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Show and saw John B. Sharpe. whom I had known for years. When I heard the shots I looked and said, 'What la that?" He said, 'That is shooting.' I. said, 'Who is shooting?' He replied. 'It is Colonel Duncan Cooper shooting Senator Sen-ator Carmack-' " "How was he standing with regard to the scene of the shooting?" "With his baok to the shooting." "What next?" "He turned around and walked with me up to the scane of the shooting." C. B. Horn, a real estate dealer, said that Sharpe had abused Carmack before the gubernatorial primaries. Miss Teresa McKean. a teacher, was in Dr. Fort's infirmary when Carmack was shot. "I 6toppod at the library to tell Dr. Fort that Carmack was dead." said the witness. "As I did so, I saw a gentleman gentle-man In the room, walking up and doun. Ho said in a loud voice: I don't want any one else to come Into this room unless they are officers. I don't want to have to shoot another, man.' " (Tho witness Identified Colonel Cooper Coop-er as the speaker. Charles H. Warwick, secretary of the Credit Men's association, testified that he met Robin Cooper on a street car ono morning last June, and heard the young man say about Carmack: "Damn bkn, he ought to be in hell." BIG CROP AT COURT HP Many Women Friends and High School Girls At tend Cooper Trial. Nashville. Feb. 17 Marked by blt- ter quarrels between attorneys and by new and startling testimony, the second sec-ond day of the Cooper-Sharpe trial for the murder of Former Senator E. W. Carmack closed tonight with the state highly elated and tho defense apparently perturbed. There were three'star witnesses for the state all women, Miss Mary Skefflngton, the state librarian, told how, on the day of the murder, when within two hundred feet of the scene of the shooting, she met John Sharpe, ono of the defendants. Just as she greeted him, she heard three shots and asked Sharpe what it meant Without turning around to learn', Sharpe replied, she says: "That's Dune Cooper shooting Senator Carmack." By Miss Daisy Lee, stenographer In the office of Robin Cooper and John Bradford, an attorney for the defense, the state laid the foundation upon which it will base its contention that the slaying of Carmack .was the result of a conspiracy. Miss Lee said on the day of tho tragedy, when she arrived at the of-. of-. flee, 6he found Colonel Cooper already there in conference with hi3 son. She heard the colonel denounce Carmack for using his (Cooper's) name, and declare he had a right to protect himself. him-self. Nashvflle, Feb. 17. There was another an-other big crowd at the court house today to-day to follow the trial of Duncan B. Cooper. Robin J. Cooper and John D. Sharre, charged with the murder of Former United States Senator E. W. Carmack. Thore were even more women wo-men In the room than j'osterday. It has never been considered good form in Nashville for women to attend court, except when summoned, but friends of the daughters of Colonel Cooper and MrB. Sharpe having determined to show their sympathy by their presence, pres-ence, othor women are also attending the sessions. In the afternoon, many high school girls may be seen in the balcony. W. J. Smith, an Insurance agent, corroborated cor-roborated the testimony of Hugh Morton, Mor-ton, that John D. Sharpe had cursed Carmack Just before the senatorial contest In 1905. On cross-examination, Smith was asked If this remark, that "the country would be better off if j Carmack were dead and in hell ten years ago." had not been made before Governor Patterson was born as a politician. pol-itician. The state objected to any reference ref-erence to Governor Patterson, and was sustained. The next wltnoss was L. A. Welch, a barber, who shaved John D. Sharpe a few days before the election. Sharpe was reading Carmaxk's paper "the editorial ed-itorial page" and he said, according to the witness: "The ought to be In hell." "To whom was ho referring?" "To Senator Carmack." The defense forced Welch to make some contradictions. Miss Mary Skefflngton. the state librarian, li-brarian, told of leaving the state library li-brary on November 9, and of seeing Governor Patterson and Ex-Governor Cox In conversation. "I soon reached nearly the corner of Union street and Seventh avenue. I looked down towards Union street |