Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-08-18
JESSIE BONDS TALE
kRS BOND SAYS SENATOR'S BaICE AND BILL
ARE NOT LOOKING FOR HgR.
Neither IS She a Dsnizsn Of Blocker Street. But
IS at HOtsl-EOw Shs GAYS Up Wicked
Ways But Then Broke Loose Again.


Hanna Bond yesterday afternoon to a
World reporter, the only newspaper
man In the city who has seen her since
the publication of the articles concern
ing her
Il mean the picture of that fat woman
leaning back, with her bare arms
claSped around her head. You can see
I wouldn't be foolish enough to have
such picture taken"
Mrs. Bond is remarkably
slender woman anyway, and she
has not yet recovered from sur
gical operation performed March
18th last, so she looked yester-
day as unlike that picture as it did that
OF George Washington. She wore yes
terdaya long skirt of pale dull blue and
a neglige waist Of some blue and white
starched stuff confined by white belt
with q silver snake clasp. She has red
dish blonde hair, which projects across
her forehead with the jerky twist OF a
schOOlboy's unruly locks. She has big
blue eyes, with pretty lashes, and
girlish face which is just beginning TO
take on flesh after the long illness
which preceded the surgical operation.
She has regular, even teeth, and smiles
frankly. Her speaking voice is light
and high, considering that her singing
voice is a deep, full cOntralto.
L think 1 have been pretty harshlY
used by the newspapers" she said,
land since certainly there can't be any
ISLANDERS left TO print about me L am
entitled, as a woman, TO the last word,
and that in my defense. I am not the
daughter but the granddaughter OF
Judge Samual Hanna, OF Fort Wayne.
NV fathers name was Horace Hanna,
aud he died in 1859. Bsyliss Hanna,
who one paper says is my father, is my
cousin.
1T is not true that Senator Brice or
State Senator Bell has been hunting me
I'D IN order TO make settlement be-
tween me and my husband. Senator
Brice | have never seen and do not
know. Mr.. Bell is an old friend OF the
family and has known me ever since
was little girl He is here on business
connected with the building of two rail-
roads. lie called on me last evening
and not a word was said about settling
any difference between me and my hus-
band. for the very simple reason that
there exists no difference TO reconcile
or 70 adjust. There is alittle individual
named e. P. MyersOO who was at one
time private messenger for Mr.. Bell.
Used 10 run erraDdS, you understand.
Well, he asked Mr.. Bell some questions
concerning the railroad and was not
very cordially received. Seeking 10
make himself out to be some great per-
son before Senator Brice and the others,
he asked Mr. Bell if he knew l was in
this city. Mr. Bell said he understood
I was, and II ne knew my address he
would call on me. MyersOn said he
thought he could find me. That was
all there was about it. This is what
ar. Bell tells me"
II is but fair to Mrs. Bond to say that
this is also corrObOrated by another per-
aOn who was present when Mr.. Bell
called on Mrs. Bond.
Now as to the unfortunate creature
having taken refuge In the rooms or an
Did negFess on Thompson street, that's
another piece Of falsehOOd. There Is
p dear old cOlored woman, named
Georgiana Christian. She has been
servant Of mine for the last six
years. Prior 10 that she was servant
for Col. Ingersol's family. l think the
world and all of her and she is 100 per
cent. whittier than some white folks that
/ know. She has house all TO herself
at the corner OF Thompson and Bleeck-
or streets. When l went 10 the hOSpi-
tai several of my trunks and lot of my
curtains and things were stored there.
In the last three weeks she has been
uretty sick, and l have gone down and
visited her and she has been glad to see
me-"
While Mrs. Bond was talking the in
terview was interrupted by messenger
from Georgiana, who was anxious to
get q word from Mrs. Bond as to how
she was.
"Tke Herald said l was an habitue of
The Slide Now that's absurd, be-
cause / don't even know where The
Slide is. GeOrgiana told me once that
q woman had been cut across the wrist
there and had bled 20 death. That is
al know about the place. l propose
10 she the Herald for libel for that
statement. I went from the hospital
10 the Sturtevant House. | left there
July and went with a yachting trip.
I was gone three weeks. On my return
L a.
that came here. That doesn't leave
me very long TO have been an habitue Of
81 s.nepro dive" with the sObriQuet Of
tine Belle OF Baltimore. Some one
with a tremendous spite against me, or
some one who is an awful liar, must
have written that.
There is another part Of the story
concerning the life of Mrs. Bond since
March is last which she did not tell,
but which is true, nevertheless. The
operation performed In Bellevue on that
date was one which modern surgery has
dared attempt Oaly within the last few
wears. Jessie Hanna Bond came very
near the gates OF death, for as she was
getting over the shock OF the operation
She caught pneumonia. just how near
she was TO the gates may be guessed
from the fact that her temperature one
night was LOG degrees, Fahre2heit.
She resolved 10 break with her past
life and was confirmed by Bishop Pot
Ter I'm the Seamen'S Mission. Two So
cietv women OF wealth and position,
whose names would instantly be recog-
nized were they printed, took an inter-
est in her aud had agreed 20 get her en-
ragements to appear in parlor enter
tainments and put her on the concert
stage, for it Is said she has really a
marvellous contralto voice, sympathetic
snd sweet. She was to spend the sum-
mer at Bath Beach and Newport, and
recover her health and strength. But
the Bohemian life called her and one
Saturday night she was gone nobody
seemed 10 know where. She returned
from three weeks yachting cruise
hardly able 10 lift her head. There
had been too much champagne aboard