Show SHOT DOWN IN 4 T i I V STREET FIGHT t iI I IN NASHVillE UE t Former Senator Edward Car Care Carmack mack of Tennessee Victim of Political Animosity i SLIGHTLY WOUNDS ONE OF HIS ANTAGONISTS i DEAD STATESMAN A NOTABLE NO ABLE I i I FIGURE IN SOUTH AND DEM DEMOCRATIC LEADER l rj I I tr Nashville e Tenn Nor XO 9 Former r l Senator Edward Carmack editor of the was shot and killed r afternoon about 4 on Seventh j I avenue north in front of the Polk flats by b Robin Cooper a son of Colonel J er Sir DIr Ir Carnia k vas s going on Seventh Seen h avenue In front of oC the flats and Colonel Cooper and his son Robin were approaching Sev Seventh Seventh avenue on Union street Soon af after J I ter they the came in sight of one another the shooting began Robin Cooper it Is said mid firing tiring two shots shot and Senator Car Carmack Carmack Carmack mack one l Colonel Cooper it is said drew his pistol but did not fire Senator Carmack fell to the ground r dying Instantly Robin Cooper was ws shot in the right shoulder houlder but was not n t I badly hurt butt I I j I Origin in Politics It it IL is understood that the trouble Isone is isone Isone one of the results of a recent Demo Democratic I cratic gubernatorial primary in which Carmack was defeated Carmack had ball since he became editor of the Tennes been quite caustic In criticising what hat he called celled the Democratic machine and had printed several editorials about 1 i Colonel Cooper Ji Within the past few fel days das it is as asserted I Colonel Cooper Coope notified Carmack that those editorial criticisms isms must f fI cease This morning another editorial referring to the tine colonel coonel appeared In the I paper and this is supposed to have bae been the immediate cause of the trou trouble trouble ble I Father and Son Walked Away I 1 As Senator Carmack fell tell at the edge r of the th h street Colonel Duncan B Cooper put his mis arm ann around Robin Cooper and both walked a few fe feet down Seventh avenue to Dr R B G 0 Foft office mC where the slight wound In i Robins shoulder was examined and i 1 treated An ambulance carried r e the t e body of ot Mr armack to toan an ing 0 establishment The pistol of Carmack a was lying at his side with two of the chambers chamber empty emph when ben the body was picked up and nd was wa turned over to an aI officer The stump 1 of M a cigar Mr Carmack had bad been sino siok smoking lug ing was waR also in the street beside him bun Young Youn Cooper was later carried tp to a hospital and Colonel Cooper is held at police pollee headquarters He has made ho no statement Robin Cooper if i a practicing attorney 1 2 27 years ears old ltd and single I j Statement of or Physician Dr Glasgow Glasgo who ar arrived arrived rived at the scene of the tragedy soon after It occurred said tonight I found foun the body of oe Mr It Carmack on the right side of Seventh avenue as one walks to Church street from Union J street He was waR lying I ing with mth his hili head facing north and with his right arm arni 1 under his head His pistol wa Ju out of reach of his right hand and th weapon was wa pointing south An n even exen evening ing paper was lying near his left hand han which held a crushed stump of a cigar I immediately summoned s an ambulance ambulance ambulance lance and had the body bod carried to the undertaking establishment of Finly M Dorris The Tine body was wag without sign igns of C lire life when found by b me and appeared to have hare been so for tor about five minutes There were three bullets in the body of Mr Ir Carmack One entered entert d the left side sl about two to and a half Inches below the nipple arid and just a short distance be below low Ion 10 the heart and stopped d a shoTt dis distance tance from the right side under tile the I skin skim crossing the tine median line of the anatomy I Another pother bullet entered the left lef d lo ed four ands andal and a half Inches below the right nipple un under under I Ider der the skin Both these wounds wera clean clea 1 I IThe The Fatal Bullet j The third bullet which I conceive concel to be the fatal one was In the neck The Tine wound was one one and Inches to the left of o the median line and anti one on inch beI n the tine hair line on on the thc neck n 1 The bullet en entered entered n the neck and made an nn exit from the mouth o tile the deceased ceased dt It was t found on the street treet under his tongue I at the exit of the h woUnd Two front were also broken loose I think I there were two bullets fired tired from Carmacks Car Carmacks 7 macks pistol The body boo of ot Mr Ir Carmack was pre prepared prepared t pared for burial and removed to the tine home of unk nl Lander general nian agar nger of the and will be betaken betaken 1 taken t ken to Columbia his former home honne I tomorrow The combatants were evidently el ver er lose Iose together when the tine firing began b m but the Question of or who fired the first firstI Continued on Page P ge 2 I I I 1 1 1 I SHOT DOWN IN STREET FIGHT IN lN NASHVILLE Continued from Page 1 shot is In controversy Mrs Charles Ch rles H II of or this city eit and J M I East Eastman man m m an n of or New York were nearby when the tragedy occurred Mr Ir hearing is not good and he declared he knew but little of the th affair Mrs Irs Eastman said We were walking down Seventh avenue Ih lb the direction n of o Church Churchstreet Churchstreet Churchstreet street and an had h d Just passed the en entrance trance trOnd tr n to the Polk flats fiats Mr Carmack came up the street toward tow rd us smiling as he h recognized me mI He Was was some soine steps away awa and there were few people on the street Sir Mr Tr Eastman and I were near the edge of the sidewalk and Mr Carmack have passed between us and the building He raised his hat hatas hatas hatas as we spoke He had his right hand up and was about to make a remark when somebody said It was the older aIder voice olee Weve Yee got you all right or something to that effect I cant say sa positively what the exact e act words were It I t never occurred to me that it was anything more than a friend speaking Mr Ir Carmack raised his eyes ees Instantly put on his hat and ran his hand back when the same voice olce said You Tou cow coward coward ard a rd you ou are hiding behind a woman are you Senator Carmack Jumped out so 10 as asto asto aso to t o be clear of me and I ran into a gateway I saw that Mr Carmack hap had hada hapa a a pistil I turned and said For Gods Gads sake ake s dont shoot Then I saw Mr fr Carmack wheel and fall faU In a n heap in ln inthe Inthe the gutter Mrs Irs Eastman said se ane saw the young oung y oun man standing over Mr Ir Carmack j jand and a nd that thai he put something Into his own j ap pocket p i |