The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-02-23
Killing of Carmack.

"Carmack fell after the third shot
This answer pleased the state, for one
wound was i'm the back of Senator Car
mack's neck, and must have been fired
either from behind or as the senator
Teeled and fell.
Where was Colonel Cooper
standing near the Dcle.''
Were you armed that day"
mo, sir
Did you anticipate any trouble?'
mo, sir.
Did you bear Senator Carmack any
malice?"
None; but I opposed him very
strongly in his campaigns"
| Were you friendly"
Personally, yes. He called me John
when we met, and often consulted me
about train schedules on political
! trips
Did you aid. abet, counsel. command
or secure either of the defendants to
kill Senator Carmsck7"
NO, sir"
Did you even, in thought, consent
to the killing of the SENATOR"
Regretted the Murder.
Il did not. and, on the other hand, I
regretted it very much
At this stage court adjourned for
luncheon.
After the noon recess the direct ex-
/ animation of John d. Sharpe was re-
sumed- The witness denied specifically
[ ever having said that Carmack should
/ have been dead and i'm hell for twenty
years He said he had always opposed
Carmack politically. and probably said
some hard things about the senator
political methods. He declared that he
was able 20 tell Miss SkeffiDgton what
/ Whether Miss Skeftington thought ne
/ hal not seen it. ne did not know.
/ Crc5s-examinaticu was by General
Garner of Maury county, Carmack's
I home county. The first questions elicit
/ ed that Sharpe and the CooDers were
close friends. The witness declared he
never saw the revolver Robin Cooper
used until the boy was using it, and
| had no knowledge of Robin Cooper or
/ Robin Jones wanting to borrow a gun.
Might Be Sharpe's Gun.
/ The states theory is that the auto
matte revolver is John Shapes. and
i three times it has had the number OF
/ the gun entered in the record.
I 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
/ You felt z kindlier feeling for the
/ Coopers that afternoon than you did
/ for Senator Carmack, did you not?'
"Well, yes"
Would you have fear ed any trouble
( if Colonel Cooper had not turned back
+ that day.
+ That did not occur TO me-"
Then it was the fact that the Coop
/ ers changed tleir course which aroused
\ -, H., 80 hi.
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
Expected Trouble.
You felt so apprehensive OF trouble
/ Colonel Cooper to the governors man |
sion and started homer"
! Wei, yes
The defendant fought OF these CUES /
tions, but General Garner pounded
! them in and repeated them half dozen |
times. Finally Sharpe exclaimed:
well, my impression of trouble was
strong enough to make me want to go
home. 1 thought first it would be YER
I bal
General Garner pressed the witness |
hard along the lines of his description of |
/ the tragedy, forcing some contradic- |
/ lions because the witness was visibly /
annoyed and angry.
Those shots were fired very rapidly. |
were they not?"
Yes, very rapidly. like this-bang, |
bang, bang, close together"
You saw it all You saw CaTmack /
dead and the son of your best friend |
shot, and you went on hOme?i
ct started intended fp roll
my wife what mad happened and return /
30 the scene"
But you could not tell your wife, it |
/ is understood, for you were too far |
away to know exactly?"
II could tell her there had been
shooting"
Emphatic oeHiaI.
The witness was closely pressed about
his sight of Carmack's pistol despite
the cloudy day and his conversation
with Miss Skeffington. He denied en-
/ phstically that he had used the Ian
guaEe attributed to him by her. THAT
/ is Dune Cooper shooting CaTmack."
He said he told her. THAT there was
shooting between Cooper and Car
mack"
I He insisted that ne had not used the
4 plural "Coopers," as tbes stenOgrspher's
notes caught il. lie admitted that he
/ had not turned back to the scese of the
killing until he had met Miss Skeffing-
! ton, who was the only living witness
l to prove he was not actually at the
scene of the shooting the moment it
occurred. He next went around down
town and stopped at a number of
t places. He denied that he did this to
establish an abb.
You told Frank Davis you did not
/ know anything about the shooting?"
mo, sir; 1 said I saw it, but that I
was not talking Just then"