The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-12-28

tlSll leSblueO was thirty -tHTe6 years Olu,
married, and has wife and three children.
He left the house between 10 and II o'clock
on the day of the outrage, with his wife and
family; visited Mrs. Pettus and took dinner
there. Lee Pettus and Clement were pres
ent. Left directly after dinner and went to
his fathers house, three hudred yards dis
tant. Met Sherman Yanckey there. Left
his fathers at l o'clock. Went down and
past the school-house, and saw little Charley
Masters there. Did not stop there Went
on to Joseph Yanker's. Mrs. Yanker is my
sister. Went down to the field with Joseph
and George Yanker to look at the new
binder; then went TO the corn-field and
talked awhile about Guiteau, who was hung
the day before. Met John Morgert there.
Then all four of US went to the wheat-feld,
looked at the cradle and tried to work it, but
could not. Was in the field probably an
hour and half; then all went to the house
OF Morgert and George Yanker and wife
then left for home, and l started for Mrs.
Pettuss house. The sun was about an hour
high. Met Sherman Yanker and my father
on the road. On arriving at Mrs. Pettus's |
saw Lee Pettus moving. Clement was there.
Got ont of my buggy, took supper, and left
with my wife and children for home. The
sun was then down. Saw John Campbell as
| was driving home; also, John Morgert on
horseback. Got home at dusk and put up
the horse; went to the house and shortly after
went to bed Was never in the schoolhouse
loft until the next day; never tried to enter
there. On the morning after the outrage was
in the loft with others. Some one asked me
to cut a piece of wood from a hole in
board. Am right-handed. Can use knife
easily with my right hand. Had nothing
whatever to do with the outrage or attempted
outrage of Emma Bond. Stopped at the
school-house three-quarters of an hour. A
big crowd was there. Left with my cousin
opd optc n -
big crowd there also, and great excitement
about the rape Stayed at Grove City till P.
NJ, then went home. Was arrested after dark;
had on colored shirt that day. 1t was brown
body with a little white stripe. Had worn
1t all week. Wore overail of dull steel
color. When | saw Clement and Lee Pettus
the day of the outrage both were without
their coats, and both wore dark-col-
ored shirts. Montgomery gave an ac-
count of his actions subsequent to his arrest,
then answered number of questions put by
his counsel for the purpose of getting denials
and explanations. Among other things,
Montgomery denied that he ever told Heinlin
or Swick to tell Lee Pettus to stand firm and
give nothing away, or that he said
when he was told Pettus and Clement had
been arrested, and that the former had made
a written confession duplicating him, My
God! what shall 1 do?" Didn't remember
saying such thing. Never told the crowd
of people they were in too great hurry to
arrest me; that if they had waited while
they would have got something out of me-
but now they would not get a thing The
examination lasted an hour and half, and
instead of being narrative, was in the form
of short answers to questions.
Joseph Yanker the next witness testified
that John c. Montgomery was at his house
most of the afternoon on the day of the out
rage, and fully corroborated Montgomery
testimony as to how the afternoon was spent.
lie was cross-examined very closely as to
all the circumstances of the day and proved
the best witness the defense has had, his evil
dence being very clear and convincing.
George Yanker testified to the same facts
that his brother Joseph did. He was minute
ly cross-examined, but his evidence was un-
shaken. Both were good witnesses and the
alibi for Montgomery, so far, is very strong.
A DAMAGING WITNESS.
Mrs. Sarah Yanker wife of Geo. Yanker,
then testified, and her evidence created a
great sensation. She testified to being at
the house of Joseph Yanker, with her hus-
band, and to the events circumstanc ces etc,
as given by the Yanker brothers and John
c. Montgomery, but insisted that it was on
the day following the outrage and not on
the day of the outrage, and she first heard
of the outrage from Mrs Joseph Yanker,
on the day of her visit; that she had not
been there and did not see Mrs.
Joe Yanker for some days before,
and did not see her for three
weeks afterward. The witness was very
closely questioned by counsel, but she firm
ly maintained that it was the day after the
outrage that she and her husband were at
Joseph Yanker's, and on which the events
occurred as testified to by Montgomery and
the Yanker brothers. This evidence created
marked sensation, and is regarded by some
as destroying Montgomery's alibi, and some
express the belief that the alibl in his case
has been constructed upon his action on
some day other than the one on which the
outrage was committed
Mrs. Bond has received numerous letters
the past four weeks from various parts of the
country in which the writers offered to fur
nish any number of men to lynch Mont
gomery Pettus and Clement. One of the
letters was postmarked at a small town near
Galveston, Tex, and stated that the writer
was the chief officer of an organization for the
punishment of crime, and that he would be
pleased to furnish forty men on short notice
to hange the three defendants, if Mrs. Bond
desired. Mr. Bond destroyed all these let
ters, and gives no countenance whatever to
such propositions.
A Cincinnati Mystery.