Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1914-10-22
HELD
BEHIND CLOSED
DOORS
HEARING OF FRANK HYE ON
MURDER CHARGE aRINDs FROM
FRIDAY TO TUESDAY.
HYE PERMITTED TO GIVE BAIL
Defendent Held On Murder Charge
News OF Evidence Gets Out In
Spite Of Secrecy Of Hearing.

Before the hearing of Frank Hive
was commenced last Friday morning
Judge DeHaven sutained motion Of
W. N. Scales, attorney for Frank Hye,
to exclude the public and members Of
the bar from the hearing, allowing only
the officers and attorney for accused
to remain and the room was cleared.
After the order was enforced the hear.
ing proceeded.
Two witnesses were put ON the stand
Friday. One Of the witnesses. Mrs.
Basket, of Elk City, testified as to her
acquaintance with Mrs. Hye and Hugh
Kennedy, the two victims, for a long
time dating to the childhood of both Of
deceased and that her position in the
hotel at Elk City allowed her to know
intimately the habits and dispositions
of both of them. She said there had
never been thing that would indicate
improper relations between Mrs. Hye
and Kennedy and that no person in Elk
City had reported any knowledge Of
such relations. Mrs. Basket gave tes.
timony as to the clothing worn by Mrs.
Hye when she left the hotel scarcely an
hour before she was killed. She said it
was not the same as found on chair
in the dining room of the Hye home
after the woman and Kennedy had been
killed.
James II. Lysle, the Sites liveryman
and the second witness put on by the
state on Monday gave testimony in
tended to show premeditation ON the
part of Hye, two instances being shown
where he had left Sites on horseback
in the evening, one time saying he was
going to Kooskia and at another time
that he was going out TO look for horses
but each time he made a night ride to
Elk City and had prepared himself with
food, candles and other equipment nee.
essary to stay out in the woods. One Of
these occasions was on September 26
and the other on October 8, the night
before the killing at Elk City.
William Walker, farmer, residing
between Clearwater and the Switch
back station testified that Hye en-
deavored to avoid the station by riding
around but was seen on the road before
the station and after passing
it.
Cot o,,lx,
put on the stand, being Coroner Blake
and II. II. Thompson who started out
from Elk City with Hye after the per-
pct. alton of the deed
The witness told of Hye having spent
all of Sunday, Oct. a, before the shoot
ing, in the woods near Elk City, hiding
his horse in gulch where he spent the
day and that he had a supply of food,
candles and other things needed in
staying out in the open, and brought
out that Mrs. Hye was either in a
kneeling or pleading position when she
was shot, the range of the bullet in
dieating this; that the clothing worn
by Mrs. Hye when she left the Elk City
hotel an hour before she was killed
was partially burned in the parlor
stove at the Hye home; that the beads
worn about her neck the evening before
she was shot were taken from the par
lor stove at the Hye home in a partially
melted condition; that the clothing TAX
en- form the the chair in the Hye dining
room had not been worn by Mrs. Hye;
that broken comb, buttons torn from
a woman Is clothing and other women's
articles were found on the floor where
Mrs. Hye and Hugh Kennedy were
shot by Hye.
The cross examination by Attorney
Wallace N. Scales indicated that the
defense is endeavoring TO lay foun- !,
dation for a contention that fierce
struggle took place in the Hye home
before the shooting.
Coroner Blake testified also as to
the bullet wound which passed out
about five inches below where It enter
ed Mrs. Hye's breast, and as to certain.
scratches found on her head and Of I \
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