The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-04-22
YOutsey Says Taylor Offered No
 Objection, However
IS AGAIN CROSS-EXAMINED
Witness Says Tha. He Denied Ever Having Seen Jim Howard Before His Arrest Because That
 Was His Defense.

Frankfort Ky. April 21.--Henry Yout- sey was recalled for further eross-ex- animation in the trial of James Howard today Youtsey was asked if he did not refuse to tell Assistant Auditor Frank Johnson where he was when Goebel was shot. He said Johnson asked him the question and that he told Johnson he was in a safe place. Johnson said that was not sufficiently definite, as the de- tectives had called for particular data as to where all employees of the office were when the shot was fred Youtsey then told him he was in the toilet room in the basement of the executive building. Youtsey denied that he had ever told General A. Leads. prior to the shooting. that Goebel once beat him out of fee and that he despised him. He admitted that he told R. H. witherspoon and other relatives that the newspaper reports that he had named Jim Howard as the man who fired the shot were without foun- dation.
 1t Was His Defense.
 Tt was my defense at that time" said Youtsey, that Howard and I were strangers, and 1 told everybody I had never seen Howard until we met in jail" Further along in the interrogation Yout- sey declared that from and after the shooting of Goebel, all of the others en- gagged in the killing conspired together to clear themselves and throw the entire responsibility of the crime upon him.
 Responding to questions as to negotia- s.,Ifb nr fr ul aI.aI Youtsey says he vent to see Senator De- boe and told him Johnson and others were willing to do it. Senator Deboe, ac- cording to witness. replied that enough democrats were going to vote for Taylor to retain him in office. and it would not be necessary to kill Goebel DeH said Johnson told him not to pay a3p, s,a ass::s-, + tion to Deboe, but to go and ss,S What Governor Taylor said about 1t.
 Taylor Saw No Objection.
 He went to see Taylor and told him what Johnson said, and Tailor raised no objection to the plan of shooting from the secretary of states office.
 D. l.. Walker and other witnesses tes- tifed against the veracity of witness Stubbleheld of the prosecution.
 Wharton Golden was recalled and ex- amined on the point as to Caleb Powers locking the door to his private office. Golden says Powers locked 1t. Youtsey had testified that he found it unlocked.
 At the afternoon session of the court. several Clay county witnesses testified as to the reputation of Witness Stubble- field. They all said his reputation was bad. MT Campbell undertook to show that these witnesses had opposed him for political office which they admitted. pr. T. E. James of Butler county was an important witness. He testified that he was the man who came out of the statehouse shortly after the shooting oi Goebel and whom Daly and others sup. posed to have been Howard Dr. James said he had gone into the statehouse to inquire about the arrest of Harlan Whitaker, whom he knew well.
 A. V. White. Louisville and Nashville railroad agent. testified as to the time of arrival of the train on which Howard came to Frankfort. Photographer Ogs of Berea identified photograph which he made of Howard in October or No- vember, lS99 and which showed Howard without a moustache. Several other wft- nesses testified the same way. l is the claim of the prosecution that Howard wore a short stubby moustache at the time of the shooting