The Sunday globe., 1901-05-26
THAT CONFESSION.
Mrs. BOnine's Narrative of the Killing
of Her Recreant Lover.
COMPARED WITH A SIMILAR CASE
The Editor Of The Globes Encounter With Tho
State Auditor OF 0hlo In witch The Former
Held the Barrel and The Latter The Business
End Of the 6un-Ths Deduction In The
Bonne-AUss Struggle Showing Real Facts.

The confession of Mrs. Bonine was
not unexpected by those who had made
a careful analysis of the tragedy In
the Kenmore House on Wednesday
morning, May 18th. Nevertheless, the
confession was neither the truth nor
the whole truth. Mrs. Bonine is en-
deavoring by this confession to con-
ceal the relations which existed be-
tween her and the late James Seymour
Ayres. The theory of the murder, as
deducted by close and experienced OBJ
servers of criminal affairs, as about
as follows:
Mrs. Bonine and Ayres had been
maintaining improper relations ana
Ayres, desirous Of discontinuing the
same, determined to move from the
Kenmore. Mrs. Bonine made every ef-
fort to prevent the separation She
had sacrificed everything woman
holds dear, and now that her para
mour was about to abandon her, she
alternately felt the humiliation, deg
relation and indignation Of her posi-
tion. And as
Hell hath no fury like a woman
scorned"
she entered Ayres' room on the fatal
morning determined to either effect a
reconciliation and continue the old re-
lations or kill him. Ayres and the
woman, from all indications, main
tanned the marital relation immedl-
ately before the shooting, which would
demonstrate that Mrs. Bonine had sue
ceeded for the time being in softening
her recreant lover
After which, it was natural to sup
pose, the couple discussed their future
relations, and Ayres, recalling his
good resolution previous to the wom-
ans entry to his room, became dis
gusted at his weakness, and having
gratifed his desires, determined TO
get rid of the woman, and he again
renewed his original determination TO
separate, which she pleadingly resist
ed. This lead to wordy quarrel, ana
Ayres, becoming tired Of the scene,
kicked or threw the woman out OF
bed, which act may account for the
portiere being torn from its fastenlngs
and placed on the bed where the Of
ficer first saw it.
Mrs. Bonine's account of the duel to
the death in the fatal chamber is alb
surd. The writer has had an expe'
rience with holding the barrel OF a
revolver while his opponent held the
business end" of the weapon. 1t oe'
Cured away back in the sos, and is
we'll remembered to this day In the
capital city of Ohio. The circum
stances were as follows:
Hon. Emil Kissewetter, the then Au
ditor of State for Ohio, had been crit
icised in the columns of the paper OF
which the writer was editor and pub
fisher. The auditor attempted to re
fund the State debt of Ohio at per
cent to the notorious broker, Albert
Netter. of Cincinnati. The writer
knowing Netter's character, and ac
ouainted with the fact that the Ohio
debt could be refunded for much less
interest bearing bond, instituted an In
vestigation which induced Governor
Hoadly to set aside the award to Net
ter. and new bids were invited through
the press for the refunding of the
State debt. 1t was natural that we
should expatiate on the attempted
steal. and it is admitted our pen did
not spare the auditor of State.
Maddened and made desperate by
the criticisms and by the loss OF the
rake off" which, no doubt, he would
have received IL the debt had beer
refunded as he originally awarded Il
to Netter, he entered the lobby OF the
Neil House, in Columbus, about
o'clock of a Sunday evening, and while
the writer, who had not seen his en-
trance, was in conversation with the
then correspondent Of the Cincinnati
Commercial Gazette. The auditor
sneaked up behind our back, and pre-
senting a pistol at the back OF ouI
neck. was about to shoot, when the
cold muzzle Of the weapon admonlsheo
us to turn around. AS we did so, We
were gazing down the barrel Of 80
calibre pistol in the hands Of an eX
cited Dutchman, and right here Is
where our experience and Mrs. Bonin9
so radically differ.
We weighed in the neighborhood oI
200 lbs, and the State auditor apou
the same. We grabbed the barrel Of
the revolver, instinctively, and sough
TO depress the muzzle towards the
ground, meantime clinching with oul
adversary. he holding a firm grip or
the business end" of the gun. DE
spite the fact that we threw all oul
weight on the auditor, and eXerted al
the strength Of our arms to depress
the muzzle of the gun, we could MOI
succeed in detecting it more than
few inches, which left 1t almost touch
ing the center of our body and in di
rect line with the abdomen. Realizing
that the auditor was endeavoring tC
nress the trigger and shoot us through
the body, we suddenly correspondeo
with his movement of resistance to the
detection of the gun, and reversed oul
action by suddenly elevating the CUR
as the revolver exploded. The bulle'
cut through the breast of our coat
after having passed through the fleshy
part of our left hand. Satisfied thai
the next shot would penetrate oul
body. we made a supreme effort anc
threw the auditor backwards from US
about five feet and Immediately
reached for our gun. He fired in the
act of being pushed back, but his ain
was disarranged, and the bullet missed
the mark. AS soon, however, as We
reached for our gun, the sneaking and
cowardly would-be assassin turned
and fed towards the State house
which was located on the opposite side
of the street from the Neil House
Nor did he stop running until he
reached his office in the capitol and
locked himself in, telephoning mean
while from there to the police station
to send an officer 70 arrest MIN, SC
great was his fear that in some way
or manner his would-be victim could
reach him
Now, this almost forgotten incident
Is recalled by the Bonine-Ayres
struggle for the pistol, and having
had, as stated, an experience similar
to her alleged struggle with Ayres, we
know that she simply lied when she
asserts that she wrested the revolver
holding it by the BARREL while Ayres
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