Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-08-31
THIRD CONVICTION.
Caleb Powers Again Found
Guilty Of Murder.
For the Third Time Also He Hears
Sentence of Death.
Will Again Appeal and Fight Case to
the Limit.

Georgetown, KY, Aug. 30.-Calet
Powers, formerly secretary of state OF
Kentucky, was convicted for the third
time, Saturday, of the murder of Gov
Goebel and sentenced to death. At his
TWO previous trials, which were revers-
ed by the court of appeals, he was SEN
fenced to life imprisonment.
Powers counsel permitted him to
make speech to the jury in his case.
He made an imprisoned appeal to
them to acquit him, declaring that he
was innocent of the murder of Geobel
and had no knowledge of it. Those
who heard Powers speech thought it
would have considerable effect on the
jury, but this proved to be untrue. The
jury retired and soon brought in a YER
dict OF guilty, as charged.
Caleb Powers, like the man of iron he
has proved himself to be throughout all
his trials, received the verdict without
emotion. When the jury went out he
was sitting, chatting with friends, and
aside from glancing up as the jurymen
filed out, made no move. After this
cursory glance he turned to his COM
panions and resumed his conversation.
It's an unjust verdict, not warrant
ed by the evidence" declared Powers.
Il shall certainly appeal again"
Throughout the trial Powers has APP
parently been the most unconcerned
man in the courtroom. He chatted
gayly with a number of young women
who called to see him and who are at
tempting to make a hero of him. He
I,snS. ir,is Of, \
during the last few days, which has led
many to believe that he would be ac-
quilted. Little if any additional evil
dence was presented against him.
The death sentence was great surprise
to all interested in the case. The law
yers for the prosecution had expected
only a life sentence.
Arthur Goebel. a younger brother of the
murdered governor, has spent practically
the whole of the last three years work,
ing on the case, and it is largely to his
efforts that the confessions of others i'm
plcated in the murder were secured. He
collapsed under the strain when the Yer
dict was announced. He has sworn that
he will do nothing until his brother
murder is avenged by the law.
Immediately after the conviction and
sentence of Powers he sent this telegram
to a brother who is in the West:
Powers trial ended. Sentenced to
DEATH
He has closely followed the court pro-
ceedings each day, and frequently at night
he was in consultation with the lawyers
for the prosecution He had pursued
Powers relentlessly since the murder.
Il have tracked him for a week before
the assassination, and l have evidence
enough now to hang him. young Arthur
Goebel said when the third trial was be-
gun.
lit has now been more than three years
since Gov. Goebel was murdered in the
state house yard at Frankfort. Ten per-
sons were arrested for his murder includ-
ing some of the most prominent Repub-
Leans in the state. EX-Gov. Taylor is
now fugitive from the state, practicing
law at Indianapolis. Efforts have been
made to secure his eXtradition to Ken
lucky, but without success.
Confessions of a most sensational char
acter have been made by Henry Youtsey,
Wharton Golden, Robert Noakes and 9TH
ers who were implicated in the plot
against Gobel Youtsey is now serving
ia life sentence in the Frankfort peniten-
tiary.