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The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1908-11-13

had stated that II his name appeared
in the columns OF The Tsnnesean
again he would shoot him on sight.
Senator Carmack spoke OF the mat
ter to other members OF The Tennes-
sean stan and stated that he was going
TO write an editorial on the subject
OF Col. Cooper since the Patterson
machine would publish it all over the
state in forty-eight hours that he had
shown the white feather if he failed
to do So
However, at the earnest solicitation
OF the members of the stan he was
finally prevailed on to carry a pistol,
and a small 32-calibre revolver was
secured. -Four cartridges were placed
in this, the chamber under the ham,
mer being left empty to prevent acct.
dental discharge
Yesterday morning the editorial APP
peared in The Tennessean, and all day !
long warnings came to Senator Car
mack that Col Cooper was going to
kill him on sight.
Yesterday morning Mrs. Lucius
Burch, a daughter of Col. Cooper,
called up DR.. ]. A Witherspoon. a
close friend of Senator Carmack's, and
told him that her father and brother
had left home swearing to kill Senator
Carmack on sight.
Senator Carmack had heard the re-
ports, but did not seriously consider
them. Before leaving The Tennes-
sean Office, not half an hour before
the assassins sent the fatal bullets
crashing through him, he expressed
he opinion that there had not been
sufficient provocation to cause any
nan to take human life. Little did he
Know the fiendish malignity of the :
thief member of the cabinet of the {
aloon forces Of Tennessee! :
He left The Tennessean Office to go r
0 his rooms at All Seventh avenue, 6
lorth, shortly after 4 o'clock, and as T
lie was walking up Seventh avenue {
e met his DEATH as described by Mrs. s
Eastman. il
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Laid in Wait.

That the Coopers were laying in
wait for Senator Carmack is indicated
by the statement of Carey A. Folk,
who missed being an eye witness to
the killing by very narrow margin.
He saw the Coopers standing on the
southeast corner of Union street and
Seventh avenue less than minute
before they crossed over the street.
There was another man with the
Coopers when he saw them.
Il was on my way to the Carnegie
library and was walking west on the
north side of Union street." said Mr.
Folk. Il saw Col. Cooper few
steps from the corner on the south
side of Union street speaking to two
men, who were standing right on the
corner l, of course. thought nothing
Of it and passed on. ] had gotten just
out of sight behind the Polk flats,
when heard three shots and ran back
to the scene of the killing"
The Coopers came up Union street
10 the scene of the tragedy, coming
rom the heart of the city. In addi-
ion to Mrs. Eastman, they were seen
by two boys and two other women. In
addition to these witnesses at the top
If the hill, there were two ladies fur
her down toward Church street that
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ing. realized that the feeling against
him was bitter, and although there
were eight or nine Officers keeping
back the crowd from the infirmary
where he was. he called TO the police
station and asked for additional pro-
lection TO be furnished him. How
ever it was thought that the patrol.
men at the the infrmary would be
able to keep down any disorder and
no more officers were sent there.
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WILL TELL AT PROPER TIME.

DR.. ]. A. Witherspoon, who was
leaving on the night train for Atlanta.
was seen by Tennessean reporter in
regard to the murder of Senator Car
mack. DIR. Witherspoon plainly
showed deep emotion as he said the
following:
Il would rather not say now what
you have come to ask me. Believe
me, | feel this terrible tragedy much
worse than YOU do and am not now
wanting TO talk, as | feel unwilling to
do so. l will tell all l know at the
proper time"
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don't shoot I thought he Wa M
Waite thea. didn't associate the
oui man with what was happening
9at Z saW him at the same time that
Tss watching Col Cooper
As ! utrned and looked back from
'h'' gateway saw Mr. Carmack fan
oa1 INTO the street. lurching sideways
-as' ire telephone pole. AS he fell
Ae eiutched al the pole. but / think
he must have been already dead. be
"a lse his arm slipped away and he
fell on into the gutter.
Meanwhile | had seen Robin Coop
er come up TO the pole and look down
al the man in the gutter. He turned
ana walked back little way and then
vert back up TO the pole. His father
came to him and put his arm around
aim and said something to him. Robin
looked faint, and they walked down
the street, l don't know where they
went. y
Mr.. Eastman, who was with me. is
deaf and is unable to see well, so that
the whole event looked like a pam
tGE.ne 10 him. When recovered
trJm nay cowardice and started back
toward Col Cooper, my cousin thought
that | was historical and held me. He
saw the gun i'll Robin Coopers hands.
After He Fell.
Il heard three shots, one detached
nd the other TWO close together and
mutTied l never saw Senator Car
mack FIRE, and if he did so it must :
leye been as he fell. | saw Senator
12ra,ack's pistol fall beside him. Sem
ator Carmack never made sound.
1 denounced Col. Cooper. / don't 5
know all that l said to him, but | |
,ried out to him that l would thou
sand times rather be the dead man in {
he gutter than to be him, after such S
deed. | don't know how long l will
the scene; but l think it t
will be with me to the day of my Il
Ieath. | hope not. q
Il wish | had been anywhere else b
tut there. | feel that If had not been I
here he would have had q chance for
is life. He was looking at me and
peaking to me, when they attacked
i'm, and if had not been talking to "
i'm so that they caught him by sur b
rise, he might have had chance to "
ght for his life. Il
Il knew both Mr.. Carmack- and Col H
cooper very pleasantly socially, and 81
'as not enough of a partisan in poll S
cs to take sides between them, but b.
ever saw anything so dastardly as T
lie murder of Mr. Carmack" C
Col. Cooper and his son murdered
enator Carmack because of refer lii
noes to Col. Cooper in the news and NJ
litorial columns of The Tennessean. F
n Saturday night leading business st
an of the state came into The Ten 81
sssean office and warned Senator m
armack that Col. Cooper was threat &C
ling to kill him. Senator Carmack, of
d not take the threats seriously, and OF
s informant went to other members w
The Tennessean staff and urged to
ION them the necessity of inducing
,nator Carmack to carry weapon to
self defense. FRI
Made Threats. tic
On Sunday night mutual friend of by
u. Cooper and Senator Carmack I'D
me to The Tennessean Office and of
armed Mr. Carmack that Col Cooper tn
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saw all or part OF the tragedy.
Mrs. S. X. KilvingtOn was sitting in
a carriage in 'front.' OF DR.. R. E. Forts
inhrmary. at which her husband is a
patient. She did not notice Senator
Carmack pass up the street. and her
attention was not attracted to the
upper part OF the street until she
heard the shots She saw young
Cooper raise his hand above his head
and lean on his elbow against the post.
after Senator Carmack fell. and then
saw the two men come down the
street together towards the infrmary.
Reached Him First.
Mrs. Ellen Morgan, who keeps a
boarding house at PA Seventh ave
nue.. north, diagonally across the street
from where the shooting occurred, was
standing in her door when she saw
Senator Carmack pass. She knew
him very well. While she was looking
in another direction she heard three |
shots in very rapid succession, and |
she believes they were from the same
gun She walked in that direction
and saw Senator Carmack falling. She
was the first to reach his PROSTATE
orm, and called DR.. Richard Dake to
aldng up the body. Immediately
lfter the shots she saw the men walk
ng away.
A colored woman from Louisville
vas standing near the corner of Sew
nth avenue and Union street, and she
aw part of the tragedy, but her at
ention was not attracted until the
hooting began
After the shooting the Coopers
-alked south on Seventh avenue to
Dr. Forts infirmary, where a casual
was made of young Coop
RS wound. 1t was found that the t
all had lodged in the right shoulder,
ear the collar bone, and DR.. Fort ?
Lates that the wound was not serious.
II. Fort heard the shots before the v
oopers came to him. Dr. Burch, a U
on-in-law of Col Cooper, was called e
to treat him.
Sergt. Meadows, of the police force, :
i'd Patrolman Robert Vaughn reached q
lie scene of the killing in very few II
inutes and they found 32-calibre z
otis automatic pistol on young Coop q
:, and SO hammerless Smith & Wes- r.
IN on Col Cooper. None of the car
idges were missing from the pistol
the latter. Sergt. Reid arrived Z
lort while after the other officers, CT
Id after the Coopers had been at the |
Urinary for something less than an u
,ur, young Cooper was removed to, III
Thomas hospital, and Col. Cooper re
as taken to the police station in W
rriage. Alarge crowd had gathered Ia
ound the infirmary, and had even OF
shed up on the porch, when the 70
icers forced them back.
The Dead Senator. w
DR.. McPheeters Glasgow was called df
attend Senator Carmack, and la
ached him only a few minutes after to
3 shooting. When he arrived there oil
found Dr. Richard w. Dake there, Tn
d DR.. Dake told him that Senator CT
rmack was dead. "a
Dr. Glasgow says, Senator Carmack nj
S lying huddled up in the gutter II
tn his head up the hill His right ar
n was folded under his head, and 10
IRE was a pistol lying just beyond I'M
right hand. In his left hand there
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BULLET OF ASSASSIN LAYSLOW
STATES KEIGHTLIEST GIHzeA
Continued rom Firs, P-se.


lots his enemies attempted to blacksr
hi. fair name b. circulating the re
nor. last night that he had tried Il
shield himself by Mrs. Eastman. Mrs
Eastman Indignantly denies this state
uent and says that at the first sound
of colonel COoper's voice Mr.. Ca ma L
srang out across the pavement to
ct clear of her.
Eye Witnesses.
There were a number OF eye-wit-
rs.ses 10 the tragedy, but the one who
w.. nearest the scene and was most
directly concerned, was Mrs. Charles
p Eastman. Mrs. Eastman was, of
course. very much wrought up by the
dreadful happenings to which she was
q witness. and her statement of the
case WAS given with great feeling. She
said
"I was walking down Seventh ave-
ME with my cousin, Mr.. J. NJ. East
man of New York, and when we were
inst south of the entrance to the Polk
Flats we met Senator Carmack COM
inc ua the street toward us. He was
smiling. as he recognized me some
stems before he could speak to me-
We we're walking on the outside Of the
pavement, and he would have pr 5ed
between us and the fence.
Got Drop on Him.
Just as he got right up to me and
Immediately in front of ne, he raised
his hat and said: How do you do,
Mrs. Eastman. I spoke to him and
was about to make a remark to him
as he stood with his hat raised, smil- .
ing down at me, when an old voice
(vou can tell an old voice from a young
one) behind me said: We've got you
all right sir we've got the drop on
YOU I am not sure that these were
the exact words, but they are the same
in substance.
Senator Carmack raised his eyes
and looked past me, and instantly he
finched put his hat back on his head,
reached behind him and sprang to-
ward the outside of the pavement, to
get clear Of me. While he was doing
this, the same voice said: You das-
tardly coward you are hiding behind
a woman, are your d
AS he sprang aside l saw the butt {
of his pistol And then l became
frightened and did the things l shall :
always reproach myself for. Instead {
Of trying to slap Colonel Cooper, took {
about two steps into the gate of the {
Did Shanklin house. l ought to have I
urned around and run to Colonel 1
Cooper l might have stopped him. {
When got in the gateway l turned e
lround and saw Colonel Cooper, stand d
ng still, a little way up the hill, with h
lin arm raised. However, | don't O
now whether he had a pistol or not. Il
am not positive on that point. While S
he older man stood still, the younger il
nan came very close to Mr. Carmack
Watching older Man.
Il was watching the Older man, and c
called out to him: For Gods sake, G.
'r White, don't shoot, don't shoot, W
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Made Threats.

On Sunday night a mutual friend of
Col Cooper and Senator Carmack
came to The Tennessean Office and
warned Mr.. Carmack that Col. Cooper
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Continued on Twelfth Page.)
The morning journal-courier., 1908-10-20
CANCELS MANY DATES
Condition of Taft's Voice Said to
 Require 1t,

NNii'thip' ob ANtN spi'S puu tp
 Require It.
 New York, Oct. l9-That Judge Taft's voice is in such bad condition that he will have to cancel many of his dates for speaking was indicated by Chair man Hitchcock on his return today from a morning visit with Mir, Taft at Newark, N. J.
 This means a arrangement of Mir. Taft's itinerary but 1t will not affect his dates in New York, He will be in this city as arranged.
 The encouragement will cut out all of Mir. Tafts day speeches, and one of his night speeches The latter Is the speech which had been planned for Chicago next Saturday night It Is also expect cd that most of Mir Taft's dates in West Virginia will be cancelled. Mir, Hitchcock Is at work now on the West Virginia situation so far as Mir. Taft is copcerned The dates for Mir. Tafts speeches In Connecticut will be can celled.
 Dr, Alexander, the throat specialist, who Is travellng with Mir, Taft, Is of the opinion that Mir Taft's voice has l has been affected chiefly by his outdoo, speaking By abandoning the day speeches which were to have been made out of doors, it Is believed by Dr. Alex ander that Mir, Taft will be able tc meet all of his night engagements wit the exception of that at Chicago. Mir. Hitchcock said that he never say the candidate looking better, and tina Mir Taft is more hopeful of the rtsul that he has been at any time since th campaign began. He will rest in o!I on Wednesday,
 Chairman Hitchcock believes Iron information he has received, that ther is a fighting chance in Missouri for th, republican national ticket Mir. Hitch cock expects to go to Chicago within the next five days,
 General Q. Q. Howard of Vermont came to headquarters today to vol unteer to take the stump for Taft anC sherman. He was assigned to thu campaign in Ohio from October 9S tt October 27. and in Indiana from octo l Der 2S to october 3l.
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MORE TROUBLE FOR SCOOP
Sheriff Attaches Property to Recover
 on m Old Debt.

Bridgeport. Oct 19.--While Attorney Matthew F. O'Brien of this city, pro- hibitionist candidate for governor of Connecticut, in company with Eugene W. Chain, prohibtionist candidate for president of the United States, was ad- dressing crowd of persons at the cor ner of Fairfield avenue and Middle street today Deputy Sheriff Peter Doo- Ian, with writ in his pocket was around looking for sl5 worth of prop erty belonging to Mir OBrien on which to levy an attachment for that amount in an action brought against the pro- hibition candidate for governor by sam Harris for suit of clothing Mir. Har- ris says Attorney oBrien bought of him two years ago and failed to pay for.
 Sheriff Dooan wasn't very success ful, according to reports, in securing tho property. but he served the writ in the case, and the outcome will probably he learned on the return day.
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DOING A SUNDAY BUSINESS

While inspecting In the vicinity of Lafayette street Sunday Patrolman Lynch of the Central station doing spe- cIal duty saw two men come out of the saloon of Silvestre sarafano, Hc arrested the two men on charges of drunkeness, and yesterday arrested the proprietor on charge of violation of the liquor law by selling on Sunday The warrant which Lynch served or sarafano yesterday was made out by Liquor Prosecuting Officer Niles
The morning journal-courier., 1908-10-20
ST. ROSE JAETARE.
Special Features Attract Large Crowds
 at Music Hall

There are special entertainment feat ures each evening of the St. Rose s Laetare In Music hall The throng last night which crowded the hall to tho doors was entertained hugely by ,he singing and buck and wing dancing If Messrs. Phlpps and John GogRins and Master Bruce This evening the spe- cial feature will be the St Cecelia Ger man Singing society of 80 voices which will render concert program of great excellence that Is sure to prove a great attraction Tomorrow evening the feature will be the St. Agnes society, which will arrange an entertaining pro- gram. For Thursday night the Russell council K of C. minstrels have been secured and on Friday the Eagles fam ous degree team will be the card. Inc fair closes next Monday night.
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CHURCHILL NOT
 TO COME HERE
(Continued from First Page.)

do more good by staying away than coming.
 The same influences that appealed to MT. Taft appealed also to MT. Church. i'll. Mr. Churchill, whose political story, MT. Crewe's Career, followed his long fight agalnst political machine domination in New Hampshire has written friends in this city that he will not speak here, at least, for the pres ent, He understands now that the fight going on in Connecticut Is direct ed largely against the same sort of a machine that he himself has so staunchly opposed in his native state There the matter stands now. The great body of voters will understand that open opposition carried on be- fore their very eyes is not 'blackhand work, but rather that those so over- ready to accuse by falsehood and cheap misrepresentation those who ask a good man for governor and a machine-free candidate, are the "blackhand" citizens
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CHARGED WITH s15 BURGLARY.

James Jones. colored lad of seven teen years, who formerly worked for Dr. Wilmot on Elm street. was arrest ed last evening by Detectives McAvoy and Ward on a charge of burglarizing the house of James Freeman at 1' Edgewood avenue. He was captured at the Grand Opera house. The at tentlon of the police was directed to the lad by the report that he had been seen yesterday tn Dixwell avenue dis playing money lavishly. He once lived with tho Freemans, and so knew the house. The charge Is that he entered the Freeman house and stole the sum of s15.
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PIERCE DENIED REHEARING.
supreme Court Decides Against oil
 Trust Subsdlary's Agent.

Washington, Oct. 19--In the extradi- tlon proceedings of Henry Clay Pierce of the Waters Pierce oil company of St. Louis vs Chief of Police Creecy of that city, the Supreme court of the United States today denied Pierce's motion for q rehearing
 Pierce resisted an application for his removal to Texas in connection with the prosecution of his company on the charge og violating the Texas anti trust laws The petition for a rehear- ing was based on a contention that the courts decision turned upon the point as to whether Pierce had taken false oath, which 1t was declared had not been argued before the court.
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HITCHCOCK IMPROVES

At the New Haven hospital lt was stated last night that the condition ot Leonard Hitchcock. the man who wat struck last Wednesday afternoon by a trolley car in Whalley avenue. was still alternating between consciousness and semi-consciousness but it was thought that his condition was improving. and that tho chances for his recovery were better than they had been. The Ban non boy is gaining also.
The morning journal-courier., 1908-10-20
PERSONAL NOTES

The Coreopsis branch of the Tribune Sunshine society will give fair at the home of Miss Anna Rounds, 5l0 Whal- Icy avenue on Tuesday afternoon, Octo- Der 27, from to o'clock. All inter- ested in the work of these young Sun sinners are invited to attend.
The morning journal-courier., 1908-10-20

At the brides residence in New York city. Sunday evening, Miss Francis Meyers and MT. Joseph Shure of this
 city were married. The wedding was attended by the immediate members of the family. After a wedding trip which will Include Washington and Boston they will reside in New Haven
The morning journal-courier., 1908-10-20
YESTERDAYS FIRE RECORD,

l:8t p m.-Box l3; room on second floor of frame structure at 52 Washing ton avenue burned out; owner Harry Bottigole; occupant Abraham Roster berg; damage. $500,
 600 ?. m BOX 22i; lamp overturned in renr room of Dexheimer's saloon on State street damage slirht
The morning journal-courier., 1908-10-20

This afternoon at the Shelton Avenue Congregational church there will be an interesting meeting for the mothers of the children who are on the cradle roll. Mrs. Francis Sheldon Bolton will make an address. Robert Jordan of Yale will sing and Master c. Pierpont Taylor will recte.
The morning journal-courier., 1908-10-20
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The morning journal-courier., 1908-10-20

The second of the lectures on the Elizabethan drama and Shakespeare by Prof. William Lyon Phelps will be giv- en this afternoon at Lampson Lyceum at 4:l5 o'clock. Subject, The Stage Presentation of the Mystery Plays"