Show I DRAMATIC SCENES IN COOPER TRIAL Widow of Murdered Southerner Presents Pitiful Sight in NashI Nashville Nash Nash- I ville yule Court Room RooD l. l Nashville Tenn renn Feb 16 In In a half fainting condition Mrs s. Edward Carmack widow of Tennessee's slain formet formel United States senator was borne to the witness chair in Judge Harts Hart's court this morning Her slight figure shook with the sobs she could not su suppress and her trembling hand sought the shoulder of little little Ned Carmack son of the dead I statesman for support There was not a dry eye in the room of the of the and some women families were weeping audibly The rhe Cooper r. r murd murder r trial was under way I I If the tho pitiful efforts of oC Mrs C Carmack k to tell what little she had to relate of or events event leading leading- to tu tho ho death cath of her husband husLand hus hits Land band moved to tho the the hearts orthe of or the tho au audience lence the telling of ot the story of ot that fatal tatal street duel upon the time afternoon of ot November 9 9 lJ by Charles Eastman tho the w woman oman to whom whon Senator Carmack was lifting his hat I at the UH Instant o of the tho encounter stirred equally equall the We fire In the blood of or every i listener Perhaps no more thrilling unfolding unfolding unfolding un un- un- un j folding the talc of oC a tragic deed halt haa ever er been witnessed The Tho state fairly outlined tho the nature of it its evidence against Colonel Duncan Cooper and his son Robin by hy half halt a dozen witnesses who were heard during dur I In ing the tho day a an and succeeded In former Sheriff Sh John Sharp Into tho caseb caseby case caseby b by testimony that sho showed cd where whore homet ho homet homet met th the I Coo Coopers pOIS pOI'S that afternoon and walked with them in the tIme direction of ot the tIme scene of or the time shooting They traced the Coopers from rom Robins Robin's office near Church and Cherry Chen streets through h an arcade where they met Sharp and up Union street to Seventh Se avenue formerly formerly for for- merly known as Vine street Here half bait halfa baita a block to tho the north stood tho tile governors governor's governors governor's governors governor's gover gover- nors nor's mansion hat half a l block to the south marked as the was the spot soon to be scene of ot the blood bloody tra tragedy j Cou I Witnesses related bits of or conversation conversa conversa- ion tion between the tho three an and it a newsboy colonel declare told of ot overhearing o the Well We'll get el him as father and an ton son I crossed toward the Arcade Tho ex expected cx- cx evidence of or the tile defense that the I ex-I Coopers hoopers took this route In an Intended burner journe to the executive executive- mansion was I by testimony showing that they halted halte at the corner of ot j and ind Union find nd they went wont It t waa Was Sharp a alono I 0 ng who went wont toward fhi ne ll I d. d th LI 1 ael J E i t tn tn tates tate's wl t 1 o v ii i the tho Jury heard the story atory and ind from Crom her hor battlo battle In the tho streets ettl Sho SilO ot f t the tho death actual shooting described ho ho tho approach of ot youn young tobin Cooper nn ind The Tho r continued n elder 3 inan man moved d and I saw It I broke Into a n denunciation de dc- Colonel Cooper vas was You aro aio a of ot this man roan brutal murderer I cried You took of ot my being hero you OU came as a shield and never nver and used mo me jp up an life not a chance for or his him a ga ave e be he the dead man mann manIn rather hance chance I would In n the tho gutter utter than titan you ou state slate of or treasurer tr of the 13 F. I C C. Craig Ct-alg damaging testimony Tennessee gave against the senior Cooper |