The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-11-23
MRS. BONNIE
 IS ON TRIAL Evidence for the PrOSecu-
 tiOn Begins. POLICEMAN w. s. BRADY Tells of the Finding of Body
 of Ayers. The Corpse Was Almost Nude and Blood Was Scattered All Over the Room-Prisoner Shows
 No Emotion.

Washington, Nov. 22.-rhe trial of Mrs. Lola Ida Bonine, for the murder ol James Seymour Ayers, Jr., was resumed tc day in Justice Anderson's court.
 Mrs. Bonine's party was augmented to- day b ythe addition of her brother. U. B. Grant Henry, who had come rom ms neme in Missouri in order to be present with his sister during the trial. Mrs Bonine's two young sons were also pres cnt. as were her husband and her sister Mrs. LSacham.
 The prisoner came in in advance of hei attorneys. When they arrived she cor dially shook hands with them.
 Policeman Walter s. Brady was the first witness called He was on duty al the Kenmore Hotel on the morning thai Ayers's body was discovered, and he was summoned to the hotel at about 5:2( o'clock by the proprietor, MT. w. w Warfield, who told him that he thought he had suicide upstairs.
 The witness was then escorted to Ay- CTS room in company with three or four other persons. Finding the door fastened he had, under Mir. Warfield's instructions, forced 1t open. Upon subsequent investi- gation he had found that the door was bolted and not locked.
 The body of the dead man was, he said, lying on the floor near the window in a bent position and with the arms drawn up in front of the face. He lay across one of the rounds of rocking chair. and the only clothing on the body was light undershirt.
 The shirt was open at the neck and the upper portion of it was covered with blood. There also was some blood on the left sleeve of the garment The hands and feet also were bloody the lat ter looking as if he had stepped in the blood which was on the floor in consider able quantity.
 Three wounds were found on 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. thp. wt8g the cover back as he did so. There was no other disorder about 1t, and there was only one intention in the pill low. Ayerss coat and vest had been carefully laid over the back of the chair.
 He said that pistol and a small single barreled gun lay on trunk and the bar rel and the chambers of the pistol were covered with blood.
 The pistol was exhibited by Mir. Brady and identified by him. He handled 1t free ly as he described the condition of the weapon.
 
 the weapon with close scrutiny, but gave no evidence of any emotion.
 Continuing his description of Ayerss room as he found it. Mir Brady said that the young mans trousers were carefully laid over the back of chair and that his collars, cuffs and neck-tie had been laid upon the bureau. No blood stains were found either on the bed or in it's imme- diate vicinity, the first blood stains being near the spot where Ayers's head lay. The pool of blood near the body was larger than the pool near the window. There also were blood stains on the win dow sill, the washboard and the rocker. On a table in the room there were nine cartridges lying loose.
 The RaIi was burning when he entered the room. but was 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 covered with blood. as If it had been drawn through bloody fingers He did not think there was room enough between the bed and the door, when the latter was open, for a man to stand there.
 In concluding his examination in chief of the witness. District Attorney Gould put In evidence the undershirt found on the body of Ayers. It was well stained with blood. The sight of the garment apparently affected the prisoner more than any preceding incident in the course of the trial.
 On cross-examination Officer Brady said a boy had first notified him of the 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 print on the pistol he found in the room The blood on the hands was unappreciablo In quantity
 He had, however. discovered what he to be finger prints on the window ,ilI The detached piece of the window sill was exhibited and identified by the who said the blood stains were more distinct on the morning of May 5th than now.
 Officer Brady said in reply to other questions by MT. Douglass that the loose pistol cartridges found on the table were filled and were of 32 calibre, the same ,alibre as those found in the revolver In that weapon there were three loaded md three empty shells.
 He said the bed as shown in the photo graphs of Ayers's room was much more iisordered than when he first went to he room, but he did not know who had disturbed it before the photograph was naQe. MT. DOuBlaSS brought out the 'act that the top huttonhole of Ayers's was torn out.
 When Mir. Brady was excused Police nan Fulton Wolfe was called. He had entered the building with Officer Brady. His testimony covered the same ground IS that of the proceeding witness and was largely corroborative of 1t. He said le had only noticed blood on the sleeve ,f the undershirt worn by Ayers. The pictures of the room, he said, showed a number of articles on the floor which were not there at the time. He had een hair pins on the floor. Officer Wolf vas still on the stand when the court ook it's noon recess.
 After recess in the Bonine trial Officer Wolfe was cross-examined by Mir. Doug ass. No new facts were brought out Policeman F. J. Williams. who was on etective service in May last. and was n early visitor to the scene of the ragedy, was next called. He corro- orated the statements of his brother fficers as to the condition of the body. he presence and appearance(of a pistol nd shotgun and the condition of the.