The Savannah morning news., 1901-04-16
RIPLEY'S VERSION
HE TELLS OF HIS CONVERSATION
WITH TAYLOR.
CLAIMS WRONG IMPRESSION.
WAS Misunderstood BY BRADLEY
AND YOsT.

Makes Taylor Out to Have Been
Nervous and Agitated, and to Have
Exclaimed That Somebody Would
Either XIII Him or GoebeI and
Cause a Riot i'm which Many Peo-
pie Would BE kiIIed-Denies That
He Told Certain Parties That Goe-
bel Would BE Killed.
Frankfort, KY, April 15-The trial, of
Garnett Ripley charged with completely
in the assassination of William Goebel,
was resumed to-day Put upon the wit
ness stand, Ripley did not deny that he
made the statements attributed TO him
by ex-Gov. Bradley and Judge w. II.
Yost concerning ex-Gov. Taylor's remarks
to him, but said while he thought that
they were substantially correct in their
evidence they had misunderstood him, or
he had failed to convey the proper i'm
preston on them at the time.
The cross-examinatioh was not COM
pleted and Ripley will take the stand
again tomorrow. On direct examination
Ripley stated that he had been talking
with the boys in his neighborhood for
several years about getting up a COM
pany of cavalry. He came to Frankfort
first on Jan. Is, the day of the Colson-
Scott tragedy, selecting this day in order
to see William ]. Bryan, who was to be
banqueted here that night. He had never
known Gov. Taylor till that day and
never saw him but once after that, Jan.
%, until after his company was called out.
Taylor gave him the order Jan. 16 for the
organization of the company and on Jan.
% Ripley came here and secured equip
ments for it. This was the day
on which he had the conversation
with Taylor and his version of it,
which varies materially from that stated
by Messrs. Bradley and Yost, was as fol-
lows:
Il went into the Governors Office and
found Gov. Taylor looking very badly. l
tod him 1 was sorry to see him looking
badly, to which he replied in substance:
Taylor Badly Agitnted.
In these horrible times anybody would
look badly. Some irresponsible fool or
crank is likely to kill me or xiii GoebeI,
and cause . riot around here in which
there will be many lives sacrificed
lHcH tOiQ L Ofu DOC IIllHK tNlS
would occur and went on talking to him
about my company, which was getting
equipments for
My Cod said he, haven't you got
that company ready yet?
THAT was what l was trying to tell
Gov Bradley and Judge Yost, but may
not have stated 1t to them as clearly as I
intended to-"
His Warming to Thorne.
Ripley denied that he ever seid to Fer
guson and Crawford that Goebel would
be killed, but admitted that he warned
w. p. Thorne on Jan. %, to keep his son
away from Frankfort, claiming he did
so because of the disturbed 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 organization and equipment OF
his company, and said that Gov 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.
Witness said he received a special de-
livery letter from Gov. Taylor late in the
afternoon of Jan. 30, ordering the COM
pany out. The letter did not state that
Goebei had been shot, and did not give
the reasons for calling them out.