Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1901-11-27
AYRES HAD GONE TO BED
Policeman's Story in the Bonine
Trial Shows That the Young
Clerk Had Been Surprised.
HIS DOOR BOLTED FROM THE INSIDE.
The Murdered Mans Coat Trousers and
Vest Were Care fully Laid Over the Back
of n Chair No Blood Stains Were on or
. Near the Bed, But the WindowsiH was
Marked with Blood Stained Hands.

Washington, Nov. 23.-Thc trial of
Mrs. Lola Ida Bonine for the murder
of James S. Ayres, Jr., was resumed
Friday in Justice Anderson's court.
Mrs. Bonine's party was augmented
by the addition Of her brother. L. S.
Grant Henry, who had come from his
home in Missouri i'm order to be pres
ent with his sister during the trial
Mrs. Bonine's two young sons also
were present, as were her husband
and her sister, Mrs. Meacham.
Policeman Walter S. Brady was the
first witness called. He was on duty
near the Kenmore hotel on the morn
ing that Ayres' body was discovered
and he was summoned to the hotel at
about $500 o'clock by the proprietor
The witness was escorted to Ayres'
room in company with three or four
other persons. Finding the door fas-
tened he had, under Mr.. Warfield's in
structions, forced it open. Upon sub
sequent investigation he had found
that the door was bolted and not
locked. The body of the dead man
was, he said, lying on the floor near
the window, in a bent position and
with the arms drawn up in front of
the face. The only clothing on the
body was light undershirt. The
shirt was open at the neck and the
upper portion of it was covered with
blood. The bed looked, he said, as if
some one had lain in it and had got
ten up, throwing the cover back as he
did so. There was no other disorder
about it, and there was only one in
dentation in the pillow. Ayres' coat
and vest had been carefully laid over
the back of chair. He said that a
pistol and n small single-barrel shot
gun lay on trunk in the room and
that the barrel and the chambers of
th1 pistol were covered with blood.
Mr.. Brady said that the young
mans trousers were carefully laid
over thc back of chair and that his
COhdi, cufls and ncckIie iIdu ilveI1 -i,iiu
upon the bureau. No blood stains
were found either on the bed or in its
immediate vicinity, the first blood
stain being near the spot where
Ayres' head lay. The pool of blood
near the body was larger than the
pool near the window. There were al
SO bloodstains on the window-sill. The
string on the window shade was COW
cred with blood as if it had been
drawn through bloody fingers. He
did not think there was room enough
between the bed and the door, when
the latter was open, for a man to
stand there. In concluding his exam
ination-in-chicf of the witness, Dis
trict Attorney Gould put in evidence
the undershirt found on the body of
Ayres. 1t was well stained with
blood. The sight of the garment ap-
parently affected the prisoner more
than any preceding incident in the
course of the trial.
Officer Williams said that he had
discovered no evidence of struggle
in Ayres' room when he entered. He
made reply in the negative as Off
GERS Brady and Wolfe had done when
asked if he had discovered any hair
pins on the floor. On cross-examina-
tion he said he had noticed the torn
condition of the upper button-holc of
Ayres' shirt and he added that the
corresponding button was hanging by
n thread. There also were powder
marks about the wounds on Ayres'
body, indicating that ne was shot at
close range.