The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-07-24
f a)EBEL MURDER Case
EXCUSES A NUMBER
OF WITNESSES.
$50. Rscketts. of Capt. John Pow
- Company. Was the Chief wit
.ess Of the Day-TestiAes as to
ecesresces at Executive building

onoRGETowN, KY. July 23-The
- room was only about half filled
- specsators when the Powers ca--
- called today. The prosecution .ave
s<tee that they would excuse half a
go persons summoned as witnesses for
~ ode.
lc,ors those excused was Ike Golden.
,.sfhsr of sergt +. Wharton Golden,
,t~uf. Ricketts,. an officer in the Bar
s-srsyflle militia, OF which John Powers
- captain. was the first witness today.
:. arrived at Fran--.ort January %. with
~ main load OF mountaineers. Before the
IN reached Frankfort witness said the
- we're told to report TO w. II. Gull
q. for rations. The men were armed
"A rns and pistols. Arriving at Frank
- they took possession OF the aericul-
uvsl building and stacsed their guns
bsge Witness said each morning
,~oxd Of from 200 10 800 mountain men
,<cgpied the yard In front OF the exec
yuse building. Witness had a CONVERSE
An With Youtsey the day before the as
nsssns,ion. Youtsey said that Gosbei had
u b. out OF the way and he CYoutsey) had
- which he would give for that purpose
"a knew ten OF twelve men who would
~ contribute to such fund. Youtsey
A&0 s&fu OptUrl foutu Do hfffeu from the
spseutivs building. that the assassin
sid escape through the basement and
pvsr be detected. Fifteen minutes be-
me the assassination witness .~ You,-
~, and the latter told him he wanted
fvsnty-fve or thirty men to accompany
u TO the executive building. Continu-
Il, the witness said: "Yoftsey put us in
~ the executive building near the stairs.
y told US something was going to hap.
= and we must remain there. When he
ssrfed through the hall left and went
10 private residence across the street
I'm the building. I had been there only
fsw minutes when I heard the shot
! I'D not know any OF the men whom I
n at tho foot Of the stairs I'm the exec
~ building"
witness explained that the men whom
ysuissy placed Just outside the once Of
~ secretary OF state. He said he left
! case OF killing. Cross-exs mined, the
vtness said -siat when Youtsey placed
~ men In the hall he told them as soon
y "somsthing happened a man would
pne down tho steps and 20 away with
I'm. Witness said that when Youtsey
= the men he went In tho direction OF
II governors ONCE.
4 .. coomes, private secrstary to Ap-
- He told OF a conversation between
w mount aineers In tho house lobby a
~ or two before the assassination, In
u1ich they spoke of picking them out"
inning the Democrats
psrfng the cross-cxamination OF coombs.
peGov Brown objected to testimony that
uDunfaineers went TO Frankfort armed,
\ the right to carry arms was CON
hutton privilege. The court took issue
this point ana said that the law did
4 permit crowds Of armed mon not In
n military service and called out I'm
y regular way to gather for any pur-
~.
Adit. Gen. Murray read "A let
' which he found on file In his office at
Pankfort, having been left there at the
ne OF the evacuation OF the Taylo-
IN. Collier, dated June "a Powers says;
Ne have undertaken a SERIOUS matter.
Y must win. We must have the men
N guns"