Hutchinson gazette., 1900-03-15
KENTUCKY'S SCRAP
Arrests Made For Complioity ID
tho Murder of doebel.
SECRETARY POWERS IS ARRESTED
CtptaIn Davis of capitol square Police
Also Arrested -Beckhnn Organizes
state GuRrd-Ht Looked Wnrliho
for "a Time lSurlul Of GOebei'

Frankfort, Ky, March l3.-sensa'
tional developments came In the Ken
lucky hnbroglo last saturday night
when Secretary of state Caleb Powers
pnd Capitol Square Policeman D0Nn
wre arrested on nm express train Ht
L,Alnglon on the charge OF compiled
ty In the murder Of William GoebeL
They were trying TO escape TO the
mountains. Thirty policemen and
half dozen deputy sherirs rushed
into the ear and dragged Powers out
from under II sent, he was IN sol
dicrs clothes and had on false whis'
kers, Three reyolyers were taken OIL
Davis, A large crowd Of Goebel sym
pathizers had gathered and Davis
feared he would be lynched, He and
Powers were put In Jail These Te
the men who were supposed TO have
been hiding In the state capitol when
Governor Taylor would not allow the
bIuding TO be see.,..ed.
The first move ON the part OF Gov
ernor Bcckham's followers toward
the formation Of state guard under
his administration was taken here
Saturday. City Clerl, Ben Marshall
circulated paper and enlisted the
requisite number Of men who are to-
compose new company, Guns for
this company have been provided by
citizens here, most OF them being
either needle guns or Winchesters,
Saturday afternoon u report gained
circulation that Governor Taylor
had given his soldiers orders to ar.
rcrt Governor lieCkhnm and other
oihcers of the Democratic state gov
ernment On account Of this report,
the men enlisted by Captain Marshall
were assembled at the city hall,
armed and sworn in as special police
for the purpose of protecting the
Democratic officers, who are still
quartered at the Capitol Hotel, A
l0rP" ,npmber OF citizens nlso yolun-
teered and were assigned TO various
posts in the vicinity Of the hotel to
offer resistance in ease the talked of
arrests were attempted, Governor.
Taylor's soldiers who are on guard
ut the State House were reinforced
by the arrival OF the Barbersyille
company of n men, all of whom are
fully armed and equipped.
In the last twenty-four hours the
intense excitement occnsoned by the
arrest has somewhat subsidized, Never
theless, great unensiness still exists
Democratic leader do not deny the
reports that further arrests will be
made in connection with the Goebel
assassination, which one prominent
Democrat said to-day, might also in
clude some anti-GOebCl Democrats,
and already several Republican mem.
bers of the legislature have left
Frankfort, presumably TO avoid possi-
BILE arrest. Rumors in regard TO tho
arrests include not only the name OF
Governor Taylor and Republican
members of the legislature, but that
of Adjutant General Collier us well.
In the service Of further warrants
lies one Of the critical points of the
general situation, as several Repub, |
lican members Of the legislature have |
openly expressed their intention OF
lCSlollHB huCH hCINlCt 10 lnc luSl, |
while an attempt to arrest Governor
Taylor Mt present would, in all prob.
ability, be attended with conscquen-
ces unpleasant to contemplate. Gov
ernor Taylor has been urged by sew
erol Republican leaders to remove
tLy seat of government to London for
the present, where he would be safer
from the possibility Of arrest, but IL
is understood he has refused to take
such action, and will remain in
have finally passed on II. disputed
governorship.
The latest arrest is that of W. l..
llozelpp, at Louisville yesterday af-
tCrnoon, on practically the same
charge as the others.
The body Of Gocbcl was late yes.
terday afternoon taken from the
chapel at the Frankfort cemetery,
where it had been under guard for
over month, and buried with cere-
monies of the most simple kind.
Memorial services We're held last
night, addressed by members Of the
legislature and others.