The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1909-03-13


to do? The prosecution will tell YOU
you have your recourse in the court:
Yes. and You get a judgment for $2s,.
900 against a man not worth the
price OF plug Of tobacco. Is tina,
satisfaction?
"Oh, gentlemen, tell you, th,
streets of this. our city. have run red
before with the blood Of men who
improperly used other mems names
In public prints"
Gen. Meeks devoted FIVE hours &c
the speech. He painted the defend
ants as the finest type of Southern aris.
tocracy and breeding. declared nc
crime had been committed when Sen.
ator Carmack was shot to death and
closed with a dramatic appeal to The
Jury to turn loose this gallant old
soldier" Col Cooper.
So great was the throng which tried
to crowd into the court room this
morning that the architect Of the
building appealed to the Judge and
declared that there was danger of q
serious accident. Judge Hart hurried
ly sent deputies into the corridors
and soon cleared them entirely.
Gen. Meeks began by saying tina,
Col. Cooper was shamefuLy treated
by Capt. Fitzhugh yesterday. "He
accused him." said Meeks, "of no,
paying his debts. They tried to maize
YOU 'elieve that lie embezzled furds
as master of chancery. What has
that to do with the killing of Car
mack 2"
"Thc State has charged" said Gen
Meeks, that the defendants knew the
route that Senator Carmack daily fol-
lowed and the time that he left for
his apartment. Now, how could de-
PENDANTS know this time or route ?
Senator Carmack's own stenographer
said she did not know where Senator
Carmack lived"
AS to the Carmack editorials, Gen.
M eeks said:
when a man sits as Carmack did
behind he editorial counter of a
newspaper and writes day after day,
editorials that attack and assault a
man. who is not himself in an edi-
torial position, he becomes insulting
and there is no greater insult posi-
ble."
The attorney next went into the in
cident of the pistol scabbard found in
Senator Carmack's overcoat pocket
aid denounced the States attorneys
for insinuating that the counsel fu.
the defense placed" the scabbard
there. He said the STAGE knew that
Maj. vertrees loaned Senator Car
mack the revolver with the scabbard
on 1t.
Eve have proved" he went on.
that the meeting of. the parties was
purely and undoubtedly an accidental
encounter. We hold that the guilt or
innocence of these defendants must
rest upon the state Of mind they were
in at the time the meeting took place.
Counsel described the note which
Cooper indicted to Carmack. but did
not send. and said:
"That note was to be the declara-
ton of war and until that note was
sent by Cooper and received by Sena-
tor Carmsck, Cooper understood and
Carmack understood that there was
to be no trouble. and that note was
never sent"
"You are not trying common
thieves or murderers now. gentlemen.
You are trying men who come from
IA fine stock as ever human flesh
was made of. the best people OF the
South"
"Why did they put Miss Daisy Lee
Jim Bradford's stenographer. on the
Meeks continued. IT do not
say Miss Lee lied. I would not say
that about any woman. But 1 do say
that she was mistaken.
Miss Lee alone says that Col.
Cooper was not called back. Now,
even If 1t were material, we have four
witnesses against her, who swear that
he vas recalled-Gen. Brown, Gov.
Patterson, James Bradford and Rob-
In Cooper. Yesterday Capt. Fitzhugh
arraigned this old white haired SOL
der for using vile language in Miss
Lees presence. Miss Lee herself said
that Cooper was in another office
when he used that language"
Gen. Meeks next took John Sharp's
case. He asked the jury if they were
going to hang a man because he said