The Cairo bulletin., 1907-07-29
TO FACE
HIS FOURTH TRIAL
FAMOUS CONSPIRACY c A s e
AGAINST GoEBEL TO BE
RE-HEARD.
|vflLEO IN MYSTERY
Was the Tragic Death Of kcntucky's
Governor and the Procee edines
That Have Followed Are
Equally PrzzIing,
SEVEN YEARS RECORD or CASE

| SEVEN YEARS RECORD or CASE
March 1c, teoo-Arrested on charge
Iof completely in murder OF Governor
Goeset
July 9, f90o--First trial began.
August 10, 190o--Convicted and sen.
fenced to imprisonment for life.
March 2s, 19o1--court appeals re.
versed verdict and order new trial.
October s. 19o1-Second trial be.
gan.
November 8, 19o1-Again convicted
and sentenced to Imprisonment for
life.
December 2. t9o2-court Of Appeals
reversed decision in second trial.
August 8, 19o3-Third trial began.
Aue.ct "a, tso3--convcted and sen,
fenced to death.
December 6, 19o4--Court Of Appeals
reversed the verdict for the third
time.
March L., teo5-u. S. Supreme
Court sent the case back to the state
courts.
March 8, 1so7-Powers completed
seven years in Jail.
Georgetown, Ky, July 2S.-A spec
ial term OF the Scott cIrclit court
will convene tomorrow to try the case
of Caleb Powers fer conspiracy in
the murder Of the late Governor VII.
liam Gocbol. The case will be tried
before Judge j Il. Robbons of Graves
county, who presided at Powers last
trial, and who has been designated by
Governor Beckham as special judge
for the present trial.
The trial about to begin Is the
fniirsil trial If the famous case. THREE
times has Powers been convicted OF
completely In the Goebel assasslna-
ton. Twice he has been sentence
toS Imprisonment for life, and once
TO be hanged.
The present trial N the outcome
Of decision made by Justice Harlan
of the United States Supreme Court
who rendered his opinion that the
of the state and not the
federal courts was paramount after
the case had three times gone 20
the court of appeals, which ordered a
new trial each time.
Wanted a Federal Trial.
The friends Of Powers desired to
have the present trial held before 4
federal court. advancing for their ar
gument the statement that oPwers
was being deprived Of his constitu.
ional rights of a fair trial They
based their charges on Powers two
'ormer trials. when the juries were
of II Goebel men. while,
It his last trial, / of the men who
held his fate in their hands were
ollowers fthe Goebel faction, al.
hough the remaining juror was not
loosely allied TO any party.
The story of the murder Of vii.
lam Goebe is one of the most un-
usual in the criminal annals of the
Jim Howard and Henry
1outsey, two friends of Powers. have
lready been convicted of completely
u the murder. and are now serving
ife sentences in the penitentiary,
While Ex-Governor William Taylor In
whose interests the convicted men
re said TO have acted. Is still at large
n Indiana, wbiteher he fed as soon |
IS his name was brought into tho
natter and where he now lives by
race of the magistrates of that state,
Who refuse to give him up to the
kentucky courts.
The Kentucky legislature appropri.
ted 100000 TO ferret out the assas.
ins and bring them TO Justice This
lrge sum has never been accounted
or and the veil of mystery that en-
hrouded the killing from the very
,eginning is still present
The case of Powers. who Is still a
oung man. has excited no little sym
,athy in many parts of the country
nd he is daily in receipt of a large
lumber of letters expressing the hope
hat he may win his har-fought battle
or life. Powers friends have stood
" him Loyalty. and were it not for
he assistance they have rendered him
le would have long since besn IN the
,enitentiary and forgotten. WheH he
sss arrested he did not have doua
md public sentiment was against
i'm. but when The legislature ap
,ropriatcd 100000 10 prosecutc him
md thnsc indicted with him his
riends went to work 10 raise funds 10
issist him.
II has been said that every prom
nent Republican in the United States
ias contributed TO the big s5m rails
n for his defense. and among them
ire mentioned the names Of President
Secretary Taft and the