The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-03-16
the editorial was true and that Cooper

'Nke have heard q good deal of
talk about the failure to send the
note. When a man says if you do a
certain thing n of YOU must die, and
YOU do it, you do not need to wait for
q note, Go YOU?
There has been a contention here
that Car1nack DETAINED Cooper. Why,
gentlemen. Carmack knew that Coop
CT defaulted and embezzled as master
in ~chancery years before. If he had
wanted to defanle Cooper, why could
he not have printed these facts?"
\ Shot at Defense.
referring to the States failure to
put Mrs. Burch on the stand. Mccain
said the State had proved what it
wanted to by Mrs. Burch'S maid, and
she had gone on I would never have
referred to her story as a cock and
bun story Yet my distinguished
friend, Washington, asked Mrs. East
man if she shot nNOne that lay. and
he pirates Of Southern chiva!rN. Gun
sci has described how crippled the old
Colonel was and how he couldn't
shoot. But the Colonel didn't say he
couldn't shoot. He didn't tell Robin
he couldn't shoot. He pulled a gun
and said: i have this. to defend me-
| As a matter of fact, gentlemen. he
could shoot. Look. here is his pistol.
I turn my two fingers under as his
We're and see how easily and rapidly
l can SnOOt with the tnu11D ana -lIol
and second fingers
General Mccain launched into an
eloquent defense Of Miss Lee. "1hHy
say they took Colonel Cooper down
to Bradford's. Office to cool off. Why.
gentlemen. YOU might IS we'll talk Of
turning NesuNius upside down in hell
TO cool off. They took him to Rrai-
ford's office to cool off. The office OF
the man who said he could have killed
Carmack with as little remorse as he
would Kill a rattlesnake. But they
say only Miss Lee claims he said this,
and they attack Miss Lee. And she
sacrificed her home, her position, her
mothers living to tell the truth
He defended the little newsboy,
Johnny Tindall, and claimed the boy
as ~corroborated in his statements
that he heard Colonel Cooper say:
We Win set HIM by Colonel Cooper
himself. OF course they did not want
to meet Carmack on Church street,
there would have been fifty witnesses
there and they only needed one. S.
they decided to so up Union street to
Seventh They say it was
cruel persecution to have John Sharp
indicted. Do O think it is pleasant
for me to stand here and ask you to
convict OF murder in the first degree
the brother OF the clerk Of this court
who has been my friend for years?
Sharp's Part iii 1t.
John sharp was taken along for q
purpose-to witness tina killing and
he filed his purpose. They say he
put himself in a position where he
couldn't see it.
WHY, know John Sharp vel
enough to know that if he had beer
there Eonestly or accidentally he
would have done Whar you Would DC
or ! would do. He would have ruT
back. not walked. to where Carmacl
was lying. Why, his friend had beer
shot and his other friend was in
trouble. But he was confused by his
guilt and WIN Miss S~kiftington sudden
ly confronted hin and asked what j
was he blurted out the truth: 1t is
Dune Cooper shooting Carn1ack.' ~
He refused to tell any one VIVA
he knew: refused to describe tn
tragedy. Is that the act of an limo
cent man? No. it IS the act Of a de
PENDANT after he has been instructed
by a clever attorney. These fact
here show beyond a reasonable doubt
that Sharp was an accessory before
the fact
General McCarn placed two rolf.
Of wire fence on the floor to represen
the telephone poles and demonstrate
to the jury how the defendants sa.
the shooting took place. This story
he claimed. was contradicted absO
:, lutely by the physical facts. He calet
Garner over to assume the position
! that Robin says Carnlack took. H
| showed that the two wounds through
the heart We're downward. Teh de
Tense claims they were inflicted first
McCarn argued that they could not.
! He showed that the two wound
/ through the heart were downward
The defense claims they were inflicted
? first.
i McCarn argued that they could no
AVE been. hat they We're inflicted
? when Carmack was falling as the
ranged so directly downward. The
/ he had Garner turn his head to dem
onstrate that q third shOt fired b
Robin after the two bullets near tn
heart could not have passed into tn