The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-01
Doctor Who Performed Autopsy
on Carmack Called.
DESCRIBES WOUNDS
AS He Found Them When Body
Was Exhumed.
State Declines to Cross Exam-
inc the Witness.


arter day and a half adjournment
anc with their lines cf battle reformed.
coufs sei in the Cooper-Sharp trial for the
Saying of former Senator E. w. Car
mack. appeared today apparently in
fne fettle for a renewal of the con.esr.
with their ordeal of REORGANIZATION
behind them. the three defendants were
IN especially good humor. Even the oil
colonel, usually stern and taciturn.
smiled genially at his friends. shook
hands with some and seemed to enjoy a
playful push in the back given by his
youngest daughter. Mrs. Beverly Wilson
of Mobile
There was the usual large crowd
awaiting the opening of the court room
doors and the usual rush for seats in
the front row. But the regulars have
learned that the balcony is the real
vantage point and the heaviest crush is
now at this point.
As soon as Judge Hart raped for o.
der Judge Anderson of the defense ask
ed that the jury be excused. His re-
quest being granted by the court Judge
Anderson said:
call DR.. Glasgow. Now. if your hon
or pleases. the defendants are Informed
that after a few days-after the burial
of Senator Carmack, some time, we do
not know when, an autopsy was per-
formed by DIR. Glasgow. We have asked
Dr. Glasgow to tell us what he knows.
he has refused. We ask that he be
instructed to talk to us-not to volun-
teer Information, but to answer our
questions
Then Attorney General McCarn said:
we have instructed DR.. Glasgow not
to talk We retained DIR. Glasgow to
get certain facts for us These facts
the defendants know: They put those
bullets into Carmack's body. they shot
the bullets into the dead man. They
We're there and we We're not We have
no living witness to that killing. The
defense simply wants to know how
trying to get at our evidence
IF they want to put DR.. Glasgow on
the stand. under oath, then ali right.
We are willing, but they have no right
truth We know We are handling the
| case in our own way and we propose
to follow our own methods
1t will be recalled that no autopsy
| was held upon Senator Carmaclk's body
after the tragedy. In the middle of
November however, the states attor-
ney, accompanied by DIR. Glasgow and
| one other physician went to Colum-
bia, and disinterred the body of the
dead senator. The results of the au-
topsy were not made public. In fact
the first information even the defense
had of the affair was when it read the
account in the Associated Press dis
patches.
After the defense and states attor-
neys had separately retired and talked
with DR.. Glasgow, the defense called
DR.. G. B. Edwards, who had made an
X-ray photograph of Robin Cooper's
shoulder to learn whether or not the
bullet was still in the body. On cross
examination DR.. Edwards said he was
of the belief from the scar on Robins
shoulder, that the bullet never entered
the body, but merely ploughed through
the flesh.
DIR. Glasgow Called.
Then the defense called DR.. Glasgow.
"I performed an autopsy on Senator
Carmack's body at Attorne- General
McCarn's request on November 49," he
said.
How did you find the body?"
"In fairly good shape. The grave
had been opened and the body was on
body after death and found two wounds
made by the undertaken after 1 had
seen it. These wounds were made In
embalming.
There was one wound two inches be-
low the left nipple and one inch to the
inside The bullet passed through the
heart. Four and one-half inches be-
low the right nipple and one inch out
side was a wound from which a bullet
had been taken. An inch from the left
median line of the neck was another
wound which was black; the others
were clean. The bullet came out OF the
mouth, two teeth being loosened.
The third wound entered the chest
between the fourth and fifth ribs,
pierced the heart. wounded the ven
trfcle and passed down and forward
through the liver and reached the skin
beneath the sixth and seventh ribs. The
bullet was cut out from beneath the
skim
THAT'S all. take the witness"
I'VE will not cross examine" said
the state.
William Kenny. a travelling salesman,
who had a room in the Polk apartment
house overlooking the scene of the Kill
ing heard the shots. Two came to-
gether and were loud, ne said. Then
there was an interval and three shots
came very rapidly.