Show BY CLOSE fRIEND I OF SLAIN MAN Coonel Cooper With Eyes Closed Listens to Fierce Denunciation by Attorney VENGEANCE DEMANDED FOR CARMACKS MURDER FIVE HOURS REQUIRED BY CAP CAPTAIN CAPTAIN CAPTAIN TAIN FITZHUGH ARGUMENT IN THE CASE Nashville Tenn Tonn Mardi March 8 After Captain C Fitzhugh had completed the thu opening argument for the state this afternoon in the case caso against Colonel Duncan B Cooper Robin J Cooper and John D Sharp charged with the mur murder murder murder I der of Former United States Senator E EW EW Ew W Carmack Judge Hart ordered the jury withdrawn and said saidI I r asked the to remain un until until until til after the Jury was dismissed In or order order order der that I might do something I never neer did before I want to thank you OU for forthe forthe forthe the splendid order preserved served toda pr today In 1 spite of the splendid bursts of elo eloquence eloquence eloquence quence from the speakers there has not been a single demonstration Captain Fitzhugh spoke for foi more thin than five hours He was a close clos friend of Senator Carmack and he Is in the thease thease ase case at the special request t of Mrs Irs Carmack armack Not Entitled to Sympathy Thre will be many arguments made to you he said to touch your hearts You will vilI be asked to be generous and ands sympathetic s They will talk to you OU of this boy Why Thy gentlemen he lie Is 27 years old and some of the greatest greate t achievements of men have hare been ac accomplished accomplished before a man is 30 O and they will win point to Colonel Cooper as a gen gentleman en tieman of the old school as a the last flower of the old southern chivalry Do you rou believe It Wa WEt he gen gentleman Uman when he used that awful lan Ian language guage in the presence of Miss Lee And when hen they talk tall to you OU of sym sympathy s sympathy m pathy Just look over there You see in sable garments the widow of E W V earmark Carmak You see on her arm the 10 ear old boy bo who was the pride of E EW EW Ew W Carmacks life Did Duncan Robin think of this widow or orthis orthis orthis this boy bo when they shot down the hus bus husband husband band or the father faUler The uTh question to be decided Is Wr er the law is to be enforced rit It murder r is to be committed in the streets of our cities clUes without fear of punishment can you tell who will be betho beth the tho th next victim The very veo liberty of the press is at stake the security of th common people peo le Carmack His Dearest Friend Captain Fitzhugh began begun the opening argument nt to the jury as follows I appear before you with mingled f of regret and pleasure regret that I should have to alit aid In ia the In into the cause of the death of w dearest dear t friend Continuing he said saidOn saidOn saidOn On the afternoon of Nov No 9 there was i as enacted upon the streets of this c ity a tragedy which robbed A woman of tho the and most devoted hus bus husband husband band a 3 boy of a loving father and the commonwealth of a brilliant statesman whose achievements aehle have hare added luster nd glory to the state To you has been bC n charged the duty of fixing the re responsibility responsibility It Is murder when a man takes a alife alife alife life upon a sudden impulse How nuch nueh more Is it murder when a mans heart is so full fun of malice and revenge that ho he spends all day da Sunday Sunda and most of Monday devising the ways wa s and means of taking the life of the man he lie hatE hat s a so st s bitterly Denunciation of Cooper X Fitzhugh explained how on Sunday night Nov No 8 Colonel D B n Cooper wax was at the Tulane hotel to meet E B Craig and how hor ow Cooper Coo r made threats about Carmac Carmae to Craig and how these throats threats were to th dead senator Colonel C lonel Cooper met on business but he pressed the business on the side and revealed what was in his black heart He owed oed his friend Craig money mone he owed all his friends money mone and he never neer bothered about money owed This did not bother him But he lie broke out rid aid said If my m name appears In the Ten again Carmack or I must die This man who is a lobbyist for a railroad this man who Is charged by b reputable men with hay hav having ha haInS lug InS embezzled money to hs arc are this man whose name had been bandied about the state this man whoso whose dark and dolous ways wa s have hav haver tow row r oV been uncovered dared to send to tot tos s a t honest and amI upright journalist the threat that if his name appeared in the Tc again one of them must musi die dic Continued on Page 10 ARRAIGNED BY CLOSE FRIEND OF SLAIN MAN Continued from Page 1 And when the tragedy was over t defendants began besan to look for a cause for an au excuse mc use What did they Uley do armack referred to that little bald headed angel Dune Dime Cooper He had hail asked did the angel from above T r below belo and was there the smell of sulphur on his wings Is that treason venson enough to kill a aman aInan aman man Inan Why gentlemen Harrman Harr jocke roller and Morgan Moran are private citizens ns Thy They never held an office but we know they the exercise a powerful control over OYer I affairs Their names appear Jally In the public press presa Yet who ver h of one of these men demand that his name be omitted Who ever ev r eard of one of or these thue men hunting lown iown an editor and assassinating him himon n on the street Why gentlemen they lave never neY r even challenged the right f the press prest pre to use their names name for they bOy know better It la in the duty dut of the press to keep the informed and ad Colonel Cooper when he went Into poli poll politics politics tics ties made it the duty of the press to tow tow toss w ss ten teli him Cooper Sat With Eyes Shut Fit hu h said nth i pani rs hal h printed the same things to which Col Colonel Colonel Colonel onel Cooper objected in Carmacks pa va paper per pel but that he never grew angry at af afan any an other editor During this bitter blUer ar arraignment arraignment of Colonel Cooper lie he sat quietly with his eyes shut and ami his hands hand folded as though asleep Not so sons ns daughters Stately Stat ly Mrs Burch with eyes ees cast ent down sat pat with clasped hands close clote to her brother Mrs Vils Wils ni n pt and active watched i th prosecuting attorney intently her black eyes Hashing flashing angrily Captain Fitzhugh took up the edi editorial editorial tonal entitled Diplomat of the Zwei It was introduced in the cap case caseb caseby by b the state He explained the editorial word wOld by word Tn n an effort to show that it was humorous and anti bantering And gentlemen this editorial appears on Monday ronday morning Nov NO 9 and before the tile sun had hafl set that night the brilliant Edward W Carmack had been slain for writing it IL Captain Fitzhugh the th con conference conference ference in office He laid especial stress upon the testimony that Colonel Cooper was waa not recalled to the tl phone after he had hUl left the office that there ther was no telephone message from the governor and that therefore there was no excuse for the Coopers to tobe t tobe be on Seventh avenue on that after afternoon afternoon afternoon noon unless they went there to lay la In lri wait sat for Mr Carmack who was wont to pass that way about 4 very every afternoon on his way to his apart apartments ments I I |