The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1908-11-11

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O'Clock were simple.
Nashville, Nov. 1.-THE state is
still torn from center to circumference
over the Cooper-Carmack tragedy. and
no where is there greater interest
than in Nashville. Nothing else is
talked Of on the streets. in the shops,
in the public places and in the homes.
Opinion is very much divided, and
friends and supporters of the Coopers
and Carmacks have been on the verge
Of fighting on several occasions.
The tragedy was the absorbing top
ic in Nashville today, and many SEN
sational rumors have circulated. Rob
in Cooper. who fired the fatal shot
and was himself wounded, is under
arrest at a local hospital. He is do
ing well but his physicians stated to-
day that the wound, which is near the
eollarbone, Is in a dangerous place
and complications are not unlikely.
Col. d. b. Cooper, VIII was with his
son when the shooting occurred. was
transferred from police headquarters
to the jail today. He has had moth
ing to say.
Friends of Carmack are loud in
their condemnation of the Coopers,
and The TeRnessean. of which Mr..
Carmack was editor, this morning,
both editorially and in its news coll
umns. makes the unqualified charge
of murder. Carmack's friends also
allege that Col. Duncan Cooper sent
verbal and written communications
to Carhack warning him, upon penal
ty of death, not to again use his name
extensively in the columns of The Ten
nessean. The further charge that yes
terday morning Col. Cooper went to
the home Of his daughter, Mrs. Lucius
Burch, and told her that he intended
to kill Carmack on sight because of
the editorials he had written about
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II is charged that Mrs. Burch tried
to persuade her father not to do any
thing rash, but that he insisted that
his mind was made up and he intend
ed 10 XIII tne senator.
II is said his daughter tainted, but
on recovery and after Col Cooper had
left the house. called up Gov. Pattcr-
son and told him of her fathers al
legged declarations. She, 1t is also
stated, called up DR.. j. A. Wither-
spoon, friend of Carmack's.
Search for Col. Cooper,
On receipt of the Information given
aim, Gov. Patterson and his secre-
tary, w. B. Scruggs. II is said came
down town in search of Col. Cooper.
They finally found Robin Cooper. and
the three started out again TO search
for Col. Cooper. They met him near
the Maxwell House. He was armed,
Il is alleged, and seemed determined.
After some preliminary talk Gov. Pat
terson, IL is said, persuaded Col. Coop
er to 90 with him and talk the matter
over.
1t is not known positively wnere
the conference was held. but the inn
preston is that Il was at the COVER
nor's mansion.
This conference Il Is alleged. re-
suited in a promise from Col. Cooper
that he would do nothing until today.
aud would in the meantime write Sen
ator Carmack another note, in which
Il is said he would again repeat his
demands that his name be omitted
from all editorials In the future.
If this note was written IL never
reached Senator Carmack.
At the end of the conference II was
generally believed that no trouble
would Immediately occur.
Craig May Talk.
Y. b. Craig, of Chattanooga, cred
tied with having the conferences with
both Mr. Carmaek and Col. Cooper re-
garding the publication of the editor
lals in question. said today that II was
true he had conferred with both. but
that he had not as reported, said TO