The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1900-07-17
CALEB POWERS TRIAL
The Bullet That is Supposed to Have
Killed Goebel Exhibited in Court.
Witnesses Testify to the Supposed
Course of the Deadly Mis-
sile-Eph LilIard on
the Stand.


cepted by both sides, leaving four
more to be selected. The common
wealth has one more peremptory chal-
lenge to its credit, while the defense
has four.
Georgetown. KY, July 14.-When
the formation of a jury to try the
Powers case was resumed Friday
morning there were eight accepted
jurors in the box and three seated
subject to challenge.
The jury was completed by the ac-
ceptance of Harris Musselman, a
farmer, also considered a Goebel sup
porter. Ford is said to be doubtful,
some of his friends claiming him to
be a Brown democrat. The jury was
then sworn in.
The completed jury stands w. o.
finder, farmer, Brown; A. w. Craig,
merchant, Goebel; w. p. Munson,
farmer, Goebel; w. H. Oldham, mer-
chant, Goebel; George Murphy, farm
er, Goebel; j. c. Porter, farmer, re-
publican; AlOnzo Kemper, farmer,
Brown: B. E. Ford, farmer, Goebel
loubtfuD; ]. p Crosswaite, carpen-
smith, Goebel; Harris Musselman,
farmer, Goebel.
Col. Campbell stated the case for the
prosecution. He reviewed the politi-
cal events of last fall, and especially
the events following the election and
the instituting of contests by the
democratic candidates for state of
fees. He said that Caleb Powers was
most aggressive among those who
sought to settle the contest by vio-
lence, and that to him largely was
Que the importation of mountain
''feudists" to Frankfort. Of the band
of mountain men, IT'S remained in
Frankfort regularly. He charged that
a majority of them had killed from
one to several men each. He claimed
it will be put in evidence that on jan
nary % Mr.. Powers made use. of a
statement that "Goebel has not as
many days to live as / have fingers on
my hand He reviewed the facts in
connection with the assassination and
claimed that the state house yard had
been cleared in furtherance of the
conspiracy, cited the closing of the
executive building against the police
officers, the callinggRRpfgkEapps and
other matters which, have already
come out in the examining trials.
During Surveyor Woodson's testi-
mony he produced the chip cut from
the blackberry tree in the state house
yard. The chip contains the steel bull
let which is supposed to have passed
through the body of Mr.. Goebel. Mr..
WOodson had not completed his testi-
mOny when court adjourned.
Georgetown, KY, July 15.-Satur-
day, Head Woodson, county surveyor
Of Franklin county, and the civil en-
gineer who made the measurements
was on the stand for over two hours.
He had with hiEa profile drawings,
diagrams and a block of wood taken
from tree in the state house yard,
which was supposed to contain the
fatal bullet. The defense undertook
to show that the surveyor had not
been sufficiently accurate in his meas
urement from the supposed point of
entrance of bullet into the tree
to prove that the shot was
fired from the window of the secretary
of states Office. He left the stand at
1915.
At the request of the prosecution,
Mr.. Wodson, after leaving the stand,
removed the bullet from the block of
wood when it had lain undisturbed
for six months, and after marking it
for Identification, passed the bit of
lead about the bar. Judge, Jurors
L.
terest. Apparently the prisoner and
Arthur Goebel, the brother of Will
liam GOebel, paid less attention to the
ball than some of the attorneys.
Clothes that Goebel wore on the ia
tai day was brought in at $3.50 by two
colOred porters and placed in the
ante-roOm adjoining the main court
room.
Warden Eph Lillard, of Frankfort
prison, a close friend of deceased,
was next called. He accompanied Mr..
GOebel to the state house on the
morning of murded and left him just
before the shot was fired.
Mr.. Lillard testified that on the
morning of the shooting, as he APP
preached the state house with Goe-
bel and Jack Chinn, he noticed that
the capitol grounds were clear,
whereas on previous occasions,
mountain men, were numerous. He
said he had left his two. companions
and reached the door of the main cap
itol building when he heard shots, and
looking back saw Goebel fall He de-
clared that one of the front windows
in the Office of the secretary of state
was partly raised at the time At
the conclusion or his testimony court
adjourned.