The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-08-17
case Expected to BE Given to the Jury
Tonight After the Argument
of Attorney
DEFENSE OF T. C. CAMPBELL
1T ENTERS LARGELY INTO THE
PROSECUTIONS SPEECHES.
Golden Gets After His Brother and
Fine Argument for Powers.


euments In the case of ex-Secretary of
State Powers have proceeded according to
programme to-day, and If they continue in
like manner tomorrow the case will go
to the jury tomorrow night. Much in
terest is being taken in the argument OF
Col. Thomas Campbell for the prosecution
tomorrow forenoon and in the argument
of Ex-Governor Brown for the defense to-
morrow afternoon, while Cmmonwealth's
Attorney Franklin will deliver a strong
argument in closing the case tomorrow
night. Although it is believed the jury
will disagree, yet the coming verdict is
being awaited here with intense interest
on account of its influence on the other
cases. as well as to its bearing so far as
Caleb Powers is concerned.
Henry Youtsey, the alleged Goebel con-
spirator, whose case will be tried next, Is
quite i'll In jail here. He has a high fever,
and physicians were with him twice last
night. He may be too sick to go to trial.
Victor Bradley, who continued his speech
for the prosecution this morning. hkened
the armed petitioners who went to Frank
fort to a h~lghwayman who draws his re-
volver and petitions the traveller for his
purse" He told the jury 1t had been
proved that Charles Finley had said 'Goe-
bel will be killed within five days." and in
less than that time Goebel was lying quiv-
ering on the pavement. He told them that
it had been proved that Caleb Powers had
said: IF no one else will kill him / will
kill him myself" that Henry Youtsey said
Goebel could be killed from Powers's Of
flee and the assassin could run down into
the basement and never be discovered. A
few seconds after the shooting it is proved
that Youtsey did run down into the base
ment, out through the barber shop and
back through the east entrance into the Of
flee next to Powers's.
At / o'clock Bradley concluded, and j.
III. Tinsley, of BarbCursville, began for the
defense. He said the only well-substan-
tiated statement made by Caleb Powers
before Jan. 80 was to the effect that he
would give up his Office and everything
and go home rather than enter into any
sort of a combination with anybody to use
cartridges to settle the contest. He thought
one fact stood out above every other in
this case, and that was that Powers was
not within fifty miles of Frankfort when
the shot was fired; had locked his Of
flee before he left; no one was locked in
ii, n that he could not possibly have
known who fired the shot or from where IL
was fired.
At D. m, Capt. Ben B. Golden, a brother
of Wharton Golden. began his speech for
the prosecution. He said If one family,
more than the Goebel family, had suffered
by the assassination il was the Golden
family; that his poor young brother had
been contaminated by association with
Caleb Powers, and that he was here to
help, as best he could, to make PREPARATION
for his brothers wrong. He said Powers
himself was first TO use the expression
Mountain army" in a letter to Susie
Snuffer, and that he never spoke of peace
full petitioners or any kind of petitioners
fill 1h1G Ir1al anne III
Golden was specially bitter in his de-
nunciation of his own brother-in-law, the
Rev. j. T. Stamper, and said: He is a
preacher, it is said, but If you could take
the lid from the hottest pit of hell you
! would find just such people as Stamper in
it. Lawyer Tinsley said one thing in his
| speech and Stamper swore directly the OPP
| posite. and If you jurymen have any doubt
whether he is lying. 1 will throw in Lawyer
Sinclair and let you draw straws for the
| liar"
In referring to the way the defense has
| heaped abuse on Colonel Tom Campbell, he
said: THE Goebel brothers are being
abused for trying to ferret out the assassin
of their brother, and abused for employing
Colonel Campbell; but / want to say that
whatever may be said about Campbell, he
has been hitting the bulls-eye in this case
right along. We admit that we have i'm
ported Campbell from another State, but
the defense must admit that they have ex-
ported Taylor and Finley"
Golden concluded at 3 o'clock and on
motion of the defense, in order that Colonel
Owens speech might not be interrupted,
court adjourned till $50. so he could COM
plete his speech tonight.
Major w. G. Owens made by far the best
speech tonight that has been made for the
defense. He went into the testimony in de-
tail, and told the jury that Caleb Powers
could not be convicted on statements of
co-conspirators, and said the testimony of
neither Culton, nor Noaks nor Golden had
been corroborated by any other witness. He
compared Colonel Campbelrs schooling of
% Tho noF-fr Of nfpno1 hxv n
professor of dog and horse shows. He said
he wished the books of the $100, 900 reward
commission could show the promises made
for convictions, as he would bet the whole
amount could not be paid by the 100000.
He was dramatic in declaring that he
would not hang a dog on the vile testimony
introduced by the prosecution.
If a night session is held tomorrow
night, the whole argument will conclude
with the speech of Mr.. Franklin, the COM
monwealth's attorney.