The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-23

you know where he lived or board ed?
 "No. sir"
 Didn't know where he passed daily?"
 NO. sir"
 Did you aid, abet. counsel. com mand or procure either of the defend ants to kill Senator CarmackT'
 No, sir"
 Did you, even in thought, consent to the killing of Senator Carmack?"
 "I did not, and on the other hand I regretted 1t very much"
 At this stage court adjourned for luncheon. examination of John D. sharp was resumed. The witness denied specii- cally ever having said that Carmack should have been dead and In hell for twenty years. He said he had always opposed Carmack politically and prob ably said some hard things about the Senator's political methods. He de- clared that he was able to tell Miss Skefington what had happened be- cause he had seen it. Whether Miss Skeffington thought he had not seen 1t. he did not know.
 Take the witness" said General Meeks.
 Cross examination was by General Garner. of Maury county, Carmack's home county The first questions elicit ed that Sharp and the Coopers were close friends. The witness declared he never saw the revolver Robin Coop CT used until the boy was shooting 1t and had no Knowledge of Robin Cooper or Robin Jones wanting to bor- row gun. The States theory Is that the automatic revolver Is John Sharp's and three times 1t has had the num- Der on the gun entered in the record.
 Campaigned For Patterson.
 Sharp said he went out on the cam paign for Governor Patterson and did great deal of work for him. He said he never had any private conver- sation with Carmack and never heard him discuss the Coopers.
 Hard fighting forced the witness to say that when he turned around just as the shooting commenced. he feared there might be serious trouble-just how serious he did not form an opin- ion.
 You felt a kindlier feeling for the Coopers that afternoon than you did for Senator Carmack. did you not?"
 Well, yes."
 Would you have feared any trouble if Colonel Cooper had not turned back that day?"
 That did not occur to me-"
 Then 1t was the fact that the Coop CTS changed their course which aroused in you the fear of trouble?"
 Well, not that alone"
 If the Coopers and you had kept on north. there would have been no killing at the telephone pole?"
 Not at the pole. no, sir"
 You felt so apprehensive of trouble that you broke your promise to go with Colonel Cooper to the Governors mansion and started homer"
 well. yes"
 The defendant fought off these ques- tions. but General Garner pounded them and repeated them half a dozen times.
 Finally Sharp exclaimed:
 Well, my impression of trouble was strong enough to make me want to go home. I thought first it would be verbal"
 But when you thought it was go- ing to be serious trouble, very serious trouble. you wanted to turn around and see it?"
 "No, I did not"
 General Garner pressed the witness hard all along the lines of his descrip- tion of the tragedy. forcing some con- tradictions because the witness was visibly annoyed and angry.
 Shots Fired Rapidly.
 Those shots were fired very rapidly, were they not?"
 Yes, very rapidly. like this-bang. bang bang. Close together"
 50 the shots went into Carmack all at once, before he fell?"
 "No, after the first shot, gCarmack turned his head around and began to fall"
 He turned his head around so that Robin could put that ball into the back of his neck on a straight liner"
 "No, sir; he just turned a little and began to fall."
 Did Carmack turn his body?"
 "No. sir; he only turned his head and then fell"
 50 he fell with his back to the southeast?"
 Some what"
 You saw it all. You saw Carmack dead and the son of your best friend sh ot and you went on home?"
 T started home. l intended to tell my wife what had happened and re- turn to the scene"
 But you couldn't tell your wife, could you, for you were too far away to know exactly?"
 T could tell her there had been a shooting"
 Tt was a cloudy afternoon, was it not?"
 Tt was cloudy at times. but not ex- tremely cloudy"
 Here is Senator Carmack's revolver the one found near his body. It is dark pistol. yet you say on that cloudy day you saw this pistol at that dis tance?"
 q did"
 And you saw Robins pistol also, dark one?"
 T did"
 The witness was closely pressed, too, about his conversation with Miss Skf- linton.
 He denied that he had used the lan- guage attributed to him by her, that Is, of Duncan Cooper shooting Carmack tween Cooper and Carmack."
 He insisted that he had not used the plural "Coopers," as the stenographer's notes caught it. He admitted that he had not turned back to the scene of the killing until he had met Miss Skifin- ton, who was the only living witness to prove he was not actually at the scene of the shooting the moment 1t oc- cured. He next went around down town and stopped at number of places. He denied that he did this to establish an alibi
 You told Frank Davis you did not know anything about the shooting?"
 No, sir; l said I saw It. but that I was not talking just then"
 Why not you had not been are st ed, or accused. had you?"
 No, sir; but I didn't want my testi mony perverted"
 You did not expect to be arrested 9"
 "No. sir"
 The State declared at this juncture that 1t proposed to take m tba cros.