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New abundances for neutron-capture elements in a large sample of metal-poor giants from the Bond survey in addition to 3 well known individual cases, are presented. The spectra for the Bond Giants were acquired with the KPNO 4-m echelle and coude feed spectrographs, the individual stars' spectra came from CTIO and the HST, and have been analyzed using LTE fine analysis techniques with both line analysis and spectral synthesis. Abundances of eight neutron capture elements (Sr, Y, Zr, Ba, La, Nd, Eu, Dy) in 46 stars have been derived. Overall, the abundances show clear evidence for a large star-to-star dispersion in the heavy element to iron ratios. This condition must have arisen from individual nucleosynthetic events in rapidly evolving halo progenitors that injected newly manufactured neutron-capture elements into an inhomogeneous early Galactic halo interstellar medium. The new data also confirm that at metallicities