The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1903-09-02
POWERS FOUND GUILTY
A THIRD JURY FINDS pow
ERS IN THE CONSPIRACY
TO KILLGOV. GOEBEL.
Powers Sentenced to Be Hanged
Court Fixes Day of Execution
on November 25th Next
Other News.

Georgetown, Ken, Aug. 20
The jury in the case Of ex-Secreta-
ay of State Caleb Powers, charged
with complicity in conspiracy to
murder Governor William Goebel,
in January, 1900, today found the
defendant guilty and imposed the
death entence.
Special Judge Robbins this after
ncon formerly overruled a motion
for the granting of new trial, and
sentenced Powers to be banged. AT.
ter declaration of the prisoner, II
am not guilty, Judge" the court
fixed November 25 next as the day
OF execution. The attorneys for the
defendant secured the granting of
an appeal of the case to the Ken
tucky. court of appeals, and, if un-
successful, they may try to get the
United States supreme court to take
it under consideration.
Powers was the coolest man in
the court room when the verdict
was read and the sentence pro-
nounced against him. He was inn
mediately removed to the Scott
county Jail to be held there pending
the appeal of his case to the higher
courts.
Powers refused to say anything
after the rendition of sentence ex-
cept that he said all that he cared
to say in his speech to the jury.
A telegram from Ex-Governor
w. S. Taylor said: "This verdict
affects me. I cannot say a word. ;"
Powers was sentenced to impris-
onment for life in his former trials
for completely in the conspiracy.
1t was on his motion that he secur-
led the new trials each time. The
verdict today caused great excite.
ment among the friends of other de-
fendants in these cases.
The trial closed shortly before
noon. Several hundred people
Gro wded ths courtroom when the
verdict was read, and intense ST.
Ilence prevailed. The jury was poll
ed, and each man declared the ver-
dict of guilty to be his finding.
The jurors decline to state what oc-
CURED in the jury room.
Arthur Goebel, the brother of the
victim, broke down from the strain
on hearing Of the verdict of guilty.
He is a prominent merchant at
Cincinnati, and he spent his time
and fortune for over three years in
the prosecution of those accused of
being in conspiracy to kill his
brot her.
Powers has been convicted twice
before, this being the third trial in
which the jury brought in verdict
against him. On his previous tri-
ais he escaped with a sentence of
life imprisonment. All of the tri-
ais were held at Georgetown, and
in each Of them he had the assist
ance of the most able lawyers who
could be procured. Subscription
lists were circulated in his interest
by friends, and a sum of money
was secured to defray the cost of
his repeated trials and the investi-
cation of the circumstances which
preceded the killing of Governor
Goebel in the interest of the de-
fense.
The last trial was distinguished
by the fact that Powers addressed
the Jury in bis own behalf, and in
long review of the case showed /
himself to be very competent at.
torney, while his eloquence in
pleading for his life astounded those
who bad watched him carefully in
the past trials of the Gaze.
Powers has already been three
years in prison under the sentence
of the previous court.
When Powers secured his former
new trial majority of those on the
appellate court were republicans,
but it is now composed of democrat
ic judges. As the Commonwealth g
Attorney shook hands with eah ju.
ror after they were dismissed, Pow