Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-03-03
RFbUTTAL PROCEEDS
 IN THE COOPER CASE
No Startling New Evidence Adduced at Tuesday Tea ing More Eye Witnesses Give Their Version of the Tragedy-Expert Medical Testimony Abou, the Wounds Received by Senator Carmack w Morgan Heard the Shooting

Nashville, Tenn, Mar. ?. -Rcbnttal witnesses for tb. state were sum n1oned last night to be in conrt today. which indicated that the case in chiei Tor the defense i'll the Cooper Sharp triad for the murder of Senator Car mack is almost completed ] This docs not auanr an early ter imitation, however, On the contrary, }probabls the bittrrc st fight of the case will come in the offering ot rchnttal testimony The state propose to make another attempt to get before the jury the fact that Senator Car .Inack, so far from feeling anGrV or 1 helliserent, scof1ed at the idea of trouble and armed himself onis to relieve the anxiety of his frit nda
 Judge Hart ruled this testimony out upon the cross examination of the de1ense's $ witnesses, but the proSccu- ton will offer it as a part of it's re buttal testimony.
 Court did not open antl almost lo o'clock.
 K. l.. Thompson First Witness. :, R. l.. Thompson, q druggist, testi fled as to Garmaeh being in his store about ten minutes before the tragedy
 
 An Expert on Firearms. William Setter, assistant supern- tendeAt Of the city wofkhousc, said he is an expert on firearms. He said he had carried d Colts automatic re- volver since il came out, and declared that bullets fired from. one are not ,tstee el jackptrd, put covered with cop per over the lead and then with some hard composition He said. he coult icut one of the bullets with his knife and did SO
 On crOSS-eXanination witness Sal1 the cylinders of some Smith X Wesson ,3S caliber revolvers can be turned by the finger without pulling th, trigger.
 After an examination of Carmaek's $ revolver he said it could be turned only by pulling the trigger.
 This hatly contradcts the tesli 'mony of s. J. Benning yesterday, who sworc he saw Senator Carmack test ing his revolver few minutes before the tragedy by whirling the cylinder with his finger.
 W. $. Morgan Heard Shooting. w. s. Morgan said he heard tho shooting. but could not see the affair from his windows in the Polk apart ments.
 He reached the court and met Mrs Eastman. She was hysterical. Wit ness said Mrs. Eastman told him Col onel Cooper said to Carmack: "Tha Is like dastardly coward, hiding be hind a woman" On cross-examina ton Morgan was asked to repeat tn con versation with Mrs. Eastman.
 Mrs. Eastman was crying an' grabbed the lapels of my coat" sai' the witness. She said Senator Car mack jumped in front of her and Col onel Cooper then said: That is 'lik d dastardly coward, hiding behind woman"
 Witness admitted that Mrs. East man did not say that Colonel Coope said: "We have the drop on you," O Get out from behind that woman"
 He said Mrs. Eastman did not at tempt to detail the entire tragedy bat gave him the impression that Col onel Cooper shot Carmack withou giving him a chance Morgan heart three shots fired.
 Dr. Duncan Eve.
 Dr. Duncan Eve, 8 surgeon, Wa asked if the wounds described by Dr Glasgow would be fatal. He declare' that all the wounds would prove fata and that in two of the wounds de scribed death would be instantaneous He said he treated Robin Cooper af ter the tragedy and probed the woun' ihalf an inch. but did not secure tn bullet He said the wound was mad by a missile from a weapon. FIX plaining how the bullet, which wa afterwards found in Robins bed, go out of the wound. he said there wa oniy one explanation. that 1t ha