Show oufsEY UGH ftJORSE ii Condition Suddenly Changed Last Night TESTIMONY FOR DEFENSE IN I Tcature oiT Tester day Was the Evidence i Evi-dence of One of Youtssys Attorneys Attor-neys Who Denied that He Heard 1 Arthur Goebel and Col Campbell Say that Youtsey Knew Enough to Hang Gov Taylor James Howard How-ard Convicted of Murder of Goebel Declared He Never Saw Youtsey I Georgetown Ky Oct liThe dc I Lease in the Youtsey trial closed Its case late this afternoon and the commonwealth com-monwealth began its rebuttal testimony I testi-mony wliioh will likely be concluded tomorrow to-morrow at noon Toutseys condition was materially Improved today but tonight I to-night It suddenly changed for the worse He had another paroxysm and Is unable to take nourishment except I hypodermically I The feature of the day was the testimony testi-mony of Col Nelson one of Youtscys attorneys who denied that he had told Arthur Goebel and Col Campbell that Youtsey knew enough to hang Gov Taylor but admitted that he did say his client Youtsey knew something that would be very beneficial to the commonwealth in the prosecution of Taylor The prosecution argued from this that if Youtsey admitted that he did know something damaging to Taylor he must necessarily know other details of the tragedy The defense got in some strong testimony today squarely cori tradicting the prosecutions witnesses Col Crawford the halfbrother of Youtsey told of a conference he and Nelson had Avith Col Campbell and Arthur Ar-thur Goebel in Frankfort as follows Cot Campbell acted as spokesman and said ho believed Youtsey knew something some-thing about the killing of Goebel Campbell Camp-bell produced a paper which he said contained statements that Youtsey had made to him and that he wanted You sc1 to sign the papers I told him I did not believe Youtsey had made any such statements to him Arthur Goebel then said We believe Youtsey knows who fired the shot and who was in that room Col Nelson was put on tho stand and corroborated Crawford as to what occurred oc-curred at the conference Col Campbell produced a copy oC the I paper which was discussed at that first conference and asked In detail of Col I I Nelson 1C such and such was not contained con-tained in the papers submitted to him and Crawford at the conference Col I Nelson admitted that most of the matters mat-ters wore discussed I James Howard testified hat he was I the same Howard who was recently tried and convicted for the murder of William Goebel that hu never saw j I Youtiey in his life to know him never had any talk at any time with Youtsey nor did ho accompany Youtsey to anyplace any-place or room ar where at any time that he wns not in Caleb PowcrsB office of-fice on the morning January 30lh or In any other room in that building on that morning On croNSexnmlnallon he said lie had been convicted of murdering George Baker In Clay county had anew a-new trial and went to Frankfort on January 30Ui to secure a pardon from Taylor tbat he was In the Ioard of Trade hotel when Goebel was shot The defense closed hare with pcrmis glon to put on one more witness tomorrow i to-morrow The commonwealth began Its J I rebuttal by putting William Ayers on the stund Ho said Short did tell him all that Short admitted and also told him that the Insults to Kohn and PhflpH before the contest hoard tho night before no liels assassination were prearranged and part of the plan to bring on a riot s |