The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-04-23

for q husband. It was also said the Bakers had Indian blood in their veins.
 "It was but few months after the as- sassination of my relatives that the peo- ple of Clay county showed their conndence in me by electlng me to the office of As- seSSor.
 ''I had never been active in politics out side of my home county. When GoVernor Taylor was elected, however, l went to Frankfort with the intention of obtaining a pardon and thus formally wiping off the docket of the Laurel County Court the l. old charge against me. as the report was generally current that Taylor would be unseated.
 "On January 90, 1900 Senator Goebel was shot I arrived at the capital. claimed by the Commonwealth, thrty-hve minutes before the shooting. l went to the Board of Trade Hotel, near the depot, and few minutes later fl was announced at the door that Goebel had been shot. re- mained in Frankfort until the night of the l7th in hope of obtaining the pardon. l then returned home to Manchester. having failed to get consideration of my applica- tion. but the case against me was thrown lout of court on motion of the State. | "During my stay in Frankfort some of the Baker people were there and l am reliably informed that they secretly fo- mented strong feeling against me. They were exasperated because they had Tailed to convict me for shooting George Baker and sought to make up bundle Of false hood and innuendo which would glVe the cIstodians of the $1000O0 fund approprl- atcd for the conviction of some one an excuse for indicting me in connection "lth inc assassination of Goebel.
 l or was April IF before the conspiracy aeainst me brought fruit In the form or an indictment on the charge of firing the sbot that laid the political leader low. | "Inowing they could make no case
 | a absolutely innocent oS tbe charge, 1 boarded a train for Frankfort immediately after receiving the neUs and promptly gave myself up to the proper authorities.
 ..'The world knows what follows; how wae made the victim of the rankest po- llitical conspiracy in history; how witnesses ,ye,e induced to swear falsely against me; ho,, hlindly partisan juries convicted me. T have been kept behind prison bars. away Trar, r,v wife and babies. for five long 1,aars despite the fact that no true-mind- ,d man in the world could face his God and cav he believed me guilty"
 The reader of human nature can find a subiect worthy of his talents in Caleb ! Powers. In fact he will discover an enigma in what ne at hrst LOOK Tor simnle problem. The deeper he delves the ,,n,,a dificult will his task become. Al Itbo,,ph such tasks are In the line of the xt,riter's professon, a month spent in the sane prison ward, on terms as intimate
 ss nossible under the circumstances, has aorpyinced e.o him that but two persons in the
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 ..T i've to work. always have worked
 and I I'm must work he says, and since hi'
 a-oa auu -,araIion, five years ago, he hal nlori,ed Licst as only man can whose one idea | WoIHeu ,iso ,e to labor. He Is quiet and taci | m !il lpie He is never heard engaged in th' ,il.,, turn. natter of everyday conversation 0tai,.'t Iiis mail is enormous his writings vol z -, and the legal battle he is wagini ulillilou1d uar,ds his personal attention in ever! g conn Sohltlid He is now writing history of hi , life .tcrder bn+ broad n, oho,, r fle 'S,ooth ls shaven face, from which tn
 Ills Siir ioeysistent and regular system O 3 mos t,s.,,aI training has failed to remove tn Pny PIS rsIIor. is refined in contour. but as a
 Jan tt~ainer of prize fighters used to re : U, TIlarlS;- ;-'The chin is there.
 5 And that chin is one feature about Gale e Powers that cannot be misread. It show 4 the stamina and fortltude that have hel Q hin with his face to the enemXa silently