St. Louis Post-Dispatch
November 19, 1901

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HEALTH DEPARTMENT | "cute Tdi Policeman Sherwell May Be Coroner Does’ Not Hold Any the Monster. Individual Responsible for eS aae. ay e the Deaths, ACCUSED OF. ONE MURDER cee = oe ie | pRISONER ACCUSED OF KILI 3 : PENSION CLERK AYRES = Missouri Woman Tried for YP wnt as” Her Life in Washington. ————— e . > Rd . ig a FIRE ESCAPE MURDER MYSTERY © a : ‘ ieee we ‘ ae ATTENDING CONVENTION THERE SMOKE LARGELY ACCOUNTABLE For Sake of Peace Prelate Has Called - aE Engagements With Pawns and Knights Off. PROM COURTHOUSE DOME ALL ° ONE HUGE BLANK. MANY BELIEVE THE SAME MAN KILLED FOUR N. CITY..COUNSELOR IS SILENT oe : Husband and Sister Sit by the Side of the Accused in the Crowded Court. Special to the Post-Dispatch. ~ WASHINGTON, Nov. 19.—Without — a tremor on the display of the slightest emotion, Mrs. Lola Ida Henry Bonine, indicted for the murder of James S ~ Ayres, the young census clerk, appeared in court today. She ana her ae). 3 we pret oe fy Dr. Hyatt Declares the Visitation of Vapors Was Due to Lack of TT - Off MAYOR WELLS HAS RECEIVED NO ps OFFICIAL NOTICE OF MATTER. es ‘Crime, Nov. n Em- wn Since the Discovery of 12, This Officer Has ployed in Hun the Criminal. > alll lili: Sakina MODEL POLICEMAN OR — — a ‘ ad * ea a . ' . In Absence of Health Commissioner Starkloff His Assistant, Mr. Fran- cis, Declares the Result of the Investigation Is “Not Worth n the top of the house dome, ighest point ac- le to the public ' city, New St. Tuesday morn- - 7 + 2 cae it =. p ) and the gulf coas ie there were any storm centers about we is there would be some wind here.”’ as ‘4 he te a ———EeE————— tll ll al was a smoke- St. Louis. ‘e was some fog i: into the blank- ich covered the It was not a n fog, however. as just a 8&8t. smoke. ‘ago, like St. ,. felt the gloom itation, for the ‘ . stack conditions are the same there as here.s In Chicago two Geaths and numerous wah on street ear lines were reported as due to the fog. In St. Louis only slight acefients were re- ported. ' The heavy vapors began to lift from the city about 10 o'clock and by noon St. Louls was almost free of one of the heav- fest fogs that has been seen here for some months, According to Dr. Hyatt of the Weather Bureau, the lack of a wreeze caused the Garkness that mantled the city until noon. There was a dead calm. Always, in St. Zouis, when there is no wind to carry away the smoke, there is darkness. Fog ‘also gathers and remains stationary when there ais no breeze to lift it. Tuesday morning on the streets one could mot see a block ahead. High on the Gome of the court house one could scarcely See to the street below. It was like moun- tain climbing—one stood amidst the clouds. Yonder was a denser murk than here—a heavier pall showing that in™that vicinity some immense smokestack beiched forth its blackness. 3 The Mississippi.river, .but. four blocks Sway, was invisible. In that direction the ‘world looked just as it did in the other three directions—without form and void. ‘Bt. Louls was a vast gulf of gloom. For courthouse the & little apace around the Salis ot Builanes ewe be distinguished. : COULD TASTE THE CLOUD. It was an eerte sort of blankness, too, a f opaqueness, a dark-brownish Gensity. One could almost taste it jn the mouth. In fact, one could—that soft-coal flavor which one always tastes—whether he will or no—when a St. Louis smoke ts on. — eee eee BI of by —eEeEeEeEeEeEeE———EEE— ee ee eee Disp conven votion agskanc lovers lowars ments uion, stated, CHIE fairly This they a at 1223 Wher Away down yonder on Broadway could be as t h a glass darkly, the form- mare of men. They were raglan cre- —— l, as seen througn that jaundiced fog: Perhaps, doubtless, some were women. ut what is this ps thing that ew! down between the di walis and a turn into Broa@way? It is even lower than the fog, and, in its yellow- Ss, looks at first like a more nearly Shorter section of the gloom, a sort of A when in the anatomy of the dark- It is Only by the use of a compass that re can tell which street he is facing on the ome, while one of the St. Louis smokes is its pret. A row of lights far up, ap- ee ed ost on a level with the top of © dome, but actually a considerable dis- below, one makes out to be the elec- shoes peers in the upper stories of the rs’ Hotel. A cloud obscures the lower stolen investi Wals es. Bor th St. Louls, from the dome, | all © rest of the city a block ietane just a balnk, a yellowish, jaundiced blank. oo eet here and there one may discern | For e] pe employ banks _ blackness of the big smoke- sort of punctuation system ughout the immense nothingness. is just one light visible over South Fi: Louls. It is high up, yet it looks near. t is a huge red glare. it is perfectly round : look at ear-cut, and one can | it with- it is our op ie thoug old DR. HYATT’S EXPLANATION. Dr. R. J. Hyatt, local weather forecaster, @xplains the fog as follows: “The foggy, cloudy condition ts due to Jack of wind. There was hardly any wind in St. Louis Tuesday morning—not enough Gay. There was almost a dead calm, and this calm caused the fog and cloudiness to . “The nay’ ney h | ut sta ex alo larry of wind is due to the con- barometer. The barometer is onary throughout the country, the North ormatio and Pacific A. U. Loufs Cc. fficial predictions for Tucsduy night , v ee og Ey for continue cold . . says the w Phones - y eather will, ea m lity, continue fair also. ist how.’ he said to the Poot-Bne ; 0 e st- s- ugh places on all sides of us are m. It is snowing today way ttanooga, Tenn., raining in rain is expected tonight in . itis also snowing up over the lake temperature at 7 o'clock Tuesday 30, two degrees lower than at r Monday. At 11 o'clock it _ TROLLEY CARS IN COLLISION. ' __, Two electric cars met in a collision Tueg- ‘ at Market and Sixth streets Ber which, reauited in the demolishing of the oe "it seemed a bag miracie that one or both of a... otormen was not seriously i 4 ee s atotarman WwW, L. Wright, who mas ba “a ae eran 1123 é fend wer fi “ u ren he t ¥ ‘ af pre, & aS, ‘ ’ ‘ ¥ Frank ‘ ei J. W. experle roads, ce . / ao k on car No. line, was thrown so heavil curve, Were well filled with paesen- was great excitemont among the wild rush for th r an becir a *) "ny right of w aes ar sion W Otto ’ et ee o ”~ ‘ , © , d ~~ + ear ” ; chess. Bishop Fitzgerald is well known Louls as a chess player, and no complaint of his fondness for the game has ever comc from the ministers or laymen of the St. Louis conference. In Pittsburg it appears Methodists look queens, chess and poker. Pittsburg contains Church, and Bishop Fitzgerald posses few hours in their company. When it was learned b tinguished eeulged in, the Intervals of missionary discussion, criti- cism became rife, fehurch shouid be interested tn the move- urch, earned of the hostile comm-n.:> which were being leveled at him. Rather than to argue the matter, it is to contain terns for patterns for Besides this there was a lot of expensive pever arrested before in his life. he bvught the merchand.se trom a peddler. FATAL FOG IN CHICAGO. One Man Killed and Several Injured Oharies CGaliagher, juries. Adolph Goldberged, toes crushed; knee frac- tured. Fred 8S. Islip. left arm and leg broken. Fred Schweil, Peter Anderson, cut and bruised about head end y. Howar ‘ Harold Soderburg. Anna Carr, Lake street “L.”” one on the Northwestern “L.”’ aud one between suburban trains of the Keck Island and the Lake Shore roads. The collision on the Metropolitan was be- tween trains going the same wuy, as was the case in other accidents. Both trains were crowded, m on the rear platf these were al The mot increase 8 train crashed into the rear. most the on! the rear plat express Later hich ha tan reached the public. SHOP JAMES N. FITZGERALD St. Louis, who has been citicised Pittsburg brethren for playing from the general missionar of the Methodist Episcopa tches tion Church, now being held in Christ Church, Pittsburg, Pa., State that Bishop James N. Fitzgerald of St. criticism of Pittsburg brethren by his de- Louis has incurred the to the gume of chess. in St. at pawns, knights, kings and and see little difference between e a number of chess the Methodist a who are outside the Pittsburg fol- t one of thes dis- of John Wesley t chess in guests ha That a bishop .of the, of a bishop on a chess board, when important concerns were under considera- the members of Christ shocked divine soon Bishop Fitzgerald called his. chess engagements off. FS OFFICE LIKE STORE Trunk in Desmond’s Room Contains Enough Goods to Start a Mer- chant in Business. In the office of Chief of Detectives Des- mond Tuesday morning was a large trunk packed so tightly with gvods that it would Stock a small shoe and dry goods store weil. trunk was recovered by Detectives Frese and Gaffney late Monday night when rrested Mathew J. Walsh in a room Merchant street. 1 the trunk was cpened It was found atterns for fine Qvercoats, pat- ne suitings and elegant dress es. and boots. There were also revol- vers, razors and other. property. Chief Desmond suspects that the stuff {fs and he is holding Walsh pending an tion. is 33 years old, is married, and says he-lives at 1419 North Ninth street. even years, he says, he has been ed as engineer for the N. K. Fair- Co., and he declared that he was Hie says in Street Car Accidents. DEAD AND INJURED. ON METROPOLITAN PLEVATED. Themas Meeny, ciushed to doath. Fred Jones, both legs severed; will die. William Upton, internal injuries. Twohey, internal injuries. foot crushed; in- internal Raumgart, cut and bruised. Davis, injuced internally. foot crushed. 4 Gauwing, toes crushed. IN LAKE STREET BLEVATED. Ireland, injuries fata). serfous internal injuries. Munn, motorman; badly cut. hand crushed. Oheney. bands and face lacerated. CHICAGO, Nov. 19.—The thickest fog ever need in Chicago caused numerous collisions between trains early today. One man was jured that they will probably die, and 16 others were seriously hurt. The more serious accidents occurred on the Metropolitan and Lake street elevated killed, two were 80 badly in- There were two cvillisions on tne “LL.” two on the BSouth Side rs standing first train to suifer. . Ont most the only ones orman slowed up going ryvund a and while waliing for a signal to the Humboldt rk express hat was al- warni the passengers on rm had of the apprvaching in the day news of another colll- d occurred on the Metropoli- The train of which was conductor was over- by another train. a Hill of Beans.” ‘The indefinite language of the verdict. re- turned by the coroner in the antitoxin cases practically nullifies the result of the inquest which has been very costly to the city,’’ said Charles W. Francis, Assistant Health Commissioner, who is acting Health Com- missioner during the absence of Dr. Max C. Starkloff, to the Post-Dispatch Tuesday. “The purpose of coroners’ inquests is to determine the responsibility for death. The curoner in. this case failed to fix this re- sponsibility, after conducting a three weeks’ inquiry. “He merely charges the Board of Health with negligence. He had no right to do that. His duty was to find whether or not the person by whom the antitoxin was prepared was negligent. This he totally failed to do. “When. the coroner holds an inquest on a street car victim, he never finds that the company has been negligent, unless the un- lawfulness of the schedule is involved. He holds the motorman if there is negligence. “He should have done the same thing in the case—he should have held the person di- rectly responsible if the evidence justified such action. BOARD NOT NEGLIGENT. “The board of health was not negligent. Iam a member of the board of health and { didn’t know anything about the mgnu- facture of antitoxin and didn’t have any- thing more to do with it than the man in the moon. “The head of the board of health would be glad to punish the person responsible for this great misfortune, but it can’t pro- ceed under the coroner’s verdict...That isn't worth a hill of beans. No one could be convicted under it in a criminal proceeding. “Undoubtedly the inquiry divulged the ne- cessary information to determine who was responsible The board of health was the coroner's ablest second in the endeavor to ascertain the truth. It wanted the truth and nothing but that. It wanted the _re- sponsibility fixed. BOARD HIRED EXPERTS. “In its desire to accomplish this, it em- ployed the three bacteriologists by whom the infected antitoxin was examined. The coroner didn't employ them. He didn't even suggest their appointment. The board took the initiative. The original plan of the board was to hold an investigation inde- pendently, but it finally determined to al- low the coroner to do the work because he had the power to summon witnesses and the board did not. The board either sug- gested or procured the witnesses. It gath- ered up the portion of the infected anti- toxin that had not been used, and turned it over to the coroner. “All this wae done that it might have light. Then the coroner returned a verdict that leaves us in darkness, a verdict that will make necessary a repetition of the in- quiry from beginning to end by another body before anything can be done by the board. BOARD CANNOT ACT. “Certainly the board cannot take any ac- tion at present. It wili probably wait on the mayor or the city council. “I don’t know what the authority of the mayor is, but the Council undoubtedly has the right to proceed. If neither body should act, the board will take up the case on iis own responsibility. The respqpsibility must be fixed and the board will do it if no one else will.”’ ® Mr. Francis notified Dr. Starkloff Mon- day of the verdict of the coroner, but has not heard from him. He is at Senath, Mo., on a hunting outing. He is expected home either Tuesday night or Wednesday by Mr. Francis, who thinks he will interrupt his pleasure to take up the cause of the board of health. THE MAYOR’S POSITION. Mayor Wells said Tuesday that the ver- dict in the antitoxin cases had not been brought to his attention. ‘I cannot discuss them until I take them up,” he said. ‘Il haven't any idea what ac- tion I shall take, but it is quite probable .lscake some.” Benjamin Schnurmacher, city counselor, was asked by the Post-Disptach what body or person had the authority to proceed in the pgesent status of the cases “] never discuss cases of this character until they are brought to my attention and my opinion is asked by the proper offi- cial,”’ was his reply. “Can any proceeding be supported on the verdict as returned by the coroner?’ “I do not care to discuss that either.” WISS BERRI TO WED MOULAN According to the Prima Donna’s An- nouncment, Marriage Will Take Place Wednesday Afternoon. News dispatches from Chicago announce that Maud Lillian Berri and Frank Mot- lan, both of whom have been popular en- tertainers on the local operatic stage, yes- as secured a marriage license in that rs . Berri said Tuesday aftern that the beg would | gee Wednesday afternoon at 3 o'clock Victoria Hotel in that city. ; a ) Duri the st summer tor senkenk wee ie the aw Ay Comp aaa ES Mesa R ~~ MODERN MONSTER? Evansville, Ind., within a few hours’ ride of St. Louis, is striv- ing to solve the mystery of the murder of four women. All the crimes were «ommitted within a recent perigd, two of them on the same night—Mon- day of last week. In each of the four cases the victim was strangléd to death. Today Wilbur S. Sherwell, a policeman, who has been re- garded as a model officer, is charged with the murder of one of these women; and the theory is advanced that the Same hand strangled the four women. Officer Sherwell is married, has children, and his wife says has been a good husband and fa- ther. The details of the remarkable case are told by a staff corre- spondent of the Post-Dispatch. ‘2 2999999990999 699999% 69990 eee ed > & 8 POOCSSCSSSCSOSSOME SCE SS dent. 19.—Is Patroi- r. Jekyl anu By a Post-Dispatch Staff Corr EVANSVILLE, Ind., Nev, man Wilber S. Sherwell the Mr. Hyde of Evansville? while actrug the role of a felon? “ Is he the strangler of Lena Renner? Upon the men with whom sherweil. has associated in the city as 4 guardian of the peace devolves the answer. Out of th. problem may be worked a startling solu- tion. The Man Who Is Under Arrest. Policeman Sherwell is 35 years of age, married and resided with his tamily, cun- sisting of his wife and two chiidren, a boy, 4 years old, and a girl, aged 6, at 319 West Maryland street. He was appointed to the police force Aug. 24, 190. Formerly he was employed as a nightwatchman at the Heitz Milling Co. His application for a membership on the department was indorsed by many prom:- nent citizens and his arrest for the mur- der of Lena Renner has shocked the com munity. He was regarded as a model officer. His beat included the fashionable residence dis- trict of Evansviile. He had a speaking ac quaintance with practically every person om his beat. In manmer, courteous and re- tined, he made many friends, ‘Ihe modei officer of the Hvansville polic« department is tall and well proportioned; he has a face that might be called handsome A smali, sandy mustache hides his mouth The lips are thick and firm set. The chit rounds to a point. His cheeks are full anc round, and he has a florid complexion. The ears appear abnormally large. The nose is regular and tapers at the end. The eyes, a deep blue, are large and full of ex- pression. The forehead is narrow. The upper portion is shaped like an egg. Dark auburn hair hides the head. The hair is well kept. Sherwell generally wore a siouch hat, the front partcof which almost cov- ered his eyes. He was unusually reserved. He seldom had much to say to his brother officers, and settled his official affairs in a few words. All last night he sat behind the bars whither he had conducted many an unfortunate, but not @ sound escaped him. His wife called at the jail, but was denied aamittance. The turnkey attempted to strike up a con- versation. He failed. The model officer had shut pp like a clam. One Man May Have Murdered All. Four women and possibly a fifth have died here within two years at the hands of a strangler. From the manner of their deaths and the apparent deiiberation with which they were planned the police have formed the theory that not unlikely the murders were conceived in the mind of one man. In a warrant issued at the instigation of Coroner John P., Wilkes Policeman Sher- well is charged with: having murdered Miss Lena Renner, whose body was found in a creek at the outskirts of Evansville at 56 o'clock on the evening of Nov. 11. In this identical spot and under the same circumstances Mre. Mary Anne Stork was strangled to death on the night of April 3, 1899. Not a bruise was visible on Lena Ren- ner. Slight finger marks on the throat told the manner of her death. The murderer poceeded calmly to his task and executed it with apparent ease. Swift, sure and terrible punishment was meted out to his victim. Not a trace of the murderer was left be- hind. To.all appearances the woman had died from natural causes. The post-mortem ex- amination revealed that her windpipe was severed. In the stomach a smal) quantit of morphine was found. The poison woul indicate that the fiend had ee his vic- tim and strangled her while she was @ a helpless stupor. . Early in the morning of Nov. 12 the dead body of Mrs. Georgia Halley was found on the First avenue road one-half mile west of the city. Her neck was broken. That she struggled with her merciless slayer was evident from her Gotning which war torn in several places. Her hair was disheveled, at could not be found. It Was estab- | at the autopsy that death had re- 1.42 or 15 hours before the bodies were found. From this the police decided that both murders were committed on Monday night, probably between the hours of { o'clock and* midnight. Miss Renner Mrs. Railey had Bosh tee = ine nad na ntm mate 7a ; ay they did not jose the f the man who was to accompany to ascertain ne. Geet Bae 6s jonged. At ne sta Si3 Elad Navog bean fom Has he played the part of policeman LULU IDA HENRY ATE Wa : y |> a || A AL TT AT PULUDAT TRL wan2Dow TH AYRES 5 POOM a gs AG , == NO" =o AADAYS LT Y wIndow THROUGH WHICH : we, ’ a. a | Be — {Tis ein S, ad Se > wm ane ) > ge ares LAAN POPS eSOS 1 Tb H ty oh pepe, ee ae ee 1 . . ~~ u@ ? aa ~ } cused, three w THE HAND MARK OV THE WINDOW S/ZZ° ‘ vas yee nvestigation among private vehicle own- ers. Policeman Sherwell owned a surrey and, according to several persons, had been seen out riding on Nov. ll,*and did mot return until after 11 o'clock. He was unaccom- panied when he left home, according . to Olice information. . Then came another link in the chain of suspicion, trifling but significant. Here was a man under the cloud of a crime which he was supposed to be invesiigating. Each day aince the murders were discovered he had gone to the chief to make a report of his work on the two cases. “Nothing new,”’ he would always say, and then left the office as silently as he came. Yesterday morning he appeared at police headquarters as usual. “Good morning, chief,”’ he said, smiling. Heuke did not return the salutation, but, placing his hand on Sherwell's shoulder, said: “You are wanted at once at the prosecuting attorney’s office. You may be needed there all day.”’ After an hour spent with that official Sherwell was escorted to the coroner's of- fice. He was told that he was suspected of the murder of Lena Renner and confronted with the evidence against him. He protest- ed his innocence, but during his conversa- tion with Coroner Wadlker made sévyera) contradictory statements as to his where- abouts on the night Lena Renner was killed. Sherwell at the Woman’s House. At the formal inquiry Mrs. Sailie Parker testified that Sherwell was at her house on Monday night last and remained about lo minutes. ° Miss Garnett Spencer. who lived in the same house with Lena Renner, testified while passing through the riar yard about 7:30 o'clock Munday night she encountered Sherwell. He asked her where he could find Lena. Miss Spencer replied that she was in the house. Then she avers Sherwell said: “I want to take her buggy riding and go to a coun- try dance.” Other witnesses testified that they saw a surrey near Lena Renner’s the same night and its description corresponded with the one owned by Policeman Sherwell. Charles Fisher states that he called on Lena Renner about 9 o’clock Monday night. He said she seemed anxious about some- thing and he asked her the cause. She re- plied, he testified, that she had an engage- ment to go buggy riding, but didn't believe the man would keep the appointment. “Shortly after,’ added Fisher, “I heard a knock at the door and the visitor was welcomed by the girl. He did not enter the room where I was nor could I recog- nize his voice.” Testimony of Policeman Ira Wiltshire was to the effect that at ll o'clock Monday night he saw a surrey which he recognized as that of Sherwell's pass Fulton avenue at the intersection of Columbia street. He did not see the driver. The vehicle was going towards Sherwell’s home. It is said that Sherwell is the online, son inshis block who owns a rig. an me of his neighbors say they heard a buggy dr'ven into the alley about li o'clock, Mrs. Fannie Butler. a mulatto, was choked to death on May 13 last in a stable back of the old Bennett residence, which is |: on Sherwell’s beat. Absolutely no clue was found to the murderer. A short time previously Jennie Williama, a colored girl, was found dead in her home. She lived near the Butler woman. It wa* hinted by neighbors that she had met with foul play. No t-mortem examination, ft ie said, wae held, and heart trouble was as. eigned as the cause of her death. Sherwell’s wife has shown the most us varying devotion to him mye ny ins he is innocent of the terrible ai whiet, stands a : oe HOTEL FRONT ON NORTH CAPITOL ST. ‘me,’ she said, ‘‘and he fs a-.model father I know Wilber is innocent and no matter what they say I shall be ioyal to him. When first questioned Sherwell toid Cor- oner Walker that he had not called on Lena Renner since last February. Pressed on, this point he admitted that he was there a day or two before the night she ‘was murdered. Sherwell also acknowledged that on this rticular occasion he had his itched on Sycamore street near the home, but insisted that those who claimed to have seen him on Monday evening were mistaken as to the date. On Monday night he said _ he went first to the People’s Thea- ter and from there to the Grand Opera House, where he says he took a seat in the gallery. Betsween 8:30 and 9:30 o'clock he had visited a saloon near the theater and Louis Rorunesy served him with drinks. Koltinsky denied to the coroner that he had even seen Sherwell on the “ieht in question. Wife Admits Important Fact. ' The most 4d ng evidence against Sherwell was that given by his wife Mrs. Sherwell originally corroborated her hasband's statement that he had not taken the buggy out Monday night. Later Chief of Detectives Peck went to her house and told her that Sherwell had confessed to him that he was out riding. Mrs. Sherwell broke down and said: “Yes. he was out in the surrey that night, but only: for a short while.’’ Sherwell did not display the least sign of nervousness when the murder warrant was read to him ‘You have made a. charge,”’ mildly, ‘‘and now you have got to prove it. I will say no more.” Implicating Sherwell in Other, Crimes. Coroner Walker declares that evidence is accumulating to show that Sherwell is im- plicated in other murders. “I have six affidavits," said the coroner. “to the effect that Sherwe:il was seen in company with Mrs. Ralley on Monday nignt jast. He wa.ked ne street with her. The time was about 7:30 o'clock. | “(t will be recalled that Mrs. Railey left her sister about 7 o'clock saying that she was zuing downtown to do some shop- ping. Pr hat was the last seen of her by rela- t ves. ‘Further information was laid before me that a2 man tallying exactly in appearance to Sherwell was in Mrs. Butler's company on the night she was killed. This witness says. that when he was ng he heard her slap Sherwéil on the hand and ex- claim: ‘i will have nothing more to do with ou.’ “Of all the prisoners with whom i! have had deall this man Sherweil is the most remarkabie. He is absolute cold- tlooded. He smiled ali the while . he inquest was im progress and treated A.ppantiy the indictment agains: aim. At no time he show the slightest trace of indignation. It was clearly established that he was with the Renner woman on engene d night last. She was seen to enter so wit meg ere) several years from a small town in Ohio. It is said he said, | seem confident of an acquittal. Mrs. B Meecham. “4 , Mr. Bonine and Mrs. Meacham were — early occupants of the seats reserved — for Mrs. Bonine’s especial friends, as: & -? defense. At 10:10 Mrs. Bonine appeared in the courtroom, accompanied by the uae veteran guard, James W. Springman. — Hat trance was scarcely noted ana took a, seat beside her husband, just ‘back of | + her counsel and in front of her sister, She smiled as she ig ony her sister and the latter placed her arm gently — about her as she sank nito her seat, After the preliminaries of calling the = =] names of witnesses and of jurors were == dispo®d of Mrs. Bonine was asked to = stand and ey to ie gosese wong rs ae listened calmly to the reading eee document and then it was concluded pleaded “Not guilty” in tOnfter a brief statement of the Judge Anderson, the examination was begun, and when the court adjourned for the day, the nausted. There were 2% by the defe Ae the district r Mrs. ere relle court. health, nal attorney. i AP ne was . sohers’ room in ‘ pene aon = heey ~Nas She was then retur o , The trial will be resumed at 10 a. m, to- morrow. The Story of the Fire Escape Murder. Washington woke up on the of the 15th of May last to find that the had brought with it a murder mystery— the most baffling in the annals of crime @t the capital—and which, before HM was solved, stirred the whole city. | James Seymour Ayres, a clerk in the census office, an efficient ye and a his _ the bu of his death. : The red imprint of a ’s hand wu the sill of the window lead.ng . Ooms ten: ita ainty ool twist an, n cord and’ tassel stained with. revolver with three emp the eat pe ee gene FF its rrel, wer ; crime and the only eclews upon w detectives had to work. The first ray of light tery came from Thomas M. employed in the fish and trustworthy citizen. e room in the adjoining bullding, on t below the one on which Ayres’ room “oO awakened fn the early taker was f the pistol shots, looked ! c light burning across the street. As w winaow, and, looking up, he saw a fig silhouetted on the pane. € loo -* tire direction of the Kenmore Hotel i eee figure gliding nciselessly town. oe. £uU 4 x vt Hotel. — The Only Clew The figure was coming toward him on the slant of the fire escape, but ) | could catch a glimpse of the face the fig- — him. ‘ This. statement by Baker gave the ¢ that the one who killed Ayres was thove in the hotel, and no . questioned, a then the man had committed the deed was Finally the search narrowed down ps both | ed. The nine is supported by her husband and. i -her sister from Missouri, }firs. Cora | were the five attorneys engaged for the She walked in so quietly that her.em-. low but distinct z | ea da Re cape from the fourth floor of re .? a ure had turned and was going away “yg ee