Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-03-16
ARGUMENT FINISHED;
JUDGES CHARGE TODAY
Attorney General McCarn Completes
Arrangement Of Carmack Stsyers
Before Big Audience.
COURT NOT READY TO INSTRUCT
Adjournment Taken After Short SEES
s,on-in Closing Attorney General
Admonishes Jury Against Political
Pre- iudice--Blames Defense Law
yers for Length Of Trial.
(Bv Associated PraSS.D

NASHVILLE TENN, March ID
The general belief that the case
would 20 to the iur. !Od:iv caused tn"
largest crowd N"r a. "ntrlrd /" try
to 'cI into 'h'' court h"aj'' tor the
final see rA % ~" rial / Colonel
u. Il. Cooper. Eohin cooper and John
y SHARP ter "a" uluG'r 81 former
United Sta,c, son. -" T. W. Car
mach
nn, there VA. anc'h"r i.a, Al
ter Attorney G"r"r.i NcCa6n had
81 Sod for III" STATE Iud"" Hart an.
no i,crd that hr had not completed
the charge. hut hoped 10 hav" it
ready some time tomorrow.
General McCarn spok" only a little
over an hour Uis morning. brt closed
with a burst of eloquence. 4 farewell
nafriot. diplomat. Christian gentleman
and friend.
General McCarn's argument Is con
sidered to be a remarkably able and
strong one
Friends Came to Hear.
This is his first hig case. almost
the first case he has actually tried
since he took the oath of ONCE last
September. and his friends were out
i'm force ~ see how he acQuit ed him
self
At the conc fusion of the proceedings
they crowded around him as he sat
with HIS ewes flied with tears. and
fart. overwhelmed him with congra'
ulailonS
Mrs. CarmGck was in court again
TODAY. heavily yelled rs usual. When
General McCarn reached his perOra-
ton. she leaned over and rested her
head upon her sisters shoulder
| Little Ned Carmack sat on the lap
! OF one OF the attorneys for the state
! and listened attentively to- every word
i that was spoken
! When court adjourned number Of
the attorney generals friends sur
+ rounded him and escorted him home.
Some irresponsible Rumors.
Some alleged threats that this is
| the day they all get away with Nc
earn" alarmed that ofiCial's init
| mates. 'It he only laughed at the
rumOr$
In opening McCarn said:
AT the tine OF adjournment | had
gone eve" m" immediate facts of the
te.timCny had shown you by ply
si,aI facts that Senator Carmack had
been shot in the back. Don't forget
tina; He was shot in the back-he
Was shO, from behind Nv theory is
that the bullet which came ont OF
Carmark'S mouth entered the back.
And it is no more chivalrOus to shoot
a dead man in the hack than tn shoot
n I've one. These defendants ar.
no rniy sGssins Of Carmack but
they are cowardly assassiBs of facts.
I Counsel tell Won that ven are not
| trying ordinary criminals: that these
are men OF distinguished ancestOrv.
Well. when men in pairs hunt anoth'
or man. approach him from behind
and Kill! him. then il is time for some
Of he defendants. the tail OF the an.
C.StOrs. to BE- cut of. They have
pleaded Justification.
New "Unwritten Law"
! Yes. they have Judg. Anderson,
in his splendid speech the other day
tried to explain away General Meeks'
/ statement that he unwr!tt"n law
! should apply Bu; if General Mecks
didn't mean it. why did he follow it
with the significant statement the
stress of our city have run red he
, fore with the blood Of men Who used
other mems names unjustiy in H"ss,
papers.
General TCCarn briefly r"Co IE'rd
the circumstances 81 tn" meeting on
seventh avenue and declared that the
Conp"rS committed an overt &C.
! ~" d"pIorcd the length NJ n" trial
ami blamed tn" lawyer.
! You cor!d hav" learned IN" :rurn
of th,s case. gentlemen. IN on" day.
Bui when yor gc; twenty Of h. C!"v-
crest IswycTs in ID" South they can
max" blood look liz" nov And they
refer 20 politics and nv 10 stir mp
prriudi in the hearts Oi thos" Of
! Won VII" w"r" opposed 81" rarmack
politically
ksjutes Against preiudise.
! MCCarn conpl;mrni"d tn" jury for
their attention and honesty. and de-
, cIarrd they wotld diS-TfCr ih"if
! naGcs and families ~ lrti:nc pr"jn-
, dice com" into the case.
The say hr did not shoot Car
mack tho colonel did moi. bit he took
hts ION along 60 do Il. and the soE
was a willing tOol
Thr"r bullets IN his bodg. gcn'l"'