The age-herald., 1900-07-15
GOEBEL'S CLOTHES
 SHOWN IN COURT
Black Dried BIood Stains Mark
 ed Bullets Passage.
FATAL BULLET EXHIBITED
When the Blood Stained Clothes of the Dead Governor Were Exhitit- ed Arthur Goebel TurnedS
 His Head Aside

Georgetown, ky, July A-Aside from
 the introduction in court of the clothes worn by Governor Goebel on the day or ms
 death, today's proceedings in the trial Of
 ex-Secretary of State Caleb Powers'
 charged with complicty in the killing, were barren of any particularly interesting de- tails Late in the afternoon there was some excitement when ex-Governor John Young Brown, chief counsel for the defense caused witness for the prosecution to say that certain telegraph files at the Western Union office in Barbourville (Powers' home) 1 had been purloined by some unknown per 1 son and then returned. The first witness, l and the most important one, was Civil En- l gineer D. Meade Woodson, of Frankfort, | who made measurements of the capitol | square and surroundings for the prosecu- | ton.
 He had with him profile drawings, dia- grams and a block of wood taken from tree in the Statehouse yard, which was | supposed to contain the fatal bullet. The | defense undertook to show that the sur
 veyor had not been sufficiently accurate in l his measurements from the supposed point
 of entrance of the bullet in the tree to 1 window of the Secretary of States office.
 He left the stand at 11:15
 Removed the Bullet
 At the request of the prosecution, MT. | Woodson, after leaving the stand, removed | the bullet from the block of wood, where | it had lain undisturbed for six months, and after marking it for identification, passed the bit of lead about the bar. Judges, jury
 men, lawyers, all examined 1t with interest. Apparently the prisoner and Arthur Goebel, | brother of William Goebel, paid less atten- 1 tion to the ball than some of the attorneys. | Warden Lillard of Frankfort a close | friend of the deceased, Was the next witness l called. He accompanied MT Goebel to the | State house on the morning of the murder, | and left him just before the shot was fired. l He testified that on the morning of the I shooting, as he approached the State house | with Goebel and Jack Chinn, he noticed 1 that the Capitol grounds were clear, where | as on previous occasions mountain men l were numerous He said he had left his two l companions and reached the door of the | main Capitol building, when he heard shots l and, looking back saw Goebel fall. He de- | clared that one of the front windows in the office of Secretary of State was partly l raised at the time. At the conclusion of his
 testimony the coul. adjourned until D. m. Afternoon session
 | The greater portion of the afternoon ses- 1 sion was taken up with the testimony of l physicians who examined Governor Goe- l bells wounds after the shooting and later | performed the autopsy They united in the belief that the fatal wound was inflicted with steel bullet fired from a rifle of 3S- calibre. The downward course of the ball through the victims body was shown to | be an inch and thirteen- -sixteenths.
 While pr. T. R. Welch, one of the sur | geons and also a state Senator, who had l been closely associated with the deceased in life, was on the stand, the trunk con l taining the clothing worn by Goebel was | produced There was intense silence as | the witness identified each garment, and l then lifted it aloft and held the bullet-tor l clothing, covered with great black smears 1 of dried blood, before the jurors eyes. Ar | thur Goebel, brother of the deceased, was | present. but kept his head turned.
 l The last witness, Mrs. w. B. Anderson,
 | telegraph operator at Barbersville, Ky
 l was brought forward to identify a large
 | number of telegrams received or sent from
 | her office in the first part of the year.
 l These telegrams are alleged to have a
 | bearing upon the case, and the common l wealth will seek to offer them as evidence l Monday. ripple of surprise went over 1 the court room when Mrs. Anderson, in ] response to questions from the defense, i said that the files for January and Feb ruary, 1900, were missing from her office for two weeks in March, but were after
 | wards returned as mysteriously as they
 | had disappeared.
 At this juncture court adjourned.