The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1907-09-24

Richmond, Ind, Sept 21.-Turner
Igo, of Farmers, Rowan county, KY,
is charged with killing Senator Will
lam Goebel, of Kentucky, in an affi-
davit by Mrs. Lulu Clark, which was
published exclusively today by the
Richmond Evening Item. The affidavit
was sworn to last April in the law
Office of Ex-Governor w. S. Taylor,
of Kentucky Mrs. Clark, whose maid
en- name was Lulu Williams, lived at
the time of the Goebel murder at
Mount Sterling, Ky. She has cousin
named Gertrude King, who then lived
at Maysville, KY.
Miss King was at that time, accord
ing to the affidavit, keeping company
with John Sanford, of Covingto1, KY,
son of a lawyer who was killed by
William Goebel, in fight in Coving
ton some years ago.
The fight was the result of a polit-
ical quarrel. Mrs. Clark swears that
on the day Goebel was murdered, she
and ner cousin, Miss King, went to
Frankfort, KY, and that they started
TO enter the state house by the rear
entrance. While they were on the
time they noticed "a man standing just
inside the door whom they recognized
as Sanford. In a minute second man
came running out of the building,
dressed like a mountaiaeer and carry
ing a rifle. He ran to Sanford and
said, Il got the d----' That
man was recognized by affiant as her
friend, Turner Igo, of Farmers, Row
an county, KY.
Both men ran out of the building
to the fence, where Sanford gave a
pair of shoes which he was carrying
to Igo, who exchanged his boots for
them. The men then disappeared.
Affiant states tnat Igo told her at
the Mount Sterling depot on January
25, 1900, that he was going to kill
Goebel, and that she saw him after
wards at JeffersonvilIe, Ind, and he
reminded her that he had fulfilled his
promise. Sne also says Sanford had
told Gertrude King. few days prior
to Goebel's murder, that he intended
to kill Goebel, saying, Here is my
cnance to get revenge. The legisla-
| ture has met"
The Evening Item also publishes
| the correspondence between Caleb
| Powers and the persons who secured
the affidavit, and afterwards investi-
gated its allegations for verifcatiol,
formation gained were paid from the
Powers defense fund.
| Man Who Hired Assassin in China
Cincinnati, O., Sept. 21.-John San
| ford, mentioned in the Richmond Ind.
dispatch, is the son of the late Attor
ney Sanford, who was killed by Will
lam Goebel. Goebel was acquitted, but
young Sanford was many times quot
| ed as threatening to get even," and
has been suspected of the murder
His mother, the wife of the dead
man, is at present in a sanatarium
her mind giving away under the strain
Young Sanford has not been at nomt
| for about two years. He is understood
TO have gone to China and is now
somewhere in the far east.
Story Long Known to Taylor.
Indianapolis, Ind, Sept. 21.-W. S
Taylor could not be found today te
verify the statements in the dispatch
from Richmond The Clark woma-
formerly lived here and was brake
mans wife They were divorced i
lis said. two years ago. Three year:
Iago Mrs. Clark told her story of tnt
IGoebel murder to an Indianapoli:
newspaper man, Who carried it to Coz
lernor Taylor. VINO took her deposition
| The story was not published, al
Governor Taylor feared its publication
at that time might make verificatioI
impossible, and he hoped to locate tht
man who was with Mrs. Clark As /
preliminary to the first trial of Calel
Powers, friends of the secretary o
state had sought to establish the fac
that John Sanford was in Frankfor
on the day of the shooting. but the ei
forts to establish this failed.
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