The Trial of Frank James for Murder

By Frank James.

With confessions of Dick Liddil and Clarence Hite, and history of the "James gang". In the town of Gallatin, Daviess county, Missouri, on July 31, 18S3, begun the most exciting trial ever held in the West, the trial of Frank James, the noted outlaw, for the murder of Frank McMillan during the robbing of a Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific passenger train, at Winston, Missouri, July 15, 1S81. The town was filled with people who had come from hundreds of miles around to attend the trial; a majority of them were friends of the James boys and the balance were against them, as there was no neutral ground. Many of those in attendance were known to be desperate men and it was fully expected there would be blood- shed before the trial was ended ; there being many rumors of old feuds to be settled, of plots to rescue the prisoner, etc. Excitement was at fever heat. Many depredations had been committed in that part of the country within a few preceding years, most of which had been attributed to the James gang.

Kansas City, MO: G. Miller, Jr., 1898. 348p.