The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1907-09-27
GOEBEL'S SLAYER REFERRED TO In
4 POWERS RECENT STATEMENT NAMED

an inbound Frankfort train that morn
ing in company with stranger who
answered the description given by the
Clark woman as that of the man with
Sanford when the two dashed from the
Executive building following the crack
of the rifle used by the assassin of
/ Goebel
The deposition of Mrs. Clark said
that the shot appeared TO have been
fired from a first-floor room of the
Executive building, and Mr.. Taylor
brought out in his questioning that
this room was some distance away
from that occupied by Powers as an
office, and from which the fatal shot
was thought by many TO have been
fried
So gratified @as Taylor with the
testimony of the Clark woman that
he Immediately made efforts to locate
the King girl, that she might vrify
statements of her own.
The story. ofthe Clark woman was
to the effect tht on the day Goebel was
| shot she was in Frankfrot,in company
with a young woman friend who lived
in a nearby town. The two had gone
to the Kentucky capitol TO visit the
Legislature. Approaching the Execu-
tive building they heard the sharp
crack of a rifle, and Immediately
thereafter two men, dressed in charac-
teristic Kentucky garb, ran down The
steps, thence around the building TO an
obscure byway and entered a curtain
ed buggy, which was in waiting, where
upon they drove rapidly away stop
ping only long enough for one of the
men to pull off a pair of shoes and
put on a pair of boots ofthekind used
by Kentucky mouDtaineefs. .--.s
According to the Clark wonlan's
statements, she and her friend were
greatly alarmed by the exciting scenes
which followed the shooting,a and they
decided that it was best for them
to return to the little town whence
they had come. This they did,taking
the first train that afternoon. News
papers read by them on the homeward
journey told of the horrible crime that
had been committed, and the Clark
womans' friend, according to the depo
sition, cautioned her against saying
anything about the two having been
near the scene for fear that they Nigh
become involved. The woman feared
being held as a witness, tnasmuch as
she was to leave the following day for
Des Moines, Ia, to marry man of
that city. The next day the Clark
woman returned to Indiana and her
friend took a train for Des Moines.
Within a few days Mrs. Clark also
left this part of the country, and she
knew nothing about the stirring incl
dents following the murder until per-
haps two years later, when she came
of the fate of Caleb Powers, Youtsey
and Howard and the fight from their
State of Taylor, Finley and other Of
ficials. Being convinced that the Goe-
bel assassination was the oucome of a
personal feud rather than of a political
conspiracy,a AS had been generally ac-
cepted in Kentucky, the Clark woman
thought it her duty to speak. Accord
ingly her story was told TO a newspa
per man, who in turn repeated it to
Taylor.
POWERS STATEMENT.
Caleb Powers said tonight over the
telephone in his cell at Georgetown
concerning the story from Indiana:
Il have been in possession of Mrs.
Clarks affidavit for some time, but
have not made it public because | did
not thing the time was ripe. do not
care to say nothing further about it.
I never knew either Mrs. Clark or
Igo."
Powers did not seem to be pleased
with the publication of the story, as
1t is understood he had intended TO
spring it as a sensation at his next
trial. It is said that Powers referred
to Igo and based the~Statement he re-
Gently made that he had discovered
who killed Goebel on the affidavit OF
Mrs. Clark, which he had in his pos
session at that time.
DENIED BY SANFORD.
Friends of Sanford deny that he
was in Frankfort at the time Goebel
was killed or that he knew anything
about it. On the other hand, we are
informed by c. p. Keown, ex-Sheriff
of OHIO county, that he was in Frank
fort on the Saturday night before the
killing, and gentleman offered to
introduce him to young Sanford, but
when they went to the Frankfort Ho-
tel, where he was stopping. the clerk
informed them that he had just stepp-
ed out. ga.