The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-08-30
THE GALLONS FOR POWERS Jury With vSdict of Guilty Fixey $ 4'tnalty. TO HANG sOvEMBER 25
 
 ondemned Was Coolest Man
 in the Room. He Was Charged With complicity in Assassination of Gov. William
 Goebel-was Secretary
 of State.

Georgetown, Ky, Aug. 29.--The third trial of ex-Secretary of State Caleb Pow CTS for complicity in the murder of Gov ernor William Goebel in January. 1900. closed shortly before noon today with the extreme penalty of hanging for the dis penitentiary for three years on life sen tence.
 The verdict of the jury. guilty, and the punishment of death' was reported into court at 11:20 o'clock today.
 Several hundred people crowded the court room when the verdict was read and the most intense silence prevailed. The jury was boiled and each man de- elared the verdict of guilty to be his find- ing.
 Powers sat unmoved while his attor- neys asked for time to make a motion for a new trial. Arthur Goebel broke down from the strain on hearing the yer dict of guilty. The jurors decline to state what occurred in the jury room. George Wyatt was foreman.
 Arthur Goebel, the brother of the vic tim, is prominent merchant ait Cincin- natl and has spent his time and fortune for over three years in the prosecution of those accused of being In a conspiracy to kill hts brother.
 Powers has been convicted twice before, thAS -0GhE8 thC t1AAEO t&AdA III WhtCn tuS jury brought in verdict of guilty against him. On his previous trials he escaped with a sentence of life imprisonment, Ms the evidence was not sufficiently strong against him to lead the jury to infiict the extreme penalty.
 All three of the trials were held at Georgetown and in each of them he had the assistance 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 de- fray the cost of his repeated trials and the investigation of the circumstances which preceded the killing of Governor Goebei, in the interest of the defense The latest trial was distinguishd by the fact that .Powera addressed the jury in his own behalf, and in a long review of the case showed himself to be a very competent attorney while his eloquence in pleading for his life astounded those who had watched him carefully in the past
 Special Judge Robbins this afternoon formally overruled a motion for the grant ing of new trial to Caleb Powers. He then passed the sentence of death upon him. fixing November 25, next, as the day for the execution. The attorneys for the defendant win appeal the case to the Kentucky Court of Appeals and If affirm ca tnere, may try to get the United states Supreme Court to take it under consid- eration. Powers was the coolest man in the court room when the sentence was pronounced. He was then removed to the Scott County jail to be held there pending the appeal of his case to the higher courts. A telegram from Indian apolis states that ex-Governor W. &. Taylor said:
 This verdict affects me very much. I cannot say a word"
 The prosecution claimed the shot which killed Goebel was fired from tne window of Powers's offlce. Powers himself was on train en route to Louisville at the time.
 Powers never denied that he aided fin organizing the mountain army which came to Frankfort.
 He claimed, however, that the men, though armed, were merely exercising the right of petitionlng the Legislature, guaranteed to them in the bill of rights.