The sun., 1900-07-28
Win oo.b.l and lat th.m kir htm IN he dinins

with ooebsl and lot them kin him In the dinins
room. objected 10 this plan and told him
EN- Farmer wanted TO kill Goebel and IL would
be better to bring Farmer down and let him
kill Goebel In "A fiRht on the street. He also
told me that IL Goebel was killed it would dis
organize the party. as nobody else could hold II
together
When Woodson the civil engineer. was sur
vey'ng from the bullet hole in the tree to
Powers's Office IN February. was In Powers 9
offlce and asked him about its purpose. and he
said there was no doubt about them proving
the shot was fred from his office, and said he
believed he would send for the Commonwealth 9
Attorney and tell what he knew abouti It. told
him to see Judge Yost first.
Gov, Taylor asked me early In January II
we had any man In the Legislature who would
start a fight In that body. told him thought
Hail OF Louisville would do IL. and We had men
to back him up II he did. TAYLOR said:
"ltisa horrible thing to kill men, but II looks
like Goebel. and that gang must be killed be-
fore this thing Is over
The day before. or on the morning Of tho
shooting. +. J. Howard said to Gov. Taylor in
his Office; Why don't you call out the troopsf'
Taylor replied
will be ready with the troops.
John and Caleb Powers were present
Weeks later. when the detective told me how
much was thought to be implicated In the
conspiracy. told Caleb Powers what the detsc-
i've knew. and Powers said.
"'You had better give yourself up for you
have not done anything: but you are not the
man they want--they are after me-
hn A. ou lot NJ n
came TO Frankfort early in January. each one
wore little black pin. The big lot Of men wore
white silk badges with pictures OF Gov. Taylor.
When Powers sent me after these men he said
he wanted the regular mountain feudists. men
who would stand up and fight"
The cross-examination had just begun and a
few questions asked about where witness had
been living since last March when court ad-
iourned until to- morrow. Golden said he was
now living near Cincinnati and that Arthur
Goebel had helped him to get a Job.
The prosecution % confident OF closing its
testimony tomorrow.
INDIANAPOLIS, July ?7.-Gov Mount has been
q close student OF the testimony that has been
adduced In the trial OF Caleb Powers at George
town. KY. and has been receiving the Demo-
cratic and Republican papers from Kentucky
and reading every line Of the news that they
contained. lie Is said to b very much I'm
pressed with the testimony referring 70 tho con-
nection Of Gov. Taylor and Charles Finley
with the conspirators and especially 50
regar ding Finley. Some Of his friends say
that his mind Is undergo ding q change. When
asked to-day what he would do In the lisht Of
the evidence given n he were asked to honor a
reauisition for the return Of Taylor and Fin
ley, he said:
'I am watching the progress OF the trial
closely. but abso 'utely refuse to give an opin-
ion "a 10 what might do in case Power is
convicted. II the time TO take up another re-
QUESTION comes then It Will be time enough to
decide. / have not decided irrevocably either
way. think II improper for me to make fur
ther statement at this time"