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Show TAVlBB PARDONED 8! 00VEHM0B WILLSOH Kentucky Executive Decides He Had No Guilty Knowledge of Gocbel Murder. FRANKFORT, Ky., April 23. Gov. Willson, late this afternoon, granted pardons lo former Gov. W. S. Taylor and former Secretary of State Churles Fin ley, both refugees in Indiana, charged with complicity in the murder of William Gocbel in 1900. Pardons were also granteed to John Powers, brother of Caleb Powers, who is believed to be in Honolulu; to Holland Hol-land Whittak'cr, John Davis and Zach Steolc, under indictment, and who did not flee tho slate. Those over whom indictments are left hanging are Wharton Golden, now iu Colorado; Frank Cecil, a railroad detective de-tective in St. Louis, and William IT. Culton, said to have died in tho west, a few months ago. These cases, with tho possible exception of that of Cecil, will be dismissed, leaving Henry E. Yout-sey, Yout-sey, now serving a life sentence in the penitentiary, the only person to suffer for the killing of Goebel. Reiterating the boliof ho expressed some months ago, when he pardoned Caleb Powers and James B. Howard, thaUno one but Youlsoy had part in t he murder, and it was not a conspiracy, Gov. Willson decided he believed that to pardon Taylor was "a sacred duty," which T must no longer delay to carry into effect. "From fair, impartial study o the! reports of all tho trials, and from my knowledge of tho conditions of those times, 1 believe that Gov. Taylor had no guilty knowledge of the murder of William Goebel, and that he would never have bccii indicted but for political politi-cal excitement and passion. "Ho had a large family, aud ho decided de-cided it was his duly not to submit to a trial under the conditions. So he went to Indiana. "Extradition was refused, and he has lived in Indiana ever since. Gov. Taylor's Tay-lor's experience has been one of the saddest in the history of tho commonwealth. common-wealth. In IS09 he was elected governor. gov-ernor. He was fulfilling the duties faithfully when this tragedy and the storm of feeling following it ruined the crowning glory of a useful life, overthrew the elected slate governmdut and put in peril the safely of the people |