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LOLA |. BONNIE INDICTED.
Formally Charged With the Muir
der of James Seymour Ayres.

= True Bill Returned by the Grand
Jury This After neon a. the Result
of the Investigation of the TraR-
edy al the Kenmore Hotel in May
The grand jury this afternoon returned
an indictment charging Lola Ida Bonine
with the murder of James Seymour Ayres.
at the Kenmore Hotel on the night Of
May 10 last.
The text Of the Indictment is as follows:
The grand jurors OF the United States
in and for the District Of Columbia afOTe-
said upon their oaths do present. That
Lola Ida BOnine, late of the District OF
Columbia on the 18th day OF May. in the
year Of our Lord 1891, and at the District
aforesaid. in and upon enc James Sey-
HouT Ayres, in the peace Of God and Of
the United States, then and there. being
feloEiously, wiIlfully. and Of her malice
afcTetEOught. did make an assault, and
that she the said Lola Ida Bontne. a GER
tain pistol then and there charged with
powder and a leaden bullet which said
pistol she, the said Lola Ida BOnine in
her right hand and then and thsre had
and held. then and there feiouiOUSly, will
fully and of her malice aforeth0ught- did
discharge against and upon the body Of
him. the said James Seymour Ayres, and
that she the said Lola IGa Bonine with
the leaden bullet aforesaid out OF
the pistol aforesaid then and there by
ft.
said Lola Ida BOnine discharged.
as aforesaid then and there feIoni-
ousiy. wlllfully, and Of her malice afore-
! thought did strike penetrate. and wound
the Sasd James Seymour AyreS in and up
on the left side of the breast OF tirn. the
said James Seymour Ayres, giving TO
him, the said James Seymour AyTes then
and there with the leaden bullet afOre-
said. so as foresaid discharged and shot
out of the pistol aforesaid by her. the
said Lola Ida BOnine, In and upon the
left side of the breast Of him. the said
James Seymour AyreS, one mortal wound
Of the depth of six inches and of the
breadth of One-aalf inch OF which said
mortal wound the said James Seymour
Ayres then and there instantly died
And so the grand jurors aforesaid, up
on the oath aforesaid, do say that the said
Lola Ida Bonine. killed the said James
Seymour AyreS IN the manner and by the
means aforesaid. then and there. felonf-
ouSly- Wllfully. and of her malice afOre-
thought, did xiii and murder; against the
form of the statute in such case made
and provided ard against the peace and
Government Of the said United States.
Signed Ashley VI. Gould, Attorney for
the United States in and for the District
Of Columbia.
James Seymour Ayres was found dead fl
| his room, on the fourth floor of the Ken
| more Hotel, North Capitol Street. between
3 and c Streets northwest. about $50
o'clock, Wednesday morning, May Is.
last few moments later Coroner Nev-
lit was on the ground, and within an
hour the hotel was swarming with detec-
tives and newspaper reporters Ayres was
found lying upon the floor Of his room In
| pool Of blood near the front window.
which opened upon the ffre-escape There
was q bullet hole in his chest another in
| the left arm, above the elbow and d third
| bullet had entered the left hip. and passed
| upward The direction of all Of the bull
! lets made 1t evident that Ayres had not
/ fired the shots himself and thorough
search of the house was Immediately
| made IN the hope Of securing some cine to
1 the identity Of the person who fred the
| shots
In the course Of the examination it de-
/ veloped that Ayres had had misunder-
standings with Mrs Bonine. and that for
some reason he had arranged to leave the
hotel on the daJ following the tragedy.
| Shortly before , O'Clock some of the
| occupants Of the hotel were startled bv
| three pistol shots fired in rapid success
| sion and shortly afterward Thomas III
Baker, who occupied room in an ad-
| joining house, and who was attracted to
| his window by the noise Of the firing
| saw the figure of a woman dressed in
| black and in her stocking feet emerge
/ from the window Of Ayres' room. descend
]
/ the parlor windows
| The Coroner's inquest over the body of
! Ayres began on Saturday, May IS. and
| was summariIy closed on the afternoon
! Of May 20 when Mrs Bonine made a
/ statement TO Detective Horne, admitting
| that the shots that caused the death of
J Ayres- were fired during a struggle be-
| tween herself and Ayres
Mrs Bonine was taken to Police Head
| quarters where she repeated her state
| ment to Major Sylvester, District Attor-
ney Gould, and others. anss = was taken
down by a stenrgrapheF. Size was con-
| veyed to the House of Detention where
| she remained over night md after the
tCoroner's jury returned a verdict holding
her responsible for Ayres' death she was
| transferred to the Jail, where she has
! been ever since
The grand jury has been Investigating
the case for several weeks.
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