The Sunday globe., 1901-05-26

maybe 80 lbs. heavier, is nonsensical.
Public sentiment recognizes the fact
that a man who seduces the wife OF
another and invades his home is not
entitled to the vindication Of the law
in so far as the punishment Of the vic
tim of his lust is concerned. A man
signs his own death warrant who in
vades the domestic sanctity Of his
neighbor's household and seduces his
wife or daughter. There is no ques'
ton or reasonable doubt that Mrs.
Bonine fell a victim to the seduction
of Ayres, and that the latter tiring OF
his mistress, endeavored to sever the
relations which existed, and probably
adopted the least diplomatic and
most brutal manner to effect his pur-
pose. Mrs. Bonine can not save her
honor by the statement which she has
put forth, and may endanger her lib
erty, but no jury of Americans would
ever convict her If she had frankly
and boldly acknowledged the base and
infamous treatment to which she was
subjected by her erstwhile lover.
The SUNDAY GLOBE, it will be remem-
bered, stated on Sunday last that the
slayer Of Ayers, whether man or wo-
man, was an inmate of the Kenmore
House, and it admonished the police
and detectives against following clues
false as they were absurd, that the
murderer was some outside jealous
husband or lover of some woman whom
Ayres had seduced. The same deduc-
tive reasoning has led lis to the con-
clusion that Mrs. Bonine, on being
spurned by Ayres, seeing the revolver
lying on the table or trunk, suddenly
seized 1t and in a paroxysm Of anger
and outraged womanhood, fired In q
frenzy at her base and unmanly par
amour. 1t is also beyond question that
| the census clerk, Miss Minas, not only
| heard the entrance of Mrs. Bonine to
Ayres' room, the billing and cooling in
! the early part Of the last and fatal In
! terview, but also the incidents imme.
diately preceding the tragedy, the fall
Of Ayres and the departure Of Mrs.
| BOnine from the room through the
window to the fire escape. Miss Minas
is the true and loyal friend Of Mrs.
/ Bonine. She is one woman in mil
lion, who is loyal to her sex, and does
not desert her friend in misfortune.
| We tip our hat to Miss Minas, but
truth compels us to state that she has
not told all she knows.
She heard the pleading woman
through the thin partition, reminding
her lover of his obligations, his broken
promises, and her great love for him,
which made her forget husband and
/ children. And If there we're financial
obligations on the part of Ayres, no
doubt Mrs. Bonine intermiXed them
with her incoherent and wild plead.
ings for a continuance Of their rela-
tions. Miss Minas may not have heard
the soft and stealthy footsteps of the
infatuated woman creeping to the
room of Ayres, her entrance, and the
closing of the door. She may have
been asleep then, but however pro
found her slumber, experience shows
that the talking of others separated
by a thin partition would ultimately
rouse the average person to conscious
ness, Besides, a woman is ever GU
rious in matters of this kind. Miss
Minas knew that Ayres was to leave
the next morning. She knew some
thing. too. of the relations between
Ayres and Mrs. Bonine, and 1t is fair
to presume she anticipated that the
lost woman would visit and plead with
her recreant lover. She was on the
alert for this last interview, but she
may have fallen asleep. II she dld
the subsequent talking OF the pair
awakened her, and from that time to
the bloody end she heard all.
II is Just possible that no criminal
relations existed between Mr.. Ayres
and Mrs. Bonine, and nothing more
serious than a Irritation on her part
in the absence of her husband, toos
place. Wives whose husbands are com
nelled to travel and absent themselves
from their families are often guilty
of these slight indiscretions. And II
is also possible that Ayres, to use 9
vulgar expression, worked" Mrs. 30
nine for loans, which he declined tC
nav. or perhaps thought he had liqul
dated by playing the gallant and ca
tering to her vanity as a pretended ad
mirer. We say this theory is possible
hut is it probable? Would the woman
If this were the case go to his room
Of . o'clock in the morning, and ever
~ she did do so, would she be desper
ate enough to murder him for the
money he had borrowed and refused
or was unable to refund? Mrs. Bonine
is a woman whose coolness, nerve ano
slefrestraint are phenomenal. 1t IL
such a woman, when driven to extrem
itv. despised or betrayed, who is the
most deadly and dangerous Of her sex
The GLOBE is not Mrs. Bonine's at
tornev nor legal adviser, but having
been through the ordeal now confront
ing her, it presumes to oner this al
vice:
Either hold your tongue, Madam
Bonine, and let the State do the tax
ing or boldly stand upon sexs mora
right to hold to his obligations the
man for whom you sacrificed all and
If you are tried by a jury OF MEN
they will remain in the jury box until
the ants carry them out before they
will render a verdict of guilty.