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Show POWERS CONVICTED. Outcome of -the First of the Goebel Conspiracy Con-spiracy Cases In Kentucky. The verdict of the jury io the case ot ex-Secietary of 6tate Caleb Powers, charged with being an accessory befort the fact to the murder of William Goebel, was: "We find the defendant guilty, and fix his punishment at confinement con-finement in the penitentiary for the rest of his natural life." The vote in favorof a life se tence wasnnanimona. When the jury retired the belief wat general that they would not agree, and in this opinion the defendant was firmlj convinced. When the verdict was re turned Powers, for the first time dur ing the weary six weeks' of trial, betrayed be-trayed deep feeling. Ho was sitting near the door of the jury room, and when the jury knocked on the door summoning the sheriff his face took on an anxious look tHat was particularly apprehensive. ' Powers, already pale, grew ghastly as the verdict was read, and his face betokened great mental anguish. This was only for a few seconds, sec-onds, however, and then, regaining his composure, he turned to the Misses Dangerfield, who had been in conversation conversa-tion with him, and said: "I was not expecting that The verdict is unjust." A motion for a new trial will be ' made, and if overruled an appeal will be taken. ' i |