The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-01-05
Hillsboro Special.

over" as he expressed it, from an exasperated
citizen.
Probably no jury that ever gave verdict in
this court was so generally snubbed and abused
after its discharge as this one has been Its
members apparently believe that they were rem
dering just verdict under the evidence and ex-
pected to be congratulated by their friends for
it. The treatment accorded them, therefore,
completely astonished them, and they walked
around while in town in an aimless, sheepish
sort of way which showed that they felt they
had made a grave mistake
Jurors Isaacs, Beck and Huddeston were
standing in the postoffice this morning, when a
plainly dressed woman, evidently farmers
wife, entered She was accosted by farmer,
who shook hands with her and inquired as to the
state of her health.
II feel pretty well" she replied; ''but had
bad dream last night"
What was itF
'Well, sir, dreamt that I was cooking brains
all night for them jurymen."
There was a general smile, in which, however,
the jurors did not participate
Mr. Potts, prominent farmer of Christian
county, characterized the verdict as an outrage
upon Justice. why" said he, Il would not ac-
cept the best farm in Christian county now as a
gift if one of the conditions was that would be
obliged to live there with my family" This is
the character of the comments everywhere.
Your correspondent had talk with Mont
gomery in the courthouse shortly after Glenn
emit left this morning, and he declared that he
did not feel any fear of violence but was only
delaying his departure at the advice Of friends,
Said he; 81 have gone all through this trial
without Sinking OF shrinking from anything;
whenever wanted to go anywhere l went and
no one ever tried to interfere with me. l never
had anything to do with the outrage of Miss
Bond; my conscience is clear, and believe there
never was fairer trial than this one was on both
sides, nor fairer verdict. If there is any man
in the world that has respect for good woman,
L am that man, never would wrong any woman
in the world
This was said with an appearance of honesty
not in accord with the reputation given the man.
He is evidently afraid of violence, and all day
has remained closely at the court house OF
within mailing distance of Sheriff Pyle or the lat
ter's deputies After commenting upon unim-
portant matters your correspondent asked:
Now, Montgomery, that you have been &C
quilted, what is your theory of this crime9'
Il have my theory of it, but will say moth
ing" he replied looking steadily out of the win
dow at a crowd of men gathered upon a neigh
boring corner. He was piled carefully with ques-
tions, but refused to give his opinion until he
was led up to it by general conversation upon
the
Now, john" asked the reporter. edo you
do you believe she was ravishedN he asked,
looking significantly at the correspondent
Il am not in position to give an opinion,
while you are" .f.-
''Well, I'll tell you. do not believe she ever
was ravished." '-'' " "
''Upon what grounds do you base that belef!'
Now, here, will say nothing but this; On
the day before this outrage was said to have
taken place Miss Bond was i'll Grove City. late in
the evening. My father and brother Will who
is dead now, were there and met her. They
offered her a. seat in the buggy, and said they
would take her out to Ed Mont
She would not accept the offer,
but said that she was going to stay that night at
her uncle Howleys, in Grove City; then she
turned and went to talking with Sammy Helm
lein. Some time after dark she came to fathers,
got her parasOl, and went to Ed MontgOmeIys
where she boarded. She got there between
and 10 o'clock that night The next morning
she told Mr.. Ed Montgomery that she wouldn't
be back that night, as she was going to stay all
night at Mrs. Pettuss. At the noon recess she
went back and got her parasol and told the folks
again that they incident expect her home that
night as she was going to stay at Mrs. Pettuss
At Mrs Pettus's that afternoon as you saw by
the testimony, she told them that she hadn't de-
termined yet whether she would stay there that
night or go to Ed Montgomerys Therefore
nobody was looking for her at Mrs Pettus's that
night. Now, | have nothing to say more than
that; you can draw your own conclusions"
testimony by your attorneysP
II told them about them, but they didn't use
them; Thornton thought he'd better defend en-
tirely on the alibi'
''Was Miss Bond acquainted with you before
the 29th of June, 1882; did she know you well
enough to recognize you when she saw youl"
II lived next to her uncle Bill Armstrong;,
for eight years; she was there often; she taught
school near there at one time. | never had much
to say to her, but had seen her frequently, and
she used to say How do you do, Mr.. Mont
gomery,' when we passed each other; she knew
me well.
''Why was Mrs. Ed Montgomery not put on
the stand!'
''She was subpenaed by us and she was
brought here, but she was taken sick and started
for home. She was mad, too, at being brought
here as a witness. AS she started to go back
home the prosecution subp0naed her, and she
was madden than ever, but she was allowed to
go home after ALL as she said that her test-
mony would not do Miss Bonds case any good"
''What was she expected to testify to-"
GAS to the time that Miss Bond arrived at her
house on the night before she said she was out
ragged Then she would have testified that Miss
Bond was sick frequently in the morning and
said; If was married woman they might
think that there was something wrong"
''If you and Pettus and Clement were not
guilty of this, have you any idea who We're, if
she was outraged!'
II am Just as anxious to get at the truth of
this matter as any man living and am as much
in the dark as any one. | can't say one word
against Emma Bond of my own knowledge but
have given you what she did the day before
this thing occurred and you may think what
you like"
A strange story has just leaked out which is
causing considerable comment. The report was
circulated that Miss Bond had left for Taylor
vile on Monday, and was at the house of
Sonny" Bond when he committed suicide. 1t
now seems that she did not go to Taylorville
until yesterday morning. Why it was given
out that she left on Monday and would remain
at Taylorville is only known to her relatives.
The news of Sonny" Bonds death was received
here about 9 O'clock on Tuesday night but it