The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-11-19
CALEB POWERS HAS BAD RECORD FOR
 CONGRESSMAN

Caleb Powers, thrice convicted or comp!icity in the murder Of GOV. Will
 liam Goebel of Kentucky in 1900 and pardoned by Gov. Wilson about a
 wear ago, has been elected to con
 eress from the Eleventh D1strlct O"-
 ing to the record of Powers the Dem ocrats expected to effect his defeat
 although a Republican nomination in his district would under orolnary conditions be equivalent to an eiec- ton.
 The record of the Caleb Powers case constitutes a page Of American history as unique as it IS amaAlns. Caleb Powers, a young mountai neer. lawyer and Kentucky's Secretary or State under Gov. W. S. Taylor, was four times tried for complicity in the murder of Gov. William Goepel, was thrice convicted, once sentenced to suffer the death penalty, twice sem
 fenced to imprisonment Tor lIe. .,m,, one | secured a disa greement, ana 1lnaiiy was pardoned.
 1 GOEBEL SHOT DOWN.
 | Goebel and Taylor were rival can | didates. Taylor was given the cer- | t:fcate of election; Goebel made a l contest. The Legislature of kentucky | had just decided in Goebefs 1avor On the morning of January 3o' lSov | William Goebel, accompanied py Goi | Il, \ CT entered the Capitol grounds al Frankfort to take the oath of or | 6ce lust as Gov. GOebel reached ths | steps leading into the bulldlng tW'
 shots rang out, and Goebel fell nor,
 tally wounded The shots were nret n fro,,o the office of the Secretary o
 State. ot
 ington on his way to his home II
 the the mountains. He had in his pocke
 s+ inc time of his arrest pardon signed by Gov. w > Iaylor. 1au laylu was held and s100.O00 was offered D. tbe kentucky Legislature flor the ap l nrobansion and conviction Of the muf :. | derer of William Goebel.
 FIRST DEGREE MURDER 1oras Howard, mountaineel ,-,'oNn to be a dead shot, was T Powers office at the time. Henry r
 Youtsey, Taylor's stenographer' Wa
 eISo in the office at the t1rne Pow l erls declared he was in Louisville a t tbe time of the killing, having Tel ], 1ropl,fort on an early morning trail ? bowers. Howard and Youtsey wer I arrested and tried. l On his first trial Powers secureu = obonea of venue to Georgetown Ky ond on Aug. 10 the jury brought l f Verdict of guilty of murder in tn
 SSr+ decree. and Powers was there
 nnon sentenced to life imprfsonmen as were Howard and Youtsey: You @ ! sav decided not to appeal ms Gas e nd accepted the verdict Power e friends put up a determined oppos . ton and the Court of Appeals reVer' !, ed the finding. A second trlal W. T baId in 1901 and Powers was aga q nonvicted of murder in the first o' $ cree Again the case was appeaIe
 and reversed as before. Judge Jams
 cantrell had refused to vacate u 1T bench for the second trial ana upo y this new trial was granted. 2 AGAIN CONVICT POWERS. ,s The third trial was before Juos r 1ames E. Robbins, It lasted Al oay Il ondad in a verdict of murder m u l. erS+ degree, and Powers was SenIeh l. nd to die on November p. 1905. Pow ,- gre, influential friends did not oese
 him and he spent five years m u
 EadaraI prison at Newport peIore fo,rtb trial was granted. This tin 9 tba iurv stood 10 for acquittal ana T fn- conviction, and Gov. August w, son eranted a pardon not only l Povers but for Howard as wei; The Governor issued an open lett +o the people of the State. ln Wn ] he said that he was convincef tn Voutsey alone had been respohsii Cor inc murder Of Gov. Goebel.
 Tn Powers' campaign for Cohsre