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Show A may have told story I OF GOEBELS MURDER. mM0 if Kill H.E.YDOTaCV For nearly ono whole day last week Henry E. Youtsoy, now serving a llfo sentence for complicity In the murder of William Qoebcl, was before the grand Jury of Franklin county, Kentucky. Ken-tucky. It Is believed that ho had carried out his expressed determination to tell all ho knows, and to lay baro all tho details of the conspiracy which camo within his knowledge. Youtsoy was on duty on tho day" of tho assassination In the private ofTlco of Secretnry of Stato Powers, from which tho fatal shot was flred, and directly di-rectly after tho shooting ho ran to tho offlco of Gov. Taylor, going not across tho hall, but by way of tho basement, I and reported the shooting to tho Gov- I ernor and thoso in tho room with him. I Youtsoy lefused to appeal his caso I and sot about serving his llfo sen- I tenco. IIo bns steadfastly refused to I tell who wns In Powers' offlco with I him and who was In Gov. Taylor's I offlco when ho went thcro to report tho I shooting. Though Jim Howard has been con-I con-I vlctcd of being ono of tho assassins, I tbcro aru many who bcllcyo that It was Youtsey and not Howard who fired ft tho shot. B Somo tlmo ago It was reported that Youtsoy had mado a clean breast to B F Commonwealth's Attorney Franklin, but this was afterwards denied. Youtsoy In Ills testimony before tho grand Jury Is said to havo Implicated not only thoso who nro under indictment indict-ment but others whoso names have been mentioned only In tho testimony of witnesses at tho several trials. Brief History of the Crime. Youtsoy was convicted of tho murder mur-der of William Goebol and sentenced to llfo Imprisonment. The stato maintained main-tained that It wns ho who procured tho rifle bullet that killed Goobcl and that ho gave them to tho mountaineer, moun-taineer, "Jim" Hownrd. Tholr belief wni that ho or Howard fired tho shot. Youtsey was clerk and stenographer In the offlco of tho state auditor. All tho stato houso employes were very much excited when Gocbel filed his election contest. When It beenmo evident evi-dent that ho wou'nl win tho excitement reached fovcr heat. To them all It meant loss of offlco. Youtsey wns of a high strung and nervous temperament. Tho excitement excite-ment affected him grpatly. Ho proposed pro-posed tho killing of Goebol to sovcral people. The ovldenco was very clear against him nnd ho wa3 arrested, convicted con-victed and sentenced to a llfo term. After a few months In prison Yout-' Yout-' sey, it was reported, becamo lnsnno. |