New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-05-04

CuLroN GIVES NO DEFINITE FACTS ABOUT WHAT
HAPPENED BEFORE THE SHOOTING

Frankfort, Ky. May S-The second day Of the
hearing In the application for bail for w H. Culton
the defendant. who gave startling testimony yes
terday, ended with the unfinished. Culton
resumed the witness box this morning and con-
tinued on the stand TIL nearly noon. He was on the
stand little over five hours In all
This afternoon Judge Cantrill announced that as
the couhsel mad failed to agree to date for the
trials OF Powers Youtsey Whitaker. Davis and
Combs. who had secured change of venue to Scott
County, he would call special term of the court
In that county, to begin the second Monday in July
Both sides had stated that they could not get
ready Tor trial at the term which begins Mon
day. They also could not reach an agreement as
to which case should go on trial first the Com
monwealth declining to elect this term. Judge
CantrH said that the first day of the special
term all of the cases transferred will be called and
assigned a hearing but that 1t will doubtless be
Impossible 10 nnish up more than two of
them at the term. The assassination cases all
told, in the opinion of the lawyers will string out
for the greater part of the next twelve months
The most important testimony brought out this
afternoon was that of the physicians who as
sisted in the autopsy the body of Goebel. This
had never been made public before. DR.. T r.
Welsh, OF Jessamine County. State Senator who
was also one of GOebels physicians. conducted the
autopsy assisted by Drs. F. E Hume and J. r.
Ely. DR.. Welsh gave long technical statements
about the bullet entering the right side pass
Ing out on the left side DR.. Ely corroborated DR.
Welsh.
d. 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 bull
let which cut of tree near where
Goebel was shot and which is supposed have
passed through his body produced In court.
1t has been in the custody of the prosecuting attor
rey. The demonstrations the map were made
by the witness for the purpose of showing that the
shot was fired from a window in the Office of the
Secretary of State.
w. H. Culton resumed his testimony in the
Goebel murder investigation to-day He stated
Youtsey any amount of money desired IL he would
leave Kentucky. At conference in Lexington on
the Sunday before Goebel was shot it was decided.
he said. that Representative Henry Berry, who
had been unseated few days before, should go
to the House of Representatives the next morning
and take his seat and refuse give it up. Van
Meter. his opponent, to be in way pre-
vented from going to the hall that morning.
Caleb Powers, who was at the conference, tele-
three times in regard to the conference.
on croSs-eXa mination, Culton said he did not
know of any list of State Senator'S or Representa-
tives who were to be put out of the way. On re-
direct examination Cuton said that the Sergeant
alarms. Haley, signed the subp9nas for wit
nesses for Governor Taylor, to testify before the
Gubernatorial Contest Committee and authorized
Cuton to deputize good men in the various counties
to serve them.
Youtsey when the shot that killed Goebel
fred In, the last talk he had with foutsey
the latter said the plan to Kill Goebel had been
abandoned. Culton had been asked by Taylor to
ascertain what the witnesses in the contest knew,
because he a lawyer. To the prosecution Gull
ton said he had told more now on the STAND than
he had 70 any person. except his father His testi-
Circuit Clerk Moore of Jackson County. denied
bring on a riot and kill Goebe and other members
of the Legislature