The evening times., 1901-11-25
How FATAL SHOT WAS FIRED.
Continued From First Pase.)
you observed when she came out Of
Ayres' room?"
Not bit,''
Visited the sick.

-NV+ q b&b.
Visited the sick.
Whose rooms did you eyer see her
in?''
az can't remember She was around vis-
iting sick people in the house"
Did you ever see Ayres and Mrs Bo- |
nine together"
q saw them dance together
Mr. Gould then began the redirect ex-
animation of the witness. He asked Po-
Hceman Drew if he had not been mis-
taken when he said that he saw the car
fridge shells in the sIop jar when he first
entered the room.
y saR the shells when I first entered
the roorn." repeated the witness, and
saw them there before the revolver was
opened
did You ever see Mrs. Bonine come out
! Of the room oE any unmarried man except
that of Ayres?'' was asked
4 never did"
The witness was then excused.
/ saw woman on Fire-EScapc.
| Thomas NJ. Baker. an employe of the
United States Fish Commission, who saw
a woman come down the thre-escape Of the
/ Kenmore after the shots were fred. was
next called. He said that he lived next
door to the Kenmore when the tragedy
| occurred
The witness said that at o'clock on
the morning Of May Is, 1901, he was in his
bed in a room which he pointed out.
I was awakened by pistol shots. The
window was open and I heard two shots"
he said When I heard the shots I
jumped from the bed and looked out. I
located the shots on the ground a voice
called to me from above It said: What's
wrong down there2' I could not tell
where the voice came from.
II was looking up toward the Kenmore
when I saw a woman appear on the fire.
escape She was faced northeast and WAS
walking along The fre-escape due north. ."
Attorney Gould stopped the witness
while he showed the jury the photographs
OF the fre-escape.
Descended the Fire-Esenpe.
The woman went down the steps and
reached the landing the witness re-
sumed Then she went down the other
steps and. having reached the balcony On
she went into window
Gould you describe the woman?" asked
Attorney Gould
She wGs small woman, more thai
thai I could not say. She was clad in :
) tight dark dress and was evidently in hel
stocking feet. As she went down the es
: cape her left hand followed tie railing
: while her right hand hung by her side
She did not hesitate, but walked along il
a cool. ordinary way. Her dress Wa:
not raised. but yoI could sec limbs as sh
came down the upper flight.
Could not Recognize the Goyn.
Could you recognize the gown woFl
by the womau2''
I could not"
>-Wnen did you first see Mrs BoRine?
In her room at the hotel with Detec
. tive Horne on the day Of the tragedy.
How did she act2"
she smiled and said she knew nothin
. about it"
= Attorney Douglass then took the wit
ness II hand Under cross examination
!, the latter stated that he was kept awak
: until after u o'clock on the night befor
: the tragedy. He could not tell whethe
q the woman on the ire-escape was movin
OF standing when he first discovered hel
Q The woman's hair vas hanging down he
g baci. in a coil
Mr. Douglass was about to conclude hi
cross-examinatfon of the witness whe
Mr. Bonine leaned over and said some
thing. Mr.. Douglass then had the wit
Y ness take the revolver with which th
crime was committed IN Illustrating I'll
y space between the shots the witness dTa
: maticaIIy aimed the empty weapon at II
/ end Of the courtroom and snapped tE
AZ trigger as he had heard the shots fired.
ID Was just Going to Bed.
i Robert P Hopkins. War Departmel
i clerk. who lived at the Kenmore at Il
: time of the tragedy, was next calle
Z He is an elderly man. with an enormor
10 goatee He said that he was just ge
re ting into bed when he heard three lol
reports. The shots came from below h
'n room. and seemed to have been fred
OF Ayres- room. He called out, and a vol
u repfied: I see nothing wrong here I
10 then looked around the halls, but fou
nd nothing. This was between / o'clock a
Sc ),
B. There was only four seconds betwe
he the three Shots he said. ''the last "
~ a fractional part of a second slower III
rs the Others
nd The witness was handed the revoly'
Y and illustrated the interval between
u shots by swapping the trigger.
p Looked oat and saw Il skuII.
rs what did you see when you looked o
"a Of the window Mr. Hopkins was askt
an I looked down at Ayres' window a
is saw skull lying on the Gre-eseape,' W
the reply.
"A what asked Attorney Fulton.
y skull. Ayres kept skull on
window"
at Miss Kate LawIess, the woman VINO h
the room. to the right of that occupied
lie Ayres. and who heard nothing during
e. night. although only a thin wooden p;
tn tition separated the rooms, was plar
.ie, on the stand She is about twenty-f
en-, years old. with a thin, wan face.
wore an automobile coat and a pea
IS- coIored hat, trimmed with white ribbo
all, AyFes Asked for Some Sugar.
-ot' Il went to my room at e:2O on the nil
-. Of the tragedy" she said. "and proceed
to retire. Ayres came 10 my room at 9
and o'clock and asked me for some sugar, 81
Luz; ing that he was going away. He ca