The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-03-16
BY Associated Press.


/ Nashville. Tenn. March 15.-The
/ general belief that the case would so
/ 10 the jury today caused the largest
crowd vet assembled to try to get into
I the court room for the final scenes in
1ne Cooper-Sh8rp murder trial. After
/ Attorney-General McCsrn had closed
/ for the state. Judge Hart announced
/ that he had not completed his charge,
baJ hoped TO be ready sometime to-
morrow.
I General McCarn spoke only little
/ over an hour this morning, but clos
ed with a burst of elOquence, in a
! farewell invocation TO Carmack, the
: statesman, patriot. diplomat. Christian,
/ gentleman and friend"
/ General McCarn's argument was
considered to be a remarkably able and
/ strong one. This was ais first big
/ ca Sc, and almost the first he has &C
! tually tried since he took the oath
CT office last September. and friends
weTe out in force 10 see how he &C
quilted himself. AT the conclusion OF
/ the proceedings they crowded around
kiln as he sat with his eyes filled
! with tears, and fairly overwhelmed
| kila5 with eon&Es TAI stionss Mrs. Care
RACK was ian court again today. heay-
: lily yelled as usual When McCarn
reached his peTOTatiOn. she leaned
over and rested her head upon her sis
! tiers shoulder. Little Ned Carmack
sa- on the lap of one Of the attorneys
I foT the state and listened injentlv TO
every word spoken.
; When court adjourned number OF
McCarns friends surrounded him and
/ escorted him home. The alleged
! threats that this day they would get
away with McCarn." alarmed that OF
iCiaTs intimsteS. but he only laughed
at the rumors.
( IN BETTER VOICE
( When Attorney General McCarn
J resumed his closing argument today
/ he was in better voice than he was on
! Saturday.
/ AT the time of adjournment. / had
gone over the immediate facts of the
! tragedy. ! had shown YOU by physi-
cal facts that Senator CaTmack had
! been saot in the back. Don't forget
thai He was shot ia the back-he
was shot from behind, from the back.
They ask us for our theory Well,
4 gentlemen, my theory is that the bull
/ let which came out of CaTmack's
II Cutn entered the back. And it Is no
more ChivslToUs 10 shoot a dead man
! iB the back Than 10 shoot a live one.
/ That bullet Is the only one that rang
/ ed up. Two bullets ranged downward
? y
I ing and the shots do not range up
ward No. gentlemen. these defend
! ants are not only aSsaSsins of Car
mack. but they are COwardly assaSSinS
on facts
Do not take The doctors word.
, lake the facts Doctors can tell you
the range of pills but they are not eX-
p6rts on the range of bullets They
tel YOU Carmack couldn't do anything
after he was shot in the back-do YOU
know I think that's why they slot
him in the back-that they had that
in mind when they shot aim from
behind.
Counsel tell Won that you're not
irving ordinary criminals, that these
are men OF iHsuishCd ancestry.
Wei when men in pairs hunt another
m@n. approach him from behind and
xii him then lis time for some OF
the descendants. the TAIL of the an
ct.stors. to 5e cut OF They have
pleaded Justification Yes they have
Judge Anderson. in MS splendid
speech he other day. tried 10 explain
away General MeekS's statement that
the uuwrittnn Law should apply. Bur
If General Meeks didn't mean il why
did he follow il with the significant
statement the streets of our city
have run red before with Ine blood Of
mer who used other me7'p name I'M
Iustlv in ueWSpa pcTS-
Judge Anderson explained mighty
c,everIy. but the facts are against
him.
RECoUNTED CIRCUMSTANCES
General Mccain nerifly recOunted
lie circumstance of the meeting on
Seventh avenue and declared that The
CCopers committed an overt act He
drnhrss4 e -1a defendants told the
t.aIh He asked il they could see
Cl-msck 4O8 feet away. and didn't
SEE Carey Folk teR feet away what
Construction could De Hut upon il. ex-
ceET thai they we're looking for Car
mack He depIoTed The length 0.
rHa tri2I and blamed the 'a~yers
"Nou could have learned the truth
Gf tii> case gentlemen. n one dav.