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EXAMINING TRIAL OF SECY. CALEB POWERS.SECRETARY OF STATE CALEB POWERS,Charged with conspiracy in the assassination of Senator Goebel.REPUBLICANS AGREE.SENATE CAUCUS AT WASHINGTON DECIDES TO PASS THE HOUSE PUERTO RICAN TARIFF BILL, WITHOUT AMENDMENTS, IF POSSIBLE.WASHINGTON, March 23.—The Republican Caucus Committee of the Senate today authorized Senator Foraker In definite terms to propose the separation of the tariff feature from the Puerto Rican governmental bill and to attempt to pass the House tariff bill without amendment.The program is to vote down all amendments, if possible to do so, and pass the bill as it came from the House, without any changes whatever.Ninety Witnesses Summoned-Eph Lillard the First to Testify—Saw Window in Powers’ Office Open a Few Inches.Winchester and Lexington Soldiers and Armed Deputy Sheriffs Guarding thr Courthouse—The General Public Excluded.Courtroom Well Filled with Witnesses and Lawyers and Deputies and Soldiers, but No Attempt at Disorder, so Widely Foretold, Has Been Made.Evening Poet Special Service.FRANKFORT, Ky., March 23.—Crowds were astir early in Frankfort. A stranger would have known something unusual was about to occur. By 7 o’clock a crowd of at least 103 people had gathered about the county building. Only a few soldiers were in evidence. A squad stood at each of the doors of the county building. These were, of course, Beckham guards. The regular State militiamen had strict orders to remain within the tall picket fence surrounding Capitol Square. Consequently all danger of a clash was averted. Not one of the much advertised mountaineers wa3 in sight.Sheriff Suter withdrew his patrollng parties of special deputies at daybreak, and the members of the posse kept In the background. Most of them were where they could be produced on short notice, however. ** * *JACK CHINK LOCATES THESPOT OF THE MURDER.Shortly after 9 o’clock Attorney T. C. Campbell, County Attorney Polsgrove, Jack Cblnh and the Evening Post correspondent went to Capitol Square for the purpose of giving Mr. Chinn a chance to locate theorder of Judge Moore, only attorneys, relatives of the accused, witnesses and officers of the court being admitted. Those admitted, however, soon filled the courthouse, on the second floor of the building. The Lexington and Winchester companies, armed with Winchesters, were scattered through the various rooms. Not much more than the ordinary'crowd was on the streets, and there Is no excitement.Culton came iu a few minutes before Powers and Davis were brought from the jail. All three seemed at ease and chatted pleasantly with their attorneys. Upon their lieels a file of soldiers marched in and lined up against the rear wall. Denny and Duulap took seats.** * * *FORTY-SEVEN WITNESSESFOR THE PROSECUTION.IJir the Commonwealth tlic witnesses were called: Ed Bell, J. B. OUy ver. Jack Chinn, S. H. Clark, Senator T. R. Welsh, Senator Newton Frazier, Walter Black, David Davis, G. T. Ely. Pat McDonald, Sr., B. B. Williams, Ross Robertson, M. L. Lawrence, Dr. J. B. Ely, Ben T. Williams, Henry Carter, Chas Howard,EPH LILLARD TELLSOF THE ASSASSINATION.The first witness called for the Commonwealth was Eph Lillard, Sr., warden of the Frankfort prison. He had just left Goebel when the latter fell, mortally wounded. He said he Was openiDg the front door of the .Capitol building when he heard a shot, apparency coming from the executive building;He said when he ran back out upon the pavement the second window from the west end of the Executive Building for the front side was open a few inches. This window is in the Secretary of State’s office. He then assisted in carrying Goebel away. He thought the shots following the first report also seemed to come from the Executive Building. The first shot came from a rifle, he said, and rang out clear, while the others were muffled and less distinct.Mr. Lillard said be saw nobody in the room from which the shot seemed to have been fired, and he didn't see any one In the main door or onthe steps of the building at the time of the shooting. Asked If he or Jack Chinn, who was with Goebel, drew a pistol, he said: “I didn't draw my pistol and I didn't see Chinn draw one. ISERGT. WHARTON GOLDEN,The star” witness in the Goebel murder case, whose name waa not In the list of the Commonwealth’s witnesses.THE PUBLIC EXCLUDED.JUDGE MOORE ISSUES ORDERS TO EXCLUDE EVERYBODY FROM THE TRIAL EXCEPT REPORTERS, WITNESSES AND LAWYERS.Evening Post Special Service.FRANKFORT, Ky., March 23.—Judge Moore issued the following order thismorning:In view of the excitement attendant opun the arrest and trial of Caieb Powers. John Davis and W. H. Culton, charged wKh complicity In the murder of Wm. Goebel, It la now ordered that on Friday, March 23, 1900, and on every subsequent day during the examination of said parties, the Sheriff of the county, with the power of the county if need be, is authorized and directed to place a sufficient guard around the Courthouse premises, and not to allow any person or persons to enter the Courthouse or Courthouse grounds during said days of examination except the following, to-wit: The officers of court, the defendants and their counart, one representative of each newspaper, producing proper credentials, and also wit-
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Louisville Evening Post
Louisville, Kentucky, US
Fri, Mar 23, 1900
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