Daily Kennebec journal., 1901-11-28

johnson j. Hooper. a clerk in the
census office. who was out with AyreS
during the first part OF the night ON
which he vas killed, was the first Wit
ness. He said when Ayres returned TO
the Kenmore about l2.30 o'clock IN the
morning Of May T.. he was perfectly
sober
John y. Taft and Michael Kane te*ti
fed that Ayres was sober on the nigh;
that he was shot.
Dr. Martin W. Glazebrooke. asSiStd9t
coroner. who performed the autopsy nn
Ayres' body was called. The face W..
he said. almost unrecognizable on ac-
count of the mass Of blood which COW
cred it. and the arms were half tleNt
in front Of the chest.
Dr. Glazebrook then described three
wounds in the body of the victim TWO
Of which he said showed powder burns
and indicated that the weapon had
been held in close proximity Ia tie
body when the shots We're fired.
a colored chambermaid OF the I\eI.-
more was then called. She testified
that on one occasion last February. she
Went to Mrs. Bonine's room and found
her i'll. The latter had asked her To
tell Ayres. of her own accord. that She
Mrs Bonine) was sick abed and to
suggest that little WhiSkey would DO
her good. She accordingly told .iyres
Of Mrs. Bonine's illness. but he was 80
Indifferent that he did not suggest the
need of liquor for Mrs Bonine.
Emma Brown. colored. who was
nurse in the Kenmore, testified that
about two weeks before the tragedy
5hc had seen Mrs. Bonine and Ayres
,oming ont of Ayres' room about 10
o'clock on a Sunday morning; that
Ayres had on only his trousers and un-
lershirt and that Ayres went to the
bath room and Mrs Bonine toward her
own apartments.
on cross-eXamination the witness
said she did not know but that Mrs.
Ecnine had simply stopped at the door.
Mrs. Bonine was fully dressed and
there We're no signs of excitement on
me part Of either Ayres or Mrs. Bo-
nine.
Mary Grayson. another domestic at
the Kenmore. testified that about
March % last she was working in
Ayles' room when Mrs. Bonine came
III ana that Ayres ordered her out. tell
ing her not only to go. but to stay
away, as he did not want her there.
Later Mrs. Bonine had told her that
Ayres was angry with her because he
thought that she (Mrs. Bonine) had
told people about the hotel that he was
drinking, but that she had not done so.
After recess, Deputy Coroner Glaze
brook resumed his testimony After a
H.. .;tl
pistol with which Ayres was killed to |
ascertain the distance necessary to |
make powder burns such as We're found |
on Avres undershirt. Court Crier joyce |
was introduced as lay vgure to illus
trate the locations of the wounds on |
\ Ayres' body. Joyce was stripped to the
waist and Dr. GlaZebrook described the
wounds at length. making careful
and using colored court
plaster cut round to show the appear
4nce of the shots where the bullets had
entered the body. AS the partially
nuuo figure Of Joyce stood in the wit
ness box. Mrs. Bonine did not once
glance ~ him. but most of the time he
was on exhibition she conversed with
neY attorney and her husband
Continuing his statement ana still us
ng JOyces body for the purpose of illus
tration. Or. Glazebrook said that the
wound in thu @hsst penetrated the wind
pipe and The lungs on the left side AMI
ranged to the right and upward, lodging
in the back This wound he said. was
necessarily fatal
DIR. GIazeHrook said that he called on
Mrs Boninc at the Jail, professionally on
IN. TIrsdav after the tragedy to max.
an examination Of bruises said TO pc on
Mrs Bonines body. While he was uIol
that ivsit she volunteered to illustrate
cnr him how the tragedy occurred ana
paye him her version Of it. He said thai
Mrs Bonine had him place both arms
lrolnd her. the pistol being held in the
light hand. He said she clasped the re-
-n,ver and the hand which held it and the
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