The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-08-12
cONTRADlCTED THE DEFENSE.
STRONG TESTIMONY AGAINST pow
Frs WITNESSES.

witnesses who said They Saw Pow
ers With the Mountain Crowd ON
Jan. 25-Powers Claimed to Have
Been Ill on That Day Denied
There Was Any Talk of Mob Vio-
Ience on the Day of the Shooting.
Georgetown, KY. Aug. ia large
number of witnesses in rebuttal for the
prosecution were heard to-day in the trial
OF former Secretary of State Caleb Pow
ers, on trial for alleged completely in the
Goebel shooting. Some of them were
strong in their contradictions of wi .uesses
for the defense.
The prosecution laid much store by the
testimony of two witnesses who testified
TO seeing Caleb Powers with other lead
ers of the mountain crowd on the even
ing of Jan. % The defendant had testi-
fed that he was ill in his room all of that
afternoon. Several other witnesses will be
introduced Monday to further contradict
Powers on this point.
A number of Frankfort business men
and citizens testified that the talk of mob
violence after the assassination of Gov.
Goebel existed only in the minds of those
in the executive building and that there
was no need of the militia Among those
who so testified was Sheriff Suffer- who
said he sWore in a pos Sc of a dozen citi-
zens and that it would have been equal
to the occasion had it not been blocked
by the actors of Adjutent General Collier
who made the civil officer subservient to
the militia
w. F. Grayout, assistant state auditor,
nrO1llrpd of tata
in response to the subpoena duces tecum
TO show what portion of the 500, 600 re-
ward appropriated by the Legislature had
been expended in the search for and pros
ecution of those accused of the crime
The record showed that in all 5000 had
been drawn.
Mr. Grayout produced the record show
ing that w. H. Culton was paid his fun
salary as a clerk in the auditors Office
for December and part of the month of
January. This contradicted ex-Audtor
Stone, who charged Culton with stealing
$1,000 and stated that he dismissed Culton
and caused Auditor Sweeney to refuse to
give him a clerkship
still After Stamper
Hon. John G. Cantrill further contra
dicted the testimony of Rev John Siam
per, who on yesterday had denied several
statements alleged to have been made by
him in regard to the truth of the confess
sion of his brother-in-law, Wharton Gold
en-. Mr.. Cantrtll said Stamper did say
that Golden had told the truth, and also
said in substance the other things attrib-
uted to him.
Isaac Golden, brother of Wharton Cold
en-, denied that Wharton Golden ever said
that there was a hundred thousand dol
lar reward fund afloat, and that he had
got a part of it,"
Judge Sims, of the defense, attacked the
Standing of the witness, by asking him
how many times he had been indicted.
The witness studied a moment and said
he guessed he had been indicted at least
a dozen times He had been indicted in
the state courts for carrying concealed
weapons and for shooting and wounding,
and in the federal court for impersonat-
ing an officer.
What became of these Indictments"
asked the lawyer.
81 beat them all" said the witness.
Commonwealth Attorney Franklin
made a statement, in which he said the
prosecution had hoped 10 conclude its re-
buttal testimony to-day, but that some
minor new features had been injected into
the case upon which the state desired to
introduce more proof, and he asked an adj
journment until Monday for that purpose.
He said the evidence for the state would
all be in by noon Monday.