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W. h. Culton duplicates Taylor In Goebel'S
Assassination.
AUTHORIZED TO GIVE YOUTSEY MONEY,
Provided the Latter Would Leave
hentucky--The Cases to Be Tried
on the First Monday in June.

Frankfort, Ky. May 3,-The second day
for William H. Culton, the defendant who
gave such startling testimony yesterday,
ended with the case unfinished. Culton
resumed his testimony this morning and
continued on the stand until nearly noon,
This afternoon Judge Cantrill announced
that as the council had failed to agree as
to date for the trials of Secretary of State
Powers, Youtsey, Whitaker, Davis and
Combs, venued to Scott county, he would
call a special term of court in Scott coun
ty, at Georgetown, to begin tho second
Monday in June. Judge Cantrlll said
all OF the cases transferred will be called
and assigned on hearing, but that it will
doubtesssbe impossible to finish up more
than one or two of them during the term.
The assassination cases, all told. in the
opinion of the lawyers, will string out
during the greater part of the next twelve
months,
The most important testimony brought
out this afternoon was that of two phys-
clans who assisted in the autopsy on the
body of Governor Goebel This had never
been made public before. DR. T. r.
WEIGH Of Jessamlne county, State sem
ator, who was also one of Goebel's ply
sicians, conducted the autopsy, assisted
by Drs. K. p. Hume and J. K. Ely.
Or. Welch gave long technical state
ment about the bullet entering the right
side and passing out on the left side.
DIR. Ely corroborated DR.. Welch.
ID. NJ. Woodson, the civil engineer who
made the measurements in the State house
yard, exhibited map showing the yard
and buildings trees and other things and
the streets adjacent,
The bullet, which was cut out of hack
berry tree near where Goehel fell and
which is supposed to have passed through
| his body, was produced in court. 1t has
been in the custody OF the prosecution.
The demonstrations on the map made
by the witness We're for the purpose OF
showing that the shot was fired from
window in the office Of the secretary OF
state.
W. H. culton In his testimony today
stated that Taylor authorized the witness
to give Yoatsey any amount OF money de-
sired II he would leave Kentucky
At a conference in Lexington the Sum
day before Governor Goebel was shot It
was decided that Representative Henry
Berry, who had been unseated few days
before. should go to the house of repre-
sentatives next morning and take his seat
and refuse to give it up,
Van Metre. his opponent. was TO be in
some way prevented from going to the
hall shat morning.
Caleb Powers, who was at the confer
ence, telephoned to Taylor at Frankfort
two or three times in regard to the con-
ference
On REORGANIZATION Culton said he did
not know OF am list OF State senators or
representatives who were to be put out
OF thesway
On redirect examination Culton said
that Sergeant at Arms Haley signed the
subpoenas for Witnesses for Taylor to tes-
tlty before the guberrstorial contest com.
mittee, and authorized cullon to deputize
good men in the various counties TO serve
them,
culton said he did rot know where
Powers or Youtsey were when the shot
was fired At the last talk he had with
fousoy, the latter said the plan to kill
Goebel had been abandoned, culton had
been asked by Taylor for advice as 70
what the witnesses knew. because he was
lawyer,
To the prosecution he said be had told
more now on the stand than to any person
except his father.- His testimony Is ended.