Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-05-23
AYREs MURDER CONFESSED.
Mrs. j. j. Bonnie. a Missouri Woman oon
fssses That She Killed Jospeh
Ayres.

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Bonnie was arrested late yes.e
afternoon for the murder OF
Ayres. She mas confessed.
Mrs. Bonnie was a resident 9
Kenmore hotel. where the
y committed, and is the wire o.
drummer for a Chicago house.
is about t~hirty-ive years old. A
Bonine in her confession, admits tnas
h was alone with Ayres in ms room
when the murder "a committed.
Mrs. Bonine's confession was entire
" voluntary. At a few II F9So
/ three o'clock Yesterday afternoon the
telephone for Maj. Sylvester, cher Oh
police. saving that she was coming "
his office, and she appeared thers q
few minutes afterwards. Nhen sho
reached the office she said she had u
statement which she wished to make
end she was Immediately turned over
to Detective Horne, who took her CON
fession. She said thai she was alone
in Ayres' room with him when the
killing took place. and hat the snoot-
irg was the result of his own mlscoh-
duct. She stated that Ayres hao
/ drawn the pistol upon her for the
purpose of making her respond 10 an
| improper proposal which he had mace
to her.
At the commencement of the affair,
| she said that he had come 10 her
room in the Kenmore hotel about TWO
! o'clock Wednesday morning and upon
the pretensc of being i'll gained al
mission to her room. He complained
of feeling as if he was going to have
a chill, and asked her to give him
some preventive. She had given him,
She said. a medicine which she had
IN her room. and he had then referred
10 some differences which they had
mad in the past and had asked her to
come to his room, where they might
quietly talk the matter over, and
come to an amicable understanding.
She had agreed to go to the room as
lie had requested, and he ieft her
room. preceding her to his room.
When Ayres called at her room n
was entirely dressed, but when she
entered his Don as per agreement
she found him standing behind the
door undressed. except as to his un-
dershirt, and with a revolver IN his
hand. He then told her that he had
enticed her to the room for his w
purposes and that if she did not sub
nit to his wishes he would Kill her.
Mrs. BONNIE says that she immediate
ly grapsed the revolver, and in the
struggle which ensued it was dis
charged three different times. strik-
ing him at each discharge, the last
shot proving fatal. She says that the
cries for help which Miss Minas heard
were all from her as were also the
sobbing which Miss Minas described.
Mrs. Bonnie says hat after the
shooting she passed through the win
dow of Ayres' room onto and down
the fire escape ladder, and entering
the parlor window of the second floor,
passed through the parlor n back
up the stairway of the hotel to her
own room on the fourth floor. She
then washed her hands, undressed and
retired.
Mrs. BONNIE was entirely self-pos-
sessed when she made her confession
and did not exhibit any evidence of
either present Oh past unusual excite
ment. She is apparently about thir-
ty-two years old, N says she was
! born in Macon, Mo. She then moved
to Hamilton, in the same state, and
afterwards to Richmond, Kas., where
her husband was engaged in the drug
business. Subsequently she went to
= Brunswick, Ca. and then to Florida,
where her husband was engaged in
orange growing. She says that it was
at her husbands solicitation that she
i learned to practice with a revolver
and that he had made the suggestion
that she should learn this art for self
defense against possible assaults. She
!; said she had twice in her life fired a
) revolver to brighten burglars and that
, she had brought a bulldog revolver
with her to Washington, but had given
it away to a negro man.
/ After she had concluded her state
ment the woman was placed under ar
t rest and sent to the house of deten-
l ton.
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