Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-04-08
them saying: I'VE won't be needed up
here any longer"


them saying: 1--WE won't be needed up
here any longer
wouIdn't Trust the Negrooes.
After 1t had been decided to assas-
sinate Gov. Goebel, proposition was
| made to "Tallow Dick" Combs and
Mason Heckersmith, the negroes. to do
the work. 1t will be proved from
whom this proposition came, and also
that at least one reason why they did
! nea fire the shots YVES because one OF
the leaders of the Republican party,
whose name is known, object. saying
he was not willing to trust such mat
ter to negroes. He wanted one OIL
Powers's regular mountain feudists.
On Sunday Caleb Powers had con-
ference with Jim Howard at the
Catchings Hotel, in London, and 1T was
arranged that Howard should come
here Monday Goebel was to have
been shot on that day. But circum-
stances prevented Howard from get
ting here. He took the Chesapeake q
Ohio train Tuesday morning. Howard
got off here, and the next time he was
seen he was in the executive building
with Berry Howard and another man.
1t was planned that Goebel should
be killed Monday morning instead OF
Tuesday. John Powers on that morn
ing, in the presence of Wharton COL
den, delivered his brothers key to
Youtsey Caleb Powers had asked Col
den to go to Louisville with him that
morning, but for reasons which POW
ers did not explain to Golden, the trip
was not made on Monday. Jim How
ard was expected here Monday morn
ing, but he did not arrive.
It was on Monday that Taylor said
to mountain man in the presence OF
Caleb Powers and Golden, when asked
why he didn't call out the militia:
MY God, you people must act hrst,
and then | will call ont the militia
quick enough"
Youtsey Gets the Rifle.
Gov. Goebel was killed with rifle
owned by Mr.. Grant Roberts, brother
of Mr.. Sam Roberts, collector of in
ternal revenue at Lexington. Mr.
Roberts, however, was entirely inno-
cent of any connection with the con-
spiracy, and it was without his knoWl-
edge that his rife was being used. 1t
was a 3S-calibre Marlin, and one OF the
truest and best that was ever made.
Youtsey had raffled it, and it fell into
the possession of Mr.. Roberts, who
placed it in the vault of the Auditors
office.
Several days before the assassination
it disappeared from the vault.
The Rifle Returned.
An hour after the shot was fired
IDlf rif1n
was replaced in the vault. Mr.. Rob
erts accused Youtsey of having taken
it, and Youtsey did not make salts
factory explanation. A day or two
later the rife disappeared again, and
the prosecution has not been able to
locate it.
The steel bullet from the rife is in
the possession of the Commonwealth
having been extracted from the tree
on line with where Goebel fell and
the window of the Secretary of States
Office
Youtsey Lets in Assassins.
The door of Powers's Office was
opened with the key which was given
to Youtsey. Youtsey knows who en-
tered, and it is virtually certain that
he said Jim Howard was one of them.
Howard is under indictment for the
killing of George Baker. Howard had
been trying to get pardon from Tay-
lor, and Powers and others assured
Howard he could get the pardon II
he would kill Goebel.
After the shooting Youtsey went
down through the basement and out
the back way. He was seen by
number of witnesses to run around the
building and a few minutes later he
entered Taylor's Office.
Taylor Told Him to Leave.
Culton, in his statement says Yout-
sey came to him after the shooting
and said Taylor had advised him to
leave Franklin at once.
The Commonwealth has the state
ment of several persons that an hour
before the shooting the soldiers at the
arsenal were given ammunition and
cartridges for the first time, so that
when the message was sent they were
ready to march.
Others Persoons Implicated.
The Commonwealth has a mass of
other evidence which duplicates other
persons, but the details of this will not
become public until the trial. The
charges on which Hezelip, Whitaker
and Davis are arrested concern the
various branches of the conspiracy,
and are not as serious as those on
which warrants have been issued for
the others.
The two daughters of Col. James
Andrew Scott were before the grand
jury yesterday. They and several
other young women met w. H. Sween-
ey on the street while they were on
their way to the State House on Friday
morning, the day when Culton says the
riot was to be started, when the Van
Meter-Berry contest was to be settled.
Don't go up there to-day, young
ladies'" he said, addressing the Misses
Scott. There is going to be trouble.
l advise you to stay away
They say he insisted that he knew
what he was talking about, and re-
peatedly urged them not to go.
Noutsey the Connecting Link.
The confession of Youtsey is believ-