Daily Yellowstone journal., 1883-12-28
TELEGRAMS..
Reporfrd Expressly for The unity rriioT-
sfo"" J""rn"i ay The UrsicrT .I,socja-
i"d Press nHd Hr UrsfrrH Union
Telegraph ton'paDs.
AN MERICAN'SREPLY
To a Frencaman's Speech in
the Chamber OF Deputies,
Affecting our CONNER
cial Interests.
General Grant is Seriously In
jured--Funeral Services
of Mrs. General
Rosencrans.
Phenominal Aur oral Display
Explosion in a Restaur-
ant--An Oil Fire.
Etc, Etc.
The Bond case.

ST. IOCIs, Dec. 2I.-The Post Dis
patch IiiIlshoro special says: When
the court opened this morning, Judge
Thornton, oTthe defense. announced
that either this afternoon or to-mOr-
row Ic would have Miss Bond on the
stand again. John &. Montgomery
then ,cslIlicd that hc WAS lhirty-tlIree
years old, was married, had "a wife aud
three children; he lett the hcllse be-
tween ten and eleven O'Clock, the day
OF the outrage with his vile aud
family. aud visited Mrs. peltis and
took dinner with them; Lee Pettis and
Clements were with them: left directly
after dinner, and went to his fathers
house, 800 yards distant; met sherman
Gonker there: left his fathers AT one
o'clock; went down the road by the
,hool house: saw little Charley Mar.
tiers there; did not stop there; went on
to Joseph Ionkcrs; Mr.. lonker and
my sister went down Ia the field with
Joseph aud George Ionkcr to look at
u new binder, then went 10 the corn
field and talked n while about Guiteau.
who was hung the day before. Met
John Margret there. aud all four OF us
went to the wheat field Ia look at 4
cradle; tried to work il but couldn't;
was In the field probably'an hour and
n halt; then all went 10 the house;
Margret, George lonker and my wife
went Ia the field aud | started for
Mrs Pettis house. The sun was about
an hour high; met Sherman lonker
aud nay father On the road; on arriving
AT Mrs. Petiis' ! saw Lee Pettis, NOW
ing; Clement was there; get out my
team, took supper aud LETT with my
wife and children for home, the sun
was then down; saw John Campbell as
he was driving home; also john Mar
greet on horse back; got home at dusk;
put up the horses and went to the
house, and shortly after went To bed;
was never in the school house, till the
next morning; never pared his toe
nail there; on the morning after the
outrage was in the loft with Others:
some one asked me 10 cut out "A piece
of wood to form u hoe inside the
! boarding; | cut out piece of board;
! ] ann right handed, can Use a knife
easily with my right hand; had moth
| ing whatever 10 do with the outrage
or attempted outrage of Emma Bond;
stopped at the school house for three
quarters of an hour; there Was big
crowd there also and great excite
ment about the rape; stayed in Grove
City till D. IN. and then went home.
I Continuing. he said was arrested alter
dark, had on colured shirt that day
| of brown body and little white stripes:
had worn il all week; wore boots, did
not wear shoes that summer; wore
overalls of dark steel color. When
he saw Clements and Lee Pettis on the
day of the outrage both were without
coats and both wore dark colored
shirts. Montgomery gave au account
Of his actions subsequent tn the arrest.
He then answered number of ques-
tioms put 10y his counsel, put for the
purpose of getting denials, and the ex
( planatiOn Of a swarm of little circul.I-
stances on which the prosecution de-
pended. Among other things Mont
goniery denied that he ever told Helm
lein or Switch to tell Lee Pettis Ia
stand firm and give nothing AWAY or
that Pettis and Clements had been ar
rested and the former had made writ
ten confession duplicating him, my
God what shall I do" Did not RE-
member saying any such thing; never
told crowd the people were In too
great hurry to arrest me; or, that II
they had waited while they would
have got something out of me, but now
they would not get thing. The ex-
animation lasted an hour and u half
instead of being narrative II was In
the form of short answers t0 questions.