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Deafness Specialist sprOuls, 10 Trade Building,
Boston, Mass.
leaving the state library a few min
utes after p. m. on November 3. She
walked down from the library, which Is
only a block away from the scene of the
shooting, on Seventh avenue.
Did you see anyone as you left the
library?"
yes, sir. I saw Governor Patterson
and Ex-Governor Cox in conversation.
"You walked down Seventh avenue"
"I did, sir"
did you hear shots?'
ct did,"
''Tell what happened"
ct reached nearly the corner OF Union
street and Seventh avenue. I looked
down towards Union and saw a man APP
proaching He was about at the crossing
of the two streets. It was Mr.. John ID.
Sharp, whom had known many years.
When I heard the shots, looked up and
said: What is that? He said: 1t is
shooting L asked Who Is shooting? He
replied: 1T is Col. Duncan Cooper shoot
ing Senator Carmack.
''How was he standing with regard to
the scene of the shooting?"
with his back to the shooting"
what next%
che turned around and walked back
with me up to the scene of the shooting.
said: oh, Mr. Sharp, you are not jest
ing are YOU? And he said: No, Miss
Skeffington, am not saw four figures
gathered and others came.
Did Not See Cooper
| Mr.. Sharp walked over to the group,
stood a minute and then rejoined me.
said: Mr.. Sharp, is he dead? His reply
/ was. He is Then 1 was sick and
frightened and hurried away
"TIow was the atmosphere that day?"
| eft was very cloudy and smoky"
could you recognize Col Cooper and
Robin Cooper when you got closer to
them?"
ct did not"
do you know them?"
| at do"
"Your eye sight is good?"
| excellent"
"Did Sharp turn around to see who was
doing the shooting after you heard the
shots and before you asked him who was
| shooting?" a.
mo, sir, he did not"
''He was walking away from the scene
Of where the shooting occurred?"
/ HE was" .
Miss Skef1ington was cross-examined
VERY briefly, the defense asking only IL
Sharp might not have turned and seen
the shooting without the witness seeing
him. The young woman was quite sure
/ that he could not, as she had not taken
Iher eyes from him and she was glancing
at him as the shots were fired. During
| this testimony, Sharp leaned forward in
his chair listening attentively. His wife
clasped her hands within his arm as
though to encourage him.
Two Women Weep
When she left the stand, Mrs. Eastman
went directly to Mrs. Carmack's seat, put
her arms around the widow and kissed
| her affectionately Both women burst in
to tears and cried for a moment in one
anothers arms.
John Tindall, aged 12, a newsboy, who
had Robin Cooper for a customer, saw
Colonel Cooper and Robin a block away
i from the scene of the shooting about
half an hour before the tragedy. He heard
Colonel Cooper say, either: I'VE will get
| Thin" or 1--WE will catch it," They were
then just leaving Attorney Bradford's
Office and passed up the street
| 1t was to Dr. Forts infirmary on
Eleventh. avenIse that Robin Cooper was
taken after the shooting to have his
wounds dressed.
Miss McKeon was not cross-examined
except as to whether or not a large
throng was commencing to crowd into the
| infirmary. She said no crowd was gath
ering.
| H. s. Vanderen. who was with Miss Nc
| Keen, corroborated her testimony He
was not cross-examined.
| Miss Lizzie Fort was sitting at her
| window on the fourth floor of the Polk
apartments, directly above the scene of
the shooting, when 1t happened. She
heard the shots and counted five. Hereto
| fore witness testified to only three. She
| said the first three were in rapid sue
cession and sounded like from the same
revolver.
'I looked out at once and saw Mrs.
Eastman, whom I recognized by her
white hair and manner of dress I saw
| a body on the street and two men. 1 saw
young Cooper walk over to his father
and the two of them walked away L
went down and took Mrs. Eastman into
my apartments.
Location of Two Men
Miss Fort described the location of the
| two men, under cross-examination, show
| ing that when she loked out, Carmarcks
dead body was between young Cooper and
| his father. Ho get to his father, the
young man had to step from the street
| to the sidewalk.
Charles H. Warwick, secretary of the
Credit Mems association, testified that
he met Robin Cooper on a street car one
morning last June and heard the young
man say about Carmack: Damn him; he
| ought to be in hell"
On cross-examinarion the witness said
such remarks were very common during
| the campaign, which was very bitter
Those men who did not curse Carmack,
did curSe Patterson