Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1900-02-01

eht reason. He denies i'm The mos,
| positive m"tiei that he had amy CON.
heet'cn with the shooting or knew
anything about it.
J The prisoner is man sliph,lk oy,.,
the medium size. with SANDY hair nm d
mns'ache. He was disposed 10 ta,,c
things calmly. although he renea,ad
again hnd again hat he Knew pntl,ino
whatever about thc shooting.
II was on the first floor of the h,,iI,l
ing. he said. when | heard Goycr,,o,
lay lGr tell hat man Davis. the cani;nl
polieeli,ail. 10 go over al once TO see
General Collier. ] said / wou!d oo
VIA h''M, ana 1''al Was who're | Was
going. Wanted tn know. too. vim
'he S'ioo'lh2 was about. When /
s'eplen outside that man grabbed me.
allo lnat is all knoW. aud that is 1,
fact. "
Few men believe that Whil,aker is
SlIltN OF the crime, but the fact that
ne WAS hastily leaving the building.
from which the shooting WAS done
WAS enough To make trouble for him.
he story OF Colonel John Davis. the
custodian of the capitol grounds.
agrees with that of Whitaker.
u was just out side of Governor raN
Tor IS office. said Colonel Davis. "\ylleu
heard the shots and heard t.ovcronr
Taylor say: My God, what have they
done: lie GATED To me at once to 90
over 10 the office of Ndutant General
Collier and Whitaker went along. /
am positive that he could no, have
done the shooting. We were at the
door of the buil,in" in too shor. a
time for that
rs soon as it WAS known that tie
bullet which struck down MIR. (,oebcl
had come from the building to The
east, group of men gathered i'm front
OIL the doors to prevent the escape of
anybody from there. Several men al
tempted to enter the doors from tn,
outside, hut We're prevented by groups
OF nountalneers, some of whom held
Wlnchesters i'm their hands and pre-
sented an aspect so generally nninyit-
ing that no attempt was made to-
search HE building. and nobody
gained an entrance 10 ii for several
minutes after the shooting had been
done. but the assassin had ample on
portunity to escape.
Crime Carefully Planned.
That the shooting of Mr.. Goebcl Was
the result of carefully laid plan is
without question. The man who did
the work had evidently taken his
stand at he window. which had pre-
viously been raised. in order TO ALLOW
The free passage of the bullet and
waited until his victim WAS i'm full
sight before firing. Ever since the in
f1tN of mountainecrs last week. a
large number of them have been Sleep
ing IN the upper part of the state
mouse. 1t is not known. however. that
amy OF these men did the WORK. on. that
they had amy knowledge of the pre-
meditated crime. There has not. so
far. been the slightest direct evidence
pointing to amy man. and it is MOI,
likely now that any will ever be found.
The man who fired the shots took the
Precautlon 10 conceal his location by
using smokelesS powder cartridges. \
score OF the people were where they
had full view of the side of The
building from which he firing was
Gone, and all OF them declare that not
a sign OF powder smoke was visible.
10th Chinn and I.ilard are men of ex-
perlence i'm affairs in which powder
smoke IS Il more or less prominent fea-
ture. and both declare that while they
could tell the direction from which
the bullets came. they could not guess