Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1909-03-15
INTEREST AT
FEVER HEAT

thc truth. 1oung women are not
secure from shese attacks, neither are
mere children. That is all right but
YOU mustn't criticize Col. Duncan
Cooper, he's spark from the ex-
bring embers OF the old southern
chival;y. We via attack whom we
please but no one must attack Dune
Cooper. Now isn't that a nice the
orr for high class newspaper?
Next we find the editorial of DC
tcber % and it does not mensio3
Cooper's name. But he got mad.
Then comes the editorial OF Nov.
s. Acre the Muddy Chasm.' the
reoonci iation OF Cox and Patterson
A, the instant Carmack was falling
dead, Governor Cox and Govern, ~
Patterson were in intimate CONVEX
sation not 500 feet away.
I'VE have heard a good deal OF
talk about the failure TO send the
note. When a man says IL you do
certain thing. one or you must
die, and you do It, you do not need
= wait for a note, do you?
There has been contention here
that Carmack DETAINED Cooper. Why.
gentlemen, Carmack knew that
Cooper defaulted and embezzled as
ma ter in lchancery years before. II
hs had wanted To defame Cooper,
why could he not have printed the
facts?
Counsel has described how Grip
pied the old colonel was and how he
could not shoot. But the colonel did
no. say he rould net shoot. He dill
not tel Robin he could not shoot
He pulled gun and said, 4 have
tEi TO defend me- AS a matter of
fact. gentlemen, he could shoot
Look, here is his pistol. 1 turl my
two fingers >nder as his were, and
Sc how easily and rapidly can
shoot with the thumb and first and
Jecond fingers"
General MoCarn launched into an
eloquent defense of Miss Lee.
They say they took Col. Cooper
down to Bradford's office TO cool
of. Why, gentlemen, you might
as we'll talk of turning Vesuwms up-
side down in hell to cool of. They
took him to P~adford's office to cool
off, The Office of the man who said
he could have XII led Carmack with
ai little iremJrse as he would kill a
rattlesnake. But they say only Miss
Lee claims he said this, and they
attack Miss Lee. And she sacrificed
hor home, her position her mothers
living to tel the truth"
He defended the little newsboy.
Johnnie Tyndall. and claimed the
boz was corroborated In his state
ment chat he heard Col. Cooper say,
I'VE will get him." by. Col. Cooper
himself ''Of course they did not
want to meet Carmack on ChuTcI
street, there would have been flf.y
witnesses there and they only need
ell one. So they decided to go up
Union .treet TO Seventh avenue.
They say it was cruel persecu-
ton to have John Sharp In Ilcted
DO you think it b pleasant for me
TO Stand here and ask you to con-
vict Of murder in he first degree the
brother Of the clerk of this court,
who has been my friend for years?
John Sharp wac taken along for
a purpose--to witness that killing
and he fiji ed his purpose. They say
be put himself in position where
he couldn't see it.
Why, / know John Sharp well
enough to know that If he had been
there honestly or accidentally h.
would have done what you would
do or ] would do, he would have
run back, not walk, to where Car
mack was lying. Why, his frien 4
had been shot and his other friend
wac in trouble. But he was confus-
Ell by his gu 1t and Miss Skefflngton
suddenly confronted him and asked
what It wa, he bhrted out the
truth--Tt is Dune Cooper shooting
| Carmack.
HE refused to tel any one what
he knew, refused to describe the
tragedy. Is that the act Of an in.
nocant man? No, IL is the act OF 4
defendant after he had been instruc,
Ell by clever attorney. These facts
here show beyond Reasonable doubt
that sharp was an accessory befor
the fact"
General MoCarn placed two rolls
Of wire fence upon the floor to rep
resent The telephone poles and dem.
onstrated to the jury how the de
PENDANTS say the shooting took
pace. This story, he claimed, was
coItradicted absolutely by the physl.
cal facts. He. called Garner over [.
assume The position that Robin says
Carmack took. He showed that the
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