Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-04-16

OTHER ALLEGED AsSASSINs
OF GOV. GOEDEL.
WHAT TAYLOR SAID TO HIM.
vERSATION HE HAD WITH
BRADLEY AND YOST.

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FRANKFORT, KY. April 15.-The
trial of Garnet Ripley, charged with
completely in the assassination OF Vim.
Goebel, was resumed to-day. Put upon
the witness stand, Ripley did not deny
that he made the statements attributed
to him by Ex-Governor Bradley and
Judge w. H. Yost concerning ex-Gover-
| nor Taylor's remarks to him, but said
while he though that they were sub
s~tantially correct in their evidence had
misunderstood him or he lad failed to
convey the proper impression on them
at the time. The cross-examination was
not complete, and Ripley wiz take the
stand tomorrow.
Ex-Governor Bradley and Judge Yost
will not be recalled as witnesses and
the jury will have to decide as to
whether or not the defendant is correct
as to Ripley's statement of the Taylor
incident.
On direct examination Ripley stated
that he was forty years of age last
month and is a farmer. He had been
talking with the boys in his %neighbor-
hood for several years about getting up
a company of cavalry. He came to
Frankfort first on January 16, the day
Of the Colson-Scost tragedy. selecting
this day in order to see Wm. J. Bryan,
who was banquettea here that night.
He had never known Governor Taylor
till that day and never saw him but
once after that, January 25, till after
his company was called out. He said
he never knew Powers or Youtsey till
some days after the shooting; never
saw Berry Howard at all; had seen Jim
Howard only since they had been in
jail together and never knew either
Culton or Wharton Golden. Taylor
gave him the order January 16 for the
organization of the company, and on
! January 25 Ripley came here and Sc
cured equipments for it. This was the
day on which he had the conversation
with Taylor and his version of it,
which varies materially from that stat
ed by Messrs. Bradley and Yost, was as
follows:
81 went into the Governors Office and
found Governor Taylor looking very
badly. l told him l was sorry to see
him looking badly, to which he replied
in substance: In these horrible times
anybody would look bad. Some ire
sponsible fool or crank is likely to kill
me or Goebel, and cause a riot around
here in which there will be many lives
sacrificed Then l told him / did not
think this would occur and went on
talking to him about my company,
which l was getting equipments for.
My God said he, haven't you got that
company ready YETI That was what
l was trying to tell Governor Bradley
and Judge Yost, but I may not have
stated it to them as clearly as l in
tended to-"
Ripley denied that he ever said to
Ferguson and Crawford that Goebel
would be killed, but admitted that he
warned w. P. Thorne, on January 20
to keep his son away from Frankfort,
claiming he did so because of the dis
turbed conditions here, and not from
any knowledge of what was going TO
occur the next day. He maintained
that there was no secrecy about the or
ganization and equipment of mis- com
pany and said that Governor Taylor
told him that it was not necessary to
apply to the county judge for authority
to organize it.
The company, he said, was organized
for pleasure.
Cross-examined, the witness said that
r. A. Corley and five or six others &C
companied him to Frankfort January
IL. The Scott-Colson tragedy occurred
soon after their arrival and they did not
see Taylor till after dinner. Did not
hear anything about a conference of
leading Republicans and anti-Goebel
Democrats as to the means of ending
the contest and was not invited to the
Louisville Gait House conference that
night.
Witness said he went to the State
arsenal January 20 and looked over
equipments with a view to selecting
such as his company needed.
/ He received a special delivery letter
from Governor Taylor late in the after
noon of June 80, ordering the company
out. The letter did not state that Goe-
bel had been shot and did not give the
reason for calling them out.
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