The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-11-30
MORE CONFESSIONS
MRS. BONNIE SEEMS TO HAVE
BEEN FOND OF TALKING.
DEFENSE HAS rs WITNESSES
GOVERNMENT TO CONCLUDE ITS
CASE THIS MORNING.

Detective Horne Tells of Mrs. Bo-
mines Confession to Him-Hcr
Statement to the Chief of Police
Also Read-CIaimed That Ayres
Induced Her to Go to His Room
on the Plea That He Was Sick.
That He Met Her Revolver In
Hand and Seized Her When She
TriedNto Flee.
Washington, Nov. 29.-Upon the eve
of adjournment to-day in the Criminal
Court before which Mrs. Ida Bonine is
being tried for the killing of j. S. Ay-
res, Jr.. District Attorney Gould an
nounced that the government would
rest its case after the introduction of
one or two more witnesses, and that
he expected to conclude at the morning
session of the court tomorrow. Mr..
T. w. Keane will then make a prelm-
mary statement in Mrs. Bonines be-
half and witnesses for the defense will
be introduced. 1t is expected that
about twenty-five of these win be
heard. Mrs. Bonine's counsel say that
they had not yet decided whether she
shall be put upon the stand
Deputy Coroner Glazebrook to-day
concluded his testimony and Detective
Horne told of the confession which
Mrs. Bonine first made to him of her
part in the tragedy. Her confession to
the chief of police was also read. DIR.
Glazebrook gave it as his opinion that
the abrasions on Ayres' legs might
have been caused by a woman kicking
him with sharp-heeled slippers and
said that the bruises on Mrs. Bonine's
arms looked as if they might have
been made by mans thumb when he
was gripping the arms.
Deputy Coroner Glazebrook to-day
told further of the bruises found on
the bodies of Mrs. Bonine and Ayres
and was followed by. Detective Edward
Horne, to whom Mrs. Bonine made her
first official confession. He said he
had first met Mrs. Bonine on the
morning that Ayres body was found.
| He had then asked her if she knew
how Ayres had met his death and
| she said she did not she told how
| she had been dressed on the night of
the killing. and had. upon request.
handed over the skirt she had worn.
| Her. manner was perfectly cool.
| Her Statement TO Horne.
| On the Monday following the killing,
while the coroner's inquest was in pro-
gress, she had made her confession to
| him. She had, he said, then told HIM
| that at 2 o'clock on the morning of
| Wednesday, May Is, Ayres had knock
| ed on her door and that when she went
to the door he said he was sick and
| asked her to give him some medicine.
He then, she had said, tried to put his
arm around her and had asked to be
allowed to go into her room TO talk over
their former differences prior to his
leaving the hotel, which he was to do
the next day. She had declined, saying
she did not want to awaken her boys
and had then consented to go to his
room upon his making the plea that
there would not be time the next morn
ing for their conference before his leaV-
ing the house. She had told him that
she had dressed herself completely,
putting on clean linen. wrapper and
slippers and had then followed Ayres
to his room, he having returned to his
apartment. When she turned
the knob of the door Ayres opened it
from the inside, and she
found him standing back of
the door holding revolver
in his right hand. She had then start
ed to run away, but had tripped and
Ayres caught her. around the waist.
She had illustrated in a later interview
with him and District Attorney Gould
her attitude and that of Ayres when
the shooting occurred. saying that her
back was to Ayres. that his right hand,
in which the revolver was held was
thrown over her shoulder and that
she had caught that hand with both
of hers. She did not know how the
shots We're fired but she felt blood
gush over her shoulder. When Ayres
fell to the floor she fell under him, and
slipping out, had gone to her room,
where she washed her hands and her
wrapper and went to bed
The wrapper was exhibited to the
witness and identified by him. 1t is a
brown colored garment trimmed with
green velvet.
On cross-examination Detective
Horne said Mrs. Bonine said to him
that she hesitated to mention the trag-
edy because she feared that in doing
so she might do injustice to the dead.
After Ayres fell she found, she said.
that her own hand clasped the barrel
and that her hands were covered with
blood. She had not discovered the pis-
tol in Ayres' hand until he had bolted
the door.
The Police Statement.
Edwin Il. Hess, stenographer at po-
lice headquarters. who reported the
statement Of Mrs. Bonlne as made 10
the chief OF police. was next called and
identified the transcript OF his notes OF
that statement.
When the court convened for the ar
ternoon session Stenographer Hess two
reports OF statements made by Mrs
Bonine 10 the chief OF police were Of
fered as evidence and accepted, the
defense making no objection.
District Attorney Gould read the
statements 20 the jury. The first was
made on May II. two days after the
tragedy. and IN this Mrs. Bonine ex,
pressed the opinion that u man must
have done the killing. because she did
not consider woman capable of the
crime. Fhe said then that ehe knew
Sf no one who wha Jealous ~ Ayres.
she herself dld not feel annoyed, she
said. upon freinR Ayres with otner NO
men. she faid then that she hsd not
known that Ayres was preparing a.
leave the hotel
The second statement was the c0p.
feefion fna1e Dy Mr. Boniue On Mag
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