however. discover ed what he believed to be finger prints m the windowsill. The detached piece of the windowsill was exhibited and identified by the witness, who said the bIood stains were more distinct on the morning of May 15 than now.
 Cartridges Fit the Revolver.
 Officer Brady said in reply to other questions by MT. Douglass that the loose nistoI cartridges found on the table were sied and were of 32 calibre, the same cali bre as those found in the revolver. In that weapon there were three loaded and three empty shells. He said the bed as shown in the photograph of Ayers room was much more disordered than when she first went to the room but did not know who had disturbed 1t before the first photograph was made. MT Douglass brought out the fact that the top oueeoh- hole of Ayers undershrt was torn out. When MT, Brady was excused Police man Fulton Wolfe was called. He had entered the building with Officer Brady. His testimony covered much the same ground as that of the preceding witness and was largely corroborative of It. He said he had only noticed blood on the sleeve of the undershirt worn by Ayers. The pictures of the room, he sad, showed a number of articles on the floor which were not there at the time. He had seen no hairpins on the floor.
 Officer Wolfe was still on the stand when the court took it's noon recess After recess Officer Wolfe was cross ex- amined by Mir. Douglass. No new facts were brought out.
 Stockings Under the Bed. Policeman Benjamin E. Williams, who | was on detective service in May last and who was an early visitor to the scene