Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-11-28
THE BONNIE TRIAL.

tFaTtIatjy Nuoe Figure OSSO " tuuSe
| trate the Alleged Struggle.
Washington, Nov. 2s.-The principal
witness Wednesday before the criminal
court in which Mrs. Lola Ida Bonine is
teing tried for the murder of James s.
Ayres, Jr., was DR.. Martin w. Glaze
brook, the deputy corone. for the Dis
| trict of Columbia, who conducted the
i'autopsy on the body OF Ayres. He de-
scribed in detail the three wounds on
the young mans body. and the court
crier, Joyce, stripped to the waist, was
used to illustrate the location and course
OF the wounds for the instruction of the
jury. AS the partially nude figure stood
| in the witness box Mrs Bonine did not
glance at Joyce, and most of the time
he was on exhibition she conversed with
her attorneys and her husband
Dr. Glazebrook said that he had called
on Mrs. Bonine at the Jail, professional
ly, on the Tuesday after the tragedy to
make an examination of bruises said to
be on Mrs. Bonine's body. AT that visit
she volunteered to illustrate to him how
the tragedy had occurred and gave him
her version of it. He said that Mrs. Bo-
nine had had him place both arms
around her, a pistol being held in the
right hand. She had, she said, clasped
the revolver and the hand which held it
and the pistol was snapped three times
in the struggle which ensued.
Assuming that the relative positions
Of the two were such as thus described,
and that the pistol was in Ayres' right
hand. could the wounds which you
found upon his body have been in
flicted?" 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 it was possible that
the pistol could have been held in Ayres
hand" replied the witness.
Douglass, on cross examination,
brought out the fact that there was
slight confusion on Ayre's forehead and
several abrasions and bruises on his
legs and feet. the purpose of the defense
being to show that there had been
struggle. The witness said that on the
two legs there were eight of these
wounds on the inside of the legs. and
that all were fresh. The wounds on the
feet were all on top.
DR.. Glazebrook expressed the opinion
that the most natural thing for man
wounded as Ayres was would be to
grasp at the wound.
Responding to question from Doug
lass the witness said he thought that
a man wounded in the chest as Ayres
was would have cried for help in sub
dued tone. AS the description Of the
tragedy given to him at the Jail by
Mrs Bonine, DR.. Glazebrook said she
had shown him the imprints of her fing-
er nails made In her own hands when
she grasped his hand and the revol-
yer.
He also said that after proceeding for
short time in the description cf the
affair Mrs. Bonine stopped suddenly,
saying that she had been advised not to
talk further of the tragedy. On that
same visit he had found a bruise on
each of Mrs. Bonine's arms, which
could have been made a week before.
This would have taken them back to
the killing OF Ayres. The inner side of
the left leg also was bruised from the
knee to the ankle, and there were many
bruises on the right leg.
Several other witnesses who gave de-
tails of Ayres' last night alive were
heard during the day. All declared
that he was sober. Three colored female
servants related incidents of his life at
the Kenmore hotel. One of them said
that she had heard Ayres order Mrs.
Bonine to get out Of his room and re-
main out. Another that she saw Ayres
and Mrs. Bonine coming out of the
formers room together, and third that
upon an occasion Ayres had shown in
difference when told that Mrs. Bonine
was III.