The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-08-18
WERE SCORED BY CAMPBELL.
STRONG INVECTIvE EMPLOYED BY
THE ATTORNEY.

Argument in the Powers Case Was
Not COncIuded-C1osing Speech for
the Prosecution Will BE Made This
MOrninS-Powers, Campbell said,
First Thought of an AIibi - His
shrewd Means of Having One.
scathing DenunciatfOns Made.
Georgetown, KY, Aug. 1.-THE argu-
ment in the case of Caleb Powers, charg-
ed with being an accessory to the muir
der of William Goebel, was not conclud-
el today. the court refusing to hold a
night session. Commonwealth Attorney
Robert Franklin will make the closing
speech for the prosecution tomorrow
morning:
The argument for the defense was clos
cd by ex-Gov John Young Brown. The
entire morning session and nearly an hour
this afternoon were taken up by Col. r
c. Campbell for the prosecution. Col.
Campbell intimated that Jim Howard
fred the shot, but subsequently said:
u do not know who fired the shot that
killed Goebel, but it was one of the five
principals named in the indictment-Jim
Howard. Berry Howard Henry Youtsey
Harand Whitaker and "Tallow Dick"
Combs, and every one of them was there
by procurement of Caleb Powers and w.
S Taylor"
At the close of Col. Campbe,rs speech,
the court announced a modification of the
Instructions to the jury, defining the
words unlawful act'' to be ITO alarm, in
cite, terrorize or do bodily harm" This
section instructs the jury that if Powers
and others conspired to do an unlawful
act and as d result of this William Goebel
was killed, it should find Powers guilty of
murder.
Col. Campbell cited statistics showing
comparison of the murders commit ed
in Kentucky and Ohio. During the four
years of Gov. Bradleys administration,
he said. there We're 500 murders in Ken
lucky There were 2S5 convictions for MUIR
der and PIG pardons of murderers. For
the same period Ohio with double the
population of Kentucky, had only forty
nine murders. Caleb Powers had, he de-
clared, in the brief time he acted as Sec
rotary of State, attested the pardons of
seven murderers who were set free by
Gov Taylor
He took the diagram of the State Capitol
grounds, and this in connection with the
measurements of civil engineers and the
autopsy on the body of Goebel, were used
in racing the bullet BY this he said It
WIS conclusively proved that the shot was
fred from Caleb Powers Office and defied
the defense 10 try to shake the correctness
o. the demonstration. He referred 10 At
torney Owens of the defense as one of
Powers fellow assassins and said that
while he always refraned from calling
men liars, the temptation was great in
the case of Lawyer Sinclair. who made
himself one of three Witnesses who tesi-
fed thai the sound did NOT come from the
direction os Powers office, while over 100
other witnesses testified that it did come
from that direction"
Campbell continued: "All shrew6 crimi-
nails of which class Caleb Powers is one.
first arrange for an alibi. The mountain
army was brought to Frankfort, Jan. %,
and. thinking it would perform its muir
derous mission, Powers goes to bed at
the house of John Davis. a consDirator.
but the foul deed is not committed and
Powers leaves his bed and waits for an
other day. On jan. 80, the second appoint
Ell day, he delves De eper into the work of
establishing an advance alibi. He goes into
exhaustive details of locking his office,
though he never locked it before, and
leaving for Louisville on pretense of
Bringing more men 10 Frankfort This
time the plan is batter laid, and as soon
as the assassn's bullet is fired from the
Secretary of States office, Powers raises
his hands and exclaims: II am innocent
because / was in Louisville when the
murder occurred"
Ex-Gov. John Young Brown, in closing
the case, characterized William Goebel
as leader of men and the manner of
his taking off accursed. The state had
failed to make out case connecting Ca
leb Powers with the murder. He attacked
the theory of the prosecution that the bull
let cut from the blackberry tree was the
one which killed Goebel and declared that
the mathematical calculations of every
civil engineer who has testified here, If
followed 10 it's logical end. proved that
fact
He ridiculed the idea that the mountain
army was brought TO Frankfort for the
purpose of intimidation or murder. as
testified by Noakes, Culton and Golden,
and declared Culton. Golden and Noakes
absolutely unworthy of belief.