The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-08-18
WILL Be DECIDED TODAY
POWERS CASE WILL GO TO THE
JURY SOME TIME THIS
AFTERNOON
LAST ADDRESS / FOR DEFENSE
E1-GOv. John Y. Brown Finished
for Powers, and Prosecution
Will Close This Morning
Yesterdays Proceedings.

GEORGETOWN. KY, Aug. 1.-THE ar
guments in the case Of Caleb Powers.
charged with being an accessory TO the
murder of William Goebel, was not con-
Guided today. the court refusing to hold
a night session CommonweaIth's At
torney Robert B.. Franklin will make thu
closing speech for the prosecution to-
morrow morning
The argument for the defense was
closed by ex-Goy. John Young Brown.
The entire morning session and nearly
an hour this afternoon was taken I'D by
Col T. c. Campbell for the prosecution.
In the latter part of his address to the
jury, Col. Campbell Hkened the circum-
stances Of the assassina ton of GoebeI to
that of Tom Baker, in Clay county. in
which Jim Howard figured, and he init
mated that Howard fired the shot but
subsequently said: 81 don't know who
fired the shot that killed Goebel. but 1t
was one Of the five principals named in
the indictment, Jim Howard, Berry How
ard, Henry Youtsey. Harland Whitaker
and Tallow Dick Combs, and every
one of them were there by procurement
of Caleb Powers and W. s. Taylor"
At the close Of Col Campbell's speech
the court announced a modification of
the seventh section of the instructions to
the jury. The modification defines the
words unlawful act to be ito alarm.
lncite, terrorize or do bodily harm"
This section instructs the jury that
Powers and others conspired to do an un-
lawful act and as result of this Will
Powers guilty of murder.
The largest crowd that has vet baen
IN attendance at the Powers trial throne-
ed the court house to hear the end of
the closing arguments. The proceedings
were delayed some time owing to the all
sence Of the defendant, who later arrived
IN charge Of a deputy, Col T. C. Camp-
oell, of Cincinnati, began addressing the
jury at $50 o'clock.
YOUTSEY IS BETTER.
Henry E. Youtsey, who has been
threatened with typhoid fever is reported
better today. His attorneys say he will
be ready for trial Monday.
Col. Campbell cited statistics showing
comparison OF the murders committed
in Kentucky and Ohio During the four
years of Gov. BradIey's admInistra tion
he said, there We're 1896 murders in Ken
lucky. There were. 2S5 convictions for
murder and 216 pardons of murderers.
For the same period Ohio, with double
the population Of Kentucky, had onIy 40
murders. Caleb Powers, the attorney
declared, had, in the brief time he acted
as secretary Of state, attested the par
dons Of seven murderers who were set
free by Gov. Taylor.
ne look the diagram OF the state cap
ltO grounds, and this in connection with
nP Of
the autopsy on the body of Goebel. were
USED In tracing the bullet BY this. he
said. 1t was conclusively proved that the
shot was fired from Caleb Powers office.
and defied the defense to try TO shake the
correctness Of the demonstration. He re-
ferred to Attorney, Owens. of the defense,
as one Of PewerSs fellow assassins. and
SAID that while he. always refrained from
calling men liars, the temptation was
great in the case of Lawyer Sinclair.
who made himself one of three witnesses
who testified that the sound did not come
from the direction of Powers, Office, while
over 1O0 other witnesses testified that 1t
did come from that direction
Col. CampbeT took up the evidence of
various witnesses and discussed its bear
ing upon the case. He declared that the
murder of Goebel had for its object the
permanent installment of an organizatio
whose strongest ally was a great corpora
ton to whom Goebel had been a thorn in
the flesh
"Culton. Golden and Noakes were" he
declared, good enough to take charge
of the mountain army and manage Pow
ers' political affairs Gin January, but it
suits the purpose of the defense now to
seek to impeach their veracity and char
acter, since they weakened and confessed
the details of the conspiracy Powers
own admissions ION the stand corroborat-
ing everything Culton had said is suffi-
cient to hang him.
Campbell continued:
"All shrewd criminals, of which class
Caleb Powers is one, first arrange for an
alibi. The mountain army was brought
to Frankfort, Jan. 25, and, thinking 1t
would perform it's murderous mission
Powers goes to bed at the house of John
Davis, a conspirator, but the foul deed
Is not committed, and Powers leaves his
bed and waits for another day. On Jan
80, the second appointed day, he delves
deeper into the work of establishing ar
advance alibi. He goes into exhaustive
details of locking his Office, though he
never locked it before and leaving fol
Louisville on pretense of bringing mors
men to Frankfort This time the plan /:
better laid, and as soon as the assassin.
bullet is fired from the secretary of state
| office, Powers raises his hands and ex
! claims: I am innocent, because was Ii
Louisville when the murder occurred +"
Ex-Gov. John Young Brown this after
noon made the closing speech for the de
| Tense in the Powers case.