Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-12-21
WEAKENING,
The Evidence Against the Men
Charged With
THE cUTRAaINe OF EMMA BOND.
Sheriff Harris Testimony Sets at Naught
That Of the Leading Witness for
the Prosecution-A Boys
Statement.

HILLsEoRo, ILL, December 20.-Sheriff
this morning who testified in the Emma
Bond outrage case. He and Attorney
Drennen fitted the toe ma. pairing 10 Mont
gomery's Toe At the Jail. Montgomery was
perfectly willing TO have it done. The
parirg Was thicker than Nontgomery's
toe nail. 1t fitted one corner but the other
did not fit at all. The witness put Clement
and Pettus in jail. He examined Mont
gomery's clothing carefully. They ap-
peared TO have been worn three or four
days, but there were no blood<or other
stairs on them. 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 examined sgain the next day, and
found no stains on the shirt or under
clothes; also examined Pettus' clothing.
Neither undergsrment had the appearance
OF being wet across the hips. There were
no stains on any OF the garments, though
all the clothes had evidently been worn
several days. There was no communica.
ton between the prisoners that day.
When crOss.eIamined the witness said
that the prisoners were
Taken 10 Jail About Sunrise.
but were not put in cell till noon. lu
the afternoon Clement and Pettns were IN
the cell while Montgomery WAS out looking
for bond. The witness was not at the all
all the time, but knew the prisoners could
not have been put together. He examined
the clothing for his own satisfaction. This
testimony Offsets that Of Convict Meyer,
who said the defendants had consultation
the morning they we're jailed. Thomss
Hart testified that he tried TO put Ned
! iDlGhersoq mex up through the scut.,e,
witness, is six feet two inches
nigh and weighs one hundred and seventy
We pouLCs. Dickerson weighs one hun.
red ana thirty-tve pounds. "Mr. Ham.
G.ei, who was in TIE loft, TIED shawl
.noUnd d. kerson end lifted him above my
rad. STOOD on chair and held him up
"a ligh a, ! could, but Dickerson did not
one within two feet OF the ceiling. Ham
mel pulled MIN MP and helped All could
Y "uOstllL'
Charley Masters, boy nine years oil,
vino was IN school with Emma Bond, aud
Left Just Before She was Assaulted.
testified: IL Was the only scholar that
afternoon. Miss Bond took dinner al "a
Montgomery's where sne boarded. | ate
my dinner IN the school house yard and
then Wen 20 the coal house and played
here unit Miss Bond came back. was
not in the school house during the noon
.ecrss. | said my lessons after dinner and
hen had recess during which Miss Bond
T,ut 10 t,,e Pettu~ House. ! stayed around
;hr coal EUuse AMI G'l not 20 away from
there. ! saw old Join and young Joan
Montgomery during the recess going a long
!" rCad past tip school. Young John
SKID Il . Why wasn't piaying with the
-,I1Cl ch.'dren. | said there isn't any.
Ne ssid we'll wait and III "ome back and
E:tStlc with you. Wneu Miss Bond cam"
%, ( we went ito the school house.
tod her there wa a noise in the loft AMI
sad ! thought tA,y were trampg. Sac
teacher
She said nothing When cross examined
thr wines said lie laid on the rot OF the
,,.t Lou 9, kicking UP his heels nnd
.o..',in't % the school house door. MS
VICES vas on the stand an hour a"i
!s.s. aEd made many statements "HIch
Uttered from those made st the H'rIim''
may tTts'