The age-herald., 1900-07-28
WHARTON GOLDEN
 4 STAR WITNESS He Again Gives Damaging EVi- dence Against PoWeTs' HAMPTON CAUSED SENSATION Republican Member of the Legislature Said Gov. Taylor Wanted Them
 to Start a Fight and He
 Would Back Them.
HAMPTON CAUSED SENSATION

l Georgetown, Ky, July 27-The prosecu. l tion placed its star witness, F. Wharton | Golden, on the stand this afternoon, and unless plans are changed will rest its cause | so far as the commonwealth Is concerned at the conclusion of his testimony tomor- | row. Golden's testimony as far as 1t went this afternoon did not vary from that given | by him at Powers examining trial and on l the hearing of Cultons motion for bail at | Frankfort. He went over the details of the | organization of the mountain people who | were brought to Frankfort, and reiterated that it was the purpose of these men, him. 1 self included to kill off enough Democratic l legislators to give the Republicans a ma | jority.
 Louis w. Hampton, Republican member of the Legislature from Powers home county, gave sensational testimony against both Powers and ex-Governor Taylor. Hampton testified that Governor Taylor wanted the Republican members to start fight in the house, and assured them that he as Governor would back them up. The first witness called in the Powers
 
 Barbourville, who was candidate for the Democratic nomination for Governor before the recent State Convention. He testified as to the letter which Powers wrote James Stevens of Barbourville, February 20. in which the statements, T am largely re- sponsible for the disorganized condition of the Democrats" 'I am an open advocate of war;" were used.
 Private Dudley Williamson, who was a member of the military company which was | called out and took charge of the State House immediately after Gobel was shot, l testified that members of the company were drawn up Tn the arsenal that morn- ing prior to the shooting They were given overcoats and side arms about an hour be- fore the shooting
 Witness said that the company had been Kept inside the arsenal since the Leeisla- ture met but previous to that day had not been uniformed
 D. H. Sinclair, former manager of the Postal Telegraph Cable Company, of Frankfort, testified as to many telegrams sent through his office before and after the shooting. Some related to calling out the militia, others to supplies fof the mountaineers who came to Frankfort be- fore the shooting.
 Sinclair was subjected to a rigid cross- examination, which was conducted by Governor Brown.
 saw Muzzle of the Gun George Weaver of Denver, Col, was the i next witness. He was in Frankfort at the | time of the assassination and was just | entering the capital grounds when the shot was fired. When the shot was fired, witness looked in the direction of the ex- ecutive building and saw the muzzIe of a gun protruding from the Secretary of States office. Witness said he thought he ' saw the hand of holding a gun. Witness had never been in Frankfort be- fore that date and left that afternoon.
 In the cross-examination by Judge Sims, witness said he was native of London, Ky; went to Colorado in 1S7l lived at Trinidad, Hastings and other small points in Colorado, but claims Denver as his home now, his family being there. Followed the occupation of barber until last fall; since then had been employed by the Woodmen of the World, fraternal organization. Weaver could not recollect anything about the weather on the day of the shoot ing, and could not give very good account of his movements while in Frankfort. The point at which the witness located himself al the time of the shooting was almost in line of the hackberry tree from which the bullet was extracted, according to the the ory of the prosecution, it being the bullet that had passed through Goebers body. He says he heard bullet strike near him and that he then turned and left.
 Sensational Testimony
 w. H. Mayner of Whitley county, gave sensational testimony against both Powers and Youtsey last afternoon. He said he was in the Secretary of States office few days before the killing, and that a man whom he did not know, referring to Goebel, said: Somebody ought to kill the d-n rascal"
 Youtsey said q have made up my mind to do that myself"
 On. Saturday before the shooting Caleb Powers said in conversation:
 "If we could get the head of the ticket to act we could do something. If he does not stand up, intend to expose the whole d-n business"
 Golden the stand
 Thomas C. Campbell conducted the exam- ination in chief. Golden started out by telling that he was a guard at the Frank fort penitentiary under the Republican ad- ministIation from 1896 to 1898, and was an applicant for assistant adjutant general under General Taylor last winter. Caleb Powers came to him in January and asked him to go to the mountains and get crowd of mountain feudists to bring to Frankfort. Powers accompanied witness part of the way on the trip, and witness went through Harlan, Bell and other counties, getting up the crowd. Receipts from Hamp How ard Dr. Bingham and other mountain men for money paid to them by Golden were produced and exhibited to the jury. Witt ness got the money from Powers
 At Barboursville Golden saw Powers and Charles Finley. Finley said We will go down there and petition the Legislature, and if they don't drop that thing we will kill them"
 Powers, who was present, spoke approv- ingly. Powers and witness went to see Scott Green, of Knox County. to ask him