The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-08-30
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FRANK JAMES TRIAL.
A Number Of Witnesses Examined
Regarding the killing Of Wood
Hite,

Regarding the Killing of Wood
Hite.
ST. LOUIS, August 2S.-The Post
Dispatches Gallatin special says the
Frank James trial was resumed this
morning. The defense asked permits
sion to introduce specific acts against
the witness (Mrs. BoltoD), with view
to attacking their credibility. The in
tention was to open up the murder OF
Wood Hite ut the Ford house, for
which Little is now under Indictment
and of which Mis-. Bolton and Capt.
Ford were witnesses.
The court decided that Mrs. Bolton
could he recalled and examined. not
as to what she had told the neighbors,
who called upon her ON Sunday, De
cember ., 1881, and ate dinner, while
the lifelessibody of Hite was up stairs.
Mrs. Bolton testified that Hite was
killed in the dining room, and he
refused to answer when the
body was taken up stairs. Extended
cross-eNamination failed to bring out
anything definite as to the killing or
burial of Hite's body by night in Old
Spring, in a pasture. She either
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else could not remember.
Capt. Ford was next called and eX-
amined as to the burial of Hite's body.
Ida Bolton. aged fourteen, a daugh-
ter of Mrs. Bolton, was the next wit
ness. She was present at the killing
OF Wood lIite, but witness was not
permitted to say who did it. She
narrated the details of the burial and
cleaning of the room. Her mother
did the latter. I This was in direct
contradiction to her mothers testi-
mony.
Willie Bolton, sixteen years old. was
the next witness for the state. He
positively identified Frank James us
the associate of Little, Jesse James
and the two Hites. Witness descrip-
ton of the burial of Hite was graphic
and thrilling. Capt. Ford and Wilbur
Ford undressed the body where it had
lain on the floor all day, wrapped in a
horse blanket. They then took it out
and buried it in the pasture On
cross-eXamination witness admitted
having said that although he did not
know Hall and Frank James to be
the same person he intended to swear
they were, anyhow.
James r. Hughes and j. L. Ford
were recalled and gave unimportant
testimony.
The Republicans special gives
the following testimony. in
the afternoon session, of James
Mallory, farmer. living eight
miles from Gallatln: On Thursday
before the Winston robbery, he saw
Frank James at Potts blacksmith
shop, where he was having a horse
shOd. There was another man with
James. Witness had a discussion
with James concerning the assassina-
ton of President Garfield. James told
witness he was living in Caldwell.
James Potts, the blacksmith who
shod the horse referred to by Mallory,
testified: He lives six miles northeast
of Winston; he believed he had seen
defendant in his shop the latter part
of June, 1881, and that he was there
again on the 18th Oh 10Th of July; on
both occasions witness shod a horse
for defe ndant, and another man whom
he recently recognized as Dick Littell.
He felt he had seen Frank James at the
Kansas City fair, when the Goldsmith
Maid trotted at the Hamilton fair, but
he was not certain. Witness was cross
examined at much length as to the
Identification of defendant, but seemed
pretty certain on the point. On re-
direct examination witness stated that
when leaving his horse that Frank
James gave his name as B. Green
Cooper, cattle dealer of Ray county.
Subsequently witness recognized, in a
livery stable at Liberty, the mare
which he had shod on the occasion of
Frank James first visit to his shop.