The Weekly Elko Independent

This important trial was resumed at 8 o'clock on Saturday morning. The first witness called was Dick Liddle. The defense immediately objected to the witness on the ground that he was a convicted felon, having been found guilty of grand larceny in Vernon county and sent to the Penitentiary.
Prosecutor Wallace responded that he had a full copy of a pardon, restoring him to citizenship.
An objection was then made to the copy, the defense insisting that the original pardon should be produced.
At 11 o'clock Judge Goodman ordered a recess to give him time to consider the point, which is one of great importance to the defense, since Liddle's testimony is the vital point for the prosecution.
Shortly after 2 o'clock the court was called to order, and the Judge announced his decision, that the evidence of the witness was admissible.
The defense then objected stating that the paper purporting to be a pardon was only a copy.
The State proposed to put the witness on his voir dire.
Answering the prosecutor's questions, the witness said: "I was sent to the penitentiary from Vernon county in 1871, I had a pardon, and tore it up the day after I got it."
Cross examined -- "Don't remember who gave it to me. I tore it up without reading it."
The defense raised the point that there was no evidence that the witness ever had a pardon.
The Court decided that preliminary proof was sufficient.
Liddle testified to joining the James Boys four years ago, then went to Tennessee and lived with the James' nearly a year, came back to Missouri with Jesse and Frank in May 1881, made arrangements to rob a train. Several weeks elapsed before the plan was executed. After detailing the manner of the train robbery Liddle said that Jesse and Frank said they thought they had killed a couple of men. The robbers secured $700 or $800 in money, and after riding all night stopped in a pasture next morning and divided the money, then went to Ford's where they stayed a week. This is the substance of Liddle's testimony on direct examination.
The cross examination was postponed until Monday, as it was already half-past 5 o'clock.
The trial of Frank James is still in progress at Gallatin, but nothing of special interest has developed up to the present time.

The testimony of Ida Bolton, aged 11, was in direct contradiction to that of her mother who witnessed the killing of Wood Hite.

Willie Bolton, aged 16 years, was the best witness for the State. He positively identified Frank James as an associate of Liddle, Jesse James and Hite. The witnesses' description of the burial of Hite was graphic.

Jonas Potts a blacksmith living four miles northeast of Winston shod defendant's horse on Thursday previous to the robbery.

Mrs. Potts identified defendant as one of the men who took breakfast at her house on the morning previous to the Winston robbery.

In the evening, while on the stand as a witness for the State, Frank O'Neil, of the St. Louis Republican, was asked whether the interview he had with Frank James, and which was published in that paper when Frank surrendered, was held. Witness declined to answer, giving as a reason the fact that he had taken a professional pledge to keep the place of interview secret. The Court has given him time to decide, and in the event of his refusal to answer he will doubtless be committed to jail for contempt of Court.