The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1900-04-03
KENTUCKY'S
BIG TRIAL
Accused GoebeI Killers
in Court.
TESTIMONY IS VERY THIN
No Very Great Progress Made in
the Anti-RepubIican Con
spiracy.


Seventy-ive extra police officers and
deputy sheriffs guarded the outer en-
trance to the court house today, while
"a file of soldiers stood at the doors and
passed on the credentials of persons en-
tering the room. The cause of this dis
play of force was the opening of the
preliminary hearing of the Goebel sus-
poets. The general public was excluded
by an order of Judge Moore, only at
torneys, relatives of the deceased, wit
nesses and officers of the court being
admitted. Those admitted, however,
soon filled the court room, which is on
the second floor of the building. The
Lexington and Winchester militia com
panies, armed with Winchesters, were
scattered through various rooms. Only
the usual crowd was on the streets and
there was no excitement.
Colonel T. c. Campbell and Arthur
Goebel appeared at the court house at
$3.50 o'clock. A few minutes later ex-
Governor John Young Brown, w. K.
Ramsey, r. c. Kinkead, and J. Z. Sims,
attorneys for the defense, arrived.
Judge Moore convened court at 10
o'clock.
The prisoners, Republican Secretary
Of State Caleb Powers, w. H. Culton
and John Davis, were brought into the
cour. room, and took seats by their
counsel. The commonwealth witnesses
were called, numbering forty. The
name of Sergeant Golden was not in the
list.
At the conclusion of the call of the
commonwealth witnesses County At
torney Potsgrove announced that he
was ready for the trial to proceed.
Ex-Governor Brown read the war
rant against Powers which charged him
with being accessory to the murder of
William Goebel. Governor Brown ask
ed for dismissal of defendant on the
ground that the warrant was defective
in not stating that the crime was COM
mitted IN Franklin County and did not
show the offense to have been COM
mitted in Kentucky. County Attorney |
PotsgIove said the warrant followed
the lines lad down in criminal cases. |
Juuge Moore overruled the objection to
the form of the warrant.
August Muninger, Covington I'M
dertaker, was called as the first wit
ness. He did not answer, and an at
tachment for him was issued by the
court. The witnesses present were Or
dered to retire and were admonished
not to talk to anybody
Judge George Denny and w. G. Dun
lap, of Lexington, who had been added
to the list of attorneys for the defense
took seats with their associate counsel.
Eph Lillard warden of the Frankfort
penitentiary, was the first witness
sworn. He testified that he was with
Senator Goebel when the latter was
shot. He walked ahead OF Senator
Goebel and was just entering the state
hn oh t q
turned back from the state house steps
and saw what had happened. He look
ed toward the executive building and
saw that the second window of the cor
ner room was slightly raised. This was
the office of the Secretary of State.
He thought the shot had been fired
from this room There were several
other shots, but he said they did not
come from the same place. The first
shot was evidently from rifle, while
the Others seemed to be from pistols.
Cross eXamined by Ex-Governor
Brown, Colonel Lillard said he saw no.
body IN the room from which the shots
seemed to have been fired and he did
not see anyone in the main door or
on the steps of the building at the time
of the shooting.
There was long wrangle between
the attorneys over the question wheth-
er witnesses who had been examined
might remain in the court room. The
attorneys for defense objected to allow
ing witnesses to remain because many
of them would be witnesses in the trials
of Davis and Culton later, in which
practically the same issues were involv-
ed. Judge Moore, however, ruled that
witnesses who had testified might re-
main.
Policeman Wingate Thompson was
the next witness introduced. He was :
not in the State-house yard when the
shooting occurred, but arrived as the
crowd was carrying Senator Goebel
out of the yard. He saw armed men q
at the entrance to the Executive build {
ing and recognized John Davis and |
Berry Howard among them. /
Detective Dee Armstrong, of Louis I
vile, said that after the military au- G
thorities allowed the detectives to en-
ter the Executive building several days :
after the shooting, he visited the va y
rious State officers for the purpose of
securing the names of persons who
were in the building at the time of the $
shooting. He said that Secretary Pow I
ers refused to tell him who were in /
the Office of the Secretary of State at
the time of the shooting and declined n
TO say who was in charge, but said
that he (Powers) was out of the city
that day.
At 1905 court adjourned until 1880.
President Mckinley Interviewed. i,
WASHINGTON, March 23.-Col. An
drew Cowan. a merchant OF Louisville,
KY, Samuel ]. Roberts, editor of the
Lexington Leader, and John Marshall, a
Republican Lieutenant Governor of the I,
State, all prominent Republicans and o
friends OF Governor Taylor, called at II
the White House before the Cabinet
meeting today and had half hours n
with the President on the j
political situation in Kentucky. On Il
leaving the Executive mansion they z