The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-11-30
BLOOD STAINS,
In the Bonine Case the State
Seeks to Prove
That There We're No Sangui-
nary Marks on Clothes
Worn by the Defendant onNight
of the Tragedy.
HER DRESS IN COURT.
Chemist Swears 1t Had Not
Been Washed as Alleged.
Court Room Presents Appear
ance of a Junk Shop.
Father of the Dead Man Placed
on the Stand.
Court Room Presents Appear-
ance of a Junk Shop.
Father of the Dead Man Placed
on the Stand.
PROSECUTION CLOSES.
Defense Declines to Cross Ex-
anime Ayers Pater.

Washington, Nov. 3O.-The room occu-
pied by the criminal court in which
Mrs. Lola Ida Bonine is undergoing
trial today presented somewhat the ap-
pearance of junk shop from the fact
that number of the belongings of
Ayers room in the Kenmore hotel, were
exhibited. These included the blood
stained carpet. which covered the floor,
Ayers two trunks and a section from
the inner part of the wall of the room
under the WINDOW, showing blood upon
plaster and washboard. The wrapper
worn by Mrs. Bonine the night of
the tragedy also was shown.
Lieut.. James A Moore of the police
force. was the first witness. He identi-
fed this miscellaneous assortment Of
chattels. He said that acting under
Mrs. Bonine's instructions he had gone
to her room the day she made her con-
fession to the chief of police and had
procured the wrapper and had delivered
it to the detectives. There are large
places under the arms of the garment
which he had not seen on that occasion,
but he said on crosS-examination that
they might have been there without his
seeing them.
Dr. Edward NJ. Shaffer, the chemist
who made search for blood on Mrs.
Bonine's wrapper and analysed the
blood on other articles in Ayers room,
testified that he had examined the
wrapper with great care and had failed
to find any indication whatever %of
blood. Il did not find a spot as big as a
pins head he said. He also said that
the rips under the arms are now larger
than when he first saw the dress. The
district attorney, Gould, asked in case
of struggle between large person
and a small one in which the larger
had been so wounded that blood poured
over the small persons shoulder and
the two had fallen to the floor, together,
how hoo To ole no "a
the blood from the garment that would
have gotten on it.
'sIt would have been possible to do SO
by the use Of chemicals and by boiling
process all traces of blood can be re-
moved
Would ordinary washing take it
II think not
.'If the garment had been recently
washed could you have determined the
fact?''
II could; it had not been washed"
On cross -examinat ton DR.. Shaffer said
he had used only the microscopic test;
he had made no chemical analysis
On cross examination DR.. Schaeffer
said he had not intended to say that
the wrapper had never been washed,
but that it had not recently been wash
ed.
DR. Sehaeffer was subjected to rigid
examination, Mr.. Fulton, one of
the attorneys for the defense using for
the purpose of Illustrating his points a
young man and later Mrs. Meacham,
Mrs. Bonine's sister. Dr. Schaeffer said
it was not possible for two persons fall
ing as Mrs. Bonine says she and Ayers
fell, without the woman getting blood
upon a wrapper worn by her at the
time
AYERS FATHER TESTIFTES.
When DR.. Schaeffer was excused Jas.
S. ayers. father of the victim was call
ed at the stand He told of coming to
Washington the day after the tragedy
Mr. Ayers said he had sought out
Mrs. Bonine, "and.' he said, II told her
about my boy who had been murdered
He then went on to say that he told
her how his son had lost his mother
when he was 3 years of age and how
near and dear he was to him, because
of the care he had given him. 7 tried"
he said. ITO be synpa thetic L
could because [ had it in my mind that
Mrs. Bonine was the deFrroyer of my
sons life and 7 wanted to find the
guilty one I dwelt upon his character
as beautiful and obedient boy and
told her of my affectionate parting with
him when he left me in Michigan to
come to Washington in May, 1900.
Il immedia tely opened up my heart
to her, telling her how when he had
left me in Detroit he had thrown his
arms about me and kissed on the
lips as a daughter would have done
I told her how I had admonished him
to protect his reputation, sa ying to
tough place. I told him that I wanted
him to continue in the course he had
pursued, and 1 preferred that he should
not drink at ALL but that if he did
drink he should not take more than one
drink at time.
In response to question from Mr..
Gould. Mr.. Ayers said that Mrs. Bo-
nine had made no response while he
was talking. but that when he con-
cluded she said something which he
would never forget What this some
thing was Mr.. Ayers statement did not
reveal, and no question was asked to
bring it out
s'I thought that Mrs. Bonine being
wife and mother, he said, would
manifest some sympathy with me in
my distress, and I dwelt upon all the
particulars of my coming to Washing
ton, telling how had first received the
news of my sons death and had after
ward learned that he had been muir
dered; but she manifested no emotion
whatever, and interrupted me only
once. Then she looked up and smiled
in what I thought was a deceitful man
ner and recited quotation from
Browning"
In response to another question from