Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-11-27

| room. IL any of these tickets have been
sold by the parties to whom they were is
| sued, L have no knowledge of such fact.
The published statement that children and
| lewd women have been admitted to the
court room is absolutely false. Persons an
Ger the age of twenty-one years would not
| be admitted, even on presentation Of a
| ticket, and women of bad character would
not be admitted under any circumstances.
! It rs the unanimous testimony of the pre-
| siding judge, the attorneys, newspaper
| men and all persons in attendance upon
| this trial that the order in the court room
and the class of persons in attendance are
| exemplary in every respect"
Today's Testimony.
| With only the necessary preliminaries the
| proceedings Were resumed promptly on
| time this morning. The first witness of the
! day was Johnson ]. Hooper. a clerk in the
census office. He occupied room 26 on the
second floor of the annex of the Kenmore
Hotel, last May. The evening of the 18th
| of that month he was member of the
party that included Ayres, and which twice
| visited saloon. Most of the party drank
beer; in fact, Some one remarked that it
| was a beer crow. Ayres. and, in fact
every member of tive party. was perfectly
sober. The witness had visited saloon
earlier in the evening.
| On cross-examination, conducted by At
| torney keene, the defense endeavored to
show that the witness and the others had
been drinking rather heavily the evening
| of the 14th of May. All We're sober Hooper
! declared. The witness admitted that he
was the man who sat down on the sleeping
I night watchman. In front of the hotel the
members of the party Were laughing and
| Joking, but were not boisterous The wit
ness Went with Ayres and Burns to the
| rooms of Kane and Virgins and attempt ed
| to get those men to join the party down
stairs.
Ayres' Sobriety.
John A. Taft employed at the govern
ment printing office. next took the stand
He stated that he is graduate in medi-
cine, and last May occupied room 50. on the
sixth floor of the Kenmore Hotel. The
evening of the 14th of May he visited Cabin
John Bridge and returned to the Kenmore
about 12:30 o'clock. The witness stouped
Win AEres, Burns and the others on the
front steps of the Kenmore annex, and con-
versed with Ayres for about ten minutes
Ayres was perfectly sober, and SO were
the others
Michael Kane of the government printing
office, who boarded at the Kenmore, also
testified that Ayres was entirely sober the
evening of May IA. The witness was with
the party in the lobby when the farewell
speech to Ayres was made and went to the
restaurant with the others. Ayres drank
two small beers" Going back to the
hotel the witness retired to his room Later
Ayres. Burns and Hooper called at Kane's
room in quest of the latter. He attempted
to hide from them.
Because you had had enough to drinkp''
inquired counsel for the defense.
Il had two beers" was the response
Had you had enough?" counsel insisted
Kane.
Autopsy Explained.
Those in the court room evidently expect-
ell something of interest from the next
witness. for there was a decided stir when
Dr. Larkin w. Glazebrook, deputy coroner
tod ha Sto
fession and professional experience. and ex-
planning that he has performed between
o,9 and COD autopsies, DR. Glazebrook add
ed that he first saw the body of Ayres al
the morgue about IL O'Clock the morning of
May ID, and made an autopsy about 2
o clock the afternoon of the same day He
was iirst sent to the morgue, he said for
the purpose of determining the cause of
death. The body was almost unrecogniz-
able, by reason OF the great amount of
blood on the face and upper portion of the
body. The latter was clad only In an un-
dershirt. The arms We're "haif-fieXed" in
front OF the chest, the witness illustrating
the position. Great force was required to
stralghten the arms.
Continuing, DR.. Glazebrook testified that
AEres was man about six feet in height
and weighed about 80 or 155 pounds. He
was remarkably well-developed man. in
1act, he was an exceptionally handsome
man, physically speaking
The witness found three distinct gunshot
wounds, one in the chest. one in the left
arm and one in the left thigh Regarding
the wound in the thigh. there was no burn
or powder imprint, smut about it, The
wound was egg-shaped, indicating that the
bullet did not strike the hip perpendicu-
larry, but at an angle.
The wound in the chest was round and
the edges Of the V opening of the front of
the shirt rested about half an inch from
the circumference of the wound. About
the wound were few scattered grains of
uneXploded powder. The wound in the
arm was eSg-Shaped.
There was only a very little blood about
the wound in the thigh; and. likewise
merely small quantity about the wound
IN the chest. The shirt had been saturated
from blood that flowed from the mouth.
DIR. G1aZebrook was about to describe GER
taln experiments he made last summer with
the pistol found in Ayres' room, when the
court at the request of the defense direct
ed that the proceedings be suspended for a
few minutes pending the arrival of certain
physicians who the defense desired should
hear the testimony of DR.. Glazebrook. and
whom they had summoned. After a wait
OF fifteen minutes United States Attorney
Go9la announced that in order to accom-
modate the defense he would suspend tne
examination of the deputy coroner until
after recess.
The kenmore Maid.
His place on the stand was taken by Eliza
Gardiner, colored, who was employed as a
chsmbermaid at the Hotel Kenmore. She
had charge Of Ayres' room.
Did You ever see a pistol in his room?"
inquired District Attorney Gould
Never replied the witness
The chambermaid saw Mrs Ronfne one
Sunday morning last February, the day fol-
lowing Miss Minas' birthday party. Mrs.
BcEine was In bed in her room. She request
ed the witness to get her some hot water. as
she felt as though she was going to have a
chill.
Mrs Bonine further asked the witness +o
go to Ayres' room and, not letting on
that Mrs. Bonine had sent her. say to
Ayres: Mrs. Bonine is quite Ill this morn
ing. l think little whisky would do her
good
The witness went to Ayres' room as d.
rected, and said: Mrs. Bonine is quite III
this morning.
Mr.. Ayres paid no attention to what 1
said He didn't even raise his eyes from
the book he was reading, so 1 didn't saw
any more" explained the witness
On several occasions when the witness
was engaged in Ayres' room cleaning up,
Mrs. Bonfne entered, she saying to the wit
ness that she wanted to look at or borrow a |
book.
The witness, on cross-exam mination, ad- |
mitted that she had never seen lfrS I2op;p. /