The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-03-11

| Robins heart no hatred, but a desire
to preserve the peace. They reach
Seventh avenue and start TO cross
Union street Is there anything In
their demeanOr to cause Carmack to
fear an assault? We can take John
Sharp's own testimony that there was.
Sharp says at first he thought there
would be only personal difficulty. But
| he says, when I remembered how
| Colonel Cooper pulled away from
Robin and how he looked, ] feared
more serious trouble. There is the
| deadly key to the tragedy. They tell
you they were going over there on a
| peaceable mission, yet Sharp says he
| feared there would be serious trouble
and he was SO sure of it that, at a
single glance he told Miss Skefington
/ that that was Cooper shooting Car
mack Now General Meeks declares
that this clears John Sharp, because
Sharp did not have knowledge of the
! impending trouble from Colonel Coop
er's manner when the latter caught
sight of Senator Carmack. / agree
with General Meeks. That's not where
! Sharp got HE knowledge of an assas-
sinatiOn impending. Sharp says he
had no knowledge of the threats
/ Colonel Cooper had made or the notes
he had written. But Carmack had
knowledge. Now if their manner was
such as to make Sharp believe they
would assault Senator Carmaek, was
not their manner, coupled with the
| threats, enough to make Carmack be-
lieve it?
The colonel tells you he didn't wait
| on the corner lest the waiting be
pregnant with meaning-an overt act
| So he thinks it safer to walk down
the street behind Mrs Eastman and
come upon Senator Carmack I'M
aWares.
Now, Senator Carmack, in the act
OF raising his hat TO Mrs. Eastman.
sees suddenly, Colonel Cooper stand
ling Stili-not walking, mind yOu-but
| standing still with one arm extended.
He sees the cOlonePs son, Is feet in
the street, circIing around behind him.
He sees on Colonel Cooper's face the
look that made John Sharp know q
moment later that Cooper had killed
! CarmRck. They say now that Car
mack at once drew a gun. Cooper
says so, Robin corroborates him. John
Sharp, who sees 1t all, says that is
not true, that Robin drew a pistol and
that Carmack did not draw his re-
vOlver until he got to the poles. But
If Senator Carmack drew a gun, why
didn't he shoot? What does a mar
draw a gun for except TO shoot? Yet
they would have you believe that Car
mack waited until Robin, who says
he was paTalyzed for an instant,
| jumped between Carmack and his
father. / ask you II that is believ-
able. Col. Cooper swears Carmack
was going around the pole when he
first saw Robin swing between him
and the senator and as Robin paused,
Carmack fired. What, in the name OF
| Cod 6a waiting f0rP
| SHOULD ANALYZE TESTIMONY.
| Il tell you, gentlemen, you must
analyZe this testimony. l want you to
look at this map now and watch me
as / point out to you the dilemma
they have placed themselves in. in or
| der to get a verdict from yOu that
will set them free.
| General Garner placed the plat OF
the scene Of the tragedy on the floor,
put two books up to represent the
poles and demonstrated that it would
be a physical impOssibiIity for Car
mack to have shot Robin from be-
tween the poles. OF course, the de
tense does not admit that the poles
were placed as Garner placed them,
! and as one OF the poles has been cut
down, there is q conflict on this point
that never can be settled.
81 tell you, gentlemen" General
/
| hind that pole, not to protect his faith
er but to save himself. Is there a
man here who does not marvel at
John Sharp's efforts to evade answer
ing my questions? And finally he
puts CaTmacA off the sidewalk. He
| tries to put him back again, but fails
and has to admit that he was mistak-
en-.
| Colonel Cooper, when you ap-
/ preached Carmack, stopped at an un-
| usual distance, raised your hand in
I an unusual manner and saw the look
Of anxiety on Carmack's face, why
didn't you call out to him that you
meant no harm? And you, gentle
men, do you believe that Colonel
| Cooper when he saw Carmack reach
| for that revolver failed to draw the
gun he himself had procured for that
/ purpose? Do you believe he waited
/ TO see whether Robin was killed or
not before he drew the gun which he
said he drew to kill Carmack If he
killed my soni' Do you believe Robin
| Cooper, armed with the latest deadly
weapon, failed 10 draw that weapon
/ when he saw Carmack with a gun aim
/ ed at his father, until this dead antag-
/ onist had crossed the sidewalk and
/ fired into his own body? Senator
| Carmack was shot twice through the
| heart and once through the spinal
coTd-either one of which would prove
/ fatal Those shots, those bullets.
were placed into his form, as testi-
! ned by t1e defendants and their wit
nesSes, as rapidly as it was possible
/ to move the finger of the hand. so fast
( that one witness said he could not in
! dictate with his hand the sound of the