The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-11
TENNESSEE
 IS STIRRED Over Assassination of Senator Carrlack.
 ~ CREATED GREAT SENSATION The Feeling Throughout the State
 Is Intense. The Funeral of the Dead stateHnan and Editor wm Take Place To- day at Columbia. His old
 Home.

N, shviiie. Tenn, Nov. 10--The re- mains of former Senator E. w. Car mack, who was killed here yesterday in a street duel with Robin J. Cooper. were sent to Columbia this afternoon.
 Impressive scenes at the union sta tion marked their departure. Members of the W. C. T. U., whose cause Mr. Carmack had ably championed, gather ed at the station in number and as the casket was borne in. joined In singing, Lead, Kindly Light and stand for Jesus" A brief address was delivered by Rev. Ira Landrith. Mrs. Carmack and few of her closest friends were taken on a special car with the body. The profusion of flowers was but an- other of the many testimonials of grief from hosts of friends and sympathiz- CTS. All during the morning hours a stream of callers viewed the dead body at the home of Prank Lander.
 The funeral party reached Columbia about o'clock this afternoon. and was met by g. large concourse of friends. The body was at once taken to the Carmack home. from where the funeral occurs tomorrow morning at Il o'clock.
 The tragedy was the absorbing topic in Nashville today and many sensa- tional rumors have been in circuia- ton.
 Robin Cooper. who fired the fatal shot and who was himself wounded is under arrest at local hospital. He Is doing well, but his physician stated to- day that the wound, which Is near the collar bone, is in a dangerous place. and complications are not unlikely. Col. D. B. Cooper, who, was with his son when the shooting occurred, was transferred from police headquarters to the fail today He has had nothing to say. Friends of Carmack are loud in their condemnation of the Coopers. and The Tennessean, of which Mir. Car mack was editor. this morning, both edit0riaIly and in it's news columns. makes the unqualified charge of mur- der. a a8
 E, : Craig of Chattanooga, credited With haxlug had conferences with both MT. Carnlacl< and Colonel Cooper. re- gardiRg the publication of the edito- rials in question, said today that 1t was true he had conferred with both, but that he had not, as reported. said to Colonel Cooper that Carmack would not again refer to him editofially,
 Senator Carmaca Warned.
 Notwithstanding Senator Carmack was notified of alleged threats against his life, he refused to believe he was in danger. It is said the other mem bers of the editorial stan of The Ten uesseean were fully persuaded that the situation was serious, and so, upon one excuse and another. they kept Sen- ator Carmack in the office nearly all day yesterday. but avoided, however. letting him know their purpose. Shortly before o'clock, Senator Car mack left the office and started to his room on Seventh Avenue north.
 It is said that some one In The Ten- nesseean office forced him to take the pistol with him.
 The police are Investigating numer- ous sto. wAteh gained circulation today among Carmack's friends and cited by them as tending to show that the .Coopers had previously determined to attack the former Senator and were searching for him when the tragedy occurred. In addition to the statement made by Governor Patterson this morn ing which is one of the few positive bits of evidence so far, the police are at work on reports that Colonel Cooper had sent written as well as verbal mes sages to Carmack warning him to re- frain, on pain of death, from using his (Coopers) name in future editorials. The efforts of the police, in connection with Governor Patterson's former statement are directed toward a rumor that Colonel Cooper had told his mar ried daughter of his intention to kin Carmack, whereupon she is alleged to have called up the Governor by tele- phone and asked him to use his good offices with her father.
 The police are trying to ascertain if it Is true tn at the conversation had by the Governor with the coopers, in which he played the part of peace maker, and to which the Governor re- fers in his statement was the direct result of the warning he is said to have received from Colonel Cooper's daugh- ter.