The age-herald., 1900-08-17
THE ARGUMENTS
 WILL END TONIGHT And Powers Case Will Go to
 the Jury. CAPTAIN GOLDEN SPEAKS
Says He Wants to Make Preparation for the Great Wrong Commit ted by His Brother,
 Wharton Golden

Georgetown, Ky, August 16.-The--argu-
 ments in the case of Ex-Secretary of State
 Powers have proceeded according to the
 programme today, and if they continue in
 like manner tomorrow the case will go to
 the jury tomorrow night Much interest
 is being taken in the argument of Colonel
 Thomas Campbell for the prosecution to-
 morrow forenoon, and in the argument of
 Ex-Governor Brown for the defense tomor-
 row afternoon, while Commonwealths At
 torney Franklin will close the case tomor-
 row night Although it is believed the jury
 will disagree, yet the coming verdict is be- ing awaited here with intense interest on account of its influence on the other cases, as well on Powers case.
 Victor Bradley, who continued his speech for the prosecution in the Powers case this morning, likened the armed petitioners who went to Frankfort to a highwayman
 who draws his revolver and petitions
 the traveller for his purse." He told the
 jury that 1t had been proven that Charles
 Finley had said "Goebel will be killed within five days" and in less than that time Goebel was lying quivering on the pavement He told them that it had been proven that Caleb Powers had said If no | one else will kill him, l will kill him my self"
 Henry Youtsey said Goebel could be killed from Powers office and the assassin could go down into the basement and never be discovered. A few seconds after the shoot
 ing it is proven that Youtsey did run down
 into the basement, out through the barber
 shop and back through the east entrance in-
 to the office next to Powers.
 At 10 o'clock MT. Bradley concluded, and
 w. H. Tinsley, of Barboursvilie, began for
 the defense. He said the only well substan-
 tiated statement made by Caleb Powers be- fore January was to the effect that he would give up his office and everything and go home rather than enter into any sort of combination with anybody to use cartridges to settle the contest. He thought one fact stood out above every other in this
 case and that was that Powers was not
 within 50 miles of Frankfort when the shot
 was fired, had locked his office before he left and no one was locked in it, that he could not possibly have known who fired the shot or where it was fired from. Captain Golden Begins l At l o'clock D. m., Captain Benjamin b. l Golden, brother of Wharton Golden, be- l gan his speech for the prosecution. He said | if one family more than the Goebel family | had suffered from the assassination it was the Golden family; that his poor young brother had been contaminated by associa-
 tion with Caleb Powers and that he was
 here to help best he could to make rep
 aration for his brothers wrong. He said
 Powers himself was first to use the ex
 precision Mountain army in a letter to
 Miss Snuffer, and that he never spoke of
 of ful nr a nf CTS till his trial came up.
 Golden was specially bitter in his denun- citation of his own brother-n-law, Rev. J. L. Stamper, and said:
 He is a preacher, it is said, but if you could take the lid from the hottest pit of he'll you could find just such people as Stamper in it. Lawyer Tinsley said one ,...ng in his speech and Rev Stamper swore l directly the opposite and if you jurymen ] have any doubt whether he is lying, l will | throw in Lawyer Sin Clair and let you | draw straWs for the liar"
 1 In referring to the way the defense has | heaped abuse upon Colonel Tom Campbell l he said:
 The GoebeIl Brothers Abused 'The Goebel brothers are being abused | for trying to ferret out the assassin of | their brother, and abused for employing | Colonel Campbell, but 1 want to say that | whatever may be said about Campbell, he ndS been nltllnS the pull eye Tn tnlS case l right along. We admit have imported l Campbell from another state, but the de- | fense must admit that they have expected l Taylor and Finley"
 Golden concluded at 3 clock and court | adjourned till 6:30.
 1 Major w. c. Owens made by far the best speech at the night session that has been l made for the defense. He went into the | testimony in detail, and told the jury that | Caleb Powers could not be convicted on | statements of co-conspirators. and said the | testimony of neither Culton nor Noakes | nor Golden had been corroborated by any | other witness. He compared Colonel l CampbelFs schooling of witnesses to the training of animals by a professor of dog and horse shows. He said he wished the | books of the s100,000 reward committee | could show the promises made for convic- tions, he would bet the whole amount l could not be paid by the S100,000 l If night session is held tomorrow night | the whole argument will conclude with the | speech of MT Franklin the common | wealth's attorney.