Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-03-02

tween patient and doctor. Whether that
privilege extends to an employer of the
physician in the light of coroner i
do not know"
The state consulted a moment, then At
torney General McCarn said:
I'VE believe the court has no right to
order DIR. Glasgow to talk, but If the de-
tense will pay us back what we paid for
DR.. Glasgow's services, we consent TO
their comforting with him.
IF we decide to use the Doctor as a
witness, we will reimburse the state,
said Judge Anderson.
No you won't, you will reimburse US
before YOU talk to him." said the attorney
general
Ashamed of Transaction
Now that you have gotten the dispute
down to a commercial question Of dollars
and cents" interposed the court, in dis
guested tone. 1.-The defense's contention is
that it wants to see the goods before It
buys them. The state, however, wants to
sell them in a bag"
1--WE had To buy them in a bag. your
honor" said Attorney General McCarn.
I am very much ashamed Of the trans
action-the whole transaction" said Judge
Hart. quietly to the press table, but 1t
is out OF my Jurisdiction"
Counsel for state thereupon took pos
session of DR.. Glasgow and retired for
consultation with him.
Defines An X-Ray
After the conference, which was short,
the defense called DR.. q, B. Edwards to
the stand. The doctor made an A-ray
photograph of Robin Cooper's shoulder
to learn whether or not the bullet was
still in his body. The doctor was called
upou TO testify as an expert by telling
what an X-ray was. He did so in scien-
, tific terms. to the great disgust of the
Jury. which is not above the ordinary
in intelligence. He produced X-ray pho
tos OF a number of people, showing bull
let's stin in the body, then the one OF
Robins shoulder, disclosing no bullet
The Jurors gazed at the photographs Gu
! riously. then glanced at one another as
though to inquire whether anyone really
believed such a thing as an X-ray picture
was possible.
On cross-examination, DR.. Edwards said
he was of the belief, from the scar on
Robins shoulder that the bullet never
entered the body, but merely ploughed
through the flesh.
DIR. Glasgow On Stand
THE surgeon who probed the wound
would be the better judge of that" said
Judge Anderson.
The state objected and was sustained,
Ten the defense called:
Or McPheeters Glasgow"
The doctor is a strikingly big man, dig
nified and slow in his movements. He
said he had a speaking acquaintance with
| Senator Carmack.
| Il performed an autopsy on Senator
| Carmack's body at Attorney General
McCarn's request on November IL"
How did you find the body?'
an a fairly good shape. The grave
had been opened and the body was on q
/ table, stripped ready for the autopsy.
was assisted by DR.. Harrington Mohr
I had seen Mr.. Carmack's body after
| death and found two wounds made by
the undertaken after had seen it. These
wounds were made in embalming.
Bullet Through Heart
"There was one wound two inches be
low the left nipple and one inch to the
/ inside, the bullet passed through the
heart Four and one-half inches below
! the right nipple and one inch outside wal
l a wound from which bullet had beer
| taken. An inch from the left median line
\ of the neck was another wound which
I was black, the others were clean. Th'
/ bullet came out of the mouth, two teetl
! being loosened and held by the lips only.
THE third wound entered the chest be
] tween the fourth and fifth ribs, pierced thu
] heart, wounded the ventrical and passed
downward and forward through the live
and reached the skin between the sixth
and seventh ribs The bullet was Gu
out from beneath the skin"
when did you see the senator first?"
/ Il saw him when he was lying on thu
Z street saw him at the undertaker's estab
I lishment and saw him at the re-openeC
/ grave in Columbia
! That Is all, take the witness"
/ I'VE will not cTOss-eXamine now sale
! the states counsel, but we reserve TIT
right to do so later"
Wounds Are Described
/ The defense wished technical descrip
| ton Of the wounds to prove its conten
/ ton that any one Of them would have
been instantly fatal.
/ The defense believes IL has established
! that Senator Carmack did fire two shots
| and that il ne fired them. he must have
\ fired them before anyone OF the shot!
Robin Cooper fired, entered his body.
! William Kinney. n travelling salesman
who had a room in the Polk apartment
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