The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-10-19
WOULD KILL EN- ALL
DEMOCRATS OF KENTUCKY TO BE
PREY FOR RIFLES OF
MOUNTAINEERS
EVIDENCE IN POWERS TRIAL
Shows That Gov. GoebeI Was Not the
Only Intended Victim of the
Republican Con-
spiracy.

GEORGETOWN, KY, Oct 1S.-When
court convened today Judge Morton
moved to suspend night sessions. The
prisoner, ex-Secretary of State Caleb
Powers, made affidavit that he was phys
ically disabled. He affirmed also that he
had no time to confer with his attorneys.
Judge Cantrill reserved decision.
Miss Snuffer said she visited Powers
in the jail, and that he tried to get her
to leave the state and not testify against
him because her testimony would be dam
aging.
Judge Cantrill at the afternoon ses-
sion overruled the motion of the defense
to abandon the night sessions of the
court. The court said what purported to
be an affidavit of the prisoner and a
statement from his counsel were not
signed.
w. H. Culton was called and asked II
he was under indictment as an accessory
to. GoebePs murder, and replied that he
was. Mr.. Owens objected to the admis-
sion of Culton's testimony, but the court
oVerruled the objection. CuIton testified
that Caleb Powers said the Democrats
would be given thirty minutes to settle
the contest, and if they did rot do 1t
they would kill every damn one OF
them Powers said it was serious un-
dertakng, and all who old not want to
Frankfort should withdraw then, for il
they were unsuccessful, they would be
guilty of conspiracy, and all would be
convicted. Culton testified that Taylor
said:
DEMOCRATS TO-BE SHOT.
eff the Democrats continue to rob US
Judges -Hazelrigg and Habson, of the
court of appeals, should be killed; that
will settle the contest Powers said
that was right and Charles Finley con-
Cured in the statement.
On cross-examination Culton admitted
to having been indicted for signing the
name of a man in Jackson county to a
petition. Culton said there was a heated
political race, and he had been authorized
to sign the mans name to a petition to
build a new court house. Afterwards
the grand jury indicted him, but he was
dimissed in court. Culton denied that he
was short in his accounts in the state
auditors office.
Culton also denied that he ever told
Wharton Golden that the man who killed
Goebel was so drunk that he could hardly
stand up.
Did you not at Powers first trial say
that you had not made any confession
to Mr.. Campbell, and that you would not
believe the testimony of any man who
went into conspiracy to kill a man and
then confessed?" asked Mr.. Owens
81 said nothing like that" answered
Culton.
NAN VIII A GUN.
Judge James H. Hazelrigg, former chief
justice of the Kentucky court of appeals,
then took the stand. Judge Hazelrfgg
testified that when Goebel was shot the
court of appeals at once adjourned, and
! that he went to the east steps of the
senate building, which are opposite the
western entrance of the executive build
! ing, and that he saw several men i'll
| the door of the executive building. One
man, the judge remembered, had a gun.
He described him as short man with
| black mustache. Judge Hazelrigg said
| he attended the trial of James B. How
ard, who was charged with the murder
| of William Goebel, and he thought How
ard was the man he saw on the steps
! of the executive building.
I'm justice to Howard continued the
witness, Il must add that the image OF
| the man I saw on the steps was not
fixed firmly enough on my memory fer
me to say positively that James Howard
was the same man." On cross-examina-
tion Judge Hazelrigg stated that he could
not identify the man on the steps as
Howard, but that it was his impression
| that 1t was Howard.
Court then adjourned until tomorrow,