The age-herald., 1900-08-01
POWERS STILL
 ON THE STAND Detailed Events Following the As-
 sassinatiOn in Court DID NOT SPEAK DERISIvELY Of inc Death of GoebeI When Notified of the 0ccurrence-Admitted Hav- ina Written Letter Favoring
 a Declaration of War.
l DID NOT SPEAK DER|SIVELY

Georgetown, Ky, July 31.-The direct tes- timony of ex-Secretary of State Caleb Powers as a witness in his own behalf was not concluded until o'clock this afternoon, and the cross-examination which will take up at least all of tomorrow had progressed only short way when the court adjourned until tomorrow. Tomorrow will be the third day with Powers on the stand. Caleb Powers resumed the witness stand in his own behalf today and took up the testimony where he had left off yesterday afternoon. The witness said that on the morning of the assassination he was pre- pairing to go to Louisville to make arrange ments to bring more people to Frankfort. He locked his office door as described by Witness Golden He had no recollection of anything being said concerning suspicious actions which Golden had referred to, and was certain nothing of this sort was said. At LaGrange the party heard that Goebel had been assassinated and that the shot had been fired from the second or third story window of the executive building.
 The witness continued, T said it was a shame and outrage and that 1t would blight the chance of all of us whose offices were in contest I expressed similar sentiments to other people that day. We went on to Louisville, but as the assassination of Mir Goebel had upset our political plans, we, of course, abandoned the idea of bringing more men to Frankfort"
 Statement Was False
 Witness said that the statement of Col den that he spoke derisively when told of the shooting was absolutely false. T thought it my duty,' he continued, ''to return t. Frankfort as soon as possible, and did so that afternoon. went to the ex- ecutive building and with my key, the only one I ever had to the office, unlocked the door. found that the lock had been bat tered, and had difficulty in getting the key out of it. I did not take the lock off and supplant it with a new one, as has been stated in the evidence. Judge Matthews put on the new lock-
 The witness said he never heard any sort of violence talked of in any of the councils in which he participated except In one held in the Commissioner of Agricultures office in which Sheriff Burton of Breckinridge County talked in an incendiary manner and was reproved by witness.
 The day after the assassination witness said he began an investigation to learn where the shot was fired from. The news papers were intimating that the shooting was done from his office. He employed J. B. Matthews and Detective Griffin of Som erset to assist in the investigation. T made no statement to Golden that I was satisfied the shots came from my office, and did not tell him that Was think ing of going to the Commonwealths attor- ney to tell him all knew. I did have a talk with Governor Bradley about going to see Franklin, but he advised against 1t and did not go.''
 Details the Events
 Powers then detailed the events imme- diately preceding the arrest of himself and Captain Davis He said his attorney, Judge Yost, advised him to make his way to the mountains and remain there until public excitement died out before giving himself up for trial.
 "The Legislature had appropriated s10O,- GOO for the prosecution of persons charged with the crime, and I did not believe 1t was possible for me to get a fair trial in Franklin County. Moreover, I did not be- lieve that civil authority there would pro- tect me. l did not go so that could get 8 change of venue, and these were the req sons that suggested flight from Frankfort"
 Of the $500 in money in his pockets at the time of his arrest, s40O of 1t was his own personal money and 800 of 1t belonged to the Republican campaign fund.- The wit
 
 half dozen or more conversations with Wit ness Wharton Golden, about which the lat ter tolG on the stand last week, and denied that he ever talked with him or anyone else about the killing of Goebel.
 In regard to the testimony of Robert Noakes the witness said he never had conversation with Noakes in regard to smokeless powder cartridges and never saw Ncakes January 25 when Noakes al- ieged that the witness made so many dam aging statements to him. The witness was kept busy denying statements made by Witnesses Noakes, Golden, Culton and An derson.
 Powers Resumes
 After the noon recess Powers again re- sumed the stand. In regard to the guns ir his office which Mckenzie Todd Gov ernor Taylor's private secretary, referred to in his. testimony, the witness said he did not know how they came there but that one or two of them were left there at the end of Governor Bradley's admin istration The others were put in there later, he supposed, by some of the moun- taineers Witness said he wrote the letter to Professor Stevens of Barbourville, Feb ruary 15, saying in substance: "The pres ent demoralzed condition of the Democratic party is due to me more than to any other man in the State. They know am in favor of an open declaration of war"
 Ex-Governor Brown, who was conducting the direct examination, asked what he meant by this expression The prosecution objected to any explanation of the letter on the ground that there was no ambiguity about the words and that 1t should go to the jury to be construed by it. The court sustained this contention, holding that as long as the defendant and other witnesses had given the same testimony in regard to the contents of the letter that the jury