Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-08-31
FRANK JAMES ON A FARM.
HOW THE CUT-THROAT wac
ONCE ON HIS GOOD BEHAVIOR

Several Witnesses Pestify to His Tno1,
trus1ve Ways When Roising as n GufIe-
less Granger-WitnesseS who Do No,
Believe He was at Winstsn-The Otber
FoOtpads Charged with Conspiracy.
KANSAS CITY, Mo-, August on.-A dis
patch to the journal from Gallatin, Mo.
dated yesterday, says: "When the court
in the Frank James trial met this after.
noon, O'Neill was called, and asked for
an answer to the question put to himNIast
evening regarding his newspaper In
terview with Frank James. The Sjt
ness then stated that he Nd
given all the testimony in his possessiGo
regarding the act of the defendant, bUn
for proper reasons could not answer the
question as tn who was present at said
interview, as such persons would be
placed in a false position, and the witness
was bound by n pledge to with
mold their names. Mr.. Wal
lace said that if the witness
would say that he had never heard any of
the names of these persons connected
with this affair, they would not insist on
an answer. The witness replied that he
could not answer that question. and the
court then took the matter under advise
ment.
The state rested its case, and the de-
tense asked the court to adjourn until the
morning, in order to give them time to
complete their opening address to the
jury, and gather their witnesses. This
was granted and the court adjourned"
ST. LOUIS, August 30.-A special from
Gallatin, Missouri, says: 1.-The line
OF the defense in the Frank James
trial was agreed upon at con-
sultation last night, and briefly stated
is 'alIbl and mistaken IDENTIFY At the
conVenlng OF court this morning Mr.. Rush
made the opening statement for the de-
Tense. He dwelt at length upon Frank
James efforts to get away from the band
denied that Frank had left Kentucky, and
claimed that there was conspiracy be-
tween Liddell, the FOrds and the Bottoms.
Mr.. Brosius, an attorney of Gallatin,
who was on the train at Winston, testified
that to the best of his knowledge and
belief the prisoner was not one of the
robbers.
Fletcher Horn, a Nashville detective.
testified that ne knew the defendant as
b. j. WOodson from the summer of 1877
until March, 1881, during a portion of
which time he lived at what is known as
the White Creek settlement. He was
engaged in farming and hauling logs. He
saw him at least once a week during the
whole time. He conducted himself like a
gentleman, and was hard working and
industrious.
r. B. Sloan, of Nashville, an attorney,
testified to an acquaintance with the de-
fendant dating from the spring of 1877.
He last saw him in March, 1881. The ac-
qualntance was only casual one. The
testimony of the witness related mainly
to details of Frank James life in Nash
vile.
Mrs. j. Montgomery, who lives one and
a half miles from Winston, testified that
of % sas hOr Al.
evening of the robbery, but to the best of
her belief the defendant was not one of
them.
Missouri Montgomery, a daughter of the
last witness, also failed to identity the de-
fendant as one of the men who ate supper
at her mothers house.
With view of impeaching Dick
Liddells testimony, record of his con
yictiOn for horse stealing in Vernon
county was offered in evidence. A re-
cess was then taken.
The presence of Dave Pool, an old
guerilla, and now a wealthy stockman OF
Texas; Allen Palmer, of Texas, Frank
James brOther-in-law, and several other
ranchmen, gives rise to a belief that an
attempt will be made to prove an alibi.
At the afternoon session the first wit
ness called was Gen. Joseph Shelby, who
testified that one day in the fall of 1880, on
itOAh no utiu W ul5 nOubcs
he found Jesse James, Jim Cummings,
Bill Ryan and Dick LiddeIl there. It was
on this evening that Jesse stated that
Dick Liddell had robbed the Concor-
dia Bank at another time in the
fall of 1881. Jesse James, one
of the Hites, Jim Cummings
and Dick Liddell came to his
house, and Jesse said that Frank had been
South for years, and Liddell said that he
witness knew Jim Cummings. "He had
been in my house," the witness said, "a
dozen times, and | knew him in the Con-
federate army. / have not seen Frank
James since 1872. He was at that time
living at my house, being doctOred for the
wounds. l have not seen him since. He
has not been at my house other than at
the time | have referred to-" The wit
ness admitted that Frank James wife
had visited him in 1881 with her little boy
and that he has known Frank James
since 1862.