Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-03-25

to send down ten witnesses in the con.
test case.
"He told me to go Harlan county
and tell Mr.. Hirst to send down ten
men who were regular mountain fued-
lists"
What was your understanding OF
that request?"
well, men who would stand up
and if necessary go into that legisla-
tive hall and kill off enough to make
it in our favor"
81 did not see Mr. Hirst / saw
Hamp Howard. l told him we wanted
ten men who had good Colts, forty
fives."
Were the forty-fves to be put in
evidence?" asked Attorney Campbell
Most assuredly they were," answer
ed Golden.
Golden said he did not know the
witnesses who came to Frankfort. He
delivered the message to Howard on
the Sunday preceding the Goebel shoot
ing.
When did you next see Caleb Pow
ers?"
Il saw him ON Tuesday. I got on
the train at Ferris station, Laurel
county. He had a couple of men on
the train named Peace and LOcket.
He told me to take care of them. ]
next saw Powers in FRANKFORT don I
remember what conversation we had
then"
who selected the men who came
from Harlan county?"
"Hamp Howard selected thirty men
besides the ten. Caleb Powers, / think,
selected the men from Knox county.
There were about seventy or eighty.
County Attorney Sparks selected the
men from Laurel county"
When witness saw Powers in Lon
don the secretary said he wanted n
regular army of mountain men to
come. In all about twelve or fifteen
hundred men were brought to
Frankfort, the witness said.
They were fed back of the State
House, Captain Davis and Charles
Finley providing the provisions.
Continuing, Golden said:
1--WE sent most of them back that
night. BY we 1 mean myself, Pow
Governor Taylor. Finley, Taylor and
Powers decided to send them back.
all except ten or fifteen men from
each county. About IT'S men of the
mountaineers brought to Frankfort
remained here to see that we got
Justice.
eve understood what they were
kept here for. We knew that those
men were here to go into that legis-
Iative hall and If necessary clean
out those fellows"
"what feIIows."
s'The DemOcrats-enough to make
n majority on our side"
The answer created a sensation in
the court room.
Golden said he was in the executive
building on the day before the shoot
ing. He met Caleb Powers in Gov
Taylor's ante-room. Powers asked
him to go to Louisville that day. He
told John Powers he was going to
Louisville with Caleb Powers. During
lengthy argument over a technical
point Golden became i'll and court
was adjourned to 80 o'clock.
Golden resumed his testimony at
the afternoon session. He said John
Powers and an unknown man had a
talk concerning the closing of Sec
rotary Powers's office during the lat
ter's absence. 81 had my back turn
ed" said Golden. "but when turned
1 saw John Powers give the key to
the man. John Powers said to me.
'Goebei is going to be killed this
morning. 1 said, This must not he
done He said, Don't get excited, L
gave that man the wrong key [
said. We must go and see Caleb
After John talked to Caleb Powers
on that Monday morning what was
next done?"
I'VE all went back to the State
house. | did not go to Louisville that
morning, l can't say why"
DO you know a man named Dick
Coombs?" asked Attorney Campbell.
Il do. He is colored and lives in
Beattyville. He came down with the
Lee contingent
Did you have any talk with Caleb
or John Powers about Dick Coombs?"
"No, but they had two negroes
there to kill Goebel. John Powers
told me so. They were Hooker Smith
and Dick Coombs. Saw Dick
Coombs at the drug store near the
depot every morning for a week or
so previous to the shooting. Coombs
talking to a man named Wallace in
my presence, said with an oath.
know him as far as I can see him,
and 1 can kill him as far as I can
see him.
"He was talking with Goebel.