The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1900-05-07

around the governors office the day or
the mountaineer excursion. Asked II ne
saw any guns in the office of the secre-
tary of state, witness said he saw TWO
there on Saturday prior to the assassi.
nation. Youtsey was in the room ami
later picked up one of the guns and took
position near the window. He asked
Youtsey what he was going to do. Yout-
sey said he thought there was trouble In
the Legislative building and that IF Il
started he wanted to be prepared
Toutsey said he would not start any
trouble; but would be prepared to protect
the building If ii did start. The secretary
testified as follows:
Where Shots Came From.
II was In the reception room % the
governors office at the time of the as
sassination The shots seemed to come
from the west end of the building. l
did not know that Goebel had been killed
until Joe Davis ran In and told us. L
went with Davis to his house and he got
a gun. We came back Immediately. The
door 70 the office OF the secretary of state
was opened while we were gone
Assistant Secretary of State j. Il. Mat
thews was called to the stand He said:
IL was in the governors reception room
when the assassination occurred The first
shot sounded to me as If 1t came from
between the two buildings. | got pistol
and started out. AS | opened the door |
met Henry Youtsey coming in. He had Il
revolver I'm his hand. He asked me where
the shooting was. Governor Taylor asked
Mr. Hartgrove to go out and see what
had happened. Hartgrove went out just
ahead of me. | remained out OF the Once
but a few minutes and when l returned
several people had come into tie ONCE
We tried to get in the secretary of states
office to get some guns when were III
there. The doors were locked ana L njiu
to crawl over the transom TO get IN Iae
windows and curtains were down. a rlne
was lying by one of the windows with the
butt toward the east. There was also 4
rifle in each corner on the left SIDE OF the
room Two were of 3S-caliber. | examined
them 10 see II they had been recently
fired | am positive that two of them were
loaded, but am not sure as to the other
one 1t soiled my hands but do not know
that this was caused by powder. J don
know whore that rifle is now. The ex-
IRENE west window was raised about four
inches when inspected the ROOM"
Mr. Matthews continued:
Il have talked 20 Caleb Powers IN re-
gard 10 Youtsey. He told me he loaned
Youtsev the key to his office on two oc-
caslons but did not say when. POWERS
told me OF meeting in his Once 10 APP
point captains To take charge OF tne VII
nPsses b. fore the contest boards. tulloi
nrasi,lpd He told me that Burton. OF
breckenridge county. made merry speech
advocating powder and ball. Powers caH-
ed Burton to order but added that ne was
I'm favor of an open declaration OF war
and believed the people would ihdorSe H.
II developed during Matthews's testimo-
nv that Governor Taylor issued pardohS
Ia John l.. Powers. Harlan WHITAKER.
Charles Finley and ". II. Culton, as Wen
as TO Caleb Powers and John DAVIS
Matthews entered all of the pardons IN
the executive journal March loth' ne
said no other pardons had been granted
Witness was formerly a detective ana at
the instance of caleb Powers had dohe
all he could to ferret out the assassin
Public Printer George q. fett"r 'o'''
of printing badges for Caleb foWGIs a 6So
John Powers which were used by inc l'-p
maintain men on January 18th. Private
dudley Williamson. who was Win nv
soldIers in the arsenal said th2t they sot
NJ ,i,9tion and were uniformed ana
armed at the time Of the tragedy. me me
eoidiers did not know what had happeheu
till they got almost to the state Ho"Se'