The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1909-03-05

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and climbing the hill be found that
the engineer had left He didn't learn
this a. the engine room, but met a man
on the street whom he did not know
and has never seen since. who gave
him this information
Mr.. Binning's son has a law suit
/ against the General Electric Company.
and Mr. Meeks is his attorney. The
next morning he was in 10 see 4ir.
Meeks and "unthoughtedly' told him
what he knew. They have discussed
the matter about three times, the last
time on last Sunday morning. and the
witness was subpoenaed Monday
morning His name has never ap-
peared on the lists of witnesses, and
his appearance on the stand was some
what Of a surprise.
Other Witnesses.
/ Mr. Binning's testimony consumed
the entire afternoon session Monday
/ but at the morning session there were
/ several witnesses of an interesting
nature Chief among these were
Dr.. McPheeters Glasgow and DR.. G. B.
Edwards
1 DR.. Edwards made the X-ray photo
graph of a region eight by ten inches
around Robin Cooper's shoulder, which
was shown in the court room Monday
morning. The photograph showed
that there was no bullet then in the
shoulder, and DR.. Edwards stated that
if there was one in his body it was
not in the region photographed. He
gave it as his professional opinion,
i based on all the indications, that the
! bullet had never entered Robin Coop
er's shoulder but had merely cut the
tissues on the top of the shoulder. 1t
is certain that the only bullet that has
ever been found about Robin Cooper
was the one that appeared on his bed
in such peculiar way on the day after
4 the murder. The scar on the shoulder
is also much longer than it is wide,
as is a bullet has passed along it.
DR.. Glasgaw's testimony was of a
most interesting nature. He assisted
by DR.. Harrington MARI, performed an
autopsy of the body of Senator Car
mack. which was exhumed on Novem-
Der II. This autopsy revealed the
4 fact that the two bullets fired into Sen
ator Carmack's body passed through
his heart. and that the one that the
one that entered the back of his neck
/ cut the spinal cord. Any one of the
/ three shots was fatal
One bullet entered the left side, two
and one-half inches below the nipple,
and half an inch in front of the line
drawn down the center of the body.
I The bullet entered between the fifth
and sixth ribs. passed through the
heart, the diaphragm, through the lung,
and lodged under the skin between
/ the eighth and ninth ribs on the right
4 side of the body.
A second bullet struck half an inch
below the point Of the shoulder, passed
through the large shoulder muscles,
I turned downward and forward en-
tered the chest between the fourth
and fifth ribs, pierced the heart. the
diaphragm, the right lobe of the liver,
the diaphragm again, the lung, and
came out two and one-half inches be-
low the right nipple, between the fifth
and sixth ribs.
Another shot struck him in the back
of the neck. one inch to the left of the
median line, and two and one-half
inches below the bony prominence on
the lower part of the skull, went be-
tween the second and third vertebrae,
cut the spinal cord and came out to
the right of the tongue. The general
direction of the bullet was slightly
upward The wound on the back of
the neck was black, and the others
were clean.
The defense put on large number
of minor witnesses, but none of any i'm
portance. Among the witnesses in
troduced was William Kinney, travel !
ing salesman for the liquor house Of
Charles Nelson, who was in his room
at the Polk flats and heard the FIVE |
shots, two heavy reports being fol- !,
lowed by three very short, sharp
quick explosions.
Shooting Tests.
There was more testimony along
thi line by DR.. L. l.. Carpenter, as
sistant physician at the county asy-
ium5 Henry Caldwell, steward at that
institution; and Sandy Brown. Tests
were made there on last Saturday az
ternoon of the sound OF different pis-
tolls. DR.. Carpenter gave his testi-
mony, and that of the others was con-
sidered as corroborating it. He stood
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