New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-07-24
GoEBEL MURDER TRIAL.
COUNSEL FOR DEFENCE OBJECTS TO EX.
PRESSIoNS OF oTHNIoN By THE
COURT-GROUND tFOR APPEAL.

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Georgetown. KY A1ly 2t-severaI new and es-
eental features were deve pped to-day In the trial
OF Caleb Powers. charged with completely in the
assassination of Governor William Goebel. In ad-
dition to the testimony, which uniformly inter
estng, the session enl kvened by a sharp pass
age between the Court and former Governor John
Young Brown senior COUNSEL for the defence
In Powers should he convicted and receive
even light sentence dhe siefenoe will move for a
trial the groundtthat the.statements OF the
Judge while engaged in the controversy with
Brown prejudicial to4the defendant
When the trial resumed to-day the prosecu-
ton gave notice that il @woslld excuse half dozen
persons summoned Witnesses for that side.
Among those excused was Ike Golden a brother
Of Sergeant P. Wharton, Goa den.
Lieutenant John Ricketts,, an officer in the Bar
bourville militia company of which John Powers
captain, the frs witness He to
Frankfort January % with the trainload of
nountaineers. Before tn train reached Frank
frTt the witness tsaid the told report
10 ". II. Culton for ra1ions The armed
with guns and pistols. Arrived al Frankfort, they
took possession OF the Agricultural Building and
stacked their gunsa there.
The witness said that ch morning a crowd
from three hundDad 10 siS hundred mounted men
occupied the yard in 'front.' of the Legislative Build
Ing. He saw YontsPy frequently and talked with
him. The day lefore thI assassination Youtsey
said Goebel had to- be putl Of the way, and he
tNoutsey) had $100t whichs he would give for that
purpose. and he knew ten or twelve others who
would also contribute toy such a fund. Youtsey
also said Goebe coOVd be f5iled from the Executive
Building that the assassin could escape through
the basement and neher+'be detected. Heisaid his
job depended Goe bel being killed.
Fifteen minutes before the assassination witness
saw Youtsey and thes latter told him he wanted
twenty-five thirty ven 10 accompany him TO the
Executive Building. Conunuing. the witness said
.'Youtsey put insi, tei the Eek acutve Building
the stairs. He told something swas going
10 happen. and we mu:ai remain there. When he
started through the hal II left and went into pri-
vate residence across the street from the building
I had been there few minutes when I heard the
shots. I did not know3,any of the whom
left AZ the foot Of thea stairs IN the Executive
Building"
DIDN'T WANT TO tSEE A KILLING"
The men whom Youtsey, placed we're just outside
the office OF the Secretary of State. Witness said
he left because he did nottwa1t tosbe. present in
Of a killing"
Cross-examned the'witness said that tvhen Yout-
sey placed the men in the bail he told them that
soon something happeneG' man would
come down the steps and go away with them. Wit
ness said that when YoIEsey left the he went
in the direction Of the Governors Office
r. Z. Coombs. private secretary TO, Appellate Jus
tice Hobson, the next witness told of a conversa-
ton between two mounta Aneers in the House lobby
a day before the assassination. in which
they spoke Of picking them out" meaning the
Democrats
During the cross-exa nfnaEion of Coombs ex-
Governor Brown objected the Testimony that
mountaineers went to Fra lGfort arrec rs the
right carry a constitutional privilege
The Court took issue this point, and said that
the law does not permit crowds of armed men,
in the military service and caEed out IN The
lar way. 10 gather for any purpose.
Brown fled exception 10 rezna rlls Of the Court
and repeated previous statement 10 what the
defence expected TO prove to The purpose Of the
organization Of the mountaineer excursion. Yes,
interrupted Judge CantrAI and the Court objects
OF things which the Court thinks nseant spec
tatOrs in the courtroom and not for the Court
OBJECT TO COURTS STATEMENT.
I'VE object that sta> ement,of the Court"
from several attorneys for the. defence. Both the
Court and Ex-Governor Brown showed irrit alton
Assistant Adjutant-General Murray read a letter
which he found file in his office at Frankfort.
having been left there at the tme' of the evacua-
ton Of the Taylor troops. 1t was from Powers
10 Adjutant-General Collier. dated January %. In
which Powers says:
we have undertaken a serioussmatter We must
win We must have these men. and guns
Another signed by John and Caleb Powers TO
General Collier. the same dafe said:
You are acquainted with the fact that Captain
Hows is a Democrat. he has the keys, to the
armory and refused 10 give them TO US The lieu
tenants all right. Please noedfy Captain Hows
TO deliver the keys to LieutensIt Gibson lbs g..
10 General Collier, January u, was read in which
Referring to our conversation yesterday. I do
think the telegram agreed on by us Will be
TaTof and get orders now so that when tRe me
Of action arrives the telegram will then be suffl-
c-ent"
A teegraphic code and key found in the Adtu-
tant-Generals Office were also read.
W. P. Reader, of Knox County, testified that he
Charles Finley a the station Barbourville
the evening Of January %. when the crowd of
fort. Witness asked Finley If Goebel would not
be killed Finley replied with gesture that he
he would be killed, and Finley replied that 1t would
had PREPARED to 20 TO FranKf6rt with the crowd,
Witness said The conversation with Finley took
place In the presence Of Wharton Golden
MIGHT BE FIGHT ANY MINUTE
Wade H Watts colored one of The tantors in
the adjutants office, said that the Saturday be-
fore the shooting, the day Of the Van Meter Berry
contest, Green Golden, Lieutenant Ricketts, and
others in the building. one Of them said
Golden. according 10 the witness said they should
BE- prepared to stand Of the police. and sentinel
tive Lilly came into Tn office. and Of the
told aim that a signal -hot 10 be fired IN the
rise from their seats. that the Democrats would
I1se up IN the * Y enent ana that the men in the
lOhirs wOcld suOu1 them down.
Ex-Governor Brown. Of the defence. asked that
tbs par II me testimony be expunged on the
made the statement not established. Witness
said ne did not know he name Of the man aiking
bur knew his face weal and knew that he was one
o he mountain who arrived o. January %
The Court ruled that the evidence was competent
on the day OF the assassnation witness said he
Executive building Immediately after the shoot
ing witness said Henry Youtsey ran into the base
ment coming from the steps leading up TO the
Secretary Of states Once. Youtsey was running
and as he passed exclaimed:
Great God. what Is that. shooting about
Re held his coat as if he had some kind Of an
object concealed under it, The shots sounded to
tary Of States office
MULLN EXECUTED AT SING SING.