The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-12-14
THOU ART THE MAN.
Emma Bond Identifies Montgomery
as One of Her Assailants.

Emma Bond Identifies Montgomery
as One of Her Assnilants.
ST. LOUIS, Dec. 1.-THE Post-Dispatch
Hillsboro special says: At the opening of
court all the witnesses called were sworn and
instructed by Judge Phillips that
they must remain in room
prepared for them or on the
street; that they will not be permitted in the
courtroom. The courtroom was densely
thronged Miss Bond, the first witness called,
was examined by Judge Edwards, for the
prosecution. She recited the circumstances
of the outrage, as given at the time-how on
the afternoon of June 49, 1882, after dis
missing her school and sweeping the
school house she was seized from behind by a
man who dropped through the scuttle hole
from the attic of the building; he choked her
till she was blind; her shawl was tied around
her waist and then she was pulled up to the
loft above As she went up she saw the face
of one of the men in the loft, and there,
pointing to John c. Montgomery, is the
very man. will swear that that is the
face saw. She also noticed that another of
the men in the loft had on low-cut shoes and
red stockings. She was taken up and laid on
a platform in the loft prepared for her; she
told the men that she would rather lose her
life than her virtue, and begged them to
xiii her; one of the men remarked that
that was easy enough to do and taking
out his knife made cuts on her throat and
face; nine in all; upon this she lost conscious
ness, and, on recovering about an hour af-
terward she had been ravished; was ravished
repeatedly after that, being chloroformed
When she recovered consciousness about /
o'clock in the morning, she found herself
lying in heap on the schol-house floor, un-
derneath the scuttle hole she dragged her
self over to the house of Widow Pettis,
where two of the defendants, Lee Pettis and
Clements lived
She told Mrs Pettis that she had been raw
ished by two large men wearing light shirts
and dark pants, whom she did not know
Clements and Pettis hesitated to take her
home fearing that her father might suspect
them, but upon Mrs. Pettis agreeing
to go along they hitched up a team
and took her home She told her
father that two men wearing white
shirts and dark pants, outraged her,
On eross-examination by Judge Thornton,
Miss Bond stated that she had never seen John
Montgomery but once before the night of the
outrage, and then did not know him; had
never seen him since the outrage until in the
courtroom, and then Immediately recognized
him as the man whose face she saw above
her while being drawn up into the loft.
She states that it was true that she told
different parties after the defendants were
arrested that they were not the men who
outraged her, though it was true she had
told Mrs. Pettis and her father that only two
had outraged her; she is now satisfied there
were three
Several times during the examination Miss
Bond was taken very sick, and compelled to
rest. She was affected to tears while re-
counting her wrongs. She had to be assisted
oit'of the courtroom. Her Identification of
John c. Montgomery was full and complete.
The other defendants she could not swear to,
but the prosecution claim that they will con-
meet them by circumstantial evidence with
the crime.
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