Show MEN WIT COLT fiUNS r f Feudists 1 from Mountain Districts TTOTf TT T ft Of 11 Who Were Especially selected Ito I-to Visit the Kentucky j f 1 V i5 Legislature I r Object Was to Kill Off Enough Goebelites to Make a I Majority for the OppositionSensational Evidence t i Given at Preliminary Hearing of Caleb Powers I Charged With Conspiracy to Murder Senator Goebel I Frankfort Ky March lUJobn Powers told me they had two negroes hero to kill Goebel They were Honker Smith and Dick Coombs This statement state-ment was made today by Wharton Golden a frail consumptivelooking I Kentucky mountaineer while on the I witness Eland In the preliminary examination ex-amination of Secretary of State Caleb Powers charged with conspiracy to kill Goebel Golden told a story of the events leading up to the murder that If t substantiated will In the minds of those connected with the prosecution at least probably go far toward proving prov-ing tho contentions of the commonwealth common-wealth that the murder was the result of a plan In which several prominent men were Involved DEFENSE WILL NOT TALK Whether the defense will seek to impeach im-peach Goldons testimony in this preliminary pre-liminary examination Is not known as the attorneys for the defense will not talk on tho subject but unless such I attempt is made tho commonwealth will rest UK case both County Attorney Polsgrovc and Attorney Campbell being satisfied that enough evidence has been presented to hold the defendant on the charges t DAMAGING TO POWERS Golden who claims to have been a friend 10 Secretary Powers and his brother John Powers for years gave testimony that was particularly damaging dam-aging to John Powers but be also brought in tho names of many others Including Charles Flnley William JL Cpultbnand 1 Gov < Taylor In his st Dy of the bringing the mountaineers Frankfort previourf to ihc utw sslna rtipn v Gov Taylor hpyover was not directly Implicated and the attorneys for thc commonwealth Intimated today that t they do not expect to have his mime broughl forth prominently In tlio sjlbry of the alleged conspiracy I WITNESS VERY NERVOUS Golden was not crossexamined today I to-day and adjournment was taken at an early hour this afternoon on account ot his physical condition the wltnqss having a slight hemorrhage during the the morning becoming so weak under strain of tho examination In the afternoon after-noon that ho begged to be allowed a respite He was quite nervous at times The testimony did not show that the alleged plot to kill Goebel was part of tho original plan nor did It contain tho numes of those who conceived that idea But the commonwealth sought to with Goldens conversations show by various people that not only John and Caleb Powers but others as well had full knowledge of the alleged plan of assassination According to Golden Caleb Povers was one of thc prime movers in the bringing bring-ing to Frankfort of tho mountaineers just before the assassination of Goft Irel and although Secretary Powers blmply Instructed him to bring witnesses wit-nesses who were mountain feudists understood to yet Golden they well come to Frankfort for possibly a more sinister purpose that of cleaning out the Democratic majority in the Legislature Legis-lature WHAT STATE WILL PROVE Attorneys for the commonwealth say that Goldens testImony is practically the capstone of tho whole structure oC Ivldonco and expect to prove by his testimony not only that a conspiracy f xl ted but also who were Implicated before The courtroom was jammed long tho hour set for the examination and u Just large crowd remained outside what testimony in rebuttal the defense will Introduce is not known but unless un-less Goldens testimony proves sensational sensa-tional It is considered probable the de fens will submit the case without argument ar-gument Secretary of State Powers was the only one of the defendants brought Into court this morning GOLDENS STORY F Wharton Golden of Earboursville was the first witness He had known Secretary Powers for about eighteen years and knew Jlr Coullon lie was also acnuaintetl with GOY Taylor and Capt John Powers He said he was a friend to all of the defendants He wag In Frankfort In January and February and saw Secretary Powers nearly every day iTo was In Frankfort on January 14th and went to Plarlan county on the I 18th and then went to Laurel county for three or four days from there returning re-turning to Frankfort From there where did you soto BarboursvIHc I asked Attorney Campbell Camp-bell After hesitating the witness said I wont answer that When did you have a conversation I with Secretary Powers HIS TALK WITH POWERS I When Mr Powers and lien here together Col Powers told me to go to Ilarlan county and tell Postmaster I John Hirst to send down ten witnesses In the contest case who wens regular I mountain feudlsta I Did J he understand what you meant by that and what was your understanding under-standing of that request Objected to but overruled I wont answer that said Gulden I After some parley Golden said Well men who would stand up and If neces hull and Into that legislative i ary go kill J ott enough to maki It In our favor MEN WITH GUNS WAITED I I saw Hamp Howard I told him we wanted ten refular mountain feud 0 istfl for witnesses Wa wanted mm who had good Coltss fortyfives Wore the Colts fortyfives to bo put In evidence asked Attorney Campbell Camp-bell Most assuredly they Were answered an-swered Golden In reply to a question Golden sold hii did not know tho witnesses who camo to Frankfort Ho delivered the message to Howard on Sunday a fev days before be-fore tho shooting of Goebel I next SLW Powers on Tuesday I got on tho train at FenIs station Laurel county He had a couple of men on the train named Peaso and Lockot He told mo to take care of them I next saw Powers Pow-ers In Frankfort I dont rerneinben what conversation we had then WHO SELECTED THE MEN Who selected tho men vho cama from Harlan county Ham > Howard He selected thirty men besides the ten Caleb Powers X think selected tho men from Knox I county There were about seventy or eighty TIm Sparks County Attorney In Laurel county selected the men from Laurel county U Witness stated that at London Powers said ho wanted a regular army of mountaineers to come to Frankfort In answer to further questions Golden I Gol-den said Powers gave him S1GO to give to Judge BIngham In Bell county 1 gave somo of it to Bingham to send ten men down to Frankfort said Golden I Witness said he gave Howard 7380 for ten tickets to Frankfort and return I re-turn Ho knew some of the men from Bell county Most of the men verb I mountaineers MOUNTAINEERS ARAb T AR-Ab lt 1200 to 1500 men were brought Ito I-to Pjankfort They were fed back of the Storehouse Cant Davis and Charles Flnley provided provisions Continuing Golden sad We sent most oC them back that night By wd I jnoatvMnytfeJf 1 Powers Davis Culton f and Gov Taylor 1 Finley Taylor and It PoworJj decided to send back all except ex-cept tell or rifteen from each county I MuIe < JtLd twelvu Armed then to be kept from Knox county Deputy Marshal GtoVgii Thomas selected the men from Laurel county About 175 men of the J mountaineers brought to t Frankfort rcj I malned heiv to see that we got justice f WHAT MEN WERErTO DO Did you haverany further convcr sat on vitli Powers regarding the work to be ClOne by the men coming here l No sh they understood what they were kept I here for We knew that tUow men were hove to go Into that Legislative hall and if necessary clean out enough Democrats to make a majority ma-jority on our side The answer created u sensation Golden 4l1he was In the executive building on the day before the shooting He met Powers in Gov Taylors anteroom ante-room Powers asked him to go to Louisville that day He told Powers John he was goinG to Loulslllc with Clleb Powers During n lengthy argument argu-ment over a technical point Golden became III and court was adjourned to lO ocloele ocloeleTO TO KILL GOEBEL Golden resumed his testimony at the afternoon session He said John Powers Pow-ers and a blackeyed mustached man had a talk concerning the closing oC Secretary Poworss olllce during the la tiers absence I had my back tarried said Golden but when I turned I saw John Powers give tho John Powers said to key to the man me Goebel Is golnk to be killed this morning I said This must not be I dono Ho said Dont get excited I that man the wrong key gave said We must go and see Caleb John We all Powers saw him I did not did not ago a wont back to the Stato house I to Louisville that morning I cant go a say wjiy TALLOW DICK COOMBS named Dick a man Do you know Coombs aalccd Attorney Campbell and llvoa colored man I do He IK a In Beittyvllle He came down with county contingent the Leo Caleb talk with have any Did you Coombs Powers about Dick John 01 thereto No but they had two negroes told me John Powers to kill Goobel Rocker Smith and Dick so They were Dick Coombs at the Coombs I saw the depot every morn drug store near previous to tho for a week or so Ing talking to LL man shooting Coombs said prescjice In my named Wallace I i far as him oa him I Know Damn him and 1 can kill him ag far can see talking oC him He was as I Ct11 see Goebel COOMBS AT STATE HOUSE conversation was In the Adju This office He also said I tantGenerals movement and I can his every know I can sen far as him with I this as hit 32 that sboot carried a Colts lie him r Coombs Wan a Winchester cartridge AdjutantGenerals In the Assistant morning of tho shooting ofllcc In the Jim Wallace I Smith and with Hooker who got the key front saw the man He Is a little man John Powers there Powers and myself > When wo John he mid You have went back there key r don t remember plvcn me the wrong said to him The John member what around town nst of the daY I was to the key the No reference was made was In Caleb rest ott the day Tire key ornee AND JOHN POWERS CALEB MET meet Caleb and did you On Tuesday asked Attorney Camp ask John Powers them In Calebs I did I saw Yes bell Blokeman from letter office I got a asking me to come to that morning Caleb said he was going Louisville mo mIght want with me but said lie Ho was talk to go to the mountains Da and Goy Taylor Walter Day rig to llarlan county camo R J Howard talked of to Taylor He Insisted up and he calling out the militia sisted on Taylor GOV TAYLORS SUGGESTION said My God you puo lfr Taylor first adding I can must something You quick enough ort Vet the mllltla fellows must act first By tkofc 3 out j pth I I S I understood xve felloxx8 must raise f ilot In the S nat chamber Coiuei this morn xxas there As I told you ing xvo would clean out enough of that legislature there to make It our Wfl What do you mean by that Oh kill them HEARD OF GOEBELS MURDER After Taylor xvas through talking I urged Power to take 111 train wIh myR JJ was due At 1a Grnim4o r learned that Senator OocuelJ had been INllC continued On LptilsvJIle I i slrijl Yp conlnuCl t LpuI8IC shO went to donoc krtoxvxvhy iIi doivel Louisville Oolh Toll anti Caleb Pow LouIHI along ASc left l for FranktOIt crN Unit afternoon and went directly to the State afcInon I did not see Mr power again hat m1a Attomney Campbell then took the wit iius back and Golden tola ° f a lon > versatlon IIP had with Caleb POIIS 101 ets1 train In Tnurol county pcious to tho shoot hii Caleb said con tinned Golden lthm Wexe got understood tho remark that them t I unllcIRtod I < Democrat down here and we had the t C could do as we pleased afterwe got here1 AFTER T1IR SHOOTING The witness then look up the events after hl the shooting He HCIc he HaW a jnnn named Blakoman In Louisville IBlakeman and Tohn power had 1 con vernation Counsel for the defense stronly objected to this line 0 examination exam-ination and tho commonwealth vJ tn drew it and announced It was through with the wltncs8 Golden who waverY weak from his requested a few minutes hemorrhage a rest and hc was accordingly I taken OUL by a Cnd deputy sheriff Goldons Illness serious than at flt5t lst m > ved more sCrloml Lmn L after an hours delay ad thought and aUll ac thouJht 10 m lournment was taken until a journnlnt The defense will then take up deense the crossexamination and introduce testimony In rebuttal ac lonFIRST FIRST IXTEllPELLATION The first Interpellation xvhich accused u J Mlllerand of promising a subvention to one oC two rival chambers of commerce com-merce at Versailles time president of which is I one of M Mlllerands friends and had violently attacked the French Minister Belgium M Gerard was 1 withdrawn on J Delcasse the Foreign Mlnlstcryreplylng that the Cabinet had lnlslel 1cplylnS I unanimously decided not to grant the subvention This declaration hoed that no dissension existed within time I Ministry In regard to tIme matter The second interpellation regarding the decoration of the dressmaker I Paquin to whom It xvas insinuated M Millerand Is I under obligations resulted in the chamber voting to proceed with the order of the day which was tantamount tanta-mount to a vote of confidence this time aiming A third Interpellation tme rdl ing at the Minister of the Colonies 1 Docrals will come before the chamber on Monday whcnM Duquesnay and M L Gilbert Deputies for rartlnlque xvlll raise the question of respouslbllRy I for the recenl troubles In that island I FRUITLESS DISCUSSIONS These fruitless discussions prevented 1 the chamber from doing useful work In lbolshlnJ public executions which subject sub-ject is axvalting the attentionof vhc House In the form of a proposal which the Sen has already been adopted by ale Some opposition is manifested toward to-ward It by Deputies who seem to harbor har-bor an inexplicable feat that executions xvlll partake of a clandestine character 1 Cnstlllard the reporter who introduced In-troduced tho bill early In the week dwelt upon the fact that the measure would do away with the scenes and midnight orgies which now disgrace public executions in France We hal heal no more he said the mob accompanying ac-companying with obscepe ditties the last walk of the unhappy criminal to the scaffold I is lime itf put an end to this demoralizing spectacle AN IMPORTANT BILL l A bill xxhich xvill have stupendous consequences If 1 adopted was introduced in Parliament this xveek by exPre mier Brisson I provides for the sec urallrallon of properties of religious congregations and their conerslon Into I n pension fund for working people In I the preamble r Brisson points out that these congregations possessed In 1SSO lands and other property worth 750000 OO francs It Is considered hardly likely like-ly that Parliament xvlll adopt such n I measure of wholesale confiscation of private property The sensational story published In certain papers that a grave situation had arisen in Morocco as the outcome of the French occupation of the oasis of Insalah Is denied in official quarters where it is declared Morocco prole ted but only In n platonic way In the matter mat-ter which is being arranged without any serious friction EVENTS IN TRANSVAAL The absence of slarlllng events In the Transvaal war this week has tended to somo diminution In the interest among Frenchmen without changing amonr sympathies for the Boors An Indica ton of this hi 1 found In letters written to the nexvspapers suggesting that In tho event of the Boors being completely vanquished France should offer them an asylum In Madagascar where aylum Madaascal concessions con-cessions of land should be granted to them This generous proposal however did not evoke enthusiasm for Its merits and the Matin points out that the Boers number 150000 and that should they accept such an offer they being more numerous tho paper says than Frenchmen French-men In Madagascar day would come when they would become an em barrassment The Boers would leave the Transvaal because they had lost their Independence and they certainly would not recover it in Madagascar BRAIN OF CHILD MURDERER Considerable Interest not unmixed with a certain amount of amusement has been caused by 1 the report of the wellknoxvn doctor La Bordo on the brain of the childmurderer Vacher In submitting a plaster east of the brain before the Academy of Medicine he finds that the frontal lnt convolutions convolulons arc remarkably well 1 developed the brain closely v resembling that of Oambetta GUlbeta from which he concludes that Vacher was a neglected genius and might have been u great leader of Democracy while following the same theory he thinks Gambella In vuchers surround ings might have been a criminal A majority of his medical audience greeted Dr Ln Brodes deductions xvlth Ironical laughter but La Bordo Is quoted serious seri-ous ser BITTEN BY MAD DOG I The slxyeurold grandchild of Prince Von Hohenlohe the German Imperial Chancellor was bitten by n mad dog at Cannes this xefck and has been brought to the Pasteur Institute for I treatment Strong hopes are enter I tained that a euro xvillbe effected as no symptoms of hydrophobia have ap peared Th ruins of Fort Chambrol where Gucrln defied the authorities for so long a time xvcre sold nt auction in the Stale salesrooms on Wednesday They con I slsled of loaded sticks swords hors pistols revolvers rIles and other bric abrac and retched fancy prices from enthusiastic dlsclpjcs of Guiirin as souvenirs sou-venirs The ropes which served to haul victuals from the adjoining houses brought 70 francs Tim condition of M Ptostand the dramatist who is fighting xvlth congestion conges-tion of the lungs as a result of time strain put upon him by lH supervision of the rehearsal of LAiglon Is now lmluollh though it was at first very |