Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1909-03-02 | Page 1 | Sold a Witness to the Defense

SOLD SOLO A I ITO WITNESS TO THE DEFENSE Remarkable Action Actton of Prose c the i Murder Case Nashville March 1 IThe The spectacle of counsel not only selling a witness to the opposition but haggling over the terms term was an incident today In the Cooper trial The subject of the transaction was as Dr Glasgow who had been beed em era employed employed by the perform an autopsy on Senator Carmacks Carmack body bod He did so and reported his findings to the fhe prosecution He was subpoenaed by bythe the state but was not used The defense learned of the autopsy and summoned the doctor Dr told counsel I for the defense that his cervices as an expert had h d been retained by the tate state and that he lie would not discuss the case except with the attorney general Then Attorney Attorn Y General McCain McCarn pro proposed proposed proposed posed that if the defense delen e would pay the tho state the costs of the autopsy including Dr fee fec the state would waive its rights Judge Hart said the defense wanted to See Bee the goods before It bought and offered to confer with Dr Glasgow To this the prosecutors entered an em emphatic emphatic veto eto Pay whether you ou use him or not they said ald There was wa another hurried conference and the defense bought the goods In the bag and Dr Glasgow became their wit witness witness witness ness The significance of his testimony was that any anyone one of the three wounds was necessarily and Instantly fatal latal and that if the senator did not fire the first tint shots he could not have fired at all The other chief witness ss was waa S J 3 T Bin BInnings who claimed to have seen Senator enat r Carmack fingering his revolver and testing Its cylinder a few tew moments be before before fore tore the shooting began