The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1900-04-05
DICK COMBS HAS
BEEN ARRESTED.
CuIton's Confession Does Not
Charge Him With the Act
uaI Shooting.
CHARGES AGAINST YOUTSEY.
He Denies That He Owned the Rifle
With Which GOebel Was Killed and
That He Carried 1t AWAY.

Frankfort, KY, March 29.-Henr,
E. Youtsey was arraigned befor
County Judge Moore to-day, charges
with completely in the Goebel assas
sination as accessory before the fact
foutsey was unaccompanied by hi,
attorneys and asked that his case bt
passed until they had decided whether
he should stand examination OF
await the action of the grand Jury
next week.
'Tallow Dick Combs was arrested
in Beattyville this afternoon on an
old sentence for violating the liquor
| laws. He will be rearrested on a new
warrant charging him with being ac-
cessOry to the assassination when he
has been removed to Winchester.
The warrant was sworn out in Clark
county. Lee county republicans will
endeavor to prevent his transfer by
habeas corpus proceedings. 1t is al
most certain. in view of Culton's con-
fessiOn, that Combs did not fire the
shot.
Not only is Youtsey charged with
having purchased steel bullets, one
OF which was used by the assassin.
but it is also asserted that as a re-
suit of the confession evidence has
been adduced that the shot was fired
from rifle owned by Youtsey. Yout-
sey says the rife has been ratified of.
but he declines to say where it now
is.
Youtsey fed by way of the base
ment to the office of the governor
when the shot was fired, having been |
IN the office of the secretary of state
or just outside the private entrance
to 1T. 1t was observed by witnesses
that he walked stiff-legged, but Yout-
sey denies that he was carrying away
the fatal weapon, saying his revolver
had slipped down his trousers leo
and that it was not the rife which
him to run that way. Taylor
vas In his office when Youtsey arrived
~ way of the basement and the east
ioor, and through this door Captain
John Davis and Holland Whitaker
Immediately after emerged and ran
% the office OF Adjutant General Col
Ter to give the call for the assembling
If the militia. Ii
There are witnesses to show that
he militia was in readiness for the 4
all an hour before the shooting.
hey had been assembled in the arse |,
al, and overcoats and cartridges {
ad been issued to them.
When the call came they were in I
Ill marching order, and came i'm :
ledlately, on the double-quick, thus |
eng able to instantly surround the
ne building, which prevented the po- r
&c officers from getting into the o
ulldlng to make a search for the as +
ASSN, who is said to have ESCAPED Ic
the next day or two, when two full q
'giments of militia had been called
ut, and had taken possession of the
uilding.
The commonwealth claims to have
uch more damaging evidence.
hlch 1T has not made public, and
Ill not make public until the grand
rS meets, when the whole matter
LII be laid before it. Thegrand jurv
Ill assemble Monday, and probably
Ill devote its entire time TO the as
lssInatlon conspiracy.
The Court of appeals held its final
sslon OF the spring term to-day
lndlnS down about forty opinions.
he court refused TO meet ar the
atehouse, because of the armed
EN- and the soldiers and owing to
e threats of assassination which
we been made. 1t met at the res
ance of Justice White.
On Monday the court will po m
where it will sit to decide
e governorship case. The Judges
IL not return until April term. nv
nch time the armed forces now as
N bled probably will have been
ut away.
london, March %. SIS a m
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