Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-12-25
HOWARD TAKES STAND
. FOR POWERS DEFENSE
Says That He Absolutely Had
Nothing 10 Do With AssasslRa.
lion Of GOebB|
TRYING HARD TO CLEAR ACCUSED
One Witness swcars That Democrats
Started Trouble by Ordering 1000
Arms Which Would be Used in
the ForclbIe Election Of Governor
TayIor---Yeutsey's Part.
(ny Asaoolated prass.1

GEORGETOWN. KY, Dec. "a
IN the expectation that James How
ard, chief witness of the defense.
would take the stand, q large crowd
was In attendance Mt the opening of
the Powers trial today.
Tho reading of ex- Governor w. s.
Iaylors deposition, which was begun
late yesterday was FINISHED.
Today In his deposition Is a denial OF
The charges that he had any knowl-
edge or participation In Mot TO
murder as made ry Youtsey, Golden
ana Noakcs.
TWO Important witnesses were next
put OH the stand. Those we're N. p.
Mc'ilovc and !. NJ. Harlgroy.
McGluve testified that Youtsey. af-
ter his arrest and while I'm Frankfort
jail. admitted to him that he had flied
on key to 'Powers' private office
the day GoeheI was killed and that
/ Powers and Captain John Davis ought
not to have accepted a pardon and
left Frankfort, as somebody would
think them guilty of the crime.
Hardgroye stated he Baw Youtsey
emerge from Powers private office
directly attire the shooting, hatiesa and
coatless and pistol in his hand and
apparently very much excited. Hard
grove said he had put the common
wealth In possession OF these facts
before Powers third trial. but that
he was not called to testify as s
Witness
| Captain stephen Sharp, United
+, States district marshal, and former
state treasurer. testified that directly
after the shooting of Goebel he went
to Governor Taylor and offered HIS
services to defend him. Governor
Taylor directed him TO take charge
of the defense OF the building, which
/ he did. not allowing anybody to en-.
/ ter.
He said he thought the protection
/ OF the highest officers in the state
more Important than anything else.
CAPTAIN Sharp startled the court and
! SPECTATORS by stating that three days
(; before Goebel was shot he (Sharp)
/ was given reliable Information by
prominent democrats that the DEM
ocrats had orderd 1000 guns and
/ ammunition, and that men would he
on hand 10 man the guns ana that
Taylor and other Republican state
officials would he forcibly elected
from office. This he said was why
armed Republicans were about the
: executive ubliding and why state
troops had been notified to be in
readiness to move as he had COM
/ municated these facts both to Gov
i ernor Taylor and Adjutant General
+ Collier.
Howard on the Stand.
James Howard took the stand this
afternoon. He said that al the time
Goebel was shot he (Howard) was In
the public room of the Board of Trade
hotel at Frankfort
a man named Robinson stepped
out in front of the hotel and brought
/; back the information that Goebel was
shot. Howard and others In the
room jumped up and ran to tho door,
/ Mortified at the news. After the shot
ing Howard went to the Capitol hotel
with the others. but he did not see
i Goebel then nnd in fact never saw
him before. Howard denied emphat-
ically that ne ever received a letter
from Taylor or Youtgey asking him,
to come to Frankfort. He did not
know Youtsey and never saw hlns
until both had been tried and con-
yicted and we're in Jail at Franhfort.
He was then introduced to yo.tsey!
In the Frankfort jail by Mrs. Yout-
sey. in the presence of Mrs. Howard,
his wife, and others.
Howard said he did not know he
was charged with the assassination
! until he saw 1t in the newspapers
that he had ben indicted. About the
eame time a bench warrant had been
sent to Clay county for his arrest
AS soon as notified that he had
been indicted he surrendered to Cher
| lit White and accompanied him 10
{; Frankfort to give himself up and an.
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