The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1883-09-08

GAILAT1N, Mo-, Sept. /.
The prosecution, in rebuttal. devoted some
time to breaking down the evidence of s. I.
Brosius the witness who was on the train
when the robbery occurred. He was first re-
called and denied having told that lie was 50
seated that he could rot describe the robbers
or that he said to another person one Of
them locked like he WIS fifteen feet high.
WftLeSs was questioned as 70 conversations
with A. NJ. Irving, Boyd, Dudley, William NJ.
Bostaph, y. w. Dennis and others, but failed
to admit that the conversation allude | to in
the impeaching questions pTopounded 10 him
had actually occurred, though he might pos
sibly, he thought, have had such talk fin q
jocular way. The above named parties, to-
gether with George Tu2g. r. l.. Tomin and
s. b. Yates testified that the witness had
made such statements to them.
Mrs. Sarah e. Hite testified that she knew
Wood Hite since 1873; lived with him in the
same house for four years. he was very I'M
tidy in his toilet; he had no literary tastes; he
uluh reao DOCKS any; ne read newspapers a
good deal. Frank james, as to his dress, was
very neat; do not think Wood and Frank
James resembled each other
Silas Norris testified that he knew Wood
Hite for four or five years. he didn t resemble
Frank James to any great extent; Wood Hite
was five feet nine or ten inches high, with
light hair and full suit of whislxers; would
take defendant to be six feet high never saw
Frank James but once Mt Mrs. Kites; have
been seeing him and looking at him here.
Maj or J. II. McGee United States Marshal,
time of the Winston robbery. The conductor
was standing right by him when he was shot;
there were three men in that car, two doing
the shooting and ono cutting the bell rope;
the one that shot Westfau he never saw until
he saw him with his pistol in hand.
Cross-examined-I was sitting in the center
of the car, on the right hand side of the aisle +;
heard the pistols crack and the call of Down !
down. ] looked up and there was one man
standing in front of me with pistol in each
hand and another on my left, just in rear of
the conductor. Tho man that reached to cut
the bell rope was standing about two feet
from the man who did the firing from the
forward end of the car, and about half the
length of the car from the man who Killed the
conductor l no pistols in the hands of
the man who cut the bell rope. After the
shooting of Westfall, the conductor, the man
who shot him went to the forward end OF
the car and all three of the robbers passed
out of the forward door. didn't see any one
of them pass to the rear end of the car, but
L saw one of them returning from the rear
of the car. When the conductor pulled the
bell-rope the train Stacked but did not stop.
At the trestle, three-quarters of a mile from
Winston, the train seemed to be stopped by
the air-brake, and then went forward for
about another halfmile. After the three
men went out one remained on the front
platform and fired through the car.
Here the State rested and closed its case,
and after couple of unimportant witnesses
were heard in surrebuttal, both sides rested.
The arguments will commence Monday, each
side being limited to eight hours.