Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-08-03
REWARD NONE PAD
Witnesses in the Goebsl Mlr1ees
Case Tell About Attempts q
at Bribery.
Golden Got Big Roll For HI
story-Important Testimony
Heard. ss, 81
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Big Strike on the Canadian Pacific
in Effect Today Other
News

is isSdeOTSeIOWI,s Aug. sS.--ln the FOWStUsql
case this morning Frank G. Carpenter
a Louisville insurance man, was crO9s-s
examined by the prosecution. The ex-s
animation developed nothing very ma
terial. Sam II. Stone, former state-au-
ditor. testified that he had removed the
witness. w. II. Culton, who was clerk
in his office, because he had stolen $4,000
from the state the day before he himself
retired. sss
James Harkelrod, proprietor OF barr
ber shop at Barboulyille, said Wharton
Golden told him on the day defendant
Powers was arrested that Powers was
innocent. Later Golden came into his
shop and displayed roll Of bills to his
brother, Ike Golden, and said: Don't
you know that hundred thousand re-:
ward fund is being circulated ?''
Witness Gibson was recalled and core.
roborated Harklerod's testimony.
j. l.. Butler testified that he attended
a meeting in Powers Office some days
before the shooting. at which the rais-
ing of money TO pay expenses Of wits
nesses was discussed. Sheriff Burton.
of Breckenridge county, displayed some
cartridges and said the gubernatortal
contest could best be settled with them.
/ Powers told Burton he must not talk
that way; that he would rather give up
the Office than cause bloodshed.
Sensational Paper In the PovveE8'
Trial Ruled Out as sIncompetsnt.
| Georgetown, KY, Aug. 3.-In the.
Powers trial yesterday Stephen q.
iiSharpe, of Lexington, who wa1 chair
/ man of the mountain meeting held on
the steps of the capitol on Jan. 25. pros
i duced the minutes and resolutions OF
that meeting. but after listening to pas-
sionate speeches for and against the adj
mission of the paper as evidence, Judge
1 Cantrill ruled ii out as incompetent.
4 Witness said he told Governor Taylor
land Gen. Collier, before Jan. 80, that he
had been warned by a democratic
8 friend to stay away from Frankfort, as
the parties pushing the guberna torial
contest had 1000 rifles there and were
4 ready 10 use them. Witness Was in Cow
q erndr I.aNiorts Office five minutes af-
ter the shooting TAYLOR asked him to
tase charge and prepare to defend the
building. He did So, giving orders not
Eto perirlit the arrest of any one in the
capitol grounds. HeSh had charge of one
squad of armed men, ara Berry How
ard had charge of another squad.
In response to a question on cross ex-
animation. Sharpe said he had in sub
stance said to some persons on the Sat
usaay before the shooting that he was
ready to take his gun and either lead
or follow TO prevent the ousting Of the
srepGblican otfsceholders. am ready
to do il row, he sai1.
81 The witness refused to make public
the name of the man whom he quoted
as SAYING thss the contestants had 200(
81 guns a; FRANKFORT ready for use.
n On cross-examinAeion the prosecution
asked the court to compel the witness tc
give the name of this man, but Judge
II sfCantrill ruled that the demand was
4: made too late; that I. should have been
imade orascross examination.
Frank q. Carpenter, Of louisville,
Who was in Frankfort Jan. 80, was
, Eicalled by the defense to show the state
of feeling on the streets of the city im-
rnediatsly after the shooting of Goebel
IA g repeated threats that he heard made
against the occupants of the executive
building. While he vas being cross
; examined court adjourned.