Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, D.T. [N.D.]) 1878-1884, 1883-12-14
But Slight Ground for Hope That
O'Donnell Will Escape the Hang
man Next Monday.
A Nebraska Vigilance Committee DO
ing a Wholesale Hanging OF
Horse Thieves.
Latest Developments in the Strike OF
the Canadian Pacific Railroad
Engineers.
Miscellaneous.
Miss Bonds Damnable Outrage.

Miss Bonds Damnable Outrage.
ST. LOUIS, Dec. l3.-Post- Dispatch Hillsboro,
ILL.,, special: At the opening of court this
morning, the jury having been completed last
night, all the witnesses were called and sworn
and instructed by Judge Phillips that they must
remain in q roum prepared for them or on the
street; that they would not be permitted in the
court room. The defense has many more wit
nesses, as have the prosecution. Ihe court
room was densely thronged. Miss Bond was
the first witness called. She was examined by
Judge Edwards for the prosecution. She re-
cited the circumstances Of the outrage as given at
the time; how on the afternoon of June ~. 1852,
after dismissing school an while ssweeping the
school house, she was seized from behind by a
man who dropped through a scuttle hole from
the attic of the building and choked her till she
was blind Her shawl was tied around her waist
and she was then pulled up to the loft above. As
she went up she saw the faces of the men
in the loft, "and there" pointing
to John G. Montgomery, lis the very
man. I will swear that is the face saw" She
also noticed that the other man in the loft had
on low cut shoes ana red stockings. She was
taken up and laid on platform in the loft pre-
pared for her. She told the men she would
rather lose her life than her virtue,
and begged them to kill her. One man
remarked that that was easy enough
to do, and tsking 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, she found she had been raw
ished. One man was just getting up, and she
was ravished repeatedly after that, being chlo'
reformed. When she recovered consciousness,
about o'clock in the morning,
she found herself lying in a
heap on the school house floor underneath the
scuttle hole. She dragged herself over to the
house of Widow Pettis, where two of the defend
ants, Lee Pettis and Clements, lived. She told
Mrs. Pettis she had been ravished by two large
men wearing light shirts and dark pants, whom
she did not know. Clements and Pettis
refused to take her home, fearing
that her father might suspect them,
but upon Mrs. Pettis agreeing to go along they
agreed to take her home. They hitched up a
team and took her home, where she told her
father that two men wearing light shirts and
dark pants had outraged her. She stated that
her back was very much bruised and her knees,
arms and shoulders bore marks OF where her as
sailants grasped her; also that her
wrist had cut which still re-
mained, and taking off her glove she
showed the scar to the jury. On cross examin-
alton by Judge Thornton, Miss Bond said she
had never seen John Montgomery but once be-
fore the night Of the outrage and then she did
not know him. She had never seen him since
the night of the outrage till yesterday in the
court room, and she then Immediately recognized
him as the man whose face she saw above her
while being drawn up into the loft.
She stafed>that it was true that she told differ
ent parties after TIE defendants were arrested.
that they were not the men~sRho outraged her;
that it was true she had told Mrs. Pettis and her
father only two men had outraged her butshe
was now satisfied there were three. Several times
during the cross-examination Miss Bond WAS
taken very sick and compelled to rest, and many
times she was affected to tears while recounting
her wrongs. She had to be assisted out Of the
court room. Her Identification of Montgomery
is complete. The other defendants she could
not swear to; but the prosecution claim they will
connect them by circumstantial evidence with
the crime.
Ferry Boat Burned.
New YORK, Dec 13.-The ferry boat Garden