The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-02-28
GOVERNOR PATTERSON
MAKES GOOD WITNESS
FOR COLONEL COOPER
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the dead wagon, when someone handed
me a green hat and said it was his"
What did you do with it?9
4 do not recaly. l gave it to someone"
WAS it Carmacks hat?a
4 understand it was not the senator s."
How did you know?'
u never saw him wear a green hat and
the hat he wore a few hours before was
different. 1t was a brown derby"
The witness told how upon hearing Sen
ator Carmack had been shot he ran from
the capital a block away to the scene of
the tragedy.
You came down Seventh avenue on
the same side of the street that John
Sharp, one of the defendants, claims he
went up toward the capitol?"
Strong Objections.
There was chorus of objections by the
defense and the court ruled that he could
tell upon what side of the street he
walked and the jury could decide upon
what side John Sharp said he walked
The state then took the plat Of the scene
of the murder and had the witness point
out which side he traversed on his walk.
Was it a smoky afternoon"
1T was "a most unusually smoky day.
Forest fires had been raging, 1t was
cloudy and there was no wind SO the
pail of smoke hung over the city,
"Coul you tell or see a blue steel pistol
half a block away?"
q could not"
The defense objected and the court said
the witness could give his opinion.
did you see as you approached any
one at the scene of the tragedy"
Il saw "a group of people indistinctly."
could you recognize any of them?a
mo sir it was too smoky and dark"
when you got near the group, did you
find any of your friends?n
Il Gid"
But you could not recognize them from
the corner of Union street and Seventh
avenue?'
No, sir"
Found Some Friends.
would it be possible for any one TO
recognize a man standing near the scene
of the killing from the corner?" John
Sharp swore that he did
Il do not think So
The defense objected and the court held
thai the question should be;
How close TO the scene of the tragedy
| did you have to get before you could
! recognize any one?"
| The state declined to put it, however,
ard excused Mr.. Thompson for the pres
ent.
The aim of the state was to show that
it was impossible for the Coopers to rec
ognize Senator Carmack nearly block
away or for John Sharp to see the trag-
edy in every detail from the corner as
he swore he did.
Met John D. Sharp.
Roscoe Mathews, a tailor, next told of
meeting John D. Sharp in the Arcade
the afternoon of the tragedy, of stopping
him and soliciting an order for a suit of
clothes. This corroborates Sharp's tes-
timony TO the same effect. While talking
to Sharp, Colonel Cooper and Robin came
up and were introduced He was cross
examined very briefly, nothing new devel-
! opins.
Or. Richard Dake whose office was
across the street from the scene of the
killing, next told how he heard the shots
and ran to the window. He heard five
shots with an interval between the first
and second shots which were louder thar
the latter shots.
II rushed out. / saw Robin leaning
against the pole, Colonel Cooper with his
arm around his son, and Carmack's body
In the street.
"What did you do?''
II made a hasty examination of Car,
mack'g body and found he was dead
Then waited for an officer"
sTEow was he lymgr'
'1dead to the north. partly on his righ'