The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-12-13
70 vouTsEv ron MAKING STATE.
MENTS DUPLICATING POW
ERs, HE SAYS.
HIS ORIGINAL STORY
Told at His Own Trial Stuck to Al
He Testifies in Present Trial
Hopes For Pardon on
Good Conduct.
YouTsEY cRoss-ExAMlNED.


Georgetown, KY, Dec. 12.-Henry
Youtsey was sbmitted to a searching
cross-examination in the Caleb Pow
crs trial. In the course of areston-
ing he stuck to his original story al
leging that 1t was in substance pfac-
ticRlly the one he told his attorneys
before be was put on trial himself.
One Of his attorneys was his half
brother. j. l.. Crawford OF Newport,
XIV. He tnld Of his prison life since
his conviction and says he did not
seek an appeal of his case. for fear
he would have received a death sen.
tcnce in second trial
He declared that he had no promise
Of q pardon for making statements
duplicating Powers, Howard and Tay.
lor: that he did hope for a pardon
earned by good conduct In prison
When questioned as to minute de-
tails Of his conversation with Howard
IN Secretary OF State Powers Office
just before Howard is said to have
fred the fatal shot, he said:
II want tn say that all this trok
place eight years ago, and my grief
and shame and humiliation have heen
so great that am unable to remem.
Der everything that was said / am
telling what took place as well as ]
can remember"
Though Youtsey asserts that no
promise or intlmation Of promise OF
pardon was held out to him. he adj
mitted writing letters from prison
asking friends to vote for Gov. Beck
ham In the primary for the Demo-
cratic endorsement for United States
senator as this, he said, would help
!. hisii, Atpst of the ether alleged atatsss
lments aisout his motives for testify "
against Howard and Powers he de-
lied having made.
Admits Contradictions.
Youtsey freely admitted that he
Had made statements and signed affi-
dayits directly contrary to the story
which he told on direct examination.
and which was In substance his con-
fcssion In the penitentiary. One Of
these affidavits was given to help Jim
Howard and another to help Caleb
Powers. To offset the affidavit. given
to the latter, the prisoner produced
writing by Powers waving the truth
or falsity of the statement made By
Youtsey in the affidavit. This is the
affidavit secured while they were
both prisoners In the Jefferson county
Jail and which Youtsey says was to
be secretly used to secure In the
court of appeals a reversal of the
judgment of conviction against Pow
crs. II was to have been returned TO
Youtsey TO be destroyed. but this was
never done. 1t is still in existence
and is a record of this trial.
The Letter to Howard.
On former trials OF the Goebel mur.
der eases, Youtsey has only been
called upon to give the substance of
the letter which he says Taylor die
tated to- him. Today Attorney Owens
bad him write again that letter from
memory and tine witness put into II
the following sentences: Il am In
formed that you have volunteered
your services TO me in the perform
ance of certain act Come at once; :;
make no delay; we may be robbed OF
our offices at any time. All arrange
n.ents have been made"
That Howard did come aud that
he said he had been sent for, have
been testified to by witnesses for the
Commonwealth who preceded Yout-
sey OH the stand. rlf