Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1901-04-17
TRIAL OF RIPLEY
is STILL GOING ON
Point On Which Prosecution
Hinges It's Case.
DEFENDANTS TESTIMONY

Question of Veracity Arises Between
Governor Bradley and Judge Yost
On the One Side and the Accused
On the Other.
FRANKFORT, KY, April 16.-The Rip.
ley trial was continued today, with the
defendant still on the stand under cross
examination. He has made an excel
lent witness from his own standpoint,
his answers being clear and unhesitat-
ing. The Bradley Yost evidence as to
what he declared Governor Taylor told
him the day before Goebel was assassi-
mated, it is apparent, is the point on
which the prosecution is hinging it's
case.
The testimony of the three witnesses
on this point has resolved itself into a
matter. of veracity between Governor
Bradley and Judge Yost on one side
and the defendant on the other.
Defendants Testimony.
The defendant, in response to
questions, told of mis- movements
after the arrival Of his company
here on the morning Of Jan. 81.
His company was stationed near
the executive mansion and peni-
tenttary and had nothing to do with
preventing the meeting of the legisla-
ture. He was not IN the squad which
chased the legislature out of the court.
house and city hall, nor with the com.
pany which formed and drilled in front
of the Capitol hotel, where Goebel was
lying wounded. He denied entering the
Capitol hotel that night with a pistol
in his hand and going to various rooms
in the hotel He was not in the hotel
except on the 10th and goth instants.
The prosecution asked if he had not
said in substance to j. B. Mathews, in
April of last year, the following:
Matthews, / am going away soon,
and want to tell you confidently that
know Caleb Powers is innocent and
can tell enough to clear him if it be-
comes necessary for me to tell it. Now
is not the proper time, but am going
to New York, and later possibly to Cali
fornia. will keep you advised of my
whereabouts, as know you are friend
Of Powers, and whenever it becomes
necessary to tell it in order to save Pow.
ers I will do it, but if you ever tell what
I have said to you then will deny that
uhu CnlS thIk WIFI you.
The defense objected to the question
on the ground that 1t was testimony in
chief, and the jury retired during argu-
ment. Mathews, who was referred to,
was Powers assistant secretary of state.
Objection Overruled.
The court overruled the objection,
and the witness in his reply said he
might have said this to Mathews, but if
he did he had in mind the things he had
heard duplicating Henry Youtsey, and
also the occurrence, seeing Youtsey
come out of Taylor's Office on Jan. 29.
He was not positive, however. whether
be said this to Mathews or not
The witness did not remember wheth-
er he told Mathews in substance what
he is alleged to have told her husband,
but admitted that he had asked Mathews
to go away with him and suggested that
their wiz go to his home i'll Henry
county. He could not remember wheth-
er he referred to Taylor as a coward,
but did remember that he commented
on the fact that he left his family alone
at the mansion too often.
The cross examination was completed
at 1870 and the redirect examination
developed nothing new in the defend.
ants testimony.