The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1909-03-08

G00PEH-S6ARRE TRIAL.
Nashville, March 8.-A large aud
women. was present today to hear the
closing argument in the Cooper.
Sharpe rial. Judge Hart warned the
audience against any demonstration.
81 have been told" he said. ethat
some people ave been brought here
to express approval or disapprOval. l
can scarcely believe 1t, but / want to
say that any n who apPlauds or
Kisses or comments upon the argum-
tent, will wish she or he had never
lone it."
Mrs. Carmack sat in her usual seat,
a huge leather arm chair, with her
son, Ned, IN its arm. With the de-
PENDANTS were b daughters of Col.
Cooper, Mrs. Sharpe and a O or
more women friends of the ladies
Captain Fdtzhugh began his argu-
ment with mingled feelings of regret
and pleasure that I should have to aid
in an inquiry into the death of my
dearest friend" :.
Continuing, he said, o the the af-
ternoon of November 9th. there was
enacted upon the streets of this city,
a tragedy which robbed a woman of
her tenderest husband, a boy of a
loving father and the commonwealth
OF a statesman whose achievements
have added lustre and glory to the
tate. It is murder when a man takes
life upon a sudden impulse, n how
much more is it murder when the
mans heart is full of malice and re-
venge, that he spends all day Sunday
and Monday in devising the ways and
means of taking the life of the man
he hates SO bitterly"
Next Fitzhugh explained how on
Sunday night, November Sth, Col.
Cooper me Craig and made threats
against CaTmack, and how these
threats were transmitted to the dead
senator.
"Col. Cooper met Craig on person
al business but he pressed the busin-
ess to one side, and revealed what was
in his heart Continuing the speaker
said:
HE used his friend Craig's money.
HE owed all his friends money and
he newer bothered about money owed.
| This did not bother him, but he broke
| out and said: IF my name appears IN
the Tennessean again, Carmack or l
| must die, This is b man who is a
| self-confessed lobbyist for a railroad;
| this is the man who is charged by
| reputable men with having embezzled
money entrusted to his n this is
| the man whose name has been band
| led about the state; this is the mar
| whose dark and devious ways have
| not been uncovered and who dared to
| send word to an honest and upright
Journalist, that if his name appeared
in the Tennessean again n of them
must die. And when the tragedy is ov
| er the defendant began to loo for a
| cause for excuse"
THAT excuse was that Carmack
| had referred to the little bald-headed
angel, Dunes Cooper, and had asked:
Did the angel come from above or be-
low, and was there a smell of sulphur
on his wings?" :.
SIS that reason enough to Kill a
man? Why gentlemen, Hartman,
Rockefeller and Morgan are private
| citizens, but we know they exercise
a powerful control yer public affairs.
Their uames appear daily in the pub
lie press, yet who ever heard of elth-
| er of these men hunting down an ed
itor n assassinating him on the
| street. They never challenged the
| right of the press to keep the public
Informed and Col. Cooper, when he
went into politics made it their duty
to watch him"
During this bitter arraignment,
Cooper sat quietly with his hands fold
ed, his eyes shut as if asleep. Not so
with his daughters. The stately Mrs.
Burch's yes filled with tears and
were asst down, while Mrs. Wilson,
petite aud active, watched the prose
cutting attorney %intently, her black
eyes flashing angrfly.