Tells Court How Goebel Was Shot
Item
- Title
- Tells Court How Goebel Was Shot
- Source
- Evening World
- Date
- 23-Mar-00
- page
- 8
- Identifier
- Image 8 of The evening world (New York, N.Y.), March 23, 1900, (Evening Edition) | Library of Congress (loc.gov)
- Crime
- Murder
- Subject
- Court, warrant
- Gender of alleged offender
- Male alleged murderer
- Gender of alleged victim
- Male alleged victim
- Stage of the Legal System
- Court
- Length of story
- 451 words
- Description
- Frankfort, KY March 23- A squad of seventy extra police and deputy sheriffs guarded the outer entrance to the court house to day while a file of soldiers stood at the doors and passed on the credentials of persons entering the room when the hearing of the men charged with complicity in the murder of Gov. Goebel was called. The general public was excluded by an order of Judge Moore, only attorneys, relatives of the accused, witnesses and officers of the court being admitted. Those admitted, however, soon filled the court house on the second floor of the building. The Lexington and Winchester millitia companies, armed with Winchesters, were stationed through various rooms. Not much more than the ordinary crowd was on the streets and there was no excitement. Col T.C Campbell and Arthur Goebel appeared at the court house at 9.50 o'clock. A few minutes later ex Gov John Young Brown, W.R. Ramsey R. C. Kinkead and J.C Sims, attorneys for the defendants,arrived. The prisoners, Republican Secretar of State Caleb Powers W. H. Culton and John Davis, were brought into the courtroom and tok seats by their counsel. The Commonwealth witnesses were called, numbering forty. The name of Sergt. Golden was not on the list Ex Gov Brown read the warrant against Powers, charging him with being an accessory in the murder of William Goebel, and asked dismissal of the defendent on the ground that the warrant was totally defective in not alleging that the crime was committed, in Franklin County and Id not even show the offense to have been committed in Kentucky. Judge Moore overruled the objection to the form of the warrant. Eph Lillarf, warden of the Frankfort Penitentiary, was the first witness sworn. He testified that he was with Senator Goebel when the latter was shot. He walked ahead of Senator Goebel and was just entering the State House when the shot fired. He turned back from the State House steps and saw what had happened. He looked toward the Executive Building and saw that the second window of the corner room was slightly raised. This was the office of the Secretary of State. He thought the shot had been firedx from this room. There were several other shots, but, he said, they did not come from the same place. The first shot was evidently from a rifle, while the others seemes to be from pistols. On cross examination Col. Lilliard said he saw nobody in the room from which the shots seemed to have been fired, and he did not see any one in the main door or on the steps of the building at the time of the shooting.
