Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-03-12
State Attorney Declares Sena-
tor Carmack Did Not at Any
Time Call Colsnel Duncan
Cooper Dive Keeper.
SAYS CRUEL ISLANDERS
HAVE BEEN HEAPED
ON DEAD SENATOR
General Garner Shows That Murder
For Editorials Was Not Justifiabie.
Refers TO Three Editorials as Iu-
PRODUCED by the Defense.

NASHVILLE. Tenn. March l0---So
dense was the throng inside the bar to-
day in the -OOper-Sharp trial for the
murder OF < w. Carmack. that Judge
Hart could not reach the bench from his
pushed open a narrow path. he mounted
the bench and said:
ladies and Gentlemen; I am glad 70
see you here this morning and sorry there
are not more OF you AS ! said before,
there must be no demonstrations II you
follow my order everything will be love-
". II you do not we will fall out right
away.
A laugh followed the judges remarks,
but he raped for order.
As one lawyer remarked. half Of Maury
county came TO Nashville TO hear Attor-
ney General Gamers argument for the
state That Is Gamers home county and
the young lawyer is popular there. Few
Of them got into the court room, how
ever. and those only on cards issued by
Garner.
The rest OF the visitors had cards. too.
but the walls refused to stretch. so they
sat on the sidewalk outside and caught
now and then a few sentences.
General Garner Speaks
General Garner began his argument al
a. m He said:
4 feel the same pride and qualification
at representing the people Of the great
state that I always do in prosecuting a
criminal At the same time have never
tried case that there was not some hui
manity manifested on the side OF the de-
tense that called forth some cause for
regret. In this case. there is the same
humanity that exists in all cases
The position of the defendants in this
case is not so different that the hearts OF
those who love them suffer any more
than the loved ones OF defendants who
are lower in the social scale
- And I do not SAY that the loved ones
OF these defendants do not suffer. Ny
sWDatny goes out TO them, though il
may not be appreciated and l regret that
Il Is my duty to prosecute. l say this
/ because / want YOU to believe that what
I say here Is said from sense OF duty
since time was, the innocent have had &c
suffer ten-foId with the guilty and these
defendants alone are 10 blame for making
their own dear ones suffer.
SAYS Meeks FaISified
ssBut the saddest part OF this case. to
my mind. is that the lips OF the man
they so cruelty murdered cannot respond
and reply TO the cruel ISLANDERS and male
dlctions heaped upon him by the hired
counsel OF the ueLeuse- Anu dFPEaA "
YOU 10 bear me out when 1 say that NJ.
II. Meeks falsiied the record when lac
told you that Senator Carmack called
Colonel Cooper a dive keeper. II was q
cruel and a monstroUs Misrepresentation
IL YOU gentlemen of the defense have
not enough evidence TO bring a verdict OF
accuittal, then do not be detected in the
act OF falsifying and deceiving the jury.
Il want you. gentlemen OF the jury, &c
consider the condition OF mind OF these
defendants II is imossible TO believe thai
three men on trial for their lives should
tell anything that would injure them
selves except by accident Remember, too
that no matter what Senator Carmacl
said on the stump or wrote in the Ten
nessean about Colonel Cooper. there wa:
no justification for murder. The law gives
another recourse
The defense introduced three editorials
Even II the law permitted the staying o.
a man for defaming another. upon wha
editorial upon what sentence in thess
editorials. would they seek justification?
General Meeks saws that murder fOl
these editorials is justihable. He, a law
yer. applies the unwritten law to editors
and SAYS this is not the first time tina
the streets OF our city have run red will
the blood OF men who offended agains
this self-made law. Is there anything il
the law OF the evidence OF this case Z
justify this statement? II so. where 4
IT.