Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 June 1901 — MRS. BONINE REFUSED BAIL. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

MRS. BONINE REFUSED BAIL.

Application for Release Upon Habea*Corpna Writ Denied. Attorneys for Mrs. Lola Bonine, now in jail in Washington for the killing ofi James Ayres, the census clerk who was Shot t 6 death in his room at the Hotel Kenmore, fi.led a petition for a writ of habeas corready to furnish bail and urged that 6he be at once released. Judge Baruard, after reading the petition, heard arguments of counsel. Hs refused to allow the release of Mrs. Bonine ou bail, denying the application sot a writ of habeas corpus. The case has been the stibjeet of much discussion among the legal lights of ’Washington, it being the almost unanimous opinion thpt if the fair prisoner's story of the killing is false, it is one at the (most ingenious ever constructed, anil will be one of the most difficult upou which to convict ever presented to a jury.