Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-07-28

ihc DcHlocratS held their sessions
III Louisville, declining to attend the
sessions or the Legislature being held
by the Republicans ut Lexington. AT.
ter several days OF these proceedings.
Governor Taylor issued an order re-
converting the Legislature mt Frank
tort, where IL again met. with all fac
lions in attendance, on February 49,
Democrats Gain Control.
The Democrats were now in control
OF the situation, and, among other
nets passed n law appropriating
Sloo'oo0 Tor the investigation of clews
ana also to be used in payment of
certain rewards for the conviction OF
those found guilty of completely in the
crime.
Powers arrest followed, along with
many others, some of whom were
cleared ut their examining trials,
while others were convicted and SEN
fenced to terms in the penitcntiary.
Powers has steadily maintained his
innocence OF any connection with
OF Goebel resulted from this. am n
strongly combatted the efforts of the
prosecution to place upon his shout
ders the chief responsibility for the
crime.
The case has become so entwined
- - 'NNhii anu lie OI Ntn-
lucky that the innocense or guilt OF
Powers has not only been made the
OASIS OF many political campaigns,
but has also served to divide whole
communities into factions.
Powers In His Own Defense
Referring TO the plan of the prose
cutlon 10 mold him responsible for the
crime, Powers has said: II was Il
young man. 1t would be much easier
to convince the public that the nmbi-
tons OF young man would carry him
into the Vaccinations of ruch Il Grim
inal conspiracy than ii would he in
the case of an older and more expe-
rienced person. had been an out
spoken partisan and extremely active
i'll many of the meetings and confer
ences i'll Frankfort. | had brought a
number OF mountain people to Frank
tort, ana 1t was claimed that the death
or GoeDel resulted fro mthis. | am n
mountain man, and the prejudice
against the mountaineers was such
that me public was expected to swal-
low with open-mouthed credulitv any
charges that might be brought against
any of them. My office was the most
probable place from which the shot
could have been fired. 1t the prosecu
ton could establish with any degree
or certainty that the fatal shot came
from my Office, then the prosecution
ielt that 1t would not be hard to CON
vince the country that / must have
had toreknowledge of the crime. Last
oil all, was Republican official and
STOOD suiiciently high in the party to
reject discredit upon 1t If the prose
cution could succeed in implicating
me-"
Fate of One of Powers Prosec utors.
Thomas Campbell, the noted Gin
cinnati criminal lawyer. assisted i'm
the prosecution of Powers mt all his
Trials. The methods employed by
Campbell and the vigor and unrelent-
ing nature OF the prosecution stand
alone in the judicial annals of the
State. Campbell and his methods of
legal procedure were said to have
been responsible for the riots in Gin
cinnati in 1884, Mt which time the
courthouse was burned By Indignant
citizens
He has died since the last trial of
Powers. Immediately after the con-
clusion of the last trial Campbell in
company with his wife ana son. start
err from New York on n cruise To tho
Bahama Islands in the hope of recoy-
ering his health, which had been badly
shattered by his close vigil. The
(yacht on which he sailed, the Roamer.
was wrecked on a coral reef at Rum
CITY Its passengers escaped with
.heir lives, being carried ashore. The
beach where they effected landing
swarmed with pirates and thieves
Among these Campbell and his family
ieil. lie was too i'll to assist himself
ana, near DEATH he lay for several
days in a little hut built of mud and
oyster shells, suhsisting on nuts and
qnenchinS his feverish thirt with
stagnant water. BY the time the ms.
sengers were rescued Campbell was
in serious condition, and lived but
York
The several trials of Powers have
all been held in Scott county on n
change of venue from Franklin coun-
~ Following his third trial and last
triai, he took an appeal to the Federal
court, the case first being tried on the
question OF jurisdiction, and which
resulted in Federal Judge Cochran as
Stunning Jurisdiction in the case.
rms action was appealed by the
commonwealth to the United States
Supreme Court, which sometimes
since rendered an opinion demanding
me case to the jurisdiction of the
oiate courts. and the fourth trial,
which Is made possible by the action
OF Two Democratic members of the
Kentucky Court of Appeals voting
with the two Republican members, is
me next stcp in the noted case.
An Orator and Writer.
fowers made an address to the Jury
nj the time of his last trial that has
been declared an able and forceful
argument. In the minds of some It
served to place Powers in the class
WIN Robert Emmett. when that young
lrishman stood pleading his cause be-
Iore Jury OF his peers. The speech