The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-02-18
Heard the Shots.

 ing. He was about at the crossing of the two streets. It was MT John D. Sharp, whom l had known many years. When l heard the shots | looked up and said: What is that9 He said It is shooting. 1 l asked. Who is shooting| and he re- piled: It is Col Dune Cooper shooting Senator Carmaek.
 How was lie standing with regard to the scene of the shooting? With his back to the shooting. What next2f
 He turned around and walked back with ne up to the scene of the shooting. l said, Oh Mir Sharp, you are not jest ing, are youg and he said: No. Miss Skeffington, 1 am not l saw four figures gathered and others came. MT. Sharp walked over to the group, stood a minute and then rejoined me. l said: MT. Sharp, i is he dead? His reply was He is. Then 1 sick and frightened and hurried away.
 How was the atmosphere that day?'
 Tt was very cloudy and smoky Could you recognize Colonel Cooper and Robin Cooper when you got closer to them ?''
 T did not
 Do you know them?"
 ''I do"
 Your eyesight 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 shootng?'
 No, sir; he did not"
 He was walking away from the scene from where the shooting occurred?'
 He was"
 Is Cross-Examined.
 Miss Skeffington was cross-examined very briefly, the defense asking only if 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 her 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 elasped her hands within his arm as though to encourage htm.
 b. N. Morgan, a postal clerk, saw John Sharp and the Coopers meet in the Arcade half an hour before the shooting The men shook hands and the witness passed on. c. B. Horn, a real estate dealer, testified that Sharp had abused Carmack before the gubernatorial pri- maries.
 Miss Teresa McKeon, a teacher, was in Dr. Forts infirmary when Carmack was shot.
 T was going upstairs to see friend"
 
 to tell Dr. Fort that Carmack was dead. As I did so, I saw gentleman in the room walking up and down. He said in loud voice. 'I don't want any one else to come in this room unless they are of ficers. I do not want to have to shoot another man."
 The witness said pr. Fort told her the speaker was Colonel Cooper. She identi- fled the defendant as the speaker.
 xnrac fo Jr inf, Gax enth avenue 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 ot crowd into the inf1rmary. She said no crowd was gath ering. H. S. Nanderin, who was with Miss MeKeon, corroborated her testimony. He was not cross-examined. Miss Lizzie Fort was sitting at her window on the fourth floor of the Polk apartments, di- rectly above the scene of the shooting, when 1t happened. She heard the shots and counted five. Heretofore witness tes- tified to only three. She said the first three were in rapid succession and sound ed like from the same revolver.
 Saw Mrs. Eastman.
 s'I looked out at once and saw Mrs. Eastman, whom I recognized by her white hair and manner of dress. I saw body on the street and two men. I saw young Cooper walk over to his father and the two of them walked away. I went down and took Mrs. Eastman into my apart ments."
 Miss Fort described the location of the two men, under cross-examinaton, showing that when she looked out Car macks dead body was between young Cooper and his father.
 To 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 street car one morning last June and heard the young man say about Carmack: Damn him; he ought to be in hell" On cross-examina ton 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. At this point court adjourned for luncheon.
 E. ". Thomas, a clerk of the state sen ate, was the first witness after the noon recess. He met John Sharp hour after the tragedy asked for details and the latter replied that he did not know any thing about it. He also saw Robin Cooper at Il a. m. on November sitting in the window of the Tulane hotel across the street from Carmacks office. c. w. Cooper then corroborated the testimony of Charles H. Warwick that Robin Cooper had said Carmack should have been in hell 20 years ago. He admitted, however, that he did not know Robin Cooper, but had been told that the man who issued the expression was young Cooper. Embalmer Called. w G. Jones, who embalmed Senator Carmacks body. was then called. He described how his firm was notified and how he went for the body. He was present when two physicians examined the body. The witness made notes on the wounds. One went into the left side and was cut out of the right side of the body below the shoulder. An other entered the left side of the ab- domen and was cut out of the right side, five inches from the navel. The third entered the neck half an inch to the left of the spine and was found under the tongue. The wounds on the body ranged downward.
 Before Jones began to testify Mrs. Car mack was taken from the room. It was feared that the sight of her husbands blood stained garments and the descrip- tion of his wounds would be more than she could bear
 Have you the clothing taken from the body of the senator?" he was asked
 T hav.."
 Carmacks Clothing.
 The witness then opened a bag and produced the outer clothing, under gar ments. shirt and collar The wounds were made by steel jacketed 32-calibre bullots and bled very little externally bullets entered and the ball which faia he ntter1, 1,a apl