The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-12-03
SAW REVOLVER IN AYRES ROOM.
Continued from First Page.l


BoniDe spoke to Ayres and Clark about
drinking, and asked them to promise her
that they would never enter another sa-
loon.
Refused TO Take a Drink
About u o'clock on the night of the
tragedy, Rutter said somebody downstairs
| importuned him to take drink, but he
! broke away and ran up stairs Rutter
also said that ne Eset a party of men in
the hall, who appeared to be drinking.
Under District Attorney Gould's fire Of
questions as to Ayres sobriety the wit
ness became excited and said finally that
he concluded Ayres had been drinking be-
cause he was with men whose condition
indicated such
The Ayres-BOnine Quarrel.
| Touching the quarrel between Mrs. Bo-
nine and Ayres, the witness saif he diff
fered in his conception OF the matter from
the way the public regarded It. He said
Ayres caused cbagTin TO Mrs. BONNIE by
breaking an engagement to card party.
in which Mrs. Bonnie and Miss Ninas were
interested.
Did Mrs. Bonnie invite Ayres to board
with herr" asked Mr.. Gould.
Hard TO Get Along With.
NO" was the reply. "she said it was
hard 20 get along with him
Mr. Gould asked Rutter who invited
him to have drink the night of the 4th
of March
q don't know" said the witness, who
adEattted that somebody offered him
drink in cup on that day.
WAS it Ayres?'' the witness was ask
ed
No was the response
Mr. Gould produced Rutter's evidence
before the grand jury to show that some
of the witness statements did not agree
/ with others.
Reagan Henderson. a former guest at
the Kenmore, when asked if he had seen
Mrs Bonine speak to AyTes after the 18th
of March, declared that he did not re-
member.
Duncan B. Hubbard, who came to
| Washington from Mount Clemens. Mich,
| last March, and who roomed at the Ken
more with Rutter until he went back to
Michigan, said he knew Ayres very well
and was frequently in his room, as he
had the privilege Of using it. He was
( there. he said. frequently when Ayres was
out. which was quite often at night.
Ayres seldom got IN before eleven
/ o'clock. the witness declared.
Mrs. Bonnie In Ayres' Room.
= have seen Mrs. Bonnie in Ayres'
I room three times, said the witness. The
/ first occasion was in the daytime. I was
( in the room writing when Mrs BONNIE,
after knocking at the door, entered with
a book under her arm. She laid down
/ the book, and went out She came back
and chatted with me an hour"
Were you alone with herr" enquired
/ counsel
Yes, sir"
Hubbard said he was also familiar with
Mrs. Bonine's project of opening board
! fng-house.
The witness had frequently seen Mrs.
BONNIE and Mr.. Ayres conversing after
March /
Revolver in Ayres' Room
One day. while looking in one OF Ayres'
| bureau drawers for pen. Hubbard said
! he discovered a revolver lying among
some collars and cuffs. He did not touch
or examine it. he added.
The witness was shown the weapon
found IN AyTes' room after the tragedy.
Ayres' bureau, presenting the same ap-
Pearance-black-ha handled and nickel-pIat-
ed.
Knew AyreS in Michigan.
Thomas Ford. who followed Hubbard as
a witness. said he knew Ayres in Michigan,
and afterward met him at the Kenmore.
where both boarded Ford said n came TO
Washington because of the iaDess of his
son.
'.One night the witness continued, Il
couldn't sleep and got up and went to the
hospital to see my son. When 1 told
Ayres about it the next day he warned
ne about going around late at night, say
ing it was dangerous and that I should
carry q gun when going through that part
OF the town where the hospital was 10
Gated This was on the 9th of February.
AyTeS that day loaned ne his revolver"
ResembIed Revolver in Court.
The witness said this weapon resembled
greatly the one handed him by Mr.. Doug
lass, being marked in the same fashion
with q target The revolver was loaded
when Ayres gave It to witness He kept
the weapon until February 5, when he
left Washington.
Mrs. BONNIE Visited the Sick
J. P. Stevens, another Michigan man.
and friend of Ayres, who had stopped at
| the Kenmore, said Mrs. Bonnie came to
his room once when he was sick, and that
she also visited Mr.. Burns when he was
! confined to his room with some puImon-
| airy trouble. Stevens was also a prospec-
| tive boarded Of Mrs Bonine, he said, and
] intended engaging rooms with her. if she
/ took a house, for himself and wife.
| AyFes Had Been Drinking.
| Stevens said that on the night of De-
| cember z he carried Ayres from the room
where the guests Of the Kenmore were
| dancing
Was he intoxicated?" asked Mr.. Doug
| lass.
He had been drinking" replied the
| witness, saying he acted at the behest
( of Mrs BONNIE
Continuing, Mr.. Stevens said he was in
1 Ayres' room one evening when the latter
| opened Z drawer TO get some under
! clothing and that he noticed a revolver.
| 1t was very much Ike the one shown in
| court
Mr. Stevens said in answer to NJ
| Gould's interTCg cations, that he came to
| Washington to be commissioned as an
| employe in the House of Representatives
| postofiee and had not been subpoenaed
| by the defence, although they had sent