The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-08-29
BAD FOR THE BANDIT.
Frank James Being Gradually Drawn
Into the Nav Of the Law.
The State Making a Strong Case
What the Defense Will be-The Story
Of the Killing Of Wood Hite-YeSter-
days Proceedings.

GALLATIN, Mo-, August %. When
court opened this morning Col. Philips
argued Tor permission to introduce testi-
mony proving specific sets against witness
and with view TO attacking their credi-
biItty. The intention was to open up the
murder Of Wood Hte at the Ford house,
for which Liddell is now under indictment.
and OF which Mrs. Bolton and Capt Ford
we're witnesses. The court decided that
Mrs. Bolton could be recalled and exam
iaed not as to the killing, but as TO what
she had been told the neighbors who called
upon her on Sunday, December ), 1881,
and ATE dinner while the lifeless body Of
Hte was up stairs. Examined by j. II.
Sloan, Mrs. Bolton testified that Wood
Hite was killed in the dining-room, but
refused to answer when the body OF Hite
was taken up stairs, Did not remember
how long the body remained
In the dining room, or how long it was
upstairs, or into what room 1t was
taken. Don't know when the body was
taken down stairs; saw no one in the house
but her own children; don't know who
took the body out Of the house that night
did not see n Bud HARRISON and William
Jacobs visited rs that afternoon and re-
NAMED until shutdown. The body was up
stairs. | never saw 1t until it was dug up
fiye months later, An extended eross-ex-
animation failed 10 bring out anything def
mite as to the killing or burial Of the body
by night in the old spring in the pasture.
She either purred out refusal to answer
under rights, or else she could not remem-
Der.
CAPT. FORD
was next called and testified that Wood
Hite was killed at O'Clock in the morning
10 the dining-room. Witness was not in
the room, but came In ten minutes after the
shooting, The body was taken upstairs
aud laid on the floor in the northeast room,
where it remained until O'Clock in the
evening. Witness refused to tell who car
ried the body out and buried it on the
grounds; that the answer, would tend TO
erfminate him. Four persons carried out
The body dressed In the same clothes he had
worn in the morning. The grave was a
quar.er OF mile from the house In the
brush. aud was dug about three feet. The
body was wrapped Ia blanket and thrown
into the hole and then covered over with
dirt.
The prosecu ton made sn'efiort to 60 into
the whole matter Of the killing, but the
court ruled it out.
IDA BOLTON,
aged IA, daughter Of Mrs. Boiton, testified
To seeing Flank James five or SIX times be
tween MAY and July Of 1881, when he went
by the name OF Mr., Hall. Jesse James was
there as Mr.. johnson, Clarence Hite as
Charley Jackson, Dick Liddell as Mr.. An
derson, and Wood Hite a. Mr.. Grimes
The switness exhibit considerable iutelli-
gence, sef.poGession and memory, and
stood wearisome cross-examin ition with =
out deyiatipg from her original story. She
accurately described each member Of the
gang, and said that during the summer
Dick Liddell did not wear whiskers. Dick
testified that al Winston robbery he had full
black whiskers. Witness was present
~ the time Of the killing Of Wood
lite, but was not permitted to
say who did It. She did not know who
buried the body, but it was carried out at
night, Bob Ford cleaned up the room after
the BODY was taken away and her mother
frequently cleaned il afterwards, This was
In direct contradiction TO her mother, who
said she never entered the room after the
body was taken from it.
WILLIE BOLTON,
who will be sixteen years old on tn 22d OF
next February was the best witness for the
state examined this morning. He positive.
" identified Frank James as the associate Of
Llddell, Jesse James, and Wood I'D Clar.
ence Hite, His description OF the night
burial Of the murdered, Wood Hite, was
graphic aud thrilling. Cap Ford Bob Ford
and Wilbur Ford undressed the body
where II had lain on the floor all day, and
wrapped II in horse blanket. Then they
took It out out into the pasture and dug a
little grave and threw 1t in They covered
It with dirt and threw In some stones, and
then covered the place with brush. On
cross examination Mr.. Sloan asked the
witness whether he had not told A. Duval,
in the presence OF NJ. d, Rice, in Ray
county, that although he did not know Hail
and Frank James to he the same person, he
intended to swear that they were anyhow &.
Witness admitted that he had made such q
statement,
LONG wRANGLE
between the attorneys brought out the fact
that the Bolton family were only brought
into court on an attachment and that they
utterly failed to attend the June term of the
court.
JAMES r, HUGHES
testified to havIn e me, u man in October,
1881, at the Richmond depot, whom he be.
IicYes to have heen Frank James,
j. T. Ford was calc d to correct his tcstl-
mony of Yesterday, and stated that the last
time he saw jim Cummings was in 1850.
and not IN 1881 as he stated.
Recess,
1t is she'ght the testimony will be con.
Guided by Thursday night. The arguments
viii consume three days.
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