The age-herald., 1900-07-29
THE EVIDENCE
 AGAINST POWERS Prosecuting Attorney Campbell
 Gives Out Statement SAYS PROOF IS CONCLUSIVE Some Interesting Mathematical
 Calculations. THE BULLET WAS METAL-JACKETED From the Evidence it You'd Appear Conclusive That the Fatal Shot
 Was Fired from Powers Office Window
Some Interesting Mathematical
 Calculations.
THE BULLET WAS METAL-JACKETED

Frankfort, Ky, July 2S.-The prosecution in the Caleb Powers case through T. T. Campbell, gave out the following state- ment tonight after resting it's case:
 It is proven that the shot come from the office of the defendant, Caleb Powers.
 First, by direct testimony of two wit nesses, who saw the rifle when fired and by eight others who located the place of firing by the sound.
 Second, by the following facts: The window sill whence the bullet was fired is lS feet, inches higher than the point where it struck into the tree, distance 197 feet. The descent of the bullet was such that it would cross the spot where Goebel fell, 53A inches above the pavement. The autopsy found the point of entrance in Goebers breast SPA inches from the soles of his feet. Add the elevation gained by the socks and shoes and you get 5S1s inches.
 Third, the cartridge which was used in killing Goebel was a metal-jacket, loosely called steel cartridge, smokeless cartridge, a kind not used by the militia of Kentucky. This fact is established by: (A) the defendant. Powers, asked Robert Noaks to get him steel cartridges, 1899;
 
 office did procure from gun store in Cin- cinnati steel cartridges (socaled) 3S-55 on the Esd day of January, 1900; co, the bull let fired from the office of the Secretary of State and found embedded in the tree Is a metal jacket bullet 33-35; (D), the size of the opening of the wounds of entrance and exit was the same, viz three-eighths of an inch (3s caliber). Had leaden bull 1af haan ba ,f ..xg& have been larger. (E), that the cartridge used was smokeless is evinced by the fact that the many witnesses looking at the point whence the rife was Iired, saw no smoke. Youtsey, clerk and stenographer, pointed out to w. II. Cuton, who was w. s. Taylors confidential man, that the 'slickest plan for the murder of Goebel which he could think of would be to raise the window in the Secretary of States of- flee, lower the blind point the rifle and fire.'
 The laa Folosed
 This the exact plan followed in kill- ing Goebel. Youtsey had the key to Pow CTS office, given to him by Powers broth- CT on the day before Goebel was shot. Powers letter to his women friends and others, in which he declared that the dis organized condition of the Democratic party after the shooting, but before the death of Goebel was due more to him than to any one else, shows that for a time he believed he had earned the plaudits which should be given to a hero, and that the killing of Goebel was really meritorious as the cabal had taught themselves and others to believe 1t would be.
 'The testimony of W. H. Cuton, Assist ant Auditor of State, that Powers, a few days before the shooting of Goebel, quar- relied with Taylor and was going to send home the mountain men, is pregnant. His description of the quarrel the efforts he made to bring the two men there the fact that Powers damned Taylor as a fellow without any backbone and the damning of Powers by Taylor as a hot-headed fool, is a circumstance taken in and to overcome 1t Cultons testimony must be destroyed.
 "The testimony of Noaks, who for F years was the friend and companion of Finley and Powers, his declaration that Powers desired desperate men from his company to be retained for the purpose of murder; hus further statement that Pow CTS declared the contest would end as quickly as Goebel was killed, means the conviction of Powers unless Powers can break Noaks' evidence down.
 GoIden's Testimony
 'The testimony of Wharton Golden, the lifetime companion of Powers, his able adiutant in all of the maneuvers to bring the mountain HIS coHluttHt III HIS lonely walks to the cemetery, the man he tcok with him to Louisville, the man to whom he confessed that he would go to Franklin and Potsgrove, the State and county officials and tell all, proves the guilt of Powers. To escape, Powers must destroy Goulden's testimony. The testd- mony of Representative Hampton of Knox County that Taylor, Powers chief, asked him (Hampton) to go the Legislature, bring en a fight and kill enough of his opponents to give him security, is of so startling a nature that one might not believe it were 1t not for the fact that no man in eastern Kentucky has better established a reputa- tion for strict honesty and truth than has Luke Hampton. All the Powers, Finleys and Taylors who can be found in Ken- lucky united together cannot break down Luke Hampton.
 'The close intimacy existing between Powers and Youtsey is more than thrice- told tale in the evidence of this case. Pow CTS is abundantly connected with the prin- cipal who fired the shot, whether that prin- cipal be Youtsey, Jim Howard or Dick Combs; to one or the other of the three Powers was an accessory before the fact, He furnished Youtsey the key to get into his office. He conveniently left his office op the fatal day so that the pretence could
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