The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-12-14
BY TELEGRAPH.
EMMA BOND
Takes tho Witness Stand and Pos
itiveIy Identifies Montgomery
IS One Of Her Assistants.
A Terrible Tale Of Outrageous Brutality
and Pitful Suffering.
The Witness Frustrated After an
Hour and Half Of Persist
ent Questioning.
Somebody Fibbed - The Spring Arbor
Butohery-A Preacher Suspended
Minor Mention.

the Emma Bond case having been selected,
and the statements of the case made by the
attorneys yesterday evening, alt was ready
his morning for the taking Of evidence to
begin. On the opening Of the court, a
motion was made BY Judge Edwards, for
he state, that all witnesses be excluded
from the courtroom. The vast array of
witnesses for the prosecution was then
called and sworn and instructed by Judge
Phillip. that they must remain in the room
prepared for them on the street. In the
same way were served those for the de.
tense. The defense
HAvL MANY MORE WITNESSES
than the prosecution. 1t was generally
Known that Miss Bond would be the frst
witness on the stand, SO the courtroom
was crowded to Its utmost by the eager,
curious throng. Miss Bond came In sup.
ported by her mother and sister, taking a
Large arm chair prepared for her and having
a her back pillow. Judge Edwards con-
Quoted the examination for the prosecution.
Miss Bond, after the preliminary questions,
stated that on the afternoon Of June 20,
$50, she dismissed her school shortly be-
IRE 4 o'clock, and, after sw eeping and
busting, started to leave the building,
when she was suddenly seized from behind
by a man who had dropped from the scuttle
mole above. She was ohoked till she was
blind, her shawl tied around her waist and
then she wAs pulled to the loft above. As
she went up she saw the face Of one man in
The loft, and there (pointing to John c.
MONTGOMERY, Is the very man. will
swear that is the face l saw. She also no.
ticed that the other man In the loft had o.
Iow.cut shoes and red stockings. She was
taken up and laid on a platform prepared
for her In the loft She told the men sho
would rather lose her life than her virtue
aud
BEGGED THEM TO KILL HER.
One Of tie men remarked that that was
easy enough to do. and. taking out his
knife, made cuts on her throat and face.
nine IN Oil. Upon this he lost conscious.
ness. On recovering about an hour after.
wsrds, she bad been ravished. One man
WA Just getting up. She was ravished re-
peatsdly after that time, after being chloro.
formed. When she recovered conscious
1ess, shout O'Clock In the morning, she
found herself lying 10 q heap on the school
mouse floor, under the scuttle hole. She
ragged herself over to the house oil
Widow Pettus, where two OF the offend.
suts, Lee Pettus and Clement live. She
did Mrs. Pettus that two men had ravished
r; that they we're large men, having on
ght shirts and dark pants; that she did
kpn h1 hAr
Pettus hesitated to take her thome, fearing
that her father might suspicion them
Upon Mrs. Pettus agreeing to 20 they
hitched up the team and took her home.
she told her father that two men
BAD OUTRAGED HER;
hat they were large men In white shirts
md dark pants. She stated that her back
was very much bruised and that her knees.
arms and shoulders bear marks where her
assailants had ravished; also that her wrist
bore cut which still re NAMED, and taking
Of her glove she showed this scar to the
Jury,
... ON CROSS. EXAMINATION
by Judge Thornton Miss Bond stated that
he bad never seen John Montgomery but
moe before the night Of the outrage, and
tneu did not known him; that 8 9 had new
er sem him since the outrage until yester.
day In the court room and that she immed-
lately recognized him as the man whose face
she Saw above her while being drawn up
into the school house loft.
She stated that it was true
she had told different parties,
after these defendants were arrested, that
hey were not the men who outraged her.
though i was true she had told Mrs. Pet
us ana her father that there were only two
men who had outraged her, yet she was now
satisfied there weae three.
MISS BOND
did not remain on the stand near as long as
was expected. She went on at about $3.50
and left about II O'Clock, at which time
court adjourned until 1880. Several times
during the examination Miss Bond WAS
taken very siok, and was compelled
10 rest for awhile. Many times
she was excited to tears by the recit.
d Of her story Of her wrongs. Just before
leaving the court room shelwas taken deathly
sick, and had to be assisted out. Judge
Thornton desired to ask her few more
questions, but Judge Phillips stated that
she was not able to appear, so he should let
her rest till the afternoon session. Her
identification Of John Montgomery was
FULL AND COMPLETE.
The other defendants she could not swear
to, but the prosecution claim that they will
connect them BY circumstantial evidence
with the crime.