The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1909-02-19
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1HlSIl, " NOu, Lu1S i1OGC SOSS.
The note referred to was the one
written by Col. Cooper to Senator
Carmack threatening the latter with
death if the editor referred to him
again.
The court refused to let Craig tell
how Carrnack received the informa-
tion about Cooper's attitude or say
that Carmack expressed regret.
The State next introduced in evi-
dence The Tennessean Of November
9. containing tlle editorial which led
to the killing, and which referred to
Cooper as the "diplomat Of the Zwei-
bund."
Craig said he did not know wheth-
er Carmack ever received the note
that Col. Cooper said would not be
misunderstood.
The defense passed eross-examina-
tion until later, and Mrs. Charles H.
Eastman, who was speaking with
Senator Carmack when he was kill
ed, was called.
She told how she met Carmack on
the day he was killed and identified
the exact spot.
1--WE Have the Drop on YOU
"We have the drop on youfww
"We were walking very slowly and
we met about two feet from the wall
which divides the Polk flats from the
adjoining property she said.
"Senator Carmack came swinging
along. His eyes lighted up with a
pleasant look Of recognition as
though about to stop and talk. We
stopped together by mutual agree
ment as it were. He was a little south
Of me. He raised his hat and held it
and was looking down into my eyes in
a listening attitude. His hat was in
his right hand, above his head, and
cigar in his left hand. I had begun
a sentence and he was absorbed in it,
when from behind me came a voice
saying: well, here you are. We have
the drop on you now. "
''Did you see any ones"
"No sir. The voice came from be-
hind and very near to me-
"What did you do?"
"Nothing. I saw Mr.. Carmack,
with hat still raised, look over my
shoulder with a look of surprised in
quiry. As he did so he ran his right
hand back into his pocket and drew
slowly a pistol. 1t seemed to catch.
eq4 ueqL 'eoeJ Am o. spueq Am md I
voice began again behind me and it
said:
"'You cowardly scoundrel hiding
behind woman's skirts, are you?
Get out you BASTARD.
"When I saw the revolver, I
jumped ITO one side and turned"
''What position did the revolver
occupy in the senator's hand?'
''It was upside down. That is, he
held it by the BARREL -
The prosecutor sent for the revol-
ver and the beautiful witness gave a
dramatic illustration Of tIhe senator's
position.
II put up both hands, she said,
'and jumped back like this. heard
the shot and turned; thought recog-
nized DR.. White as the man with the
revolver and l screamed and like
this: MY God, my God! Doctor,
don't shoot. Oh, don't, please
DON'T I then recognized that it was
Col. Cooper.
"Then I shrank against the fence
and saw young Cooper and at the
same time heard two other shots fir
ed so rapidly that I thought they
were simultaneous.
"Young Cooper was standing near
me, has arm extended as though Ill
the act Of firing a pistol. I was fear
fully wrought up. Senator Carmack
was lying in the gutter in pool of
blood and / turned and denounced
Col. Cooper.
"What did you say?"
II said he was brutal murderer;
that he had taken advantage Of my
presence to kill man without giving
him the chance Of a dog; that I'd
rather be the dead man in the gutter
than to be him.
"What did the boy do then?'
"He walked over, looked down at
Carmack's s body for a minute, then
walked to his father and put his arm
around the latter. They walked away.