The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1900-10-26
Sensational Trial at Georgetown
Results IN Verdict Of Guilty.
JURY DESIGNATEST THE PENALTY
verdict Was Reached On First
Ballot---Sentence Deferred and
Prisoner Remanded to Jail.

we, the jury, find this defendant
guilty, and fix his punishment at
life imprisonment"
This verdict was returned bv the
twelve men who we're selected to try
Henry E. Youtsey, formerly Governor
Iaylor's stenographer, on the charge
OF being a principal in the shooting Of
Governor William Goebel in front of
the executive building at Frankfort,
January Both.
When the jury entered the court.
room at Georgetown a few minutes
after 9 o'clock Saturday morning,
Judge Cantrill asked:
Gentlemen, have you made YER
dict2"
F"reman R. H. MoCabe nodded his
hel
the papers to the clerk, "
saIu va Judge.
The sheriff passed them up, and the
clerk then read the following verdict:
I'VE, the jury, find the defendant
guilty, and fix the punishment at con-
finement in the peuitentiary for life. "
"Gentlem en-, is that your verdict?"
asked the Judge.
at is. was the reply.
Gentlemen, you are now finally
discharged, and you can call on the
trustees of the jury fund for your pay"
said Judge Cantrill
The jury filed out of the room, and
the most dramatic trial in the Ken
lucky courts for many years was at an
end.
1t was learned that no b0llot was
taken Friday night, although its prac-
tically agreed that verdict of guilty
would be found.
Saturday morning the vote was
unanimous that Youtsey was guilty.
Then the degree of punishment was
taken up. On this question the jury
was somewhat divided, but finally
agreed upon the life sentence.
Henry Youtsey is the third man to
be found guilty in connection with the
Goebel shooting.
Caleb Powers, tried on the charge
OF completely, was sentenced to life
imprisonment, while James Howard.
tried on an indictment charging him
with being a principal in the shooting,
was sentenced to death.
: During the early days of Youtsey's
trial the prisoner exhibited signs of
breaking down. While Arthur Goebel.
brother to the dead man, was on the
stand testifying, Youtsey rose in the
prisoners dock and denounced the
witness in wild ordinations, while
Youtsey's wife screamed that Goebel
had sworn away the life of her hus-
band.
Later the prisoner became uncon-
scions and, according to attending ply
sicians, has since practically been in
animate. Each day his bed had been
carried to the door of the jury room,
where it stood in plain view of tho
court, its occupant apparently oblivi-
our to his surrounding.
Motions for a continuance were over
ruled by Judge Cantrill, who declared
that he was powerless to stop the trial
unless the defendant be adiudged a
lunatic. Youtsey, on Friday. showed
considerable improvement, however,
and his physicians stated that he had
resumed taking nourishment in the
regular manner, while his respiration
was rapidly becoming normal.
The defense filed motion for an ar
rest Of judgment, and Judge Cantrill
set it for hearing on the second day of
the February term. Therefore, Yout-
sey will not be sentenced until next
year.
Youtsey was ordered removed to the
Frankfort Jail,
Alabama Has 1,s2S,60 Population.