Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-11-14
CALEB POWERS TRIAL
Sensation Sprung in Court at
Lexington Today.
LETTER FROM PRISONER
Demurs to Venire of Jurymen From
Bourbon County.
CLAIMS MEN ARE HOSTILE
Counter Avowal Of the Common
wealth Replying to Claim of De-
Tense in Taylor Pardon.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

| Special Dispatch TO The Star.
| LEXINGTON, KY, November 14.-The
sensation of the day in the Caleb Powers
case at Georgetown came when an open
| letter from Powers addressed to Sheriff
Warning and deputies who will summon
a special venire from Harrison county
was read The letter declares that the
last Powers jury was taken from Bour-
bon county, which adJoins Harrison,
and was packed and fixed for
conviction, not SO much by ofn-
Gals from Scott county, who summon
cd it, but by the BOURBON county officials
who did the work. Powers demands tina,
Warning go into Harrison county so thai
no such action will be taken by hostile
men this time. The letter 'prayerfulIy
peseeches" that men be not summoned
rom overwhelmingly democratic sections
of Harrison county. States Attorney
FRANKLIN objected to the letter being mad
part of the court record, which was sus-
,aned.
sheriff ". c. Warning and four deputies
eft Georgetown To-Day for Harrison
county. where they Will summon d spe-
cIa. venire of two hundred men from
nlch d jury Will De seiected to try row
els. Warning and his deputies are al.
democrats ana harrison county is over
HneImngly OemoCrauc- MuCn feeling mas
always ueen SHOWN tnere against powers
j. II. Mullins, Il resident, testified be
fore Judge Morris, the question of sum-
moning taIesmen from there being argued
1t was in harrison county that Curtis Jet
ana ION NnlLe were tfIed Tor the
Breathitt county murder. Jet was given
d death sentence ana White lie SEN
.ence for assasslnaung James B. Mar
cum, the cases having been taken there
from BreatnItt county.
The Taylor Pardon.
The counter avowal of the common
wealth replying to Powers avowal III
support of the validity of Gov. Tatlor's
,ardon will be filed today. 1t contains
general denial of everything set tortn
n the defense's avowal. 1t will be pre-
scented by Commonwealth Attorney
FRANKLIN, and attacks aylor as the al
Iesed governor. Specia. judge Morris
created q sensation by announcing from
the bench that he was compelled to ad-
nit that the Powers case has assumed
d political phase, saying mat IL Was tn
urst time in kentucky that court had
been compelled to take co9nizance OF TINS
fact
This threw a bombshell into the prose-
cution camp as Franklin has always con-
.enqed that Their Is no politics J.. Tn
matter 1t is stated today that Mason
Hockersnlih has been seen in this vicinity
and will be used by the defense in an
effort to prove that II nry +. Youtsey
fired the shot that killed Gov. Goebe-.
t1ockersmith, whom Youtsey Is alleged
to have said was in Ca.eb Powers Of
ace with him wnen Goebel Was shot, dis
appeared Immediately after The shooting
# he can be produced his testimony
will do much toward clearing Powers
The introduction of Taylor's pardon by
Powers has done his cause some harm
with the public, as it is argued, the
case should be lrIed on lis merits ana thai
this pardon should not have been al
uded to.
By Associated Press.
LEXINGTON. Ky, November If
When the trial of Caleb Powers was
resumed today the defense sprang a
surprise by rendering in court an open
letter addressed by Powers to w. c. War
ring, sheriff of Scott county, whose duty
1t is 10 summon jury from Harrison
county. The letter follows:
Text of Powers Letter.
ITO Mr.. w C. Warning, sheriff of Scott
county, KY:
The last jury in my case was packed
against me and fixed for conviction not
so much by the sheriff and his deputies
of this county as by the sheriff and his
deputies of Bourbon county, the county
from which nay jury was drawn. In that
trial the sheriff and his deputies of Bour-
bon county accompanied the sheriff and
his deputies of this county and indicated
who to summon and who not to summon
for jury service.
II therefore earnestly request you and
through you, your deputies, TO go unac
companied by anybody on your tour of
selecting prospective jurymeu in my cas-.
| cheerfully beseech you to summon, as
you come TO them in some OF the most en-
nghtened sections of the county not over
whelmingly democratic. competent and
qualified jurors IN my case, regardless of
their political affiliations and that you do
not let the politicians and office holders
of Harrison county muddy the streams of
Justice in this case. I am. respectfully
(Signed) CALEB POWERS.
P. S.-Please call up deputies by phone
on their arrived at Cynthiana and read
to them this letter. / understand your
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