The age-herald., 1900-08-04
TRYING TO IMPEACH
 STATE WITNESSES Defense in Powers Case Attack
 Their Credibility. "TALLOW DICK" CONFESSED He Intimated to One of the Interested Attorneys That the Report Was
 Practically Correct Does
 Not Connect Youtsey

Not Connect Youtsey
 Georgetown, Ky, August 3.-Of the eight | witnesses introduced by the defense in the | Powers case today all but were called
 for the purpose of attacking the credibility
 of witnesses placed on the stand by the | prosecution. One of these former State | Auditor Stone stated that Witness w. H.
 Culton an alleged co-conspirator of Pow
 ers removed from place of trust in
 his office because he defaulted in the sum | of S1,0O0. Other witnesses, residents of | Grayson Springs, this State, testified that | instead of being in Frankfort on January
 30, the day of the shooting of Governor l Goebel as he claimed under oath to have
 been, George Weaver a prosecution wit ness, was in their town organizing a lodge | of "Woodmen of the World" and others 1 from Eastern Kentucky testified that the l witness, Wharton Golden, of the prosecu-
 ton, had displayed large roll of money | and intimated that it came from the State l reward fund.
 1 Attorneys for the prosecution rigidly ex- | amned these witnesses and made one of l them, James Harkleroade, of Barbourville | admit that he has been indicted not less
 than dozen times for violations of law.
 The most important witness of the day | was Daniel R. Collier of Lancaster adju-
 tant-general of Kentucky under the Tay- | Tor administration. He offered as testimo- | ny the written order of Governor Taylor l directing him to bring the regiments of the
 State Guard to Frankfort after the shoot
 ing of Senator Goebe and ordering him to
 confer with the civil authorities of Frank
 lin County as to how best to preserve peace
 there. This was the first appearance of
 the document, which was never made
 part of the state records, and Judge Can
 trill ruled it out as incompetent on the ob-
 jection of the prosecution that it was not | in accordance with the statutes of the
 state, not directing Collier to place the mill
 itary under direction of the civil authori-
 ties. The case of George F. Weaver, the
 prosecution witness charged with perjury
 was called in the county court here today
 and set for hearing on the 22d. Weaver
 insists that he is innocent of the charge | "iaiow I.ic,' Lad Confess
 The purported confession of "Tallow
 Dick" Combs, one of the alleged conspira-
 tors, exhibited here today, was at first de-
 nied by him, but later he admitted to one
 of the interested attorneys that it is par
 tially correct.
 The confession, if true, throws no further I light on the case than to connect Henry
 Youtsey, another of the alleged conspira-
 tors, more closely with the murder and to
 bear out the idea of a conspiracy a sum l of money being used
 | At the opening the court in the Pow | CTS case this morning, Frank c. Carpenter,
 the Louisville insurance man, who was on | the witness stand at the closing of the | court yesterday, was crosS-eXamined by the | prosecution. The examination developed | nothing material, and he was followed by | Sam H. Stone, former State Auditor. The first question asked the witness by | Attorney Owens for the defense was | whether not W. H. Culton, who was a. 1 clerk in his office, had been removed be- 1 cause he had stolen $1000 from the State l He said that such was the case, and that
 he removed Culton the day before he him. l self retired.
 | The prosecution obected to the question | and the court reversed a ruling on it. | On cross-examination Captain Stone said
 he did not go before the grand jury and | ask for the indictment of Culton for the l defalcaton
 l Witness Gibson was recalled and corrob- l orated part of the testimony.
 | J. l.. Butler of Butler County followed l. Gibson on the stand He attended . meet ing in the office of the defendant Towers
 some days before the shooting, at which the raising of money to pay expenses of l witnesses was discussed
 | Sheriff Burton of Breckinridge County | was there and displayed some cartridges l sayin" the Gubernatorial contest could be l settled with them. Powers told Burton that l he must not talk in that way; that he | would raher give up his office than cause l b-oodshed. -Ie said Powers visit to Lous- 1 Vile on the morning of the sootiny was to l arrange for an excursion to Frankfort from 1 the western part of the State
 1 court adjourned for dinner
 Adjutant-General oIlier Called Daniel R. Collier, who held the office of l AdJutant General in the Taylor adminis- l tratlon, was next called. He said that the l cipher signal ''all right" used in tele- l grams sent by him to State Guard officers | on the day of the shooting was arranged l by him before Taylor became Governor l The telegrams were sent out not sooner l than 15 minutes after the shooting The | local company of State Guards on duty at | the arsenal was not on the scene, he sad 1 until 30 minutes after Goebel was carried away.
 l At another point in his testimony wit | ness produced a written order to him | signed by Governor Taylor and delivered | to him after the shooting directing him to 1 call the state troops to Frankfort and to | be in charge of them after conferring with | the civil authorities. The prosecution ob- l jected to the presentation of the order as evidence, because it had not been entered | on the executive journal and was not made | in accordance with the statutes of the | state. Judge Cantril sustained the ob- | jection, saying: T cannot submit this pa
 per to the jury without explaining that l the Governor had no right under the sta- | ute to issue"
 l The defense then ruled incompetent a | letter addressed by Witness Collier to the