The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-11-28

abed and 20 suggest that a little whisky
would do her good. She accordingly told
Ayres Of Mrs. BOnine's illness, but he was
so Indifferent that she did not suggest the
need Of liquor for Mrs. BONNIE. Ayres was
at the time reading a book and had not
looked UP when she entered.
In reply TO questions by Mr.. Fulton, of
counsel for Mrs. BONNIE, the witness said
she had never seen Mrs. BONNIE in Ayres's
room when Ayres was there, and that when
Mrs. BONNIE had asked her to get the
whisky she had told her TO get it from some
one else if she could not get ii from Ayres.
She had obtained the whisky from another
boarder and had taken it to Mrs. Bonine.
AYRES AND MRS. BONNIE.
Emma Brown, colored, who was a nurse
in the Kenmore, testified tina about two
weeks before the tragedy she had seen Mrs.
Bonine and Ayres coming out Of Ayres's
room about 10 o'clock on a Sunday morning;
that Ayres had only on his trousers and
undershirt. and that Ayres went to the
bathroom and Mrs. BONNIE toward her own
apartments.
On cross-examinatio the witness said she
did not know but that Mrs. Bonnie had
simply stood at the door; that Mrs. BONNIE
was fully dressed. and that there were no
signs of excitement on the part OF either
Ayres or Mrs. BONNIE.
Mary Grayson. another domestic at the
Kenmore, testified that about March 20
last she was working in Ayres's room when
MIS-. BONNIE came III, anu lldL AyIcS OF
dered her out, telling her not only TO go,
but to stay away, as he did not want her
there. Later Mrs. BONNIE told her that
Ayres was angry with her because he
thought that she CMrs. Bonine) had told
people about the hotel that he was drink
ing, but that she had not done so. When
the witness was excused the court took a
recess for luncheon.
After recess Deputy Coroner Glazebrook
resumed his testimony. beginning with a
description of his experiments with the
/ niGfnl with which AVTQE was killed 70
show the distance necessary to make pow
der burns such as were found on Ayres's
Undershirt. He concluded that the wound
in Ayres'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
muzzle of the revolver must have been
eight inches from the body.
Court Crier Joyce was then introduced as
a lay figure to illustrate the location OF the
wounds on Ayress body. Mr.. Joyce was
stripped to the waist and DR.. GlaZebrook
described the wounds at length. making
careful measurements and using court
plaster cut round to show the appearance
of the spots where the bullets had entered
the body. AS the nude figure stood in the
witness box Mrs. BONNIE did not once
glance at Joyce, and most of the time he
was on exhibition she conversed with her
attorneys and her husband.
| THE FATAL WOUND.
OOlANAAANAi6 ia dAAO sun USING
Joyce's body for the purpose of illustration,
DR.. Glazebrook said that the wound in the
chest had penetrated the wind pipe and
the lungs on the left side and had ranged
to the right and upward, lodging in the
back. This wound, he said. was necessarily
fatal. He thought from the appearance OF
the blood found in Ayres's room that it
vas caused by the chest wound and had
been vomited.
DR.. GlazebrOOk said that he had called on
Mrs. BONNIE at the Jail professionally on
the Tuesday after the tragedy to make an
examination of bruises said to be or Mrs.
BOnine's body. At that visit she vOlun-
teered TO illustrate to him how the tragedy
had occurred and gave him her version OF
II. He said that Mrs. BOnine had
him place both arms around her, "A pistol
being held in the right hand. She had said
she grasped the hand which held the re-
volver, and it was snapped three times in
the struggle which ensued.
Assuming that the relative positions of
the two were such as thus described and
that the pistol was in Ayress right hand,
could the wounds which you found upon
his body nave been infiicted?' asked Dis
trict Attorney Gould.
Taking into consideration the position
of Ayres, and of Mrs. Bonine, together
with the appearance of his clothing, L
don't see how it was possible that the
pistol could have been held in Ayres's
hand" replied the witness.
Mr.. Douglass, on crOss-examination,
brought out the fact that there was a
slight confusion on Ayres's forehead and
several abrasiOns and bruises on his legs
and feet, the purpose Of the defense being
TO show that there had been a struggle.
The witness said that on the two legs there
were eight of these wounds on the inside
of the legs and that all were fresh. The
wounds on the feet were all on top.
DR.. GlaZebrOOk expressed the opinion that
the most natural thing for a man wounded
as Ayres was would be to grasp at the
wound.
Responding to a question from Mr.. Doug
las. the witness said he thought a man
wounded in the chest. as Ayres was, could
have cried for help in a subdued tone.
Coming to the description of the tragedy
given to him at the Jail by Mrs. Bonnie,
DIR. GlaZebrook said she had shawn him
the imprints of her finger nails in her own
hands when she grasped his hand and
the revolver. He also said that after pro-
ceeding for a short time in the descrip-
ton OF the affair Mrs. Bonine had stopped
suddenly, saying that she had been adj
vised not TO talk further of the tragedy.
On that same visit he had found a bruis,
on each of Mrs. BOnine's arms. which
could have been made a week before. This
would have taken them back TO the date
of the killing of Ayres. The inner side of
the left leg also was bruised from the knee
TO the mike and there were many bruises
on the right leg.
The court at this point adjourned until