The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1909-03-02
NEW FEATURE IN
COOPER TRIAL
DEFENSE WANTED SECRETS
HELD BY ONE OF THE
STATES WITNESSES.
Paid Expenses of Physician Who
Made Autopsy on Body of Senator
carmack and Then Placed
Him on the Stand.

Nashville, Tenn. March l,-Re-
freshed after oay and half ad-
iournment, and with their lines OF bat
tie reformed. counsel in the Cooper
Sharp trial for the staying OF former
senator f. w Carmack appeared in
court this morning Tor renewal ot
the contest
With their ordeal of cross-eNaml-
nation behind them, the three det n
dants were in especially good hunor.
Even the colonel, usually stern and
taciturn smiled generally at his var
ious friends, shook hands with some
and seemed to enjoy the playful push
in the back given him by mis- young ST
daughter, Mrs Beverly Wilson, OF MO
bile. There was the usual large crowd
awaiting the OPENING OF the court
room doors.
As soon as Judge Hart raped IoI
order Judge anderson, OF the detens =,
said: III your honor please, We have
q matter to submit and we deem it
hest to present it in the absence 0. the
jury
4rake out the jury. said the court
call DR.. Glasgow. said Judge An
derson.
Now. if your honor please, the
defendants are informed that "a few
days AFTER the burial of Senator
Carmack. some time we do not know
when. ain autopsy VAS performed by
Dr Glaseow He says. 10 h credit
however. that he is personally " tmS,
bnf that he mas been INSTRUCTED ty the
state not 20 talk We ask that ne be
instructed to talk to us. not to vol
unteer any information, but to answ n
our questions
Then Attorney General Mccarn
sald
we have instructed Dr. Glasgo"
not 10 talk. We retained Dr Glas-
gov 10 get certain facts for us. Tn Sc
facts the defendants know 1ney put
those bullets into Carmacks body,
tnes shot the bullets into the dead man
Ta were there. and we were not We
have no living witness TO that killing
Tie defense simply wants to know
hon much we know and we object 10
tF4.y irving 10 get at our evidence, IT
tfev want 10 put Dr. Glasgow on the
stand under oath. then all right. We
are willing, but they have no right TO
II. TO find out just how much OF the
trt,th we know we would have the
same right to call DR.. Lucius Burch
aud question him as TO the wound in
flioted upon his brother-in law, but We
did not have the nerve. Some papers
said that we had decided not to put
Dr. GLASGOW on the stand That is nm
true. We are handling this case IN
GU way and we propose 10 follow our
own methods.
Wante4 by Defense.
General Washington replied for the
defense and said that when the state
closed its case without using Dr. Glas-
gov the defense subpoeanaed the doc
tor. that he was defense's witness, and
thai under all rules Of procedure the
d tense was entitled 10 know what in
formation he had before it put him on
the stand.
II will be recalled that no autopsy
was held on Senator Carmack's body
after the tragedy. Two physicians cut
out two bullets that passed through
his abdomen, but these bullets were
directly under the skin. No measure
ments were made. so no effort to dis
cover the range OF the bullets was at
tempted. Early in January, however,
the states attorneys, accompanied by
Or Glasgow and one other physician,
went to Columbia and disinterred the
body of the dead senator. The results
of rhe autopsy were not made public.
In fact the first information even the
defense had of the affair was when
it read an account in the press dis
patches
Attorneys for the state again replied
and the argument occupied consider
able time. Finally the defense agreed
upon tn states bargain to pay the
fees of DR. Glasgow, and he was then
placed on the stand.
His testimony was to the effect that
all three wounds were instantly fatal,
or that any one Of them would have
caused Senator Carmack death
The object Of the defense in intro
ducing this testimony was to show
that Senator Carmack fired the first
shot and could not have fred after ne
had been shot.
Another Witness.
s. j Binning was next placed on