The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-03-21
SCENE SHIFTS TO LEXINGTON
GOLDEN REACHES THAT CITY I'M
MYSTERIOUS MANNER, AND
EVADES INTERVIEWERs
HIS TALK AT WINCHESTER
Anf1mated That He Would Do All He
Could to Shield Friends, but
Would First Look Out
for Himself.

AEAlNGTON, KY, March 2O-Ss srgeant
+. Wharton Golden, the man allege1 70
nave made discriminating statements in
Ihe Goeocl murder, arrived here in COM
pahy with his attorney, Smith HAYES. TO-
hlght' shortly after o'clock They came
from winchester. Their movements have
peen Kept in the dark, and thei. presence
was not known until several hours after
their arrival. They did not register at
| the Phoenix hotel, but 1t is stated. Gold
en- went through the rear door Of the
FhoenlX and subsequently to his room
| in the hotel
another and most probable story Is that
they were met by a carriage and driven
TO the home Of Goebel Democrat in the
north end Of the city
AS the hotel clerk knew nothing Of their
arrival, efforts to find Golden proved fu-
Tile. Many rumors are flying. - One is
| that he is trying to get away from Goebel
lhnuences but he Is closely WATCHED.
Another rumor is that he is here for
further conference with GoebeI ATTORNEYS
| tomorrow.
GOLDEN AT WINCHESTER.
LOUISVILLE, KY, March 2O-The sto-
rles growing out Of the conference be-
| tween Sergeant F. Wharton Golden. of
the Barboursville company Of state MIL
itia, and the attorneys who are managing
tina investigation of the assassination OF
Gov. Goebel, have caused a sensation
throughout the state. Golden viii be
piaced on the stand by the prosecution in
the trial of the persons already arrested
FOR alleged completely in the assassina-
| ton. hllt inform
nature OF testimony he is expected TO
give is lacking. Attorneys Campbell and
| Polsgrove naturally decline to discuss the
matter and Golden himself win say
nothing.
Specials from Winchester say Golden is
stlll at that place, in company with his
attorney. The two spend most of the
! time about the hotel. They see all callers.
however, and talk freely on AN subjects
| except that of Golden's reported confess
sion.
| Il will do all can for my friends, all
the time" Golden is reported as saying.
'But must first be true to myself. When
the time comes I will tell all l know.
| Whatever else may be said about me I
| don't think l can be accused of being a
! liar, coward or a Democrat, and I
want it distinctly understood that am
not here under guard"
NAME OF ASSASSIN.
The story is published that Golden has
! divulged to the attorneys the name of the
man who fired the shot that killed Gov.
| Goebel The person mentioned Is mu-
latto, who formerly lived at Winchester,
was prominent in the French -EversoIe
| fpn0 ic
man is now supposed to be in the wiIds
of one OF the mountain counties. Evil
dence that he was in Frankfort at the
time of the assassination was found
among papers taken from Coulton.
| clerk in the auditors Office, when the
| latter was arrested a week ago, on a
warrant charging him with being an ac-
| cessory to the murder.
Among these papers are receipts for
board bills amounting to about $500. in
CURED by eighteen men who were in
Frankfort for some time before and at
| the time Goebel was shot In one of
these receipts the name Of the mulatto
| mentioned is given. The receipt in this
case is for money received from John
Perkins by Bettina Pittman, for the
board of three men. Perkins is porter
ABOUT the state mouse.
BECKHAM GAINS a POINT
Judge Field today sustained the demur-
rer of counsel for Gov. Beckham ard
granted the motion to strike out c,rt lin
parts of the amended reply Of tie r.
pubicans in the consolidated glIbernlto.
rial contest suits. With this went iud =
ment, signed by Judge Field, III conforms
ity with this decision, and the fo mer
one sustaining the first demurrer and mo-
ton to strike out. The judgment Is inter-
locutory, not final, and two questions Of
fact still remain TO be pass j on by
Judge Field: Was or was not Gov. Beck
ham of the requisite constitutional age?
Was or was not Gov. Goebels death be-
fore or after the legislature had declared
him the legally elected governor OF the
commonwealth
When Judge Field passes on these two
points, dispositions on which are now be-
ing taken the next step will be an appeal
by the Republicans to the court of ap-
peals.
MCCORMACK DEPOSITION.
The deposition of Dr. ]. N Mccormack,
of the state board of health, was taken
today concerning points raised in the
pending case before the court of appeals
in the contest for the governorship. DIR.
Mccormack was in close attendance. upon
the late Gov. Goebel, from the time he
was shot, on Jan. 81, until his death on
ent both times the swearing in the dying
man as governor was gone through.
Stories that have been printed in this
connection give interest to q statement
of Dr. Mccormack that he had exam
ined Gov. Goebers wounds and believed
the fatal shot came from the front.