The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1900-08-03

AAAe'AiAASA' anu was ISpIOVeQ Dy Witness.
The day after the assassination wit
ness said he began an investigation to
learn where the shot was fired from.
The newspapers were intimating that
the shooting was done from his office.
made no statement to Golden that
[ was satisfied shots came from nv
Office, and did not tOu him I was
thinking of going to the common
wealth's attorney to tell him all L
knew. l did have a talk with Gov.
Bradley about going to see Franklin,
but he advised against it, and 1 didn't
go.
Powers then detailed the events inn
mediately proceeding the arrest Of
himself and Capt. Davis. He said his
! attorney, Judge Yost, advised him to
make way to the mountains and re-
main there till public excitement died
out before giving himself up for trial.
In regard to the pardon sNen him
by Gov. Taylor, and which was found
on him when he was first arrested,
Powers said: 81 would have taken
more of them if l had thought they
would have helped me any in the
ordeal through which 1 was passing"
OF the $1,000 in money in his pockets
at that time, $500 of it was his own
personal money and 5000 of it be-
longed to the republican campaign
fund. The witness denied that he
had ever had any one of a half dozen
or more conversations with witness
Wharton Golden, about which the lat
ter had told on the stand last week,
and denied that he had ever talked
with him or any body else about the
killing of Goebel or other member OF
the legislature.
In regard to the testimony of Robt.
NOaks, the witness 1aid he never had
conversation with Noaks in regard
to smokeless powder cartridges, and
never saw Noaks at Frankfort, Jan
uary 25th, when Noaks alleged that
the witness made so many damaging
statements to him. The witness was
kept busy denying statements made
by witness Noaks, Golden, Culton and
Anderson.
Georgetown, KY, Aug. 2.-The de-
PENDANT, Caleb Powers, resumed the
stand at 9 o'clock Wednesday morn
ing, this being his third day in the
witness box. He was subjected to a
rigid cross-eXamination regarding the
organization of the mountaineer
army. He said that Gov. Taylor and
himself were the primary spirits in
getting it up. The military compan-
les were brought along, he said, be-
cause they having some discipline
could be more easily controlled, and
moreover, that they were already
armed.
The witness said he had urged Gov.
Taylor while the contest board was
sitting to call out the military COM
panies, and to send the bulk of the
mountain people home and had Sc
cured partial promise from the gov
ernOr to do it. This was to be done
in order that they might hold pos
session of the state offices till the SUI
preme court of the United States pass
ed on the merits of the case.
The witness contradicted the state
ment of John A. Black, the banker
and republican leader of Barbours-
vile, who s.vOre that Powers, when
discussing the mountaineer excursion
to Frankfort, referred to it as mob.
Powers says Black so referred
to it, but that he told Black he
would do all he could to keep it from
degenerating into an organization Of
that character
Powers said: Our opponents be-
lieved that the decision of the contest
board was final, without recourse to
higher courts, while we claimed that
we should have the right of appeal,
and we intended to hold our offices
until we had exercised this right"
Attorney Campbell asked: Did
you intend to resist by force the civil
writs of your state?"
Powers said: ''You can call them
civil or uncivil-we did not propose
to be ousted from our Offices
All of Powers direct testimony
was thoroughly searched in cross-ex-
animation, but Campbell was not
able to make him contradict himself,
and the accused man showed remark
able knowledge of the mass of testi-
mony offered by the prosecution.
Georgetown, KY. Aug. George
f. Weaver, the witness in the Pow
ers' trial, who claimed to hail from
Colorado, and who asserted that he
saw the gun barrel pointing from the
office of the secretary of state at the
time Goebel was assassinated, was
arrested Wednesday on a warrant,
charging him with perjury. The war
rant was sworn out by the attorneys
for the defense in the Powers case,
who say that they have found out
that Weaver was not only not in
Frankfort the day of the assassina-
ton, but was never there till last
saturday night.
Renowned the Flag.
Boston, Aug. 2.-Letters received
here say that j. WadswOrth Richie,