The age-herald., 1901-11-28
CORONER SAYS AIRES DID NUT
 KILL HIMSELF Court Crier Stripped to the Waist Used as a
 Lay Figure MRS. BONINE AVERIS EYES Refuses to Glance at the Man as He Stands With Court Plaster Stuck
 on In Spots to Repre- 
 sent Wounds.
MRS. BONNIE AVERTS EYES

Washington, November 27.-The princi- pal witness before the Criminal Court, In which Mrs Lola Ida Bonine is being tried for the murder of James S. Ayres. Jr.. was Dr. W. M. Glazebrook the deputy coroner for the District of Columbia, 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 and course of the wounds for the instruction of the jury. Dr. Glazebrook also testified that Mrs. Bonine had given her version of the man. ner in which Ayres came to his death. claiming that the wounds were inflicted while the pistol was in Ayres hands and Illustrating how the tragedy occurred, but he thought that it was impossible for the wounds to have been made with the weapon in Ayres' own hands.
 She had told him that he was at her back and his arms clasped about her when the shots were fired. Several other witnesses who gave details of Ayres' last night alive were heard during the day
 Three colored female servants related incidents of his life at the Kenmore Ho- tel One of them said that she had heard Ayres order Mrs Bonine to get out of his room and remain out Another that she saw Ayres and Mrs Bonine coming out of the formers room together. and a third that upon one occasion Ayres had | shown indifference when told that Mrs. Bonine was ill
 Ayres Not intoxicated. The first witness today was Johnson J. Hooper, clerk in the census office, who was out with Ayres during the first part of the night on which he was killed. He said that when Ayres returned to the Kenmore about 12:30 o'clock on the morn ing of May Is he was perfectly sober He also testified that the entire party was sober, though all were In good spirits. He said on cross-examination that before starting out at 11:50 o'clock they had gone to the rooms of two or three young men in the hotel, and tried to get them out.
 John A. Taff, a Kenmore hotel boarder. said that he had conversed with Ayres
  and that he was not intoxicated. He said that all the Ayres party were sober.
 Michael Kane, another member of the Ayres farewell party, also stated that Ayres was sober that night He left the party an hour before it separated and went to his room. Several men came after him, and when they failed to get response from him they lifted up one of their number he could look into the room and locate him. MT. Kane was ex- cused.
 Dr. Martin Glazebrook, assistant cor oner, who performed the autopsy on Ayres' body, was called The face was. he said almost unrecognizabe on ac- count of the mass of blood which cover ed it, and the arms were half flexed in front of the chest Dr. Glazebrook de- scribed the three wounds in the body ol the victim. One was in the left arm, one in the left thigh and one in the left breast all, except the thigh wound, show ing powder wounds and showed that the weapon had been in close proximity to the body when at least two shots were fired.
 Visited Ayres' Room.
 A colored chambermaid from the Ken more who had charge of Ayres' room was then called. She said she had never seen a pistol in the room. She said that Mrs. Bonne often came to Ayres room when she was there to see book. She testified that on one occasion last Febru- ary she went to Mrs. Bonine's room and found her ill., The latter had asked her to tell Ayres of her own accord that she (Mrs. Bonine) was sick and to suggest that a little whisky would do her good.
 She accordingly told of Mrs Bonines illness. but he was so indifferent that she did not suggest the need of liquor for Mrs Bonine.
 In reply to questions by Mir. Fulton, of counsel for Mrs. Bonine. the witness said she had never seen witness in Ayres' room when Ayres was there. and that when Mrs. Bonine had asked her to get the whisky she had told her to get 1t from some one else if she could not get 1t from Ayres She had obtained the whis- ky from another and had taken 1t to Mrs. Bonine.
 Emma Brown, colored. who was nurse at the Kenmore, testified that about two weeks before the tragedy she had seen Mrs. Bonine and Ayres coming out of Ayres' room about 10 o'clock on a Sunday morning.
 Mrs Grayson. another domestic at the Kenmore. testified that about March % last she was working in Ayres room when Mrs Bonine came in. and that Ayres 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 Ayres was angry with her because she fMrs. Bonine) had told