The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-11-28
Crier joyce, Barred to the Waist, In
troduced to Represent Young
Ayres, the Murdered Man.
DIR. GLAzEBROOK'S TESTIMONY
DESCRIPTION OF WOUNDS ON
II CENSUS CLERKS BODY
Pieces of Court Plaster Put on JOyce's
Nude Waist To Indicate Where
the Bullets Entered.

WASHINGTON, Nov. H.-The principal
witness to-day before the Criminal Court,
in which Mrs. Lola Ida BONNIE is being
tried for the murder Of James S. Ayres, jr.,
was DR.. Marin w. GlazebroOk, the equity
coroner for the District of Columbia, who
conducted the autopsy on the body of
Ayres. He described i'm detail the three
wounds on the young mans body. and the
court crier, stripped to the waist, was used
10 illustrate the location and course of the
wounds for the instruction of the jury.
DIR. Glazebrook also testified that Mrs.
Bonnie had given her version of the man.
ner i'm which Ayres came to his death.
claiming that the wounds were inflicted
while the pistol was in Ayres's hands and
illustrated how the tragedy occurred, but
he thought il was impossible for the
wounds to nave been made with the
weapon in Ayres's own hands. She had
told him that he was at her back and had
his arms clasped about her when the shots
were fired.
Several other witnesses, who gave details
Of Ayres's last night alive, were heard
during the day. Three colored female serv-
ants related incidents of his life at the
Kenmore Hotel. One of them said that she
had heard Ayres order Mrs. BONNIE to get
out of his room and remain out; another
that she saw AyTeS and Mrs. BONNIE COM
ing out of the formers room together,
and a third that upon an occasion Ayres
had shown Indifference when told that Mrs.
BONNIE was i'll.
The first witness of the day was Johnson
j. Hooper, d clerk in the Census Office,
who was out with Ayres during the first
part Of the night on which he was killed.
lie said that Ayres took three glasses of
beer and that when he finally returned to
the Kenmore about 1890 o'clock in the
morning of May 10 he was perfectly sober.
He also testified that the entire party was
sober. but that all were in good spirits. He
sale on cross-examinatiOn that before start
Ing out at 1850 o'clock they had gone TO the
rooms of two or three other young men in
the hotel and tried TO get them out. In one
case Ayres had held Burns up to the tran
som OF a boarder room In their enort TO
bring him out, and that when they re-
turned the crowd pushed him in over a
night Waterman who was lying on a lounge
IN the corridor. and that ali had then scam
pered up the stairway.
AYRES NOT DRUNK.
John A. Tan. a Kenmore Hotel boarder,
said he had conversed with Ayres as he
went TO his room at 1926 on May Is. and
that he was not intoxicated. Indeed. he
said. all the Ayres party were sober.
Michael Kane. another member of the
Ayres farewell party, also stated that
Ayres was sober that night.
When Mr.. Kane was excused DIR. Martin
w. Glazebrook. assistant coroner. who per-
formed the autopsy on Ayres's body, was
called. The face was, hi said, almost I'M
recognizable on account of the mass of
blood which covered 1t, and the arms were
half heXed in front of the chest. Or. Glaze
brook described the three wounds in the
body or the victim. One was i'm the left
arm. one in the left thigh and one in the
breast, all except the thigh wound 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's room, and he
was about TO relate the particular expert
ments when counsel on both sides. desiring
TO have surgeons present 10 hear the state-
ment, secured a suspension OF his testimony
until afternoon.
a cOlOred chambermaid of the Kenmore
who had charge of Ayres's room was then
called. She said she had never seen a pistol
I'm the room. She said that Mrs. Bonine
often came 10 Ayres's room when she was
there to get a book She testified that on
one occasion last February she went to
Mrs. BOnine's room and found her IN. The
latter had asked her To tell Ayres of her
own accord that she CIrs. BOnine) was sick