Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1883-09-13
GALLArIN. DO, Sept. ]

The prosecution, in rebutUal, devoted some
time to breaking down the evidence of S. T.
Brosius the witness who was on the train
when the robbery occurred. He was first re-
called and denied having told that he was 50
seated that he could not describe the robbers
or that he said to another person Ole of
them looked like he was fifteen feet high.
Witness was questioned as to conversations
with A; M, irving, Boyd, Dudley, William NJ;
BOstaph, 10. w. Dennis and others, but failed
to admit that the conversation alluded to in
the impeaching questions prOpounded to him
had actually occurred, though he might pos
sibly, he thought, have had such talk in a
jocular way. The above named parties, to-
gether with George Tugg, r. L. TOmlin 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 1878; lived with him in the
same house for four years; he was very IN
tidy in his toilet; he had no literary tastes; he
didn't read books any; he 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' resemble
Frank James to any great extent; Wood Hite
was five feet nine or ten inches high, with
light hair and full suit of whiskers; would
take defendant to be six feet high; never saw
Frank James but once at Mrs. Hites; have
| been seeing him and looking at him here.
Major J. H. McGee, United States Marshal,
! testified that he was in the smoking car at the
time of the Winston robbery. The conductor
| was standing right by him when he was shot;
| IlGEG were Jnr06 men III CndJ car, TWO QOln2S
| the shooting and one cutting the bell rope;
! the one that shot WeStfall 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 one man
! standing in front Of me with q pistol in each
! hand and another on my left, just in rear of
|. the conductor The 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. saw 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
| I 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 fOI
| about another half-mile 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 a couple of unimportant witnesses
| were heard in surrebuttal, both sides rested
| The arguments will commence Monday, each
side being limited to eight hours.