Show YOUNG COOPER I t TEllS STORY i I I OF THE MURDER i I Court Room at Nashville Crowded When Carmacks Slayer Goes on Stand CLAIMS DEAD SENATOR 1 FIRED SIRED THE FIRST SHOTS FORMER SHERIFF SHARPE GIVES OF TRAGEDY SOME CONTRADICTIONS Nashville Terry Tent Feb 22 The fact tilt Is a holiday together with the knowledge possessed ed by the Uie public that att an the lite guns of the states batteries butteries be brought to bear upon the theman UI man mata who swears he shot and killa senator K Ii W V Carmack com combined to draw an immense audience in the trial today and anil for tin tilt first firt tune time during the hearing il lunch box was in evidence Robin Cooper rather to wel welcome welcome welcome come the Ute ordeal Before cro nation began be alt Judge Anderson Ander on asked yours young ou Cooper If he knew Senator Car muck Yo sir I knew mew him and he knew me me That all The witness settled d hack back In his chair and turned toward the tile attorney gen antI You have read your testimony since V Saturday was the first question Yea Yee Y sir air v discussed it with counsel coui No o not nol the testimony Counts Counsel 1 asked Ine some BOme questions question When were here HI you OU introduced to Sena Senator Senator Senator tor Carmack I do not remember whether I ever was introduced to him I r have known him al aU all my life Ufe Just before the shoot shootIng ins Ing he was frequently in my uncle unde office on business ss connected with the campaign I spoke to him several t before the tho shooting g Developing Conspiracy Theory Attorney General McCarn then asked young oung Cooper Coop r a number of questions as asto asto asto to hIs Ms practice a as a lawyer Jawer and es cs especially especially along the lines tines of pardon purton work the purpose apparently being to show Coopers connection with Governor Pat Pal Patterson terson how influential it was with the Ue governor and anil thus to n t II conspiracy theory Attorney General 1 suddenly switched then to the day of the trag tragedy tragedy edy ed When hen did you OU telephone Mrs Burch your our sister to find your father Cather About 10 a in tn inAnd mind And ind you wanted your sister to keep him off the streets Yes Yee sir Ir Still yoUr lither fattier had only left loft you youa ou a 11 moment before Yes sr Knew His Father Was Armed When did you that your fa fn father father ther was armed x When he reached my m office that morning Did you see the tho pun punI in inI I did Bring in the revolvers all aU of them mid euld McCarn Is Iii either of these those your fathers lathers revolver re revolver volver I do not know The T to one looks like it it 1 I only glanced at atit atit atit it The Tiie states object was to identify the there revolver re olver Colonel Cooper carried Its contention is that the gun said to have been found near Carmacks body was in realty real ty Colonel Coopers substituted ed for the one Carmack carried carrie 1 Young Cooper said BRid the automatic re rc revolver revolver volver olor he shot Carmack with was the first one of or its kind he ever held in his hand lie He denied that he ever over practiced tired with one Talked With the Governor It developed Od too that while looking for his Ids father fathel the day daJ of the tragedy Robin Cooper met Governor Patterson and walked through the Arcade with him This was not testified to on di dl direct direct examination Were 10 u armed at that time I 1 was Did you talk with the governor about the tr uble Yes sir And Ind you Jou talked with the governor about the trouble with a 0 weapon in your our pocket and knowing your father was armed Yes y i sir How often orten It d you to Gov Governor Governor Governor Patterson that ni tda day Twice Once In front of the the Tu Tulane Tulane lane lanCo And were weri you ou armed arned then No sir I got the revolver after I 1 saw the governor that first time You had road an unmated conversation with Governor Patterson across from Carmacks office after atter which you ou went and armed yourself Merely a Conversation Not animated Just a 0 conversation You suggested sted your our uncle James Bradford to arrange the difficulty Yes i You know knew Bradford hated Car Carmack Carmack Carmack mack mackNo No sir I 1 knew knell Im r he did not admire him You know the tho newsboy John TynI dal dalI I do doDo doDo doDo Do you OU know of any an motive why wh he should perjure himself elf to harm you ou ouI I do not but we made no remark to the tho effect that we wll U get got him or he lie will catch it Do you know whether there the e is any an reason why wh Mrs Irs Eastman Ea or Charles Charle Warwick anick or Carrie Folk Polk should per jure lure themselves to deprive you OU of your our lite life 7 I do not So when Carrie Folk says sas you yoa ou said al Lets go up here and your father fanner re replied replIed replied plied No lets wait walt here a while he heis heIs heis is or swearing falsely Yes He misunderstood the conversation conver conyer conversation I think When Carmack Appeared When you ou taw saw t Senator Carmack over oYer half a block away you began to hurry your father away Yes sir But your our father f ther stopped Yes turned around And your father fathe say sa Theres that damned rascal now we wc will ill go gu out and shout It out with him hint No sir he did not lie He said Theres Theros Senator Carmack J I want rant to talk ty to t him And An you JOU did dill not say su Yes to your fathers statement as 1 I have quoted it il No sir Father oather went on over oer toward to Co Coward toward ward Carmack despite my protests and ami 1 stood still for u Ii few flew seconds The attorney general led the witness I Ion on up to the tile time of the shooting try ing to get a contradiction but the boy was careful and stuck to his story Efforts Ef Efforts forts to anger aner him were fruitless Was Vas your our attention exclusively on Senator Carmack from the time you OU Saw tw him draw Yes Y sir air Iii r Behind the Woman i im Will m you ou say sa what Senator Car Carmack C Carmack r I mack was doing doln with that pistol from the lime time you saw him draw until you got in his hla line of or fire 1 He Ue was holding it behind Mrs Irs East Eastman Eastman man n nI I hut But he did not shoot until you vou got gotaro around aro nd the pole did he heNo heNo No uNo sir What was Senator Carmack doing when you began to fire He was aiming his revolver dIrectly at me meThe meTIe meThe I The TIe attorney general handed tobin Robn I Cooper Cowper a revolver and had him lam stand l I II I as 1 he stood when he opened fire Next I fine Iio II had the witness represent tnt Senator Carmack The Time jury jur watched thu pan pantomime pantomime I I intently and the great crowd stood up and leaned forward I I Where did dill your first bullet hit lilt Sen Senator Senator I Ii ator tor i Carmack I do not know There had hall been no unpleasantness and you Jou did dip not draw your our revolver until you were shot I did not I was shot before I opened fire Would you object to showing the I jury JUI the wound In your shoulder No sir V Exposed His Wound I i The young defendant opened his col rol roll collar 01 l lar unbuttoned his shirt and drawing the clothing away walked slowly along II the jury beg bos bo The jurors raised up ui curiously and one of them pullet pulled the boys shirt further back in order to I I trace the direction of ot the scar The TIlt witness admitted that the thc range I of the bullet was upward and was then i permitted to don his clothing I Did you in the spring of 1903 1905 to Attorney Peeples denounce Senator Carmack with profane oaths and bit bitter bitter bitter ter language I did not use profane or bitter lan language language language guage I may have criticised the thc sena political course cour e eDd Did Dd you ou use the expression God Goddamn Goddamn damn Senator Carmack I No sir I did not General McCarn asked you ou how you OU had seen en the pistol your father had Why Vh was that asked Judge Ander Anderson son sonI 1 I was urging him to keep k ep off oft the streets and told him I feared Senator Carmack might attack him He H said saidU If U he does Ive this and he hc drew out the revolver on the Stand StandI I He Hc was then excused and John Jolin D Sharpe another one of the defendants was called to the stand His examina examination tion was vas opened by General Mecks Did you meet the other defendants the morning of Nov No 9 i i No 0 sir bir When did you ou see the other othel dc de defendants j r I 1 saw Colonel Cooper in the Max lax Maxwell Maxwell well house about 3 p m that day talking to Mr Williams I spoke and an passed on When Then did you ou see Robin Cooper I saw Robin Cooper about 4 p m min min mIn in the Arcade near the alley that in intercepts intercepts intercepts It it I was as on my way to the Tulane when I met Representative Mat Matthews Mathews hews He wanted me to order a suit of clothes While there talking the th Coopers Colonel Duncan Dun a and Robin came up Was as there any arrangement to meet there There was not Colonel Cooper asked as c cm I I 1 mo me m to go to the governors mansion j i and I agreed i Did you know of any meetings in I office 1 No sir Meeting With Carmack Mr Ma Sharpe here detailed the move movements movements ments of the time party up to the time they met Senator Carmack Mr Sharpes ly followed closely closel that given by Robin Hobin Cooper in the same relation Mr mfr Sharpe sad sald when he saw sa san Mr Coop Cooper er crossing the street t I 1 turned my m head to the tho left look looking looking looking ing down the time street Why Wh did you look down the street Well many things came to my mind mindi T i knew Im there ther was an unpleasant feeling between Colonel Cooper and Senator Carmack I turned to see gee what hat might be the result of the meeting 1 What did you see I 1 saw five tive people a man and a wo woman woman woman man Mr IT and Mrs Eastman Colo Colonel Colonel nel nil Cooper was on the sidewalk Robin was In the th street and Senator Carmack Just beyond b yond the man and wo woman woman woman man near n ar the poles poJ s I 1 saw the senator step out toward the thc Curbing his hand thrown back to his Hip pocket When he got out of or my line Une of vision again ag ln outside the poles I 1 saw he had hada a pistol in his hand Robin had turned In to toward toward toward ward the sidewalk As Robin got near the pole Senator Carmack fired How lIow many man times Carmack shot twice What did Robin do doHe doHe f fHe He jumped Inside the pole swung sung around it and as ashl he lie dId sdI siyi saw s w a af f weapon In his hand What hat did he ha do doHe doHe doHe He shot three times What then I Killing of Carmack I Carmack fell after aCter the third shot This Title answer pleased the state for one on wound was ws In the back of Senator Car Carmacks Carmacks Carmacks macks neck and been beell fired either from Behind or as a the senator reeled l and fell CeU Where here was Colonel Cooper Standing near the pole pele J l lere Wore Were ere you ou armed that da dl daNo v No sir Did you Oll anticipate any an trouble No sir Did you ou bear Senator Carmack any malice Zone None one but I opposed him very wry strongly in his campaigns Were ere you friendly Personally yes He lie called me ins John when we met and alid often consulted me about train schedules on political trips trip Did you ou aid abet counsel command or secure cither of ot the defendants to kill Senator Carmack No sir 6 Did you even in thought th consent to the thc killing of the senator Regretted the Murder I did not and on the other hand I 1 regretted d It very much At this stage court adjourned for luncheon After Atter the noon recess the direct ex examination of ot John D Sharpe was re resumed r resumed The witness denied specifically ever eer having paid gain that Carmack k should have ave been be n dead and anti in hell for twenty years ea He said aId he h had always ahl H opposed Carmack politically and probably said lId i some hard things about the senators political methods Ho Ito declared that he was able to tell Miss Skeffington what had happened ml because he had seen It ItI Whether Miss thought he I had hall not seen it he did not know now CrT was by General Garner of or Maury Manry courtly county Carmacks home county LOunt The first questions elicit elicited ed that Sharpe and the Coopers were close friends The witness declared he never saw the revolver Robin Cooper used until the boy lay was using It and hat had no knowledge of Robin Hobin Cooper or Robin Hobin Jones Joncs wanting to borrow a gun Might Be Dc Sharpes Gun GunThe GunThe GunThe The states sats theory is that the auto automatic automatic matic revolver Is John Sharpe Sharpes and three times it has had the number num dr of the gun entered In the record Hard fighting lighting forced the witness to say that when he turned around Just Justas as the shooting commenced he feared there might be bo serious trouble just how serious he lie did tint riot form an nn opinion You felt a kindlier feeling for the theCo Coopers Co pers that afternoon than you did for Senator Carmack did you Jou not Well Yell yes es Would you ou have hav any an trouble if Colonel Cooper had not turned back that day That did not occur to me Then It was wall the time fact that the Coop Coopers ers era changed UI ir course which aroused arous d In you the fear of trouble Well ell not that alone If the Coopers and amid you Oll had Imd kept on north there would have been no killing billing at the telephone pole Not ot at the pole no s sir Hir ir Expected Trouble You felt so apprehensive of 01 trouble that you broke your our promise to go with Colonel Cooper to the governors man mansion mansion mansion sion and started home Well en yes es The defendant fought off orr these ques quos lions but General Gamer Garner pounded Ithem them in and repeated them half a dozen timers time Finally Sharpe exclaimed Yell Well my m impression of trouble was strong enough to make maliC me want vant to go home I thought first it would be ver verbal verbal bal General Garner Gamer pressed pre ed the witness hard along the lines Jines of his description Ilc of the tragedy forcing sonic contradictions contradictions contradictions because the time witness was visibly annoyed and angry Tho shots were fired very el rapidly h were they not Yes very rapidly rapid I like this bang bans bang bang close elo together You saw it all You saw Carmack dead and tile the son of oC your our best friend shot eliot and you went on home homeI I started home I intended to tell teU my wife what had happened and return to o the scone scene But you ou could not tell your our wife it Il itis IlIs itis is understood for you were too far faraway faraway faraway away to know Inow exactly I could tell her there thel had been a shooting Emphatic Denial Delial Time The witness was ivas closely pressed pr about his sight of or Carmacks pistol despite the cloudy day da and Mt his hl conversation with Miss He denied em emphatically emphatically that he lie had used the language lan language guage attributed to him by b her Thatis That Thatis is 15 Dune Cooper C lIpel shooting Carmack He lIe said Eald he bE told her That there was wall shooting between b Cooper Cooler and Car Carmack mack lIe He insisted that he had not used the plural Coopers as the notes caught cau ht it He lie admitted that he had ha not Dot Burned back baek to the scone scene of or the killing until he had met Miss ton who was the only living Irving witness to prove he was wass not actually at the scene of or the shooting the moment it occurred He next went around down downtown downtown town and stopped at a number of places He denied that he did this to establish an alibi You told Frank rank l Davis Dayl you ou did not nol know anything any about the shooting No sir I said I 1 saw sa it ft but Jut that 1 was not talking just then Adjournment was taken |