The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-11-28
USED NUDE SUBJECT
CORONER GLAZEBROoK DEsCRID-
ED AYRES' WOUNDS.
MRS. BONNIE WOULDN'T LOOK
FATAL BULLET PENETRATED
WINDPIPE AND LEFT LUNG.

Mrs. Bonine's Body mt the jail
for Bruises When She Gave Him
Her Version of the Tragedy.
in Deadly Embrace, and That She
Had CIasped Revolver which Was
in Ayres Hand-Witness Did Not
Think This Possible.
washington, Nov. 27.-The principal
witness to-day before the Criminal
Court in which Mrs. Lola l. Bonine is
being tried for murder of James s.
Ayres, Jr., was DR.. Martin W. Glaze
brook, the deputy coroner for the Dis
trict of Columbia, who conducted the
autopsy on the body or Ayres. He de-
scribed in detail the three wounds on
the young mans body, and the court
crier stripped to the waist, was used
to illustrate the location and course OF
the wounds for the instruction of the
jury. DR.. GIazebrook also testified that
Mrs. Bonine had given him her ver-
sion of the manner in which Ayres came
to his death, claiming that the wounds
were inflicted While the pistol was in
Ayres' hands, and illustrating how the
tragedy occurred, but he thought that
it was impossible for the wounds to
have been made with the weapon in
Ayres' own hands. She told him that
he was at her back and had his arms
clasped about her when the shots were
fired.
Johnson j. Hooper, John A. Taft and
Michael Kane testified that Ayres was
sober on the night of the tragedy.
DIR. Glazebrook described the three
wounds in the body OF the victim. One
was in the left arm, one in the left
thigh and one in the breast, all ex-
cept the thigh wound showing powder
burns and indicating that the weap-
on had been in close proximity to the
body when at least two shots We're
fired. The witness said he had experi-
mented with the pistol found in Ayres'
room and he was about to relate the
particular experiments when counsel
on both sides, desiring to have sur
| geons present to hear the statement
secured a suspension of this testimony
| until afternoon.
Three colored female servants relat-
ed incidents of Ayres' life at the Ken
more Hotel. One of them said thai
/ she had heard Ayres order Mrs Bo.
| nine to get out OF his room and remain
out: another, that she saw Ayres and
Mrs. Bonine coming out OF the for
mer's room together. and a third, that
upon one occasion Ayres had shown
| indifference when told that Mrs.
Bonine was i'll.
| Ayres' Wounds Described.
After recess Deputy Coroner Glaze
brook resumed his testimony. begin
ming with a description of his expert
ments with the pistol with which
Ayres was killed. to show the distance
necessary to make powder burns such
as were found on Ayres' undershirt.
He concluded that the wound in Ayres'
thigh must have been made by a
weapon held more than twenty-four
inches from the spot. He also con-
cluded that the arm wound must have
been made by a pistol held about four
teen inches away. The chest wound
he thought the muzzle Of the revolver
| must have been eight inches from the
body.
Court Crier Joyce was then intro
duced as lay figure to illustrate the
location of the wounds on Ayres' body.
Mr.. Joyce was stripped to the waist
and DIR. Glazebrook described the
wounds at length, making careful
measurements and using colored court
plaster, cut round, to show the appear
ance of the spots where the bullets
had entered the body as the nude fig
ure stood in the witness box. Mrs.
Bonine did not once glance at Joyce,
and most of the time he was on eX-
hibition she conversed with her attor-
neys and her husband. Continuing his
statement and still using Joyce's body
for the purpose of illustration, DR..
Glazebrook said that the wound in the
chest had penetrated the windpipe and
the lungs on the left side and had
ranged to the right and upward, lodg-
ing in the back. This wound, he said,
was necessarily fatal He thought
from the appearance of the blood found
in Ayres' room, that it was caused by
the chest wound. and had been vomited.
In reply to questions DR.. Glazebrook
said he did not think the wolfnds were
self-inflicted.
DR.. Glazebrook also stated that he
had had "a conversation with Mrs. Bo-
nine at the jail the Tuesday after the
tragedy and that at that time she had
given him her version OF the tragedy.
He had called at the Jail professionally
to make an examination of bruises said
to be on Mrs. Bonine's body, when she
had volunteered to illustrate TO him
how the tragedy had occurred. He said
that Mrs. Bonine had had him place
both arms around her. the pistol being
held In the right hand.
She had she said. clasped the re-
volver and the hand which held IL and
the pistol was snapped three times in
the struggle which ensued.
Assuming that the relative positions
of the two were such as thus describ-
ed, and that the pistol was IN Ayres'
right hand. could the wounds which
you found upon his body have been in
hicted?" asked District Attorney Gould.
Taking into consideration the posi-
ton OF Ayres and OF Mrs. Bonine. to-
gether with the appearance OF his cloth
Ing, don't see how II was possible
that the pistol could have been held IN
Ayres hand" replied the witness.
Mr.. Douglas, on crofs-eNamination,
brought out the fact that there was
slight confusion on Ayres' torehead
and several abrasiona and bruises on
bis legs and feet, the purpose OF the
defense being 20 show that there had
been . struggle. The witness said that
on ths two legs there were eight or
these wounds on The side of the legs
and that All we're fresh. The wounds
on the feet were 81 on TOP. Dr.. Glaze.
brook expressed the opinion that the
most natural thing for a man wounded
ss Ayres was. would BE- ~ grasp a. the
wound.
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