The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-08
NEW SENSATION
 IN POWERS TRIAL Newspaper Article Arouses Wrath of the Judge CONTEMPT ORDER ISSUED Article Appearing In the Lexington Leader In Reference To New At torney General Causes the
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CONTEMPT ORDER ISSUED

Georgetown, Ky, December 7-Bristling With interesting testimony connected with the killing of Senator Goebel the trial of Caleb Powers brought out a sensational incident after the jury had filed out this afternoon, one that involves the motive
 underlying the publication of an article in Lexington afternoon paper A spe- cia in the papers issue of December 6 will be the subject of judicial inquiry Monday morning, based on rule against II. H. Owens, for contempt of court,
 granted this afternoon by Special Judge Morris.
 Owens, who is alleged to be a private detective in the employ of Caleb Powers, will be given a hearing when court opens ."onday before the continuance of the cross examination of Wharton Golden. After the jury had left the court room, in charge of the sheriff and the special officers had departed Commonwealth s Attorney Franklin called the courts at tention to the alleged plot to intimidate Wharton Golden, a witness for the prose- cution, with the alleged idea of causing him to leave the jurisdiction without glv- irg his testimony. R. Lee Davis, staff correspondent of the Lexington Leader, was directed to state to the court how
 he obtained the article in question and how it came to be published.
 Contempt Rule Issued.
 MT. Davis explanation caused the is- suance of the contempt rule against II. II. owens. In bringing the matter before the court. Attorney Franklin said
 Your honor, I desire to call your at tention to an incident which I feel the court ought to take cognizance of and take steps to punish those who are guilty of offense.
 "On Friday night, my attention was called to an article published in the Lex ington Leader. stating that the newly elected attorney general of the state would take the prosecution of these cases into his hands, dismissing counsel who are at present conducting them and that he will cause some of those indicted for this offense and now living in another state in the far west, to be brought back and stand trial.
 q denounced it at the time, and I di- vined the purpose for which the article
 had been written and published. This morning I was given this paper by Whaf-
 ton Golden, who has just testified in this
 case It is a copy of the Leader con- taining the article and was put in Golden's box at the Wellington hotel. l ask you to read this, your honor, and then take steps toward punishing those guilty of such an offense.
 While this examination was in progress Mir. Franklin caused R. Lee Davis, the representative of the Lexington Leader. who sent the article to his paper, to be brought before Judge Morris and he was interrogated concerning it.
 Davis Explains. Mr. Davis explained his part of the transaction, saying:
 Just before taking my car Friday morning I was approached by a young man named Owens, and he gave me the copy of the article. which he asked me to have published in my paper It was typewriter copy and was on very light paper. He told me that he had given others copy, and l supposed that all other newspaper men had received a copy of it. I sent 1t to Lexington with note to the editor to investigate it The article bore a Frankfort date line. | line.
 It further transpired that Mir. Davis | was tho only correspondent who had been given a copy of the article and that he had told R- L. NIaClrre. a Lexington cor