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was called.

Thomas Campbell conducted the ex-
animation in chief Golden started out
by telling that he was q guard at the
Frankfort penitentiary under the Re-
| publican administration from 1896 I'M
til 1898, and was an applicant for as
sistant adjutant general under Gov.
Taylor. Caleb Powers came to him in
January and asked him to go to the
mountains and get crowd of mountain
feudists to bring to Frankfort Pow
| ers accompanied witness part of the
way on the trip and witness went
/ through Harlan, Belle and other coun-
ties, getting up the crowd. Receipts
from Hamp Howard, Dr. Bingham and
other mountain men for money paid to
| them by Golden were produced AMI
exhibited to the jury. Witness
Got the Money From Powers.
At Barboursville, Golden saw Pow
ers and Charles Finley. Finley said
I'VE will go down there and petition
the legislature, and If they don't drop
that thing we will kill them"
Powers, who was present. spoke ap-
provingly. Powers and witness went
| to Scott Green, of Knox county, to ask
him to bring some men for the Frank
fort trip. Green could not co. and
said:
''If were to go, would kill Goebel
and end this business
| On the day before the shooting wit
ness saw John Powers give Youtsey the
keys to the Secretary of States Office
and later Powers told him they had
procured two negroes, Mason Hooker
smith and "Tallow Dick" Combs, to
kill Goebel. Witness told Powers this
must not be done, as 1t would ruin the
party. After this Youtsey came to
powers again and said something
about the key. Powers gave him an
other key.
On the morning of the assassination,
witness, Caleb and John Powers and Wal
ter Day went to Louisville. Before leav-
ing, the witness was in the Secretary of
States office. Governor Taylor was there,
as were several men from the mountains.
E. ]. Howard, of Harlan county, wanted
the Governor to call out the troops, but
the Governor replied: You all must act
first. En- route to Louisville, they heard
of the assassination. Caleb Powers said,
sarcastically: THAT is a shame"
John Powers Also Laughed
over it. Day said nothing. Caleb Powers
told the witness that "they had all made
a mistake in leaving Frankfort it would
look suspicious
On the way back to Frankfort Caleb
Powers said he was liable to be arrested
and asked permission to put his pistol In
witnesses valise.
Witness said that early in January he
and Caleb Powers took walk together
and Powers said he thought they should
get several hundred mountain men to
stay in Frankfort all the time. Witness
suggested that they bring Eli Farmer
down from the mountains and let him
kill Goebel by raising a fight with him on
the street. Powers said that would not
do, as the police would kill too many of
our men that way. In February, the wit
ness was in Powers's office when a
civil engineer was making some measure
ments. Powers said:
'"They say the shot came from this room
and they are going to prove 1t. believe
1t would be better for us to go to Frank
lin and Polls Grove and tell them all
about it,"
Witness walked home with Governor
Taylor one evening and the latter asked
him if the other mountain men would
back up a Republican member of the Leg
islature in case a fight should be precipi-
tated, and further along in the CONVEX
sation he said:
Golden, it looks like a horrible thing
to kill man. but that looks like
The Only Way to Handle Goebel
and his gang"
The cross examination was begun but
had not progressed far when court adj
journed.