The age-herald., 1900-08-16
ARGUMENTS IN
 POWERS TRIAL Three of the Speeches Have
 Been Made. 1T WILL BE A HUNG JURY This Opinion Prevails Among Majority of the People of Georgetown
 Youtsey Case Will be
 Called Saturday

Georgetown, Ky, August 10. - Inree speeches have been made and a fourth is under way in the Powers case. Victor Bradley will conclude his speech tomor- row, followed by W. c. owens for the de- fense and B. B. Golden for the prosecu- tion and J. H. Tinsley for the defense. Colonel T. c. Campbell will speak on Fri day morning, followed by Ex-Governor Brown, and Commonwealth Attorney Franklin will close Friday night or Satur- day morning. That is the plan tonight. and the Youtsey case will be called and the selection of a jury begun Saturday.
 The large majority of people in George town still believe it will be a hung jury. Hon. John L. Hendricks, in his opening statement in the Powers trial today, said that not a single witness had said Athat Colonel Campbell had done anything wrong, and all this talk about Campbell was done to obscure real issues in the case, and that the only offense Campbell had committed was to come from another State to practice his profession. He took | up the testimony to show that the charges in the indictment had been amply proven by witnesses who were not conspiratorS. Testimony of Miss Brock He cited the testimony of Miss Brock as 1 to Powers showing her $l 100 to be expended l in sending men to Frankfort; Miss Snuff l fers letters from Powers as to his having l dsorganized the Democratic party; John A. Blacks statement that Powers said the men were to intimidate the Legislature and in a general way made threats against Legisa tors; the testimony of Finley An derson, all corroboratiye of Culton, Noakes, and Golden, the three conspirators. In referring to acts immediately succeed ing, Hendricks said
 "Why were soldiers and guards not placed around the court of appeals rooms, the Adjutant Generals office? They were as l liable to be mobbed as anybody else, if the shot did not come from the executive l building? An! l will tell you-the shot | aid come from the executive building, and 1 it's occupants knew it, and that is why | they were frightened-they knew without l any one telling them who had been killed l and where the shot came from, and the 1 proof shows it to any unprejudiced mind. At the afternoon session Judge Denny | spoke for the defense. He said:
 "The gentleman has spoken of the assis- l sination in the eastern section of the State l in order to prejudice the jury against the l defendant"
 In referring to Powers statement that he l spent all of the afternoon of January 25 in his boarding house, Denny said it was three witnesses against three on that point, and
 
 in favor of Powers story.
 Noakes' Testimony Discussed l He took us Noakes' testimony and point l ed out the inconsistencies in it. including l Noakes story that he went into Taylor s office on the afternoon of January 25 and 1 left two pistols, while the uncontradicted proof was that Taylor locked up his of | flee and remained at the mansion all of l that afternoon.
 l Judge Denny said the killing of Goebel could not affect the Powers contest for I Secretary of State, as Goebels contest was before the Legislature and Powers before | the State election board After Burton had made the talk about using cartridges
 speech in the meeting, saying he would
 thing and return to his humble mountain
 home rather than have any bloodshed.
 Victor F. Bradley spoke an hour for the
 prosecution. He said if the proof showed
 anything it showed the conspiracy ir
 which Powers was to see that the armed
 mountain men were gathered up that Fay
 Tor was to provide money for the trans
 portation, John Davis was to feed the mer
 while in Frankfort and Youtsey was to
 look after details of the plan to kill Goe- bel. He thought Powers own statement that he locked and bolted his door leading
 to the next office the inside before he
 left on anuary 30 was conclusive that he
 wanted no one of his clerks who had q
 key to be able to get In that day and inter-
 fere with the plans of Youtsey, who had
 a key to the door leading to the main hall