Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-03-23
'|RE KENTUCKY lR|AL
Evidence Taken in the Case of Pow
ers, Charged With Murder
Of Goebel.
Special Police, Deputy sheriffs and
Soldiers on Guard at Frankfort
Court House.
The Testimony Today Was Not I'm
portant Golden Not Yet
Subpoenaed.

NuOpOOA0ONs
Frankfort Ky, March pa squad =
of severity five police officers and dep 5
uty sherins guarded the outer entrance
to the court house this morning while :
a file of soldiers stood at the doors and /
passed on the credentials of persons {
entering the room. The general public 5
was excluded by order of Judge Moore, s
only the attorneys, relatives of the ac-
| cused Witnesses and officers of the
court being admitted
The Lexington and Winchester COM
panies. armed with Winchesters, We're
| scattered thru the various rooms.
There was not much more than the or
! idinary crowd on the streets and therel'
was no excitement. Col. T. c. Camp
| bell and Arthur Goebel appeared at the
i court house ut $50. a few minutes
later Ex-Governor John Young Brown
with r.. Ramsey, r. c. Kinkead and
q j. c. Sims, attorney for the defense,
arrived.
4 Judge Moore convened court at 10
i o'cock. The prisoners Republican Sec
81 ItidIS III eoldtc aN-ultD IONSIS,a w. II. Il
lCulton and John Davis, We're brought
Into the court room, where they took
seats by their counsel. Commonwealth
witnesses were called. numbering for
ty. The name of Sergt Golden was not
in the list.
AT the conclusion of the call of com
:, monwealth witnesses County Attorney
!, Polsgrove announced that he was
ready for trial in the Powers case. EN-
Governor Brown then read the warrant
Eagainst Powers, charging him with be-
,iing accessory To the murder of Goebe
!. land asked the dismissal of the defend
LIANT on the ground that the warrant
n was fasally defective in not alleging
q that the crime was committed in
q Franklin county and did not even show
that the offense was committed in
Kentucky. Judge Moore overruled the
4 objection to the form of the warrant.
August Muninger, a CoTington un-
dertaker. was the first witness called.
: He did not answer and an attachment
, for him Was Issued by the court. AT
the request Of Ex-Governor Brown all
the witnesses We're excluded from the
n court room
~ Eph Liliard, warden of the Frankfort
penitentiarv was the first witness
4
e latter was shot. He was walking ahead
- of Cioebe and was just entering the
state mouse when the shot was fired.
He turned and looked toward the exec
u utive building and saw the second VIM
dow of the corner room slightly raised.
"a This was the office of the secretary of
state. He thought the shot was fired
from this room. There We're seyera'
other shots but he latter did not
lcome from the same place The first
shot was evidently from a rifle, While
Il the others seemed To be from pistols
on cross-examination by Brown, Lii
40 lard said he saw nobody in the room
"a from which the shots seemed to bf
IL fired ard ne saw no one in the mair
a door oi. on the steps Of the building a
~ the time Of the shooting. Asked i
!. he or Jack Chinn who Was With Goe
as bel drew a. pistol he said. u "a no
s. draw my pistol. and did not see Chin
g draw one. / don't think he did
- Policeman Wingate Thompson wa
!, the next witness. He WAS not in tn
;e state house yard when the shooting oc
ct cured but arrived as the crowd wa
= carrying Goebel out of the yard II
a1i saw armed men at the entrance of th
na executive building aud recognized Joh
IS. i'asts aili aili l''its iis'' ii''
=, Detective Dee Armstrong. of Louis
a vile, the next witness, salu aiisr V
- military authorities allowed detective
NJ to enter the executive pliiiai'ls, ia y
mt after the shootlhg. ne Nisiien me Ns'i'
- Gus state offices for the purpose of Sc
N curing the names ol lhs persons -
,r.sre IN tha building al the time of th
~ shooting He said Secretary Powers re
> fused to tell him who Was in the oitic
10, ,.1,a ,f 81 !, 10 ,
EN- ~ s,aati,,g h,,t said he 4 Powers, wa
'lll ont az the city that day. AT 1905 III
d. corrt adjourned until 1890.
The court reconvened at l4O. I'll
prosecntion said no witnesses we,
present and some debate ensued ov,
fbe ,so,,est of Attorney Sims OF ii