The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-11-27

that Jimmy Ayres and myself we're friends
l did not know but that she might think
Ayres had told me enough 10 convict her.
Afraid" asked counsel for the defense.
Yes. And the next night, too"
In reply to further questions by Mr..
Douglass, Burns said that Mrs. BONNIE
had nursed him through a serious illness,
coming TO his room day and night. alone
and with others, and also that he had told
had heard Ayres talk as though he had
been intimate with Mrs. Bonnie. At this
point the court took a recess for luncheon.
After recess Mr.. Douglass continued his
cross-examination of Mr.. Burns. Mr..
Douglass sought by his questions 10 show
that Burns knew that Ayres owned a
pistol He asked the witness IL he had
not advanced the theory I'm a letter TO a
friend I'm Michigan that Ayres had taken
the weapon found in his room from his old
trunk. The witness said that he had writ
ten a letter expressing the opinion that
If Ayres a a pistol at all he had taken
IL from his trunk and laid il on the dresser.
He also had expressed the opinion in that
letter that there had been a struggle in
the room.
Michael Hogan, ffty-eight years old. who
said he had been police Judge I'm New York.
and who was one of the party out with
young Ayres the night Of his death. was
called when Mr.. Burns was excused. He
said that he lived at the Kenmore. The
boys had. he said. asked him TO pronounce
the valedictory,' as Ayres was 10 leave the
hotel the next day. He had spoken quite
a little piece just 10 jolly Ayres. and then
the party left for the saloons around the
corner, returning about u o'clock. lie
said that when Ayres returned he was
perfectly sober. Mr.. Hogan said that on
one occasion Mrs. BONNIE had spoken 10
him Cthe witness) when Ayres was present
about giving a euchre party, but that
Ayres had not spoken TO her, nor she TO
him.
Joseph c. McCabe, another boarder at
the Kenmore, testified 10 seeing Ayres In a
saloon at IL o'clock on the night OF the
tragedy when he went i'm with the party
from the Kenmore. At that time the young
man was perfectly sober. He saw him
drink two glasses of beer.
Arthur Hugh McCubbin, twenty-five
years of age, who was a member of the
Ayres farewell party on the night OF the
homicide, also was called. He said that
Ayres was sober when he returned 10 the
hotel about 1890 O'Clock.
John l.. Downes, who occupied a room on
the fourth floor of the kenmore at the
time of the tragedy, said that he had seen
Mrs. BONNIE the morning after the killing.
She did not seem i'm any way more excited
than other boarders.
James X. Ford. a fellow-clerk OF Ayres's
at the Census Office and a friend of his, who
did not at the time or the tragedy live 1T
room the morning after the killing. There
were then four or five women standing near
the door in the corridor, among them being
Mrs. Bonine. He spoke TO her especially.
asking her if she had danced with Ayres
the evening before the killing, and she
had replied that they had danced together.
The next day she had expressed her regret
over Ayres's death and her establishment
hat i'm view of the fact that he had no
enemies, he should have been killed. Her
demeanor was not different from that OF
other lady guests of the hotel.
On crOss-eXaminatiOn Mr.. Ford said that
he had first met Mrs. BONNIE while he was
a patient at a local hospital. The court
at this point adjourned for the ay.