The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, September 5, 1883, Page 4

1 he took up his residence at the old | Smith place, that had been unoccu- | pied since the war. I never had a) personal acquaitance with him, but) I met him driving a four- and spoke to him once or twice. I saw him last on the 2gth ot} March, 1881; I saw him twice on that day ; first at Taylor’s blacksmith | shop on College street, and next az0)| him on the street as] was going to} the Louisville depot. *, | The last time I saw him he had on | a light coat, sunburned cowhide | boots and pants in his boots. He wore full whiskers, and the whole time he was there he never shaved. There wasa light growth on the cheeks and thicker and longer at the He Gives a Long and Detailed chin. His whiskers were hghtsandy. Statement of His Life and This was about the same way he Travels. dressed all the time. I can’t say how often I saw him; at one time The State andthe Defence Get- | saw him daily while he was a witness ting Ready for the Argu- in an assault and battery case. Saw him drive an ice wagon, teaming “BUTLER WEEKLY TIMES Chas. T. MecFriand. Sprror AND PROPRIETOR - TERMS OF SUPSCRIPTION: The Weery Times, published every Wednesday, will be sent to any eddress one year, postage paid, tor $1.25. BUTLER MISSOURI. WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 1883. FRANK JAMES. 5» Frank James on the Witnes Stand. ments. i around, and have seen him cutting wood, THE FIRST WITNESS. ee ne Samuel T. Brasins was the first witness called, and testified as fol- lows: “I live in Gallatin, and have lived here since I was two years old. TI} 6¢ Lexington, or near a village call- remember the time ot the Winston Page City. In the fall of 880 I met stand, said: Ihave resided for thirty-four years robbery. It took place in July of Jesse James, Dick Liddil and Bill | 1881. I was on the train when rob- Ryan near my residence near Page bed, and was in the smoking car. City. l was breaking hemp at the Shortly after we left Winston, very | time. On returning home I found shortly after, the glass in the front] fou; men there with horses. door was broken, and two men en- | were Jesse James, Bill Ryan, so I tered with two revolvers each, and | was told, Jim Cummings and _ this called out, “hold up,,’” and com- } man Liddil. who it was said, was menced firing through the car. The | named Black. I stated in Dick Lid- conductor Was about three or four | qi’s presence to jesse James that teet from the front ; advancing, I saw | two young men had been arrested they had shot the conductor. They passed him out and thencame back. There was firing on the outside. I looked at one of the men, the small- | answered pointing to Dick Liddil. er one of the twoas I held up my] «That's the man who knocked the hands, to see if he perceived that I] Dutch cashier down.’? I met Lid- had my hands up. The smaller] die, Jesse Jim Cum- man was a tull-faced, full-whiskered } mins and a man who L was told was man. There was no mask on the} Hite, in the fall of 18S1. face ot either men. The defendant s not the man. in our vicinity for the alleged rob- bery of the Concordia bank and I asked Jesse who aid do it. He James, FRANK JAMEs. Frank james was not with that party, The last time I saw him was Fletcher W Horn, the Nashville] in 1872 when he was doctored at detective, was the next witness.|my house. He was not with the He, after giving his name and place} party,-and Jesse said in Liddil’s of residence, said: I know the de-| presence that Frank was south tor fendant as B J] Woodson; knew him | his health, and had not been in state at Nashville, and knew him from the | for five years. midsummer of 1877 to March 1881. | Just here the general was asked He wasa resident all the time, or|if he had seen Frank James since nearly so, of White’s creek settle- | being here, and answered: ment; he was farming and working SINOs7; for the Indiana Lumber company. The general was then asked to i saw him as frequently as once aj point out Frank James and did so, week. Saw him last aboutj the time The sewing machine episode Bl Ryan was arrested. Ryan was| taken up. The general said: arrested on March 26, and that is “I was summoned to Page City to about the last time I saw woodson. | see a lady. I went and found Mrs woodson dressed plamly.. The iast | Frank James in great distress, and time I saw him, he had full whiskers, | advised her to go to her tather’s.’’ short and thin on the sides, but long| As to the sewing machine the wit- ou the chin, some six inches long. | ness said: ‘*The sewing machine His whiskers were sandy. During | was not consigned to me, and the the time I knew him as woodson his | machine came afterward, and was deportment was good, he conducted himself as a gentleman, and was a MR. TUTT’S T hard working man. His associates Frank K. Tutt were the best residents of white’s } Kansas City creek settlement. I have seen Dick 1 Liddil in Nashville as Smith; saw him first in about 1879 or 1880. Never saw Dick Liddil with wood- son, except in Foster’ssaloon. The | of Gardner’s Pee I — hm EE atter he had | not know where Frank James was | ied at Huntsville, and was|and had not seen him for seyeral mtroduced tohim by Squire Price years. He said Jesse and Bank) as Dick Liddil. I knew Jesse James | didn’t get along well together. | — = “sears etemmmeae ng a The cross-examination amounted i s C tee | to nothing indisturbing the witness years ago. Once or twice saw him j ’ b MR. CROWDER’S CONTRIBUTION. in the pool with defendant. Last J. N. Crowder, marshal of Lex- | saw Howard a short time before I bf Sti 3 THE NASHVILLE DETECTIVE. was sent forward.”’ TIMONY. has_ resided Witness knows Dick short time after Ford’s | Joseph, in Lexington. Liddle. A trial at St. witness met! and Liddil said he did | | is that Frank was not in the last three General Jo. O. Shelby taking the | in Lafeyette and within nine miles | They! Dick Liddil im Kansas City_in front} went to St. joe after he left Kansas | and have known js in Kansas City, him since he was then went on to state that just be- | fore Dick went to Alabama he had horse team | said to him, on Main street, that the | there after the Blue Cut ro | general impression that Frank James Fr jon all summer. | ummer of 1831 a boy. witness | Liddil, Jesse James, wood Hite and ton had, under oath, | Clarence were at my house off and, Wood Hite inquest she had not seen | a little heavier, 1 should judge; he | weighed 140 pounds, while I weigh- ed 110; Bob Ford came 1 bbe kK James was never with s had said, stated that Mrs Bo! nes: Frank Thein- quest took place in April ot 1882. | john Warrenstaff, one of the jury- james for two years. was not at the winston robbery was , crows g that sum men at the mquest- testified te the | correct, he, Frank, was not there. d seen Frank since a boy | same thing. Thomas T Woodson, He was not in the country. j wats last Thursday morni wit-;a banker ot Richmond swore “J said,’’? said the witness, ‘to | ness remembered wood Hite, Jesse}to the bad character of the} \ and Dick Liddil coming to his house | Fords and Mrs Bolton. It was ex- Dick Liddil, the general impression train robberies, andhe said that is} correct he wasn’t there. On cross-examination the witness | | stuck to his story and was not shaken i witness said he was at work in aj hardware store, and before that in a} livery stable, that worked six weeks at his trade of | and before he | | carpenter. A MEMBER OF THE FAMILY. Thomas M. Mimms, the next wit- ness, testified that he was in the queensware business, and is employ- ed by T' M james City: nave lived \ | in Kansas City | i RANK them, and did so atter i and eating supper around the well. | wood Hite was 2 tall thin man, with high forehead, with full whiskers they were kind of dark and hair light- er; he had a big nose and big prom- inent ears. HAKBORING OUTLAWS. Witness did not know Dick Liddil was dodging the officers ; yes, he had heard of it, and notwithstanding witness knew he was accused of rob- he fed winston bing the Glendale train, yet the robbery. Atthe tme of the rob- & Co., Kansas} bing none of the men were around | eagerness aid silent to catch eyery but ten days afterwards saw Wood AM e twenty-six years. fendant, and -hes “Known he was a boy; was born in Logan county, Ky.; knew Jesse. The James’ were his cousins. He knows where Mrs Samules lives, and at Mrs Samuels’ in the summer of 1881, about the rst of June, and was | there twice during the summer being there again the latter part of June. Saw jesse james, Clarence and wood Hite there at the last time. He ney- i er saw Frank, and heard none ot the | him since was | | | } party say where he was. Saw wood | Hite, and have known him since a | boy; he was a | He, wood Hite. was about 31 or 32. wood was a tall, slim man, light! | complexion, blue eyes, light mus- |tache and full whiskers. He | five feet ten inches, and there was z | cousin of witness. was} | Strong tamily resemblance between |} wood Hite Frank. Wood’s , {mother was a James. Witness when and had he not seen Frank for yea saw him a week after his } as surr for fvo years, and before | Never saw wood Hite after the sur- | ' | render of 1881. Did not see all to- | getber at Mrs Samuels. Witness continuing said: ‘‘Jesse { } City, and lived in St. Joe uniil kill- | ed. He left Kansas City on Novem ber 2. and he hadn’t been south up to that time. Did not see nim he went to St. Joe. While sas City Jesse had no horses.”* On re-examination witness < he never knew where Frank w after Kan- | he left Missouri the first time, and | ed with Mr | have had any particular acqu AS SKETCHED BY A SPECIAL ARTIST IN THE COURT ROOM AT GALLATIN | = — a eee aE! Se aoe = ——— —— — Knows _ the goat: Clarence, Dick Liddil and Jesse. They went away in a wagon, ; to which was hitched Charlie Ford’s black pony and Dick Liddil’s sorrel horse. On re-examination witness insist- ed so tar as he knew Frank James was not in the country im 1881. IMPEACHING THE FORDs. On reassembling, the grind began again by calling Major Williams of Ray county to the witness stand. Witness farmer, and is acquaint- Bolton, living within three and a half miles of her; have known her and her tamily for five or six y) y character for veracity is bad. s, and her general r Witness had the same to say of Elias@nd Cap Ford. Witness knows old man or J T Ford, and knew what his reputation for truth and ty the community. It is bad. Witness could not single out Wil- ve was in lie Bolton, so couldn’t say what reputation for truth and veracity is. M. G. DUVALL. M G Duvall, the next witness, re- sided in Ray county, and had been Lives north of Rich- mond on his farm; knew J T Ford raised the and daughter Mrs Bolton, by sight, and Cap Ford well by sight. ; They live about’ two and one-hait Never miles from witness’ house. nce th either. Is acquainted with J T wi Ford’s reputation, and his character ity isbad. Witness tor truth and ve tracted from both Duvall and War- renstaff that the question relative to Frank James and Mrs Bolton’s dec- laration that she had not seen him tor two years, came out im asking who were about the Bolton place about the time Wood Hite was kill- ed, and which she Hall or Frank James was there about that time. She still said she had not seen him for years. FANK JAMES’ STORY, after Resuming business recess, the audience became breathless with | word, for Frank James had been called to the witness stand. He said I am the defendant in this case. Being told to begin his statement 5 | said at the | I recollec by Colonel Philips when the state | had begun its case in 1876, he said: | THE BAND IN TENNESSEE. | Inthe winter of 1876 I went across | southeast Missouri direct into Ten- i nessee, crossing the Mississippi river | on the 5th or 6th of January. I rived in Nashville July. 1877, went out to the White’s Creek set- | tlement and rented a farm, which I | took possession of January, 1878. | I boarded near by for a year; I lived | on the place I rented for a year; then rented the Felix Smith place and remained there a year: the next | year Irented a place nearer Nash- ville, three miles from the city. That } year was 1879. I did not farm but worked for the Indiana Lumber company, logging. I went in 1880 into Nashville because my _ health | had become impaired. | THE FLIGHT. | “During that time the gentleman, Mr. Ryan, was arrested. I did not know what kind of a man he was, | having a slight acquaintance, and ar- and | beng apprehensive and fearing to | gain his own liberty he might | fice mine, I fled. My first meeting | with sesse in Nashville was accident- | al, and in 1877. We met, and he | cried out ‘Hello ;’’ we shook hands, ; but T called no name, because [ did | not know what he went under. He | went out home with me on the Wal- | ton place, and he said he was in the | grain business, and lived in Hum- | phreys county. I first saw Bill Ry- | an in the winter ot 1879. He came | to my house with Jesse James. He remained about Nashville until the I never Jesse | much in their company, but my im- | pression is they were together when sacri- | fall, I beheve. saw j; out of my sight. My first object in | leaving Tennessee wasto save my | ite and support my family, and the ; second was to get rid of these fel- jlows. I could exert no control over them. | IN KENTUCKY. *“T went, or we went to George B. | Hite, my uncle by marriage, in Lo- gan county. Kv, While at Hite’s. and on Sunday. as I remember, the |report came from Adairsville that there were detectives tnere from Nashville. The aext morning, Sun- day, some one saw three members ds the house, and my coming tow2 mother, who is an excitable woman, at once said they ectives, | I said no, but Dick Liddil said were d yes. | you must remember Jesse and I bor- | rowed horses near Nashville. TENNESSEE DETECTIV#S. nose and high forehead; as near. as t, he was about my build, I can be no judge of the though I am to'd there was a strong one. A FAMILY RESEMSLANCE. “The first time this was brought family resemblance, tomy notice was when Jesse and Dick Liddil came to my home m Tennessee. Jesse exclaimed at the breakfasttable. ‘Why, Dick, Frank looks like old Father Grimes,’ asked who old Father Grimes was and Jesse said he is your cousin, Woodson Hite. Clarence Hite was a stripling, loose-jointed, and was of light complexion, “From Hite’s we went to Nelson county. Ky., within torty Lousviile. I stopped at a Mr. Hos. kin’s, and there I ed trom Jesse James and Dick Liddil and saw them no more. I know Hall, Robert Hall. THE miles «: sepa CONSPIRACY. “I never agreed with the others at his house to go to Missouri and rob the express opposite Kansas City; on the contrary, | tride to dissuade them, saying it would jeopardize the life of our mother; they knew what had occurred, and there was no safe- ty for our families in Missouri, let alone ourselves ; they talked ot gomg back to Missouri all along the road trom Macklinville, Dick Liddil pecially being anxious to get back to his reputed wife, Mattie Collins; they said they would, and I I would not, and we separated; I saw Ss es said them afterwards at Hull’s however; Jesse was not there, IN On about the 15th of May I went to Louisville, and trom there to Tex as, by rail. From Texarcanal went to Dallas, and then took the road to to Mrs, TEXAS. northern Texas, and Palmer’s the last of June. Iremain- ed there possibly five weeks. When I heard ot Gartfield’s assassination, it was after 1 left my sister’s the first got time. I went then to the Indian na tion, and was there about fifteen days. I went on horseback. The Indian nation is thirty miles from my sister’s. I traveled, however, 120 miles. THE WINSTON ROBBERY, It was about the time of the Wins I read it ina and ton robbery—I think paper I thinking it was time for me to get back, I went to my sister’s and re sained there the month ot August, and left there the ist of September, or about there. I am tatisfied I left there wot later than the 15th, and ia going back I heard of the Blue Cut That fixed the times my -saw was accused, robberry. mind. WANTED TO SURRENDER. When I lett Tennessee I sent my wife toGeneral Shelby's to see st! could not surrender. I was ready to surrender then and told her to im form me in Texas what had been the result of her mission. If she failed, as the time was not propitiout she should go on to California to her brother’s. While m Texas I loung: ed around the house ; I did not work When I left my sister’s I went into the nation north of Denison and fe mained there three weeks. Then ! went to Kentucky by the Missoun, Kansas and Texas to St. Louis, and the Ohio to Louisville, and thence Samuels I received 9 over Baltimore and to station in Kentucky. word as to my surrender in 1881. RETURN TO KENTUCKY. Kentucky, is F After reaching wite met me in Nelson Kentucky, 1 the latter part of Octr We went trom there to George county, ber. saw dcfetdant. [knows Tia Cone | ington, who was present at the con-} never saw himin the state until at-! testified the same regarding Mrs “They went down s s, and I} town, Scott county, and took the z 4 ~ | versation related by cedi “ite be ende: " eet + + = fa } > * % 4 mins. I don’t hnow the Hites. I | hg — wigan aie: Wit- | ter he SERED CEs : None of the j Polo : 2 implored them not to kill any ofthem | train to Chattanooga, and stoppfe wementsue oacieasct delacliags = SS, ee ca ed, and confirmed | family knew of Frank’s whereabouts |; And gave Cap Ford the same unless their lives were in danger. 1 | at the Stanton house, registering * with these parties during the pein M ~ Tutt S$ testimony in regard to it.; when out of the state. Witness | kind of « send-off. went up-stairs, Wood Hite follow- | J. Ed. Warren; from there we wet hesireed ai and: arocra (Neca witness then went on to relate that knew Jim Cimmins, but had not RAY COUNTY WITNESSES. ed the men, and found out they were i Lynchburg, Va. I reinained {0 Uknow Mr wallace, and saw him General Shelby was seated at the seen him fora long time. ~ The impeachment of the Fords as we suspected detectives. | some time in Lynchburg, stopping at the Maxwell house in Nashville supper table and opposite him aman} ANOTHER MEMBER OF THE FAMILY. | was continued by the imtroduction “We came back and we Ieft for at the Arlington. My intention wa two weeks ago. “I. was anes sg came ber and seated himself Wm. Nicholson, 2 son-in-law of | of testimony fre Mr. Norville, G | fohn Hite’s. At the time we were j to go into North Carolina, 1 did id by thestee and hed jee near — Shelby ; he was talk-|/ Mrs Samuels, the mother of | W Trigg, Captian james, T Farris, | at Hite’s, there were there G. B. | going to Danville and thence | furnished me. ing and muttering about scoundrels | ‘‘the — boys,’’ was next sum- | repres i in legislature. | Hite, Mrs. Sarah Hite, Wood Hite. | Richmond. anf from there to S*] j } and thieves. He said nothing to the man, but eyed him. Lhe persistence of the examination to prove that this ken fi cluded by the court, J. B. CHILDS. A TENNESSEE LAWYER. RB Sloan of Tennessee was the next witness. Hesaid: ‘I am an attorney-at-law in Nashville, and have lived there forty-three years. man was mis | < Dick, was ex- i i Knew defendant by the name of! Mr. Joel B. Childs. of Kansas Bees I knew him from the | City was next called, and stated that tater ot 1876-'77; about that time | he knew Dick Liddil, had seen him moned, and he testified that he lives | Arthur Elhott and John Milsted, three miles north-west ot Kearney, | all reputable citizens ot Ray ccunty Clay county. Had lived there band one and all swore exactly to all his life, and is a farmer. Knows ; What the preceding witness had Charhe Ford, Jesse James, Dick | stated—that the Fords and Mrs Bol- Liddil and Clarence Hite, but does | ton’s have a hard reputation for truth ot acquaint- ; g not know Frank. Had ¢ re. Had known esides In ed with him in j Frank eighteen years 2 swearing the other Ray county wit- old Mr. Harris and his wife. I | Jem, N. C., at the toot of the moo® should judge Wood 33 9F:35 | tains. a secluded pla I had had] years old at time: d some experience in logging, and #7 I older. there were several jnills there I fou | I could make a living; finding ’ there was much sickness, I conclad- was a few lection of nine to five feet nine ar If inch- es tall; his eves I ca ot Temembe:; ed not to stop, and whiskers were on the dark. sandy | boro—and finding st a r;he had a large. prominent! went to Norfolk, regis