The sun., 1900-03-24
TROOPS GUARD COURT.
Hearing at Frankfort of Suspects In
The Goebel Murder.
DECISION AGAINST POWERS.
Ex-Governor Brown Demands His
Dismissal ON Ground That War
rant Was Defective, but Is
overruIcd by Court.

Frankfort, Ky, March GA squad
OF 40 extra police and deputy sheriffs
guarded the outer entrance to the court
house, while file of soldiers stood at the
doors and passed on the credentials of
persons entering the room, when the
/ hearing OF the men charged with com
plicity in the murder of Governor GoebeI
was called. The general public was ex-
cluded by an order of Judge Moore. only
attorneys, relatives of the accused, wit
| nesses and officers of the court being ad-
mitted.
Those admitted, however, soon filed
the courthouse on the second floor of the
building. The Lexington and Winches-
ter companies, armed with Winchesters,
were stationed through various rooms.
Not much more than the ordinary crowds
were on the streets, and there was no ex-
citement.
Colonel T. G. Campbell and Arthur
Goebel appeared at the courthouse at an
early hour. A few minutes later ex-Gov-
ernor John Young Brown, w. r. Ram
sey, II. G. Kinkead and J. G. Sims, at
torneys for the defendants, arrived.
Judge Moore convened his court
promptly at the appointed time.
The prisoners, Republican Secretary of
State Caleb Powers, w. H. Culton and
John Davis, We're brought into the court
room and took seats by their counsel.
The commonwealth witnesses were call
ed, numbering 10. The name Of Ser
geant Golden was not in the list.
AT the conclusion of the call Of com
monwealth witnesses County Attorney
Polsgrove announced that he was ready
for the trial in the case.
Ex-Governor Brown read the warrant
against Powers, charging him with being
an accessory to The murder of William
Goebel and asked dismissal of the dc.
fcndant on the ground that the warrant
was fatally defective iii not alleging that
the crime was committed in Franklin
county and did not even show the Of
fcnse to have been committed in Ken,
lucky. Judge Moore overruled the obiec.
tion to the form of the warrant
TnISing of Testimony Begun.
Judge Denny and w. G.. Dunlap OF
Lexington were added to the counsel fol
the Defense which announced its readi.
ness to proceed and called August Munin.
ger, a Covington undertaken, as the first
witness. He did not answer, and an at.
tachment for him was issued by the
court. Witnesses in the. room were or.
dered to retire AMI were admonished not
to talk to anybody.
Eph Lillard, warden Of the Frankfort
penitentiary, was the first witness sworn.
He testified that he was with Senator
Goebel when the latter was shot. He
walked ahead of Senator Goebel and was
just entering the statehouse when the
shot was fired. He turned back from
the statehouse steps and saw what had
happened. He looked toward the ex.
ecutive building and saw that the second
window of the corner room was slightly
raised. This was the Office of the secre
tary of state. He thought the shot had
been fired from this room. There were
several other shots, but he said they did
not come from the same place. The first
shot was evidently from rife, while the
others seemed to be from pistols.
On cross examination Colonel Lillard
said he saw nobody in the room from
which the shots seemed to have been
fired, and he did not see any one in The
main door or on the steps of the build.
ing at the time of the shooting.
Policeman Wingate Thompson testified
that as the crowd was carrying Senator
Goebel out of the yard he saw armed
mon at the entrance to the executive
building and recognized John Davis and
Berry Howard among thcm.
Detective Armstrong of Louisville said
that Secretary Powers refused TO tell
him who was in the office of the secre
tary of state at the time of the shooting
and declined to say who was in charge,
but said that he (Powers) was out of the
city that day.