The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1901-11-27
MRS. BONNIE
ON TRIAL
Did She Murder James Sey-
mour Ayres, Jr.?
RESULT OF JEALOUSY
During the Entire Proceedings the Defend
ant Was Calm and Unmoved.
Witnesses Testify.
RESULT OF JEALOUSY

Mrs. Lola Ida Bonine on the charge
of killing James Seymour Ayres. Jr..
was fairly launched today.
District Attorney Taggart stated
the theory of the prosecution to be
that Ayres was murdered by Mrs
Bonine and that she gained admis-
sion to his room in the hotel through
the window, reaching that by means
of the fire escape. He attempted to
show that she was piqued by his non
attentions to her.
There was, he said tie between
the prisoner and the dead man in the
fact that AyreS was a student of dent
istry and she had studied medicine.
AS consequence she became fire.
quent visitor to his room in the hotel
day and night. and" he added, "the
door was not always open when She
was there
He told of the quarrels between
them, saying that Ayres ceased to
speak to her and that she complained
Of his ingrattude.
AS an instance of his attitude to-
ward Mrs. BOnine, Mr.. Taggart said
that Ayres had refused to accept a
carnaton from her on the Monday
before the killing. 1t was evident,
he said. that while he was Indifferent
there was a disposition on her part
to millify him.
Daniel Woodhouse. the colored
waiter in the hotel. testified that on
the morning of May | he was asked
by Miss Minas. who occupied room
next to Ayres. to go into the latter's
! ch ~ nVyip hat rl,t
before she had heard strange noises
in the room. He first discovered the
body by looking through the keyhole
and afterwards saw it through the
transOm.
Policeman Walter S. Brady was
tho witness called. He was on duty
near the Kenmore hotel on the morn
ing that Ayres' body was discovered
and was summoned to the hotel by
the proprietor. w. w. Warfeld He
had, under Mr.. WarfeIds instruc-
tiOns, forced open the door of Ayres'
room. The door was bolted and not
locked
The bed looked. Brady said. as if
some one mad lain in it and had got
ten up, throwing the cover back
There was only one indentatiOn in
the pillow.
The witness said that a pistol and
a small single-barreled shotgun lay
on trunk in the room and that the
barrel and the chambers of the pistol
We're covered with blood. The pistol
was exhibited to Mr. Brady and ilen-
titled by him.
There was a pool of blood the wit
ness said, on the floor Blood stains
We're also on the windowsill and
washboard and on the rocker
On table in the room there were
nine cartridges loose. The gas was
burning when he entered the room.
but almost turned low. The lower
sash of the one window in the room
was up as far as it would go. The
string on the window shade was Gov
cred with blood, as if it had been
drawn through bloody fingers.
In concluding his examination in
chief. the district attorney put in ev-
idence the undershirt found on the
body of Ayres. 1t was stained with
blood. The sight of the garment ap-
parently affected the prisoner more
than any preceding incident in the
course of the trial.
liceman Fulton Wolfe was called. He
had entered the building with Off
Ger Brady. His testimony was large
ly cOrroborative of Bradys.
The pictures of the room, he said,
showed a number OF articles on the
floor, which We're not there at the
time. He had seen no hairpins on the
floor
Wolfe was still on the stand when
the court took it's noon recess.
Washington. Nov. 26.-Ine trial of
Mrs. Ida Bonine for the murder of
James Seymour Ayres, Jr. at the
Kenmore hotel last May, began in
real earnest today. The preliminary
details as to the finding OF the body,
the location of the furniture. blood
stains. etc, We're all in with the
conclusion of the testimony of J. p
Drew. the capitol policeman, who was
on the stand when the court adjourn
ed last Friday. Baker. the man who
saw Mrs. BOnine descend the fire es
cape; Hopkins, who roomed over
AyTes ami raised the first outcry:
Miss WOolmus. who rOOmed under
Ayres, and Miss Lawless and Miss
Minas, who roomed OH either side Of
him, testified today. The two latter
were regarded as star witnesses. but
they testified to no facts not devel-
oped at the inquest Drew testified
that there was room enough behind
the door of Ayres' room for a man
to have been there while the door
was opened to admit another person.
a contention which the prosecution
deny, and also that there were empty
cartridges in the slOp jar in Ayres'
room before the pistol with which