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Show through the heart and once through the spinal column either one ot which would have proven fatal. "Gentleman. I see in the location of these wounds, the accusing linger or Hod, making It Impossible that Justice should miscarry or that the guilty escape." BIG CROWDS, COOPER TRIAL Nashville, March 10, "Wo contend that Colonel D. B. Cooper fired tho shot which wounded his son, and that Senator Carniack", if he fired at all, fired wildly." Attorney General Garner made this announcement today in the arguments in the trial of the Coopers and Sharpe. charged with murdering E. W. Car-mack. Car-mack. General Gamer declared it would have been a physical impossibility for Carmack to shoot Robin, as the Coopers Coop-ers swear he did. The reasonable solution so-lution of the problem, he said, was that Colonel Cooper opened fire on Carmack, as Mrs. Eastman believes he did, and that a bullet fron: his pistol struck the telephone post, was deflected deflect-ed and entered Robin's shoulder. He contended that this theory is corroborated corrobo-rated by the course of the bullet, which penetrated tho flesh only an Inch and a half and failed to strike a bone. Tho proceedings were interrupted by the sudden fainting of Mrs. Carmack. Car-mack. The attention of the auJIence was instantly diverted to the widow of the murdered man. It became evident . from the argument argu-ment of General Washington, of the defense, who followed General Garner, that the defense proposes to rely on a strong plea of Justification as well as upon the plea of self-defense, The attorney Interpreted Senator Carmack's words and editorials as ho said they were meant and as Colonel Cooper interpreted them, and declared that the colonel had no recourse in the world. He will conclude his argument argu-ment tomorrow. Nashville. March 10 So dense was the throng inside the bar today, in the Cooper Sharpe trial lor tho mur- der of E. W. Carmack, that Judge Hart could not reach the bench from his chambers until two husky deputies had pushed open a narrow path. Attorney At-torney General Garner began his argument argu-ment for the state Immediately after court opened. v He said: ' I say that M. II. Meeks falsified the record when he told you that Senator Carmack called Colonel Cooper a dive-keeper. It was a cruel and monstrous misrepresentation. "If you gentlemen ot tho derense have not enough evidence to bring a verdict of acquittal, then do not bo deterred in the act of falsifying and deceiving the jury. "No matter what Senator Carmack said on the btump or wrote in the Tepnesseean about Colonel Cooper, there was no justification for murder. mur-der. "General Meeks says that murder for the editorials is justifiable. He. a lawyer, applied the 'unwritten law" to editors. "They say that Senator Carmack accused ac-cused Colonel Cooper of having reconciled re-conciled Governor Cox and Governor Patterpon. And there was not a word to show that this reconciliation was Improper or that it was degrading to have effected it. Yet they consider it justification for murder. If so, what in the name of God should be the. punishment meted out to John Sharpo and Robin Cooper Tor the vile epithets to Senator Carmack? "Colonel Cooper's son believed the father was in a homicidal mood. He went on tho streets and searched him. All these men who have come here to testify that they were hurrylnp around to prevent Carmack from assaulting as-saulting Colonel Cooper, toll you their efforts were directed at soothing Colonel Colo-nel Cooper. Not a word to Carmack, not an attempt to restrain him why? Because they knew that tho man who was the only ono likely to cause trouble trou-ble was Colonel Cooper. "The evidence of the three defendants defend-ants in this case, gentlemen, shows they aro guilty, just as completely and as surely as does the evidence ot MfB. Eastman." Coming to the "actual Bhootlng, ho said: "They say now that Carmaclr at once drew a gun. Cooper says so, Robin corroborates him. John Sharpe. who sees It all, says that it Is not true, that Robin drew a pistol and that Carmack didn't draw his revolver until he got to the poles. But If Senator Sen-ator Carmack drew his gun, why did he not shoot? What does a man draw a gun for, except to shoot T Yet thoy would have you believe that Carmack waited until Robin, who sayB he was paralyzed for an instant, Jumped between be-tween Carmack and his father. "Senator Carmack was shot. twice |