Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-09-13
THE DEFENSE.

THE DEFENSE.
&c sGArAATrN, Mo-, Aug. 80 .
| A few minutes affeFeight e'cbck this morn
fng Mr.. IaIsh commenced the opening state
ment for the defense The chief point, he
claimed, would be that Frank James was not
at Wfriktohs 4twOuld be coritended that the
testimony of an accOmplice was insufficient
to convict unless cOrroborated as to the main
facts. The character of Mrs Bolton and Lid
dell as well as other principal witnesses for
the State would be shown to be such as to
render them unworthy of belief , :
There would be testimony to contradict that
and a witness wouHs be- produced Rho.was
on the train that was robbed. The latter
would swear that Frank James was not in the
car. 1t should be shown. too. that there was
sde as ps sse ad sse fsr ,s
and Boltons as cdconsPirators. 8 = 4
The ot,9ers ~ law fl from Kansas sG
failed to get the reward of so. 600 which would
have gone to them if the accused had surren-
dered at Kansas City.
AS to the man the States witnesses saw as
different places, it would be urged that this
was man who was like Frank James, but
4 WAS one of mistaken Ideally sand it would be
proven where Frank James really was. The
low the maze of lddelrs testimony, because
their client could mot assist thens he being
just as ignorant OF the details OF the winston
robbery as they were.
The first witness called was Sam T. Brosius.
who was on the train at the time of the VIM
robbery. He teStlf1ed TO seeing the con-
ductor shot and to the appearance of the rob-
he desorh54 ashaying fun be&rhs- BE was
g. certain tfies6 efendant wasot one of thenl:~
Fletcher W. Horn, Nashville detective,
knew Byy. Wb1dsoIr in Nash viHe hrstfn VIZ
saw hnd&S0ften assonce .aaAves X; he always
acted as gentleman and kept good company;
saw him last in March. 1851; he wore sandy
whiskers short on the sides and long on the
chin: had seen Dick Liddell- occasionally, but
never saw him and defendant together; knew
Jesse James J. b. Howard; never knew
Howard
ers3th9sFh he knew5im Cummings, but did
R$ymdEd b. Sloan, an attorney Or Nash
Vile. knew defendant as b. J. Woodson IN
Nashville first in the winter of 1851; he was
living in the old Felix Smith house I last SAW
him March ~, 1881: he had light sandy whis-
kers all over his face: was engaged as defend
ants Attorney AUGUST nCn
Mrs. Elizabeth MonffomSry, who' reaf&es a
mile anda Aalf east,of Winston .test ned that
some stranxe rnenSate at her house Me eSen-
ing of the Winston robbery: the clock struck
was the taller and light-complexoned, with
Burnside whfSkers and mustache: one of their
horses was bay, the other a shade lighter
Thought defendant was not one OF, them, but
sH0& poSitfve. -
Miss NJ. Montgomery. daughter of the pre-
statement; did not think defendant was one
of the menybut wouldn't say positively: nei-.
tffer of them had large. blaze-faced ,sorrri
Acrsa.
Jonas Potts the blacksmith, in which the lat
ter told him he had been to see Frank James,
and that he had never seen him before; on
anotheroccaSiOn two men had drove up to his
shop whom he said he recognizedf as the men
p he had shod horses for before the robbery.