Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1884-01-05
THE BOND OUTRAGE CASE
Judge Thornton's Speech. The Jury
Takes the Case.

Takes the Case.
HILLsBoRo, ILL.,, Jan. APPROXIMATIONS are
being taken to guard against any wild OK.
element that may follow the announcement
Of the verdict in the Bond case. Mr.. Bond
and his wife and Miss Emma will remain
until the trial is over.
Judge Vandeveer, for the prosecution, Is
quite an old man, but spoke nearly
five hours. A sensation was created by
reference to Clementis statement that
he did not know who his Dor lsmen were.
During the speech Ciementi was reading a
paper, butswhen the argument got too hot for
him he dropped the sheet AMI glared Zero
ciously at his accuser. A reference to Gle
menti's rebuke TO Pettis, "Shut up, you little
fool; what do you know about itp brought
about a scene and demonstrations on the part
of the deputies to keep Gown outbulsts of APP
plauss whenever the speaker referred to any
of these expressions Of guilt. At noon Judge
Vandeveer closed his speech.
At Q o'clock Judge Thornton began his clos
ing speech for the defense. He said that ac-
cording to Miss Bonds story tho man who
dropped down from the loft behind her and
choked her had to go to the other side Of the
school-room for chair; that while he was
gone and while he first caught hold Of her
Miss Bond made no cutlery, though the thing
was done in broad daylight and Mrs Pettis'
house was only 600 yards distant;
that no cutlery was ma . while this
villain tied the shawl around her and
handed her up to the man above. Then
he said it had never been proved beyond Miss
Bonds mere statement that an outrage had
been actually committed. He said that the
law made it very essential that the prosecut-
ing witness should always be corroboreted.
The Two persons, he said, who could testify
to her condition when she got home that
night, Mrs. Bond and Dr.. Cornell, had never
been presented by the prosecution, and he
asked why not Judge Thornton finished his
speech at 6 o'clock In the evening. His in
timation that there had been no outrage
committed has fired public feeling more than
ever.
At o'clock p. M Judge Edwards began his
closing speech for the prosecution. He spoke
for about three hours, and made the most
eloquent and forcible speech that has been
delivered
Private information has been received here
from Taylorville that Mr.. Abner Bond, a
cousin of A. D. Bond, the father Of Emma,
has committed suicide by hanging. The
matter is kept very secret here, and none of
the Circumstances beyoad the fact Of his
suicide can be learned. 1t is stated, how
ever, that this trial ana the terrible outrage
committed upon Miss Bond have preyed
upon his mind so much tnat he killed HIM
self He is about As years old, and has fur
nished much of the money to carry on the
trial. Mr.. A. D. Bond leaves for Taylorville
in the morning
LATER-Wh hen court assembled at 10 O'Clock
Judge Phillips delivered his charge to the
jury, and that body then retired. The in
structions were brief, requiring only fifteen
minutes in their reading.
After the jury had retired d recess was
taken until II o'clock. At that hour they
sent word to the court that verdict had not
been reached. AS they preferred going to
dinner before pursuing their elaboration
further they were allowed to do SO, and a
recess was taken until 8 o'clock.