Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-08-07

DOrh0Od OF the Capital hotel. he was
rebuked by Powers.
N. R. Bullock, of Lexington, gave
some entirely new testimony. Wit
ness said he was in the adjutant gem
erals Office when the shooting oc-
CURED. He came out and saw Jack
Chin walking rapidly into the state
house. A man was standing behind
the fountain in a STOPPING position.
Witness could not tell whether he was
white or black, and did not know what
became of him.
Stuart Staut, Governor Taylor's stem
ographer, testified he was
In the Governors Room
when the shooting occurred. When
Iaylor heard what had happened, he
expressed fear that all of the occupants
of the executive building would be
mobbed. They broke into the Office OF
the secretary of state to get some guns
deposited there, with which to pro-
tect themselves. Witness said Governor
Taylor told Captain Sharp, of Lexing
ton, to arm everybody in the building
and take charge of the men.
At the afternoon session ex-Gover-
nor Brown, for the defense, made long
argument in support of his position that
the defense was entitled to show in
evidence that the occupants of the ex-
ecutive building after the assassina-
ton heard threats on the part of the
populace, and that they acted upon this
in arming themselves and excluding
the public and civil officers from the
shooting. The prosecution argued that
the commonwealth should not be en-
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that might or might not nave been
made by irresponsible parties, and that
this character of proof could not be
offered in justification of the course Of
those who had possession of the build
ing. The court ruled that the witness
might
Relate Amy Specific Threat
which he himself heard, but that he
could not tell of common rumor or
threats which had come to him sec
ond-handed. The defense reserved an
exception to this ruling
Stenographer Stout, who was on the
stand when court adjourned at noon,
continued his testimony He told Of
Youtsey coming into the executive Of
fee carrying a rifle a few minutes after
the shooting Governor Taylor was not
armed when he first came into the
Office, but went back and got a pistol.
Wharton Golden was recalled for the
third time and was asked if he had told
j. NJ. Owens in the presence of ]. c.
Owens that Powers was innocent but
that they could take 100000 and hang
the savior and all of the apostles"
Golden said he never said it to Ow-
ems or any one else. J. M. Owens was
then called, but the court excluded
the greater part of his testimony on the
ground that the defense had examined
Golden on this matter. F. Clay Elkin,
postmaster at Lexington, testified as to
a conference between Powers, the wit
ness and other Republican leaders af-
ter Representative Berry was unseated.
He said it was at one time decided that
Berry should attempt to hold his seat
on the ground that the vote oustirg
him vas Illegal, but said this was aban-
doned. He denied that it was determ-
ined at any time to precipitate con-
fiict in the house over this matter
A. r. Wing, of Bowling Green, was
introduced to further impeach witness
Robert Noaks, but the questions put to
him
Were Ruled Ont as Irrelevant.
d. Gray Falconer, of Lexington, tes-
tined further regarding the conference
at Lexington following the unseating
of the secretary and also as to matters
that transpired on the day of the assas-
sination. He received a telegram from
S. G. Sharpe at Frankfort, asking him
to come to Frankfort and bring 500
men. He went himself but took no
men. He remained in the executive
building that night with some of the
'oeate officials who did not go to their
homes.
At the conclusion of his testimony
the court adjourned until tomorrow.