The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-12-29
ACCUSED BY A DYING GIRL
GRACE DEARBORN'S DYING DEC
TAXATION AGAINST DR. BOND.

TAXATION AGAINST DR. BOND.
Told the Coroner Two Hours Before Her
Death That DR.. Bond Performed the
Criminal Operation--The Accused Bound
Over Under $1,000 Bonds-State's Strong
| Case.
In the city court yesterday afternoon
DR.. Elijah A. Bond was bound over to
the next term Of the superior court,
charged with the murder in the second
degree of Miss Grace Dearborn of Ev-
erett, Mass, by a criminal operation.
No evidence was offered in behalf of
the accused. Attorney William c. Case,
who, with Attorney Hayden, appeared
for DR.. Bond, asked that the bonds fix
ed by the court at the previous hearing,
at $1,000, be reduced, as the accused had
not been able to obtain bondsmen for
that amount. Attorney Case argued
that the bond demanded was excessive
and therefore in contravention Of the
prisoners constitutional rights.
" ANY reduction of the amount of the
bond was opposed by Prosecuting At
torney Brown on account of the serious
ness Of the charge and the prisoners
position. Judge Dow decided to let the
bond remain at the figure fixed at the
previous hearing.
! Unlike the famous trial OF DR.. Lee
some time since on a similar charge,
there was little apparent public interest
in this preliminary hearing, only a
small number Of spectators being pres
ent in the court room. The evidence
adduced by the state was explicit and
direct, and little attempt was made to
weaken it on cross-examination by the
attorney for the accused. Apparently
all that the defense desired was to learn
the states case in order to assist 1t in
making it's defense in the higher courts.
For this purpose Attorney Hayden was
busy taking copious notes Of all the
states evidence.
DR.. Moses c. White, medical examin-
er, was the first witness put on the
| stand. He testified that on December
Is he was summoned to the house Of
! Frederick Y. Mathis on Wooster street,
where he performed an autopsy on the
body of the dead girl. Death, accord
ing to his opinion, resulted from perito-
nitis, the result of a criminal operation.
On cross-examination the doctor gave
detailed account of the autopsy and
said that the wound producing the OPP
Grafton was a recent one.
Mrs Olive Mathis was the next wit
ness. She testified that she had known
Grace Dearborn for two years, having
first met her at Asbury Grove, near
Boston. Grace Dearborn came to her
house on Wooster street on Saturday
evening, December II. The next after
noon she and Grace went out to call
on Elm street. Grace said she was 60
ing to see doctor about her cold and
said she would see DR.. Bond, although
Mrs. Mathis recommended her physi.
clan to her. She also advised her to &C
to drug store, but she wouldn't They
went to DR.. Bonds house together were
admitted, shown down stairs where she
saw DR.. Bond standing in another room
Grace entered the room, but told Mrs
Mathis that she must not come in, wher
she started to follow. Grace remained
in the room with the doctor about TWEEN.
ty minutes. Next day Grace was sick
in bed and Mrs. Mathis saw the prema.
turely-born child in a vessel in the room
and other evidences of the criminal op,
Grafton.
DIR. Welch testified that he had beer
summoned to attend Miss Dearborn or
Monday afternoon, December IL. HI
saw the evidences of an operation ant
Miss Dearborn told him that DR.. Bono
did it, describing the method employed
by him. He was present at the timC
the girl confessed to Coroner Mix, an(
she told him that she realized that she
could not live.
Coroner Mix was the last witness pu
on the stand and his evidence was tn
most damaging, it being nothing les
\ than the dying declaration of Grac
!. Dearborn Coroner Mix said that h
, was summoned to the house wher
1 Grace Dearborn was, on Wooster street
about two hours before the girl died
| on Friday. December IT, Mrs. Mathi
and DR.. Welch were in the room. -
was taken by Dr. WEIGH and introduc
ed by him to the girl, he telling her tina
1 was the coroner. ] told her that de
sired to take her statement. l asket
k her if she realized the fact that sh
could not live and she said she did
b She said: I am a single woman AM
have never been married. l will no
tell you where I live nor the name o
the man who is the father Of the child
came here last Saturday. 1 have bee
- with child for about three months.
was recommended to a doctor here.
went to him. 1t was DR.. Bond on Or
ange street. He performed the opera
tion.'" The declaration Of the dyin
girl also described Dr. Bond and tn
details of the tragedy at the doctor
p, house. She said she would not tell tn
name of the man who got her into trou
bic. The confession was made at abou
12:45 Friday, the 18th of December; tn
, girl died at 2:45 the same day.
Attorney Case did not cross-examin
the coroner. In his brief remarks rela
tive to the reduction Of the bonds h
said that much of the evidence adduce
by the state was clearly inadmissibl
and would be ruled out in the fins
trial.
The prosecution of the case by Cit
Attorney Brown was thorough and eS
K peditious, the time consumed by tn
~ +rioI bo;po ,,,,,ch lasa than WAS antiC