Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1900-08-01
POWERS AGAIN ON
The WITNESS STAND
Details His Movements on the
Day of the Murder.
ENR0UTE TO LOUISVILLE

Heard of Assassination at LaGrange.
Denies Golden's Found
on His Return TO Frankfort His Of
fee Door Had Been Forced.
GEoRaErowN, KY, July 81.-Caleb
Powers resumed the witness stand in
his own behalf and took up the testi-
mony where he had left off. Witness
said that on the morning of the assassi-
nation he was preparing to go to Louis
vile to make arrangements for bringing
more people to Frankfort. He locked
his office door, as described by Witness
Golden. He had no recollection of any
thing being said concerning suspicious
actions which Golden had referred to,
and was certain nothing of this sort was
said At LAGRANGE the party heard
that Goebel had been assassinated and
that the shot had been fired from the
second or third story of the executive
building. The witness continued.
81 said it was shame and an outrage,
and that it would blight the chance Of
all of US whose offices were in contest.
| expressed similar sentiments to other
people that day. We went on to Louis
vile, but as the assassination Of Goebel
had upset our political plans we aban-
doned the idea Of bringing more men to
Frankfort. "
Witness said that the statement of
Golden that he spoke derisively when
told Of the shooting was absolutely false.
Il thought 1t my duty, y he continued,
''to return to Frankfort as soon as posi-
BILE, and did so that afternoon. l went
to the executive building and with my
keys, the only ones to the Office, locked
the door. ! found that the lock had
been battered and had difficulty in get
ting the key out of it. I did not take
the lock off and supplant it with a new
one, as has been stated in the evidence.
James Matthews put on the new lock. +"
Burton Was Reproved.
The witness said he never heard any
sort of violence talked of in any of the
councils in which he participated, ex-
cept in one held in the commissioner Of
agriculture's Office, in which Sheriff
Burton of breckenridge county talked
in an incendiary manner and was re-
proved by witness.
The day after the assassination the
witness said he began an investigation
to learn where the shot was fired from
The newspapers were intimating that
the shooting was done from his office.
81 made no statement to Golden that
was satisfied the shots came from my
office, and did not tell him I was
thinking of going to the common
wealth's attorney to tell him all knew
I did have talk with Governor Brad
ley about going to see Franklin, but he
advised against it, and I did not CO.
Powers then detailed the events inn
mediately preceding the arrest of him
self and Captain Davis He said HIS at
torney, Judge Yost, advised him to
make his way TO the mountains and re.
main there till public excitement died
out before giving himself up for trial
"The legislature had appropriated
$780, 600 for the prosecution of persons
charged with the crime and I did not
believe 1t was possible for me to get
fair trial in Franklin county More
over, did not believe the civil authori-
ties there would protect me- I did not
know that could get a change of venue
and these We're the reasons that sug-
gested flight from Frankfort
Of the 81 300 in money in his pockets
at the time Of his arrest $400 of 1t was
his own personal money and 5000 Of 1t
belonged to the Republican campaign
fund. The witness denied that he ever
had any one of q half dozen or more con-
versations with Witness Wharton Col
den, about which the latter told on the
stand last week, and denied that he ever
talked with him or any one else about
the killing of Goebel