Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1907-07-29

GEORGETOWN, KY, July "a
special term of the Scott county cir
suit court convened today to try the
case of Caleb Powers for conspiracy in
the murder of the late Gov. William
Goebel. The case will be tried before
Judge ]. e. Robbins of Graves county,
who presided at Powers last trial, and
who has been designated by Governor
Beckham as special judge for the pres
emit trial.
The trial about to be begin is the
fourth trial of the famous case. Three
times has Powers been convicted of
= completely in the Goebel assassination.
Twice he has been sentenced to i'm
prisonment for life and once to be
hanged.
The present trial Is the outcome of
"a decision made by Justice Harlan of
the United States supreme court, who
rendered his opinion that the jurisdic-
Z ton OF the state and not the federal
courts was paramount after the case
had three times gone to the court of
appeals, which ordered a new trial
each time.
The friends of Powers desired to
1nave the present trial held before a
Federal court, advancing for their ar
snment that Powers was being depriv-
sd of his constitutional rights of a
fair trial. They based their charge on
Powers two former trials, when the
I Juries were composed of IL Goebel
men, while at his last trial II of the
men who held his fate in their hands
were followers of the Goebel faction. |
although the remaining juror was not
CLOSELY allied with any party.
The story of the murder of William
iGoehel is one of the most unusual in |,
the criminal annals of the country. !
Jim Howard and Henry Youtsey two
friends of Powers, have already been |
convicted of completely in the muir |
der and are now serving life sentences
in the penitentiary, while Ex-Governor
William Taylor, in whose interests the
convicted men are said to have acted, /
is still at large in Indiana, whittier he !
fed as soon as his name was brought
into the matter and where he now lives
by grace of the magistrates of that
state, who refuse to give him up to
the Kentucky courts.
The Kentucky legislature appropria-
ted 100000 to ferret out the assasslns
and bring them to justice This large
sum has never been accounted for, and
the veil of mystery that enshrouded
the killing from the very beginning is
still present.
The case of Powers, who Is still a
young man, has excited no little SYM
patty in many parts of the country.
ana he is daily in receipt of a large
number OF letters expressing the hope
mat he may win his hard fought bat :
tie for life. Powers friends have stood
by him loyalty, and were it not for the
assistance they have rendered him he y.
would have long since been in the men,
itehtiary and forgotten. When he was
arrested he did not have a dollar, and /
puollc sentiment was against him: but
When the legislature appropriated ]
to prosecute him and those in
1lcted with him his friends went to
work to raise funds to assist him,
1t has been said that every nrorni-
1ent Republican in the United tSates
has contributed to the big sum raised
or his defence, and among them are -
mentioned the names of President
roosevelt, Secretary Taft and the late
Quay and Hanna.
Powers apparently has not suffered
health from his seven years. con-
lnement in Jail. He takes exercises
egularly every day and spends much
mis- time in reading and writinA
'aTihg>his stay in prison he has writ
en- history of his life, which has has q,
zen placed On the market and from ~
mich ne has derived considerable =,
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