Show WELL ELL LAID PLOT TO TOBEL KILL GOV GOEBEl BEL Murderous Stories Are Related at tt the Ripley Trial TO p PUT r HIM WAY WA 4 FATAL F TAL SHOT CAME FROM BOIt SEC SECRETARY SECRETARY SECRETARY OF OP STATES OFFICE Frankfort Ky Ivy April 12 The prose prosecution prosecution cution will conclude its testimony in inthe inthe inthe the Ripley case tomorrow The defense will move mo e for peremptory instructions for a verdict of acquittal Lawyers ers for the prosecution do not believe this will be sustained in view of the ruling of the court permitting the introduction tion of evidence AS s to the conspiracy They assert that the evidence of ex Governor Bradley and Judge Yost con connects fleets Ripley in a way to preclude pe peremptory peremptory peremptory instructions Senator Newton Frazier of Shelby county cou ty testified first today relative to the big mountaineer mass meeting Jan 25 at which he heard threats against all of the Democratic mem members members bers bels of the legislature The defense is 15 refusing all testimony of this character and passes witnesses who testify only to those matters without nation I I Graham Vreeland a newspaper cor correspondent respondent testified to disorderly con conduct conduct i duct on the part of the mountain men Jan 25 He heard J B Matthews then assistant secretary of state call out outto outto outto to a crowd nearly all of whom were drunk Boys come on lets go over I there anti and get that Goebel G McKenzie Reed who served sered under Governor Taylors administration as his private secretary s repeated his for former former mer testimony as to Henry Youtsey i whom he saw raw aw in Caleb Powers office I with a gun on the day da Representative Berry Rep was unseated The shots sounded to witness as if fired from the of states office When the occupants of the governors office heard what had happened Captain John JohnDavis JohnDavis Davis said The war is on We Ye will all be mobbed A few minutes later Youtsey came in and In an excited manner asked what had happened Youtsey went over to the window and said that it was Goebel who had been killed George Lockard of Knox county coun ty tes testified d that he spert spent January Januar 1890 in Frankfort Caleb Powers had told him that he wanted w him here e and had provided him with thre Pow Powers Powers ers had told him to stay sm about the state house entrance as he might be needed Sheriff Suter told of his efforts to enter the he executive e building after the shooting and of being repulsed by armed guards Would Never Take His lIis Seat Erasmus Ditto who lives in neighborhood testified to having a aco conversation co nv with Ripley luring during the contest over the governorship Wit Witness Witness ness asked Ripley if he be thought Goe Goc Goebel Gocbel bel would be declared de lared governor Rip Icy ley responded If he js Is he will never neer take mke his seat v Wade Watts a colored porter told of hearing Representative Lilly say sa that a signal shot would be fired tired In Inthe Inthe inthe the legislative hall hail This would ex cx excite excite cite the Democrats and the Republicans beans could shoot them as they the rose which they undoubtedly wo ld do not not what it was for He saw Youtsey as he ran out of the basement of the executive building at the time of the shooting Youtsey did not stop but Said in passing Its all up now or something like that Dudley Williamson of the Frankfort I military company which was on duty in the arsenal said the soldiers were lined up and in readiness for march two hours before the assassination al They did not get to the state house for an hour after the shooting sho John rohn Ricketts said he talked Wit Youtsey on numerous occasions Youtsey soy sey se told him the only way Wa to win the contest was to put Goebel l out of the Continued on oil page pace pa e 2 AIO PLOT OITO TO Kill GOVERNOR GOE EL Continued from Page L 1 way and said it could be done from the secretary seo of states office and the tho assassin could escape e cape through the basement and not be discovered dl covered A Afew AI few tEW minutes before betor the assassination assa Youtsey called on him and said that so was wa going to happen Wit Witness I ness nes remembered that had h d dt taid t ld about tile the putting Goebel out of the vyt WillY and nd did ma not go |