The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-11-28
Hurt in the Struggle wit $
 Young Ayers. : TESTIMONY OF COR FER
His Evidence Damaging to
 the Defendant.
From Her Statement and Illustra- tions, He Said, He Believed She Held the Pistol When 1t
 Was Discharged.

Was Discharged
 Washington, Nov. H.-The principal witness before. the criminal court, in which Mrs, Lola Ida Bonine Is being tried for the murder of James 8. Ayres. IT.. was pr. M. w.. Glazebrook, the deputy coroner for the District of Column bia, who conducted the autopsy on the body of Ayres. He described in detail the three wounds on the young mans body and the court crier, stripped to the waist, was used to illustrate the location of the wounds and the course of the bull lets for the instruction of the jury. Dr. Glazebrook also testified that Mrs. Bonine had given her version of the manner in which Ayres came to his death claiming thai the wounds were inflicted while the pistol was in Ayres's hands and illustrating how the tragedy occurred, but he thought that it was impossible Tor the wounds to have 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 wit nesses who gave details of Ayres's last night alive were heard during the day. Three colored female servants related incidents of his life at the Kenmore hotel. One of them said that she haa heard Ayres order Mrs. Bonine to get ont of his room and remain out. Another that she saw Ayres and Mrs. Bonlne l coming out of the formers room together | and a third that upon one occasion Ayres l had shown indifference when tolo that Mrs. Bonine was ilk l The first witness today in the case Of Mrs. Lola Ida Bonine. charged with Kill ! ing James Seymour Ayers. 'jr., was Jonn- | son u. Hooper a clerkfin tshe census or I nee. who was out with Ayers during the l first part of the night on which he was
 killed.
 Ayers Was Sober. He said that when Ayers returned to l the Kenmore, about 12:30 o'clock in the l morning of May 15, he was perfectly | sober He also testited that the entire party was sober. though all were Tn | good spirits.
 | He said on cross examination that be-
 fore starting out at ll:oO they had gone
 to the rooms of two or three other young l men in the hotel and tried to get them | out.
 l John A. Taff, a Kenmore hotel boarder' | said that he had conversed with Ayers | as he went to his room at 2:3o May 10
 and that he was not intoxicated lie salo
 all the Ayers party were sober. | Michael Kane, another member or the l Ayers farewell party, also stated that | Ayers was sober that night. He leIt the | party an hour before 1t separated ana
 went to his room. Several men came
 after him and when they failed to get
 response from him they lifted up one or ! their number so he could look into the l room and locate him.
 When MT. Kane was excused pr Mar
 tin w Glazebrook, assistant coroner 1 who performed the autopsy on Ayers
 body, was called The face was, he salu'
 almost unrecognizable on account Of the
 mass of blood which covered 1t and the
 arms were half hexed in front Of the | chest.
 Dr. Glazebrook described the three 1 wounds in the body of the victim. one
 was in 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 fred
 Mrs. Bonine Wanted Whiskey' | A colored chambermaid of the Kenmore | who had charge of Ayers's room was then called She said she had never seen a
 pistol in the room. She said that Mrs. | Bonine often came to Ayers's room when l she was there to get book. She testi- | fled that one one occasion last February
 she went to Mrs. Bonine's room and | found her i'll. The latter had asked her l to tell Ayers, of her own accord, that
 she (Mrs. Bonine). was sick and to sug- | gest that a little whiskey would do her | good
 She accordingly told of Mrs. Bonine' 8 illness, but he was so indifferent that she
 did not suggest the need of liquor for Mrs Bonine. In reply to questions by Mir. Hutton, of counsel for Mrs. Bonine, 1 the witness said she had never seen Mrs. | Bonine in Ayers's room when Ayers was | there and that when Mrs. Bonine had | asked her to get the whiskey she had | told her to get 1t from some one else
 If she could not get 1t from Ayers. She | obtained the whiskey from another boarder and had taken 1t to Mrs. Bonine. Emma Brown, colored, who was a nurse in the Kenmore. testified that | about two weeks before the tragedy she
 had seen Mrs. Bonine and Ayers coming | out of Ayres's room about 10 o'clock on a l Sunday morning.
 1 Mary Grayson, another domestic at the | kenmore, LeSLlHeu lndI dpOuI NAoiSh ~"eli | last she was working in Ayers's room 1 when Mrs. Bonine came in and that | Ayers ordered her out, telling her not
 only to go. but to stay away. as he did | not want her there.
 Later Mrs. Bonine had told her that | Ayers was angry iwth her because | he thought that she (Mrs. Bonine)
 had told people about the hotel that he
 was dringing, but that she had not done l so.
 When the witness was excused the
 court took a recess for luncheon.
 Glazebrook's Experiments
 After recess Deputy Coroner Glazebrook resumed his testimony, beginning with a l description of his experiments with the pistol with which Ayers was killed. He l concluded that the wound in Ayers's thigh must have been made by a 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 mug zIe of the revolver must have been eight