Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-03-12
THE MURDER OF CARMACK
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m Miss Lee says he was in Brad
ford's Office between II and H."
General Garner next turned his at
tention to Judge Bradford and declar-
ed that the latter's testimony had been
impeached, adding: This is the man
who said I could have killed Senator
would kill a rattlesnake.'
1.-The day moves on and the defend
ants are armed. The three men reach
Union street together and start to
cross Union street. They tell you they
are going over there on peaceable
mission, yet Sharpe says he feared
there would be serious trouble and he
was so sure Of 1t that at a single glance
he told Miss Skeffington that that's
Colonel Cooper shooting Carmack.
1.-The colonel tells you he didn't wait
on the corner lest the waiting be preg-
nant with meaning-an overt act--so
he thought 1t safer to walk down the
street behind Mrs. Eastman and come
upon Senator Carmack unawares."
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 1t would
be a physical impossibility for Car
IIldCh W HdNC 5llOl IhoDih bS
tween the poles. OF course, the de-
fense does not admit that the poles
were placed as Garner placed them
and as one of the poles has been cut
down there is a conflict on this point
"They tell you that after receiving
the two wounds in the heart Carmack
turned his head and received the third
bullet in the neck. Yet these bullets
were fired so rapidly that man
their own witness-says he could not
Initiate the reports
Gentlemen, l see in the location OF
these wounds the accusing finger OF
God, making 1t impossible that justice
should miscarry. They swore that the
senator only turned his head. But
listen, gentlemen, we have here an
other mute witness which all the law
yers on Gods earth cannot impeach
Here is the senator's collar. 1t has
in the centre Of the back bullet hole
II Carmack's body did not turn round
and they swear 1t did not, how could
that bullet hole be In the centre Of the
back Of the collar, for the collar does
not turn with the head?"
General Garner paid a tribute tt
Mrs. Eastman.
"Oh, Carmack! II you had to 60
without last blessing on your hearts
idol, your son, IL you had to leave
without last kiss from your wife
are you not glad that beautiful Mrs
Eastman was there when you went?
They say she lied" he exclaimed
Hell never instigated a blacker cal
umny.
"And now we come to Binning, the
sainted Binning, police Judge Of Dan
Vile, ILL.,, and cook on a house-boat
Now Binning lied and you know he
lied. / want to say that I do not be-
lieve that Mr. Meeks had any more
to do with securing or drilling Binning
than I had. I know how such wit
nesses come. Binning knew that there
were no eye-witnesses to the killing
except the defendants. So he got into
the game"
Coming to the scabbard testimony
Garner said:
Now there is no doubt that the
scabbard was in Senator Carmack's
possession the night before. But
where has it been since?
'I'll tell you; somebody put that
scabbard there after the clothing had
been searched three times. Why, i
don't know. I would like to know,
though, why they are manufacturing
evidence.
Colonel Cooper's defense must
rest upon anything, upon the avowal
that he had no evil intent and this
must be supported by statement
which has not been made, that he
notified Carmack to this effect.
There is one significant fact In this
trial. Who knows how many pistols
Colonel Cooper had and to whom they
were delivered. Sergeant Meadows
says he got this new, shiny, unfired
pistol that night at the police station
from Sergeant Reid. That was hours
after Carmack's death. Where Is
Sergeant Reid? He was not pro-
duced."
General Garner next described Car
mack's mental condition before the
shooting, when witnesses testified that
he was jolly and pleasant.
Mrs. Eastman says she did not see
Senator Carmack fire and she does
not think he did fire. II you believe
otherwise, you believe that Mrs. East
man perjured herself. She says she
saw a young man., Robin, coming UP
from behind and then the firing be-
gan. And then, too, gentlemen, they
murdered Senator Carmack. l don't
care what your verdict is, whether
you acquit or convict, but the Coopers
entrapped and foully murdered E.
w. Carmack.
AFTER the murder-listen now to
what this old spark Of Southern chiv-
airy says to his own daughter, 1t Is
all over, 1t Is all over. Is that the
voice Of an honest man? Or Is 1t the
voice Of murderer?
mo, it is not all over. That was
your day, Colonel Cooper, now is the
day Of the law. Justice demands
that the murderers be punished, the
law demands that the murderers be
punished. The voice Of the dead
cries to you, gentlemen, for justice" "
General Garner closing at $40 p.
m, had spoken four hours.
General washington then began
the defense and he grew fiery at once.
He attacked Garner for intimating
that Lieutenant Pitcher had tamper-
ed with Carmack's revolver. Garner
arose and said he had not so charg-
ed.
IT know you didn't, you don't dare
to do 1t, but you intimated that the
son of old General Pitcher, who bears
the star Of honor on his brow, was
thief, a scoundrel, liar and per-
jurer, and you can't say or intimate
those things when I am around.
This is a sad, sad case. My heart
and the hearts Of my clients go out
to that stricken woman, to the beau
tiful boy. She Is an aristocratic,
southern girl, to the manor born.
am not here to rob one star from the
diamond that glistens for the deceas-
ed or to steal one rose from the
wreath Of his memory. I am not here
to defame the dead. He was great
statesman, a brilliant editor; l know
1t we'll. l am here to help to investi-
gate the truth, to strip the glamour
from the case and show you the man;
he wrote with a brilliance that put
his name into the literature of the
south; he spoke with a fire and pow
er that filed the galleries Of the
United States senate; he was all that
was great.
Gen. Washington described how bril-
liant the services of Carmack were,
but said that on his appeal for re-
election he was opposed by Colonel
Robert Taylor.
when a man has the poison of a
scorpion in his pen, the sting OF a
wasp in his words and the venom OF
rattlesnake under his tongue, he
may be brilliant, but people want a
man at Washington who can help
them" He said that while Robin
supported Carmack, Colonel Cooper
committed the objectionable sin Of
believing that Taylor would make a
halter senator than Carmack Tay-