The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1915-03-04

head from his back and to the left
and someone showed his head down.
This knocked the flashllght out OF
his hand he said. He testified
that he thought the form at his
left was Kennedy and he again
fired.
Then he picked up the flashlight
and turned its rays upon the body
lying at his feet Then, he said,
he learned that it was his wife
he had shot
Hye says that the next realization
he had was his baby crying. He light
ed lamp, he said, and then noticed a
lavender dress and some white clothes
on a chair. He took the baby which
had not been undressed, and went to
the Parr Hotel and told OF the tragedy
On cross examination Hye said he had
lived In New Mexico for Is years He
said he had never drunk liquor in his
life. He denied questions OF counsel
FOR the state relative to Mrs Hye want
Ing on not wanting to come to Sites
to live. after he got the mail con-
tract. He said he tried to get Hugh
Kennedy to work on the Stiles end OF
the line but Kennedy refused, and he
also denied that Mrs. Basket had tried
to get Hye to put Kennedy on some
other part of the stage line.
KENNEDY ENTERED IN DARK.
Hye testified that the house was
dark when Kennedy entered that night.
He said he never struck his wife; he
denied being In the house when Ken
nedy came and said he never had heard
anything derogatory to Mrs Hye's char
acter previous to his suspicious in
this case.
Hye said that when he went in
to the house on the night OF the
killing he only intended to prove
his suspicious II possible and then
get a divorce.
Near the close of his testimony Mr..
Hye declared that he had never been
gniaty of infidelity to his wife since
their marriage
Following the testimony of the de-
PENDANT, evidence was introduced
through the answers of A. Howard
Wetherbee. assistant cashier OF the
Bank OF Camas Prairie. to show the
condition OF Mr.. Hye's finances at the
hank. after which DIR. j. W. Givens,
medical superintendent of the state hos
pita1 for the insane at Orofino. was
| called by the defense
INSANITY EXPERTS VIEWS.
In reply to a long hypothetical ques-
ton based upon the various phases OF
the case and the alleged crime, DIR.
Givens replied. In effect, that in his
| opinion the defendant Frank Hye was
probably insane at the time of the kill
Ing. DIR. Givens said that he thought
probably Hye did not realize the ma
ture and quality of his act at the time
and that he was largely out OF his
mind"
On cross-examination after Judge ALI
SHE OF the prosecution had presented
the insanity question: from the view
point of the state DR.. Givens said in
| effect that he could not say whether
the defendant was sane or insane,
this answer applying to the conditions
embraced In the question as presented.
On rebuttal the state called Wesley
Packer Of sites first who testified
that about Thanksgiving time he met
Cornelius Jones in Sites and zones
told hian in effect that he, Jones' had
just been to Spokane to see Mr.. Hye
hut that he didn't get any money. Mr..
Packer said that Jones told HIM at
that time that on ,ha evening Of the
tragedy when Jones met Kennedy near
the Hye home. Kennedy asked him If
Hye was at home, to which Jones re-
piled In the negative. whereupon, ac-
cording to Jones. Kennedy Naid he
thought he saw the tracks of Hye's
horse on the road as he cahs in with
the stage.
A. A. Howard gavs testimony about
hearing similar remarl by Jones and
his evidence was along the, same line
as that OF Mr. Packer.
SAID WIFE "FELL LIKE BEEF"
In the continuation of rebnttal tes-
timony this Thursday morning Jesse
Baldwin was called. He said that
since the killing on one occasion In
Sites he heard Fink Hye tell OF
the shooting. Baldwin said that Hye
had related how he bur aned his coat
and his sweater over his gun so that
he couldn't reach 1t hanl, y should he
lose his temper; that Hye said he saw
Kennedy putting his belt strap through
the loop ON his belt and that he thougk
Kennedy was reaching for gun: tina.
Hye related how he shot his wife and
that "she fell like a hog or beef"
Bessie Fitzgerald. young lady en-
ployed as operator in the phone Of
flee at Stiles. told phone converse
tion between Mr.. and Mrs. Hye when
Mrs. Hye is said to have wanted to
come to sites and Hye told her that
II she did "she would not find him
there"
A5oRTIoNs REPEATEDLY PER-
FORMED.
Mrs Litchfield, mother Of Mrs. Hye
was here recalled to the stand. She
declared that Alma, her daughter had al
ways been fond Of children. that she al
ways expressed a desire to have chill