The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1883-12-25
THE EMMA BOND CASE.
The Testimony Elected by
the Defense is Not Very
Startling.

Hillsboro, ILL.,, Dec 2O.-Sheriff Haines
of Tsylorville, was the first witness this
morning He testified he aud Attorney
Dreamer had fitted the toe nail pairing to
Montgomery's toe at the Jail. MOntgom-
cry was perfectly willing to have it done
The pairing was thicker than Montgomery s
toe nail. 1t fitted at one corner, but the
other side did not fit at all.
The witness put Clements and Pettus
in Jail. He examined Montgomery 5
clothing carefully. 1t appeared to have
been worn three or four days. He saw no
blood or other stains.
He examined Clements clothing the
night of his arrest The shirt was red and
blue striped. The red stripes had run
somewhat. He was not satisfied and ex-
amined them again the next day but found
no stains on the shirt or underclotbes.
He also examined Pettus' clothes neither
Enlargement hail the appearance of being
vet acOss the hips There were no stains
ON any of the garments All the clothes
had evidently been worn several days.
There was no communication between the
prisoners that day.
Cross-examined the witness said the pris-
oners were not put in cell until noon. In
the afternoon Clements and Pettus were is
the cell while Montgomery was out looking
for bond. The witness was not at the
Jail all the time hut knew the prisoners
could not have been put together.
He examined the clothing for his own
s Itisfaction This testimony Offsets that Of
the convict Never, who said the defendants
had consultation the morning they were
jailed
Thomas Hart testified he tried to put Mr.
Dickerson up through the scultle hole OF
the school house the morning OF the out
rage. The witness was six feet and two
inches high aud weighed one hundred and
thirty-hve pounds.
Mr.. Harmmel who was also in the loft,
lied a shawl srOLd Dickerson and lifted
him above my head and stood on a chair
and held him up high as he could, but Dick
ersOn didn't come within two feet Of the
ceiling Hammel pulled him up and
helped all could by boosting
Charley Masters, nine years old, who
was in tine school with Emma Boni, and
left IIst before she was assaulted, testified,
IL was the only scholar in that afternoon.
Miss Bond took dinner at I'd MOntgOmery's
where she BOARDED, ard / ate my dinner
III the SCuDOE tHSu WIFI lO
cal house and played there till Miss Bend
came back. i was not in the school house
during the noon recess, | said my lessons
after dinner, then had recess during
which Miss Bond went to Pettus house.
| stayed around the coal house and did not
GO away from there, saw old John and
Young Joan Montgomery during recess go
ing .ong the road past the school house.
John asked me why wasn't playing with
the school children
said there wasn't any he said "Well
wait and / will come back and / will
wres:le with you
When Miss Bond came back we went IN
the school house. told her there was
noise in the loft. i said / thought they
was tramps.
She, said "NO, it's rats"
The scuttle hole was open all day. /
saw mud that morning on the wall under
the scutIle and said 10 the teacher to look
at that. She said nothing:
Cross examined the witness said: laid
on the roof of the coal house kicking up
my heels. could not see the school house |
door.
This witness was on the stand an hour
and a half and made many statements |
which differed from tho made on the pre- |
trial.