Show man lying at deaths door who knows who killed governor goebel declares that if the ex secretary s execution were imminent he would give testimony that would clear him powers appeals for his aid bakersfield cal charles E ehler on a cot in the county hospital suffer ing from a wound presumably self inflicted has admitted to superintend ent franz buckreus that he has anfor matlon as to the killing of governor william goebel ol 01 kentucky which II 11 it were adduced it is alleged would clear caleb powers former secretary of state of kentucky and now under sentence of death for complicity in the murder of the late governor A few days ago powers wrote from the blue grass state to ehler in ba saying in substance I 1 see by a press dispatch that you may be an important witness in the goebel murder for six years I 1 have lain in prison and three times I 1 have been sentenced to death for a crime of which I 1 am as innocent as the an gels around the throne it you have any information that will throw light on the death of governor goebel then for god s sake declare yourself and aid in proving my innocence ehler on receiving this letter per pitted superintendent buckreus to read it and the latter realizing its am questioned ehler where upon the latter admitted that he could give testimony that would save the life ot powers and he intimated that if the ex secretary s execution were imminent he would give such test mony |