The Sunday globe., 1901-05-26
The Ayres Tragedy. .

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THE SUNDAY GLOBE staggered, if 1t
did not solve the problem of how the
young census clerk, James Seymour
Ayers, came to his untimely end in the
early morning Of Wednesday, May IS,
at the Kenmore Hotel We used this
language in commenting on the trag-
edy in last Sundays GLOBE:
IF there was a man other than Ay-
ers in the room he did not escape by
the fire-escape. Nobody saw man de-
parting from the Ayers room by the
! fre-escape route. She and the man
could have left Ayers room together.
This fre-escape business is confusing.
The fact of the matter is, murder was
committed in the Kenmore House and
the murderer, man or woman, was
probably and is still an inmate. No out
slider is connected in any way with the
tragedy. No person from the outside
committed the murder and the police
are on the wrong scent If they are run
ming down clews of this kind"
This, it will be conceded, was close
reasoning and deduction, especially in
view Of the fact that all theories and
even the public press were pointing to
some outside person who had invaded
the hotel like a thief in the night" and
murdered the unfortunate youth in his
sleep, etc.
The confession of Mrs. Bonine was
not unexpected by the SUNDAY GLOBE,
as we made ourselves acquainted with
the relations which were alleged to
exist between her and the late Mr..
Ayers, and it is more than probable
that these concluding lines, in the
GLOBES article Of Sunday last were
the first admonidon to Mrs. Bonine
that we had line on the real facts in
the case and no doubt helped to change
her determination to stand pat" and
not confess, The Globe said:
Developments are looked for to-day
and the Globe is informed an important
arrest will be made before the coron-
er's jury resumes it's sitting. This ar
rest will be on the inside and not on
the outside of the Kenmore
Mrs. Bonine read the line, this ar
rest will be on the inside and not on
the outside of the Kenmore" and she
instinctively knew that it meant her.
The confession of Mrs, Bonine was
determined upon Sunday last, and the
version she gave the police Of the trag-
edy was all prearranged in her subtle
mind. The confession has few be-
levers, because the facts she recites
are demonstrably impossible. She could
not wrest from, nor turn the barrel Of
revolver towards a person holding
the weapon by the handle, not even If
this person was physically as frail as
herself. Nor is the scene true Of the
visit of young Ayers to her room in
search Of medicine, because he antici.
pated a chill at two o'clock a. m, after
having retired hours previously to his
room and bed. Healthy young men do
not wake up at 2 o'clock in the morn
ing with an anticipated chill, nor do
ylrtuous married women visit single
gentlemen in their rooms to talk
over" misunderstanding at the same
unseemly hour.
Nevertheless, we accept Mrs. Bo
nine's confession of the main fact, that
Ayers fell by her hand, as the confes
sion, such as it is, exculpates others
who were writhing under the unjust
suspicious Of their neighbors, the wild
theorizing Of the press and the chaotic
and rambling investigations of the DO
/ lice.
The Globe ventures the prediction
that Mrs. Bonine will neither see the
inside Of a penitentiary, nor mount
scafiold for the killing Of James sey
mour Ayers.