The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1900-07-18
Witness SwearS That the Defend
ant Said Goeb"l Would Never
BE Governor.
WOULD ACT HIMSELF FIRST.
Statement That Mountainecrs
Would Kill Enough Democrats
TO Give Republicans Major
ity Attributed To Powers.

Georgetown. Ky. July I7.-Fiuley Ander-
son, who was tes,ifyirS In tn, Powers case
when court adjourned yesterday. resumed
Ills testimony to-day. Witness said that
on January q Caleb Powers told him that
q crowd of mogrtainecrs was going to
Frankfort to intImida'e II. Legislature
and If necessary tn KIN enuE-h Democrats
to give the Republicans majority. lie
sail.:
Powers told me Gochel would never live
70 be Governor and said he G.owersj would
kill MIN II nobody else would
The conversation took place on the day
preceding ;he advent Of the 30 mountain
GERS Into Frankfort. Witness said he heard
Powers and others talkIaE about Go.acI
wearing a coat OF mail but some Of them
said that he could be killed anyway. Pow
ers was in conference with ex-Secretary OF
State Charles Finley. Wharton Golden,
Robert Noakes and Others.
Oaly once during this testimony did the
lion.
Under cross-examination the witness
stated that he had called on colonel 7. &.
Campbell in Cincinnati. bU; became badly
confused and could not recall who accom-
panied him to Colonel Campbell. though he
Claimed several people were Win I'm! al
the time. He denied that either Jus'us or
Arthur GoebeI assisted him In getting en-
pIoyment In Cincinnati. and denied that his
IMP to Cincinnati was for The purpose Of
becoming a witness in the Powers trial
The witness denied that he had been
promised compensation fJ- his evidence. II
developed that Young Anderson had made
an affidavit In Cincinnati. which Is In pos
session Of Colonel Campbell. and the de-
feuse asked that this be Produced in court
The Court ruled that il must be produced
on redirect examination. witness said he
did not volunteer as a witness. but received
Il letter while at Knoxville. Tenn. asking
him to go to CinciHnau and telling him he
was wanted as a witness.
Miss Lucy Brock Of London. Laurel
County. was the next witness she knew
the defendant well and had corresponded
with him tor over two years.
Caleb Powers called on her in January.
He told witness he was getting up 4 crowd
OF 1880 mountain men to 20 10 Frankfort,
so that in case the Democrats robbed them
of the State offices, they could take care
Of themselves"
Witness said Powers had S!,1Q1 IN bills
He told her Governor Taylor furnished ihe
MONEY, and it was 10 be used to bring the
men 10 Frankfort.
Miss Brock said Powers told her the
plan to take the 1909 mountain men to
Frankfort was Governor Taylor's creation
Inc defense Gl4 not CFoSs-eNanine the
witness. A recess was taken till after
noon.
u. NJ. Woodson, the civil engineer who
made the measurements In the State
house yard at the time of che finding u
the bullet In the tree, was recalled. but
told nothing rev.
Senator Newton Frazier of Shelby C5un-
~, who was standing between the Isegisla-
tive and Executive buildings when the as
sassinatton occurred, said he heard the
shots. Saw 10 one in The doorway, and
the shots were undoubtedly fired from the
Executive building.