The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-03-04

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upon entering the room where Goebel lay
l first inquired for his clothing
Il took his coat and vest, and at my
request DR.. Tom Welch put them on.
Then / perceived that the fbers of Ghe
cloth around the edge of the bullet hole
in front all projected inward toward the
body, while those torn by the bullet in
the rear thrust their jagged edges out
ward. This discovery decided me in the
belief that the wound of entrance was in
front"
Thus there is apparently irreconcilable
antagonism between the testimony of the
wound and the testimony of the clothing
which, by the way, had not been under
observation for five hours when DR.. Vance
examined it.
In REPUTATION of the doctors deduction
from the fibers of the garments: in con-
hict with the ear witnesses; in corrobora-
lion of the evidence of the wound, there
is the following clear statement from
living witness who makes reference to
two other witnesses in support of her tes-
umony. This witness is the woman who
saved Whittakers life when they were
going to lynch him by calling out: oh
don't hang him; he is not the man who did
il" l quote from a Louisville newspa-
per:
The widow Saffel, who keeps a board
ing house in Broadway, near the Stale
House Square, in Frankfort, says she was
Witness to the shooting of William Goe-
bel on Jan. 80 last. She had lust gone
lnto the State House yard on her way TO
the Adjutant Generals office. on business,
When Senator Goebel passed her and tip
ped his hat She did moi know the man.
she says she saw walking slightly behind
him. She knew the man several steps
in front of him, and he was Eph Linard
warden of the pen.tentiary
when Mr.. Goebel reached a point iust
to the right of the fountain. she saws She
saw the man behind him draw pistol
with his left hand and shoot toward Goe-
bel. She said there was The faintest kind
OF puff of white smoke from the pistol
The man who used the weapon ran into
the State House, reaching the stems as
Eph Lillard closed the glass doors.
''1e then ran out and ran to Goebel's
size. she says she saw no shots nor
heard any fired from the executive build
ing. She is positive that she saw the
man fire the shot which killed Goebel
ana she says that woman who lives in
frankfort, and a travelling man who
comes 20 that city every week. Also wit
messed the shooting; that all of them have
made written statements of the facts,
and that these statements are in the
hands of Gov. Taylor, who will probably
make them public within a few DAYS.
She declines TO go into details. saving
that she cannot violate her pledge TO Gov
Taylor. She declares that one newspaper
has offered her $500, or more if necessary.
II she would make a public statement of
what she saw. but she declined indignant
~. She says she was afraid the mob
would hang an innocent man when they
arrested Whitaker, and that was the rea-
ha igl
him, as he did not shoot Mr.. Goebel."
These matters to which | have called
attention all tend to increase the won
der as to why there has been no official
inquiry; for It must be remembered that
there has not even been a coroners in
quest into the murder of Mr.. Goebel The
decision to hold no inquest in face of
the mystery, in face of the inyarfable
custom in this state of holding an inquest
where crime has been committed was
reached by Mr.. Goebers friends and
family. The coroner issued certificate
OF the cause Of death without the for
mality of an inquest.
An autopsy was held, but none of tbe
facts developed there was given OUTFITS
in spite of the fact that DR. Vance. nm
convinced by the fibres in the clothing
said: The autopsy should show conclu
svely the direction from which the hui
let was fired, because the parts Of tbe
away from the wound of entrance"
There is a theory advanced. both nv
GoebePs friends and foes to account for
the unusually large aperture at the per
toration in the front of his body. This
theory is that he wore a coat of mail. In
deed 1t has been asserted in print. com
ing from one of the surgeons but not
naming MN, that coat Of mail was
taken from the body of the wounded man
and that splinters from its steel nesbes
aggravated the wound
Assuming for the moment that GoebeI
was wearing coat Of mail, and that the
iiattening or expansion of the bulIet
| caused the large oridce at the enterinc
place in front-how, then, was the but
let afterwald compressed so as to make
small hole in leaving the body?
If there was coat of mail II would no
an Indispensable witness as to the dirac-
zion in which the links We're bent Ana
how important II would be TO know whe h.
err II was pierced on the supposed further
slde! Why are the surgeons silent? What
but evil can come from suppression?
In further excuse for the failure To hold
an inquest, il has been suggested that
something needless might have been de-
reloped as 10 whether the man now be-
yond human criticism was or was not arm
ed. But OF what consequence is this in
| the case OF man in unceaslug peril If
his life. especially i'm a place where dead
~ weapons were so plentiful that they
constituted a system of defensive armor
IN themselves; where in fact il was con-
sidered almost immodest, certainly un-
fashionable. to appear on the street with
| less than three revolvers and bowie?
coroners inquest would have settled