The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-07-29
Golden offered $4,000 Not to Appear
Against Powers.
LAWYER FINED FOR CONTEMPT.
There Was Quite Tilt Between the
Attorney for Defense-Thc Jury
VIII Not Ee Taken 10 Scene
of Shooting Until All the
Evidence Is In.
(By Associated Press.)

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GEORGETOWN. KY. July 2S-In Che
trial OF former Secretary of state Caleb
Powers. charged with being an accessory
to the murder OF William Goebel. the pros
ecution to-day concluded its evidence in
chief.
Sergeant F. warton Golden was the last
important witness.
On Monday Powers Will testify in his
own behalf
Three weeks have already been con-
sumed in the trial. Golden resumed the
witness stand to-day and Judge Sims be-
gan severe cross examination.
Golden repeated the story told previous
ly OF how he came to be called as u
witness. He denied telling his brother-in-
law. John Stamper, that he had been
promised $25d0 or that he could have
$3.50 IN case of a conviction Of parties
He also denied that he had ever said if he
and Culton could get together, they could
convict all OF them.
Golden was kept busy for an hour or
more denying that he had made statements
that are attributed to him by persons Whq
It had been supposed would he introduced
by the defense to impeaeh rs sGrnohS'
OFFERED y BRIBE.
had been approached BY his brnther-.n-faw
.John Stampsr who told him he had jaiR
with Lawyer l.. f. Sinclair, now one ot
powers attorneys and that Golden could
get $5.0n1 if he would leave the state and
NOT appear against Powers
Witness said ne refused 10 consider ths
nroposition He gave as a reason Tor not
gong back 10 Knox county after h made
= confession. that his brothers. who hNed
there advised him to stay away. as theF
believed he would be killed
There was Il lively Tilt over letter
which Golden WAS said by the HeWspaeefs
"a have been written to him. tFtTe wit
ress safd LAWYER Sinclair had called on
him and asked him for the letter. teti.hS
him he wanted it for a newspaper
rha defense objected and asked the Court
to exclude tbs statement
Colonel Campbell said he was trying 20
show that Sinclair was appearing under
several different roles. First as a spy or
detective for Powers. then as an aHsz'ea
newspaner reporter eavesdrop1 ns and
pryins into irrelevant matters. and hHat.y
FINED FOR CONTEMPT
IT aid not appear under an assumed
nan,a AZ Won did at Cumberland Gap,
ejacrIInted Nsr. Sinclair
.Dfrect your remarks tn the Court ant
not To Mr. Campbell when you are talk
ing said the Caur; to Mr.. Sinel1ir
The coIi9uuv went on and Mr. Sinclair
was fined 81 FOR contempt.
Ex-Governor Brown entered an exception
TO 1, remark OF the court in regard TO the
irra.syr7r,. of the question as 10 the let
ter written by Mrs. Golden.
wei. except all you want to. so far as
that is concerned" said the court
we VIII. responded Governor Brown
.1,be law gives us that right. II is not
matter within the prerosatiyc of the
court
Robert Haslock. q sun-smith, gave ex-
merit testimony as TO the bullet III the ptoeN
If wood cut from the blackberry tree after
il was supposed to have passed through
Goebels body. He pronounced 1t 4 -
caifbr, Il etaI patch-hniiet
He said it was copper-hlied and nicket
faJed. .,,,, ,,ort
short consultation after whlch MI
FRANKLIN announced that that SIDE "oulr
rest and asked that the jury DC taken 90
FRANKFORT to view the scene OF the
ira ageCy. WI
The defense offered no objection oli,
the court ruled that this should not %
done until all the evidence is IN
Through MIR Campbell the prosecutor s,
ave our n statement after resting KS
case, saying it had been proved tnat .5e
shot came from the office OF the Gslsli'.-
anf Caleb Powers. and that there WIS
conspiracy to kill Goeoel
The statement says; o"sFs ITO
dainty connected with the principal VINO
fred the shot. whsthsr that Pr.nc.Pai %
Youtsey. a jim Howard or Dick Combs, an ,c-
..~rn one of the three Powers was an ae-
ceslory ln 9' before the fact. lie furnished .,
Youtsey the key to get into his once me ne
conveniently left his office on tne ,.,.,a raan.
dav so that the pretense couia @ pe alawn 80
that the Office was s,,tofsd s,o5sSi for"
oilnus 1ha sou.e ststarent reviews the testimony.
lhe rns s"tb si,at it points to the conviction
ose5,ns os Pamsrs l unless the evidence IS broken
down.