The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1909-03-17

gun until the shooting was overland
he said IF Robin Cooper had not
armed himself they would both be
dead today"
Gen. Washington then read the
statement written by Miss Lee, giving
the profanity she said she heard
Cooper use about Carmack, prefacing
the reading with the remark: "I
Thought We were going to hear some-
thing awful, but all she wrote was"
Gen. Washington repeated the pro-
family as though the women of Nash
Vile were wont to hear it daily.
The epithets used included the
most vile that one man can apply to
another.
That's all. gentlemen. that she
says she heard" said Washington.
The speaker argued that all the fear
expressed by Mrs. Burch because her
father was armed was because he was
| so pacific. He claimed that Robins
alarm was due to his knowledge of
his fathers crippled hand and his
consequent inability to protect him
self He claimed Mrs. Burch exag-
gerated the trouble and placed a con-
struction upon 1t not warranted by
Col. Cooper's language or intentions.
He argued that Mr.. Lander, by tell
iRE Carmack about Cooper's threats,
converted Carmack into a stick of
dynamite"
Gen. Washington next devoted
nearly half an hour to burlesque
imitation of Gen. Garner's cross-ex-
animation of witnesses. He compared
Garner to bee martin pecking at q
great eagle-the eagle, he said. was
John Sharp.
Gen. Washington attacked Miss
Lees testimony and extolled Gen.
Brown and. Judge Bradford.
"Oh, what has become of the men
Of honor of Nashville of the old GAL
liant blood. that attempt should be
made to discredit such men as Brad
ford and Brown. than whom no more
honorable. better bred. ever lived 2"
he said that Miss Lee was mistaken
when she impeached the testimony If
these men.
And they bring newsboy here
and he swears he heard Col. Cooper
say to Robin: We will get him. or
We will catch him. The boy was
mistaken. Robin had just said he
wanted a coca-cola and then the boy
heard Col. Cooper say: Wen get It, {"
Commenting on the States failure
to cross-examine Gov. Patterson.
Washington said: 1.-THE State didn't
dare. Even the bee martin would not
try"
Gen. Washington attacked Gen.
McCarn for not putting into his case
In chief evidence as to how Senator
Carmack got the revolver which he
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After the denunciation OF McCarn,
Gen. Washington went back to the
morning of the tragedy and started
In on the early morning conference.
Again ne led up to the time of the
shooting. Continually he referred to
Col. Cooper as ''the old soldier of the
Confederacy." ''the grizzled hero of
the Lost Cause" 1.-The man who rode
with Forrest and had passed through
the hail OF death and had seen his
comrades fall like leaves in autumn. y
He declared Col. Cooper proved his
bravery when he walked over to meet
Senator Carmack. who was much
younger. much larger and in the
PRIME Of life
He did not know that Lander had
emptied ladle OF hot lead into Car
mack's ear and Robin didn't know It.
He knew this old soldier Of the Con-
federacy, crippled and infi,m. was GO
Ing over into danger. He had right
to go along. II he had not he could
not have lived In this community; no
decent man would have taken his
hand and he would have deserved to
have been drowned like puppy.
"And all Col. Cooper said was: MT.
Carmack.' Mrs. Eastman tells a cock
and bull story about Col. Cooper say
ing: so there you are. senator: I've
the drop on you.' but Mrs. Eastman
did not tell Of this remark a few mo-
ments after the tragedy when it was
fresh In her mind and when she talk
ed to Mr.. w. s. Morgan. But she drags
1t Into the case at this late day." Mrs.
Eastman denies she ever saw or spoke
TO Morgan and is corroborated by sew
eral women present. She says she did