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

- Marion a,uncan- teettfsedsto a-eenvsxsatien
| with Potts in the winter of 1888, when he
s Winston ne and he had shod horse for him
Potts was pretty booty at the time
] Gus: A. Chapman testified that Potts told
him after visiting Gallatin Jail that he did not
know if he had eyer seen defenda1it before,
| he could not tell :. IL a.
as so'fRss La
was read to the jury.
Joseph A Shelby testified to his acouaint-
ance with the James brothers. Dick Lidden,
| alias Black, Bill Ryan and Jim Cummings,
Jesse and the three latter yssited his place in
1885, in company with Jesse James, and in a
conversation which ensued regarding the
Concordae~ Bank robbery jesse s<iniicated
Lid as 9Th the man wa9 struck tS dashier;
James earne to Page City,in the Sprihg Of 1851
andfsert for witDess who went and saw her;
she said Liddell and others were committing
depredatiOnS and her husband was getting the
credit for them she wanted witness 10 inter
cede with the Governor, but witness told her
1t would be folly to do so; did not know what
time the sewing machine arrived and did not
know where Mrs. James directed it to be
shipped to; was only sisting woman m
distress; the last time witness saw Jesse
James was in the Fall of 1881: Fra TX James
was bleeding at the lungs in 1872 and stopped
m wa aoafS sft y as dig pot
2 ]. 3. Chiles. sof Kah*#City, tsstiad TO a
conversation with IidNei id which he tbId
witness that Frank JaIheSwas notfslt winston.
STh 0fnass NJ : Ninms, BSotherriri4law .of De-
PENDANT testified to his knowledge of tire
James brothers; was at Mrs. Samucls' in the
summer of 1881 twice: ~saw nothing of Frank
knew Wood Hite: therewas a strong resem-
blance between him and defendant; had not
S Sted him nHf saw ood
FsHite in the summer Of 1881. but notsince. q
William Nicholson, another brother law
or defendant, had never known defendant un-
til he met him last Thursday. Liddell the
Hites and Jesse James were at witness house
I Frank with any of them: there was a strong
family resemblance between Wood Hite and
Frank James. q.
Robert J. williarM testiiedg that Mrs Boil
tons and Captain Ford replitation for truth
and yeracity was bad VI. ID. Duval, John T.
Norvaf, George w. Trigg, James L. Ferris, A.
b. Elliott John Millstadt and James b. Duval
testified to the same effect particularly with
BID. Woodson- said .Fora's reputation was
bad, which grew out of the fact that the James
gang we're rendezveuing at the Ford house
... GAILAT1N, Mo, .Aug.3l.
Shortly after the opening of court this
morning General Shelby appeared and pro-
ceeded to make an apology for certain irreg-
ularities in his conduct the day previous while
on the witness stand, and after listening to a
rebuke from the Court and settling fine of
ten dollars which had been entered Hpagaisist
| him, withdrew: The testimony for. the dc
Tense then ,s,ce Of the Peace Of
Richmond, testified that he offciated at the
inquest on Wood Hite, and that Mrs. Eolten
then testified that she had not seen Frank
James for two years. -,
James c. Mason, a ncighbor of the Fords,
testified that Captain Ford told him that he did
Winston robbeiies us Fraut1 lad left the bal
ance ofthe boys'and settled down; had had
conversations with Mrs. Ford and old man
Ford to the same effect. the latter stating that
Frank James was not i'll the State at the time
| of the Winston affair.
told him Just after Jesse James was killed that
he had never seen Frank and did not know
I w D.stsiee, living near Richmond, testified
that Willie Boltonwas working for him Just
after the Wood Hite inquest and that Willie
of his own motion told him that he hadv a
story at tho Coroncr's inquest and that his
mother made him do it. 3s~ -
! John T. @Samuels, half-brether of Frank
James. testified that he last saw Frank before
the Winston robbery in the year 1876, when he
was at homein Clay S3nnty; next saw him at
all through the summer of 1881; saw Jesse in
May, 1881, at home in company with Dick Lid
deli. He stated that they had come from K en-
, lucky; they arrived at night. After they got
there mother asked Jesse where Frank was
He replied he had left Frank in Kentucky, and
a9af a IN Sad nsa than ana so n c
Iiddellabout Frank. and he made about the
same response Jesse remained at home for
there about the last of July or thefirSt of Au-
gust. During these three months | saw Dick
Liddell, Clarence and Wood 1ite and Charley
Ford about the place. There was IL striking
family raSemblailce between Wood Hite and
Frank James; saw nothing of Frank all that
summer.
Mrs -Zerelda Samuels. mother of Frank
james, testified that Jesse came home in May.
1881. dick Lidden was with him. They said
they came from Kentucky, L asked where
Buck was that being the name I call Frank.
He replied that he had left Frank in Ken
lucky in bad health. said Son, you know he's
dpNd. Yen : well fell first list
I then turned toa Eddell and asked him, and
he said Frank was alive, but was in Kentucky
and was in bad health. During that summer
Clarence and Wood Hite and Dick Liddcll aud
Charley Ford were at the house frequently.
Frank was not there during that summer, and
l did not see him from the time, seven years
ago. when Sheriff Broome and others came
and shot him, till ! saw him after
the the housa some tb1dnJ dna OF 1851. dhl not
at that Time knew where re-, fT fa , wss but
tieth year when my arm was shot off and my
little boy was killed" Being asked whether,
S,a L men th le,t d no aer ene
apparel with them, she said: YES; gave {.
them dress and apron and honnets SO
that one of the gentlemen could pass off as
a lady and you all couldn't catch EN-"
Allen Palmer, a brother-in-aw of Frank
James, testified to returning to his home in
Wichita Falls, Texas, about the Ist of August,
1881. and found Frank James there with his
family; he wore nothing but mustache, on 4
his race: at tnat t11ne tnere was no railroad
NEARER than Fort Worth, one hundred miles
from where he lived; Frank seemed to be sind
Of i'll; said his lungs yere affected.
that frank James w ~ at her home at Wichita
Ealls Ter, from JUNE. 1881, to July LIST. and 4
afteFaIhShsence of shout four weeks return
ed the latter part of July and left finally in
September. He talked about surrendering.
saying he would like to have some of his
friends negotiate with the Governor of Mis-
sotfri.
Frank James was placed on the stand to
testify in his own behalf ard gave q detailed
account ofEhiS movements from tfte5Wihter of
1915 till his surrender, stating among other
things that he was in Texas during the sum
ymer Of 1881 at the residence of shis sister. and
heard of thf Winston and Blue Cut robberes
while on & trip into the Indian Nation and
Immediately returned to his sisters feeling
sure his name would be connected with it and
him to be among friends. He
positively denied the statements made by Diels-
Liddell connecting him with the Winston rob-.
berry.
e 80 III sALkAr1s,sMo.sssp..1.
The prosecution, in rebuttal, devoted some
sime TO ,hfesIkipE down the evidence of S. L.
Rrosills fkt AM1tnhsS Who vas on the train