The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-12-20
Tie Trial Of Mss Bonds FL

HILIsBoRoUGU, Ill. Dec. 13.-At III
ing of the court all the witnesses wer called
and sworn and instructed by Judge hllllpSS
that they must remain in the room repaired
for them, CT on the street; that they would
not be permitted in the court room. The De
fence have many more witnesses Than the
prosecution. The court room was Censely
packed. Miss Bond, the first wit2ess called,
vas examined by Judge Edwards, for the
prOSecu ion. She recited the circumstances oil
the outrage, as given at the time. How on the
afternoon of June % 1882, after diSmiSsing
sctOol, while sweepin: the school house, she
was seized from behind by aman who dropped
through the scuttle-hOle from the attic of the
building, and choked until she was blind, her
shawl tied around her waist, and then pulled
ZIP to the loft above. AS she went up she saw
tile face of one of the men i'll the loft, and
there. (pcinting to John C. Montgomery is the
very man. I will swear that is the face | saw.
She also noticed that the other man i'll the lott
had ON low cut shoes ana red STOCKINGS. Sh fe
was taken up. laid on the Platform in the lott
prepared for her. She told tie men she would
rather lose her life than her virtue, and begged
them 10 kill her. One of the men remarked
that was easy cnough 10 do, and taking out
his knife made cuts on her throat and face,
nine in all. Upon this she lost consciousness,
and on recovering about an hour afterwards,
,he had been raviSned. One man was Just get
up and she Was raViShed frequently after
wards, being chOr0fOrmed. When she recover
ed, about one o'clock in the morning, she
found herself lying in IL heap on the school
house floor underneath the ScuttlehOle. She
dragged herself over TO the house Of widow Pet
tus where the two defendants, Lee Pettus and
Clement live, and told Mrs. PettuS she had
been rayished by two la ge men wearing light
shirts and dark pants, whom she didn't know.
CLEMENT and PettuS hcsitaicd TO lake her home,
fearing her father III ght suspect them, but on
Mrs. PettuS' agreeing 10 go along, they hitch
I'd up a team and took her home, She told her
father that two men wearing white shirts and
lark pants rayished her. Also, that
r rem led and taking on her glove
showed the scar 10 the Jury, On cross exam,
nation by Judge Thornton Miss Bond stated
she had never seen Montgomery but once be.
fore the night of The outrage, ana theh dldn
know him. Had never seen him since unit
Yesterday in the court room, ana inca lmme-
diately ree0gnzed hm Us g dr MnoSn n i INTO
The lott. She stated il was true she had tod
different parties after the defendants were ar
rested that they were moi inc men h M Mad f GHC
Mrs Pet:ns and her father that only two M n
mad outraged her, She was now satisfied there
we're three. Several times during the examin-
alton Miss Bond WAS very sick and was COM
PEELED to rest, and many times she was az
fected to tears. She had TO be assisted out of
the court room. Her Identification of Mont
gonery was full and complete. The other de-
PENDANTS she could not swear to, but the prose
..ntion claim they VIII connect them by circBn-
Stantial evidence with The crime.
HLLsBoRO, Ill, Dee. 1.-THE first witness
IN the Bond ease this morning was Lawrence
HeinStein, uncle of Montgomery. He testified
hat as ATS. Petecs. her son Lee Pettees and
Clement returned from lie house of Col. Bond
after they took Emma Bond, the morning fol-
lowing the outrage. stopded at his house and
NrS. pettecs told him about it. He wished
Lee PetteeS to answer Few questions but he
refused. He then wanted fctteeS and Glenn
emit to alarm the neighbOrs but they would
not. Witness went to the school house at day
light and examined the loft where he found a
nat, Il paraSol, a Serlo newspaper and scarf
hin. The latter was identified as belonging to
Miss Bond A hole ten inches long and two
feet wide was found freshly cut in the weather
vest end loft. Witness then detailed the con-
We satiOns he had with Montgomery the day
after the outrage. Montgomery asked witness
il Clementi had made confession
reply of witness that Clement Ind done so,
Montgomery said he didn't see how that could
be. AT Il second conversation Swick and wit
ness met Montgomery and George Pettus near
Grove City. Montgomery again asked IL Glenn
enti had implicated him, and said he didn't
see how he could. Swick said there were sew
aral cuts. on Miss Bonds neck and that Glenn
anti's finger had been bit en-, at which Mont
romery exclaimed: My God what shall we
10 ~ Swick told him that il he new anything
he ought to give 1t away so he and Pettus could
ont il on Clement Montgomery asked if he
would be protected, II lie would give it away.
Just then Montgomery was arrested By con-
stable and taken to Taylofville, and witness
didn't see him again till some days after, in
Jail, when he was told Clement was all right {;
that he hadn't given I away: A long argu-
ment was had on the admlSability OF these
us he did in similar case yesterday, that they
might go in for what they were worth. Adj
jOurned.
tilted that he arrested John c. Montgomery a
day or two after The outrage on Miss Bond. On
he evening he was given piece of toe nail
by Charles DickerSon, which he fitted to one OF
Aiontgomerys toes and thought it matched.
He also testified that lac saw Lee Pettus the
same day and he wore IOy shoes and striped
Stockings, II blue shirt with white spots and
dark pants. H-nPy B. Crowl testified that he
arrested Clement at Blue Mound June 80 on a
telegram from Mr.. Bond. Clement said he
was Innocent and could prove an alibi
and knew that his friends would not go back
on him. Witness saw Montgomery the same
day and was to d by him that he was arrested,
and that Swlck, and Heinlein had told HIM
that Clement had given the whole thing away.
lie also said that if they hadn't been i'll such
hurry to arrest him they might have found out
something. Both witnesses were crosS-eXanl-
ined but nothing of Importance vas developed.
Court adjour ned till Monday.