Hopkinsville Kentuckian., 1900-07-31
Summing Up Of the Testimony
Given at Georgetown.
His Knowledge Before the Fact Of
the Shooting of doebeI Stands
Clearly and Distinctly.

Campbell, gave out the lOllOWlng
statement after resting the case
to-day:
1t has been proven that the shot
came from the Office of the defend
ant, Caleb Powers:
First. by the direct testimony Of
two witnesses who saw the rifle
when fired, and eight others who
located the place of firing by the
sound.
Second, by the following facts:
The window sill from whence the
bullet was fred is 13 feet 9 inches
higher than the point where it
struck into the tree, distance OF
1877 feet. The descent Of the bullet
was such that it would cross the
spot where Goebel fell, 53A inches
above the pavement. The autopsy
found the point of entrance in Goe-
bells body 52H inches from the
soles of his feet. Add the elevation
gained by socks and shoes, you get
So lilo inches.
Third, the cartridge used in Kill
| ing Goebel was a metal jacketed
steel cartridge, smokeless, a kind
not used by the military OF Ken
tuckv. This fact is established by;
! (A) The defendant, Powers,
asked Robert Noaks to get him steel
cartridges in December, 1899 OBJ
Youtsey, who had key to Powers
Office, did procure from gun store
| in Cincinnati steel cartridges, $685.
on the 23d of January, 1900. (C)
The bullet fred from the office OF
the secretary OF state, and found
imbedded in the tree, is a metal
iacketed bullet, 1855, (D) The
size of the opening of the wound at
the point of entrance and exit was
the same, viz: three-eights OF an
inch (38 caliber.) Had a leaden
bullet been used the wound OF exit
would have been larger. (E)
That the cartridge used was smoke
less is evidenced by the fact that OF
the many Witnesses looking at the
noint from whence the rifle was
| cl .o,a q n "a crnOLrR
Youtsey, clerk and stenograPher
to Taylor, pointed out to W. d. Cui'
ton, w. S. Taylor's confidential
man, that the "slickest plan for the
murder of Goebel which he coulc
think of would be to raise a window
in the secretary Of states othce
. lower the blinG, point rifle, ant
f fire. This exact plan was pur
sued In killing Goebel. Noutsc
had a key to Powers Office give
e to him by Powers brother the da
y before Goebel was shot
P Powers letters to bis lady friend
and others, in which he declare
e the disorganized condition of tn
3 Democratic party, after the shoe
S ing of. but before the death OF CO.
d bel, was due more to him than an
y one else, show that tor the time
i believed he had earned the plaudi'
which should be given to her
10 and that the killing of Goebel W;
OIL really as meritorious as the cab
ie had taught themselves and othe
T. to believe it Would be,
la The testimony OF w. II. Quito
W. assistant auditor Of State, tn
~ Powers, few days before &
lP shooting OF Goebel, quarreled wi
Taylor and was going to send hor
the mountain men, is signif
nc His description Of Ge quarrel,
.n- the efforts he made to bring t
cd two together, the fact that Powe
nu damned Taylor as "a fellow WI
gh out any backbone, - and the dan
'er ing of Powers by Taylor, as
nl- hot-headed fool, is circumstan
taken IN connection with other m
ters testified to by Culton, VIII
~ establishes the conspiracy beyC
IN a doubt. To overcome it Quito
- testimony must be destroyed
90 The testimony of Noaks' who
80 twelve years was the friend I
~ companion of Finley and Pow'
his declaration that Powers
dge sired that desperate men from
her company be retained for purF
the of murder, his further staten
lille that Powers declared the con
would end as quickly as CO.