The age-herald., 1901-04-11
COV. BRADLEY ASTAR WITNESS
 |NR|PLEYC CASE Gave Sensational Testimony at
 Yesterdays Session TOLD 0F PLOT CONVERSATION When Mountalneers Arrived Some One Told Witness That Parties Were Waiting at the State House
 Grounds to Kill Goebel.
 
TOLD OF PLOT CONVERSATION

Frankfort. Ky. April 1o.-Ex-Gov. w. o. Bradley. who was chief counsel for Ex-Gev. w. 8. Taylor in the subernato- rial contes. case before the legislature last year. gave sensational testimony this afternoon in the trial of Capt. Garnet Ripley. who Is charged with conspiring with others to bring about the murder of William Goebel. Mr. Bradley detailed a conversation which he had with Captain Ripley while the latter was in charge of his military company during the occu- pancy of the state capitol by the Taylor troops last spring. in which Ripley told him of frequent conferences with Gov ernor Taylor prior to the assassination. Witness said that Ripley told him he was in the executive office the day before the shooting and complained to Taylor because he had not called out his (Rip- leys) company, and asked him when he should have the company ready. Taylor replied:
 My God, haven't you brought them yet? Goebel will not live twenty-four hours, or cannot live twenty-four hours, have forgotten which he said," declar- ed the witness.
 Judge W. H. Yost, associate counsel with Bradley in the contest case, accord ing to the witness was present and heard the conversation. In response to a ques- ton as to whether witness heard of any conspiracy to kill MT. Goebel, the witness stated that on January 25, the day the train load of mountaineers arrived some one, he could not now recall told him that parties in the crowd were waiting in front of the state house to kill Goebel. | T said" e5iitinued the witness, -it sshall be stopped I will go In the Senate chamber and come out with Goebel and see that he is not hurt or insulted." looked and saw Wharton Golden and told him to get Finley, Culton and others and send them to me.
 He said Goebel is not going to be hurt. Culton and Finley told me it was a fake and that there was nothing in it. They condemned violence. as I did" u
 Why did you send for Culton, Finley and the other men?'
 Because I thought they knew the mountain men,"
 Ripley Was Not Connected.
 The defense asked witness if he knew anything of any connection of Ripley with these occurrences. Governor Bradley said Ripley had none so far as he knew Asked if Ripley's company had not been disbanded at this time, witness said he thought 1t was disbanded about that time.
 w. P. Thorne, when asked if he had any conversation with Ripley upon the prior day to the day Goebel was shot, answer ed that he had had few words in the depot at Eminence. January %, In the morning about o'clock. Witness said: Ripley came in as If he was to take the train, and asked me If my son Will was still in Frankfort. He told me upon my replying in the affirmative to send for him to return home. Take my ad- vice and send for him, said Ripley. Will did not come"
 Did Ripley say when you should send?"
 'He said send right away" said the witness
 Witness said that on the next day, when he tried to telephone Frankfort some one was calling Eminence, and that the person at the Frankfort end of the tele- phone said that he was General Collier and that he wanted Ripley. Witness did not know that Ripley went to Frankfort the day before or the day of the shoot ing, but did not think that he did.
 A. V. Hite, agent of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad. was introduced to prove that a consignment of guns was shipped to Ripley at Eminence and way bills showing the consignment were pro- duced, but were ruled out on objection of the defense.
 Adjutant General Murray testified as to the organization of Ripley's military company, and the defense undertook to show that 1t had been illegally formed under the order of Governor Taylor a short time before the assassination but this was also ruled out.
 Preceding these witnesses Drs. Hume, Ely and Welch testified as to Goebel's wounds and death. and Col. Eph Lillard. who, with Jack Chinn, accompanied Gov ernor Goebel when he was assassinated. told over again the story of the shooting