The sun., 1901-11-30
VkRS 50vfST0RY.
'8Deto... /Narrates In Court
1--WE l1fession to Him.
Han 4RUGGLE WITH AYRES.
~ .cinred That When the Young
census Clerk Was Shot the
" Revolver Was, Held In
His own Hand.

Il washington, Nov. 29.-When the
trial of Mrs. Lola Ida Bonine, who is
accused of killing James S. Ayres. Jr..
was resumed, Deputy Coroner Glase-
brook continued his testimony. He
told further of the bruises found on the
/ bodies of Mrs. Bonine and Ayres and
was followed by Detective Edward
Horne, to whom Mrs. Bonine made her
first official confession.
He said he had first met Mrs. Bonine
on the morning that Ayres' body was
found. He had then asked her if she
knew how Ayres had met his death,
and she said she did not. She told
how she had been dressed on the night
of the killing and had upon request
handed over the skirt she had worn
Her manner was perfectly cool.
On the morning following the killing
while the coroner's inquest was in
progress she had made her confession
to him. She had, he said, then told
him that at 2 o'clock on the morning
of Wednesday, May 10, Ayres had
knocked on her door, and that when
she went to the door he said he was
sick and asked her to give him some
medicine.
He then, she had said, tried to put
his arm around her and had asked to
be allowed to go into her room to talk,
over their former differences prior to
his leaving the hotel, which he was to
do the next day. She had declined
saying she did not want to awaken
her boys and had then consented to 60
to his room upon his making the plea
that there would not be time the next
4 morning for their conference before
his leaving the house. She had told
him, the detective said, that she had
dressed herself completely, putting on
clean linen, wrapper and slippers
and had then followed Ayres TO his
room, he having returned to his apart
ment.
Was Holding Revolver.
When she turned the knob of the
door, Ayres opened it from the inside,
and she found him standing back of
the door, holding a revolver in his
right hand. She had then started to
run away but had trlpped, and Ayres
caught her around the waist.
She had illustrated in later inter
view with him and District Attorney
Gould her attitude and that of Ayres
when the shooting occurred, saying
that her back was TO Ayres, that his
right hand, in which the revolver was
held, was thrown over her shoulder
and that she had caught that hand
with both of hers.
She did not know how the shots were
fired, but she felt blood gush over her
shoulder. When Ayres fell to the floor,
she fell under him and, slipping out,
had gone to her room, where she wash
ed her hands and her wrapper and
went to bed.
The wrapper was exhibited to the
witness and identified by him. 1t is a
brown colored garment trimmed with
green velvet.
On cross examination Detective Horne
said Mrs. Bonine said to him that sht
hesitated to mention the tragedy be
cause she feared that in doing so she
might do injustice to the dead. After
Ayres fell she found, she said, that hel
own hand clasped the barrel and that
her hands We're covered with blood
She had not discovered the pistol in
Ayres' hand until he had bolted the
door.
Edwin B. Hesse, stenographer at po
lice headquarters, who reported the
statement Of Mrs. Bonine as made tc
the chief of police, was next called and
identified the transcript of his notes OF
that statement.