The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1882-08-15
THE rAYLoRv1LLE OUTRAGE.
The Crime which called Out Mob
Law In Illinois

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was at the school house making prepa-
rations for the closing exercises.
She had not been popular with the
young men of the immediate neighbor-
hood because of what they called her
high and mighty airs. She had declined
the acquaintance of some of those liv-
ing near, and had possibly INDUCED in
some unflattering remarks. At all events
she had been warned through writing
on the blackboard that she must be
careful.
Miss Bonds father lived about four
miles from the Raymond school house,
and the young lady's acquaintance
were all in that neighborhood. 1t has
been limited that there was some i'll feel
feeling between the people of the two
neighborhoods, and that remarks made
by Miss Bond 'Ifriends as to the charac-
ter of the young men in the Raymond
neighborbood may have had influence
in creating some feeling against the
young lady herself.
However this may be, she had taught
the school to the satisfaction of her pat
rons, and there had been no complaint
against her except that it was difficult
to become acquainted with her. In
other words, she was, in the language
of the country pumpkins, Z" stuck up.r
At 4 O'Clock on the afternoon of June
30 she was about to leave the school
house when, without warning, q man
dropped from the attic and, coming
down behind her, pinioned her arms
and choked her into Inconsistencies.
When she partially recovered her senses
she realized that her shawl had been
tied about her person and that she was
being lifted through the scuttle hole
into the attic. In her half. unconscious
state she saw nothing clearly except,
when the pain incident to being pushed
through the scuttle hole reused her, she
saw in close proximity to her face the
low shoes and red stockings of the man
who stood with his feet neal the hole
pulling her up. The attic was dark
and she could not see the faces of the
three men present.
Here the girl was kept for several
hours, her person outraged, mutilated,
and subjected to most horrible indigni-
ties. The greater part of the time she
was unconscious under the influence of
chloroform, hut when she would be-
come partially conscious the brutes
would torture her by sticking their
knives into her arms or neck, threaten
ing at intervals to kill her.
When the victim of this brutality
finally recovered consciousness she was
lying face downward on the school
house floor. She dragged herself to the
house of Mrs. Pettis, about 200 yards
distant. 1t was then nearly midnight,
and after much persuading Lee Pettis
and Emanuel Clement secured a
wagon and took the unfortunate girl
home.
The girls injuries were more serious
and more horrible than ever she at
first supposed, and when the diabolical
character Of the assault was made
known, little wonder is it that the peo-
pie Of the county were in q fury. The
first theory was that the assault was
made by tramps who had secreted them
selves in the school house attic the
night before. This left the malicious
ness Of the indignities heaped upon the
girl without adequate explanation, and
assumed a knowledge of the incidents
of that particular day that strangers
could not have had. But it appeared
that John Montgomery, Lee Pettis and
Emanuel Clement, all living within a
few hundred yards of the school house,
did know that Miss Bond would be
alone In the school house in the after
noon. She had been in the house of
Mrs. Pettis several times during the
day to give directions to the Pettis
girls, who were to participate in the
exercises the next day, and the theory
is that the three young men, during one
Of these visits, went to the school
house, secreted themselves in the loft,
and assaulted the girl as has been de-
scribed.
The circumstances were against
them. They had been absent from
their homes on the pretense of fishing.
They disliked the young lady. One of
them, Clement, wore low shoes and
red stockings, and all of them acted
peculiarly after the circumstance of the
outrageous assault became known.
These circumstances led to their arrest
on the first of July, but the condition
Of Miss Bond was such that their pre-
liminary examination did not take
place until this week.
The theory that because the prosecu-
tion has not made a clear case against
the accused they must be discharged, is
a bad one Where the evidence of
guilt is circumstaniial there is always
great danger that injustice will be
'Oho ~ oSSuoou' ouV thelo lS also
danger that by too liberal an interpre-
tation the really guilty may be allowed
to escape. The safe course in all such
cases is to bind the accused parties over
to court. In this cas-. this course
would be safety for the prisoners, and a
wise n with the public excitement in
mind.
The outrage was brutal in the ex-
treme. The people are not willing that