The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-04-22
H. E. YOUTSEY so SWEARS
Senator Deb0e Was Consulted
 in the Matter.
He Declined to Sanction An, Scheme for the Staying of the Democratic Contestant
 for the Governor.

Frankfort, Ky, April H.-Henry Yout- sey was recalled for further cross-exam- tnation in the trial of James Howard to- day.
 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 he told Johnson he was in a safe place. Johnson said that was not sufficiently definite, as the detectives had called for sparticular data as to where all employees of the office wee when the shot was fired.
 Youtsey then told him he was in the toilet room in the basement of the execu- tive building. Youtsey denied that he had ever told Gen. A. Leads, prior to the shooting, that Goebel once oeat him out of fee and that he despised him. He admitted that he told R. H. Witherspoon and othsr relatives that the newspaper reports that he had named Jim Howard as the man who fired the shot were with out foundation
 Merely His Defense.
 "It was my defense at that time." said Youtsey, that Howard and me were strangers, and I told everybody had never seen Howard till we met in jail"
 Further along in the Interrogation Yout- DEJ dSSidi cA tHdb AEOhi dlio dAtCEf thc shooting of Goebel, all of the others en- gagged in the killing conspired together to clear themselves and throw the entire re- sponsibility of the crome upon him.
 Responding to questions as to negotia- tions with Dr. Johnson to Kill Goebel. Youtsey said he went to see Senator De- hoe. and told him Johnson and others were willing to do 1t. Senator Deboe, &C., cording to witness replied that enough Democrats were going to vote with Tay- Tor to retain him in office and 1t would not be necessary to kill Goebel.
 Deboe said 1t must not be done Wit ness went back and told Johnson what Deboe said. Johnson told htin not to pay any attention to Deboe, but to go and sse what Governor Taylor said about t. He went to see Taylor and told him what Johnson said, and Taylor raised no ob- 5ection to the plan of shooting from SecS retary of States office. ',s .e. '." s-,
 Walker and other witnesses testified against the veracity of witness Stubble- field 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 it. Youtsey had testified that he found it unlocked
 Stubblefeid's Resolution.
 At tuS dIteTnoon session C1 the court several Clay County witnesses testified as to the reputati3h of witness stubble- field. They all said his reputation was bad. Mir. Campbell undertook to show that these witnesses had opposed him for political office. which ,lhey admitted.
 pr. T. E. James of Butler County, was an important with ,ss. He testified that he was the man who came out of the Court House shortly sfter the shooting of Goebel and whom Daly and others supposed to have been Howard. Dr. James said he had gone into the State House to inquire about the arrest of Harlan Whitaker. whom he knew well.
 A. V. White, a Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company agent, testified as to the time of arrival of the train on which Howard came to Frankfort
 Photographer ogg. of Berea, identified a photograph which he made of Howard in October or November, 1899, and which showed Howard without a moustaehe. Several other witnesses testified the same way. It IS the claim of the prosecution that Howard wore a short, stubby nous tache at the time of the shooting.