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COOPERS' CHIEF LAWYER SPEAKS. Defence Fires Its 16-Inch Gun With Telling Effect-Best Criminal Attorney in Tennessee As sail the Prosecution. Nashville, Tenn., March 12.-The sixteen-inch gun of the defence's bat teries was trained upon the State to day with telling effect, when Judge James McFerran Anderson began his argument in the trial of Col. D. B. and Robin Cooper and John D. Sharp for the murder of former United'. States Senator E. W. Carmack. Judge Anderson, who is considered the ablest criminal lawyer in the State, is chief counsel for, defence. Strange ly enough he was a close personal friend and political supporter of Sen ator Carmaek. Although in bad health and worn with the strain of ten weeks of active work his speech today, instead of dimming his reputa tion, has added only lustre to it. Anderson is not a dramatic orator. He adopts no theatrical devices. He does not speak in metaphors nor in dulge in- sentimental appeals. Only once did he refer to Col. Cooper as "the old soldier" and not once did e appeal to the sympathies of the jurors. He boldly disclaimed any idea of pleading that any editorial or speech could jusuify the slaying of Carmak and declared that his clients' ease rested solidly and alone upon the first law implanted in all living be ings-the law of self-pre'servation. Then he boldly plunged into a dissec tion of evidence and an application of law and startled his hearers by sol emnly asserting that Robin would have been justified in killing Caraaek be'i,re he did. He elaimed that Col. Coope'r, after having been assailed in print and up on the platform, had a right to seek out his defamer any place he might find him and demand that these as saults stop. He claimed further that Robin had a right to go with his fath er, and both of them had a right to go armed for their own protection if they believed that their protestations and demands would lead to an\ assault upon them. Judge Anderson declared that this was the law, that he quoted it merely to show how strongly the courts pro tect the right of self-defence, and to make manifest Robin Cooper's reluc tance to shoot until he had himself been shot. An immense throng gathered to hear Judge Anderson, but splendid order was maintained.. The speaker grew very weak about 4.30 p. in., and asked a continuance until to-morrow, whren he will close the defence's case. He will be followed by Attorney Gen -eral McCarn, who will close for the State, and after the Judge's charge * the case will go to the jury. Gen. Washington Resumes. ~When court opened Gen. Washing ton began the conclusion of his argu ment. Opening with reference to the attacks on Bradford, he said: "These thungry, starving lawyers for the prosecution, hungry and starv ing for facts, would have you believe that thi.s splendid lawyer, this Chris tian gentleman, this scion of an aris tocratic old family, suddenly became a traging he-devil.'' H~e then passed to a defene~ of Gen. Tulley Brown and, after reciting the latter's war record, said: "I tell you Brown is as much a hero as Hobson was. Yet they say he lied." Washington then made an attack upon the testimony of Miss Lee, in dulging in mimicry, which brought a laugh from the crowd lined up behind the defendants, previously referred to by Attorney 'General McCarn as the "defendants' rooters.'' Gen. Wash ington then turned his attention to the actual shooting and, with the aid of a messenger boy, reenacted the tragedy, in accordance with his the ory of the killing. He declared that Robin had a right to shoot Carmack like a dog. Again and again he said that Carmack was a coward, that he hid behind Mrs. Eastman, trying to get his revolver ready for action. Then Washington returned to the scabbard found in Carmack 's over coat'pocket, comparc .1 it and the Car mack pistol to Ruth and Naomi, and told the beautiful story in his own original way with a revolver in one hand. "And like Ruth and Naomi.'' he concluded, "this scabbard and this pistol elove togther. You cannot sep arate them. and 'this is why we can identify the Carmack pistol so ao lutelv.'' At another point Washington .ox claimed: "It .is cowardly to skulk in a room and write editorials. It is not cowarly to go out into the sunlight, bare yourself and demand an inter viewv that vou have a right to ask. Why. Robin would have had a right to kill Carmack the instant he made a step) towards his father. Washinzton concluded at 11.15 a. mn.. hiaving spoken 11 hours and 15 minutes. Judge Anderson Begins. Judge Anderson then began the fin al argument for the defence. He said in opening: "The deceased was a great man, a United States Senator, and a man of national prominence. The defendants are known all over the State. Sena tor Carmack had the same right to live that the humblest citizen had to live, no more and no less. And Rob in Cooper had the same right to kill Carmack as the poorest and humblest citizen of the State had to kill a man in self-defence. And that is why the case is a great one.'" Anderson touched tactfully upon the attacks made by the State upon the credibility of certain witnesses for the defence. "I heard during this trial something I never heard be fore in a court of justice. I. hearo the lawyer for the State charge Gen. Meeks with wilfully falsifying the re cord." He said Meeks would not do such a thing. He then referred to the occas ion when Gen. Meeks quoted from the testimony of Governor Patterson, which the court excluded, adding: "I am going to be more charitable to Gen. Garner than he was to Gen. Meeks, and say, I believe he was mis taken.'' "And Gen. Garner says, too, that we say Mrs. Eastman lied. You know -that is false. There is no man on the defence who would be guilty of such ungentlemanly and unethical conduct. "Those of you who know my per sonal and political fondness for Sen ator Carmack know that I regretted his death. My sincerest prayer is that the God of the widow and the orphan will tenderly guard the gentle woman and the beautiful boy, who are left to mourn. Carmack Had Revolver. "The State cannot dispute," he said, "that Carmack had a revolver secured from Major Vertrees, that he dhad it at the moment of his meeting with the Coopers, that he drew that revolver and that he fired it. No one can say that Carmack had a right to -draw or fire that pistol. The State insinuates that an honorable and hon est'young man, a retired army officer, tampered with the Carmack revolver or substituted discharged shells for loaded ones. I wili prove to you that Senator Carmack brought on the diffi culty that ended in his death." With this preface Anderson traced early relations between Cooper and Car mack, and said: "'here was a debt owed by Car mack to Cooper-not money, but the debt that hurts and stings and burns when its payment is 'wit.hheld-the debt of gratitude.'' Judge Anderson recounted the story of Carmack''s youth, Cooper's patronage, the political success of the dead man, the continued friendship of the pair, the political campaign of Carmack and Taylor, the break in the friendship and the quarrel that ended in the killing. Editorials Do Not Justify Murder. "There is no contention that editor ial utterances ever justify the taking of human life. It has been charged that Gen. Meeks 'has applied the un written law to this case. Now as I understand it, Gen. Meeks simply said that men had been killed for less of fence, was it not, general ''" Gen. Meeks nodded gravely in as sent. Judge Anderson next took up the editorials, referring to certain pa'ra graphs as ".poisoned arrows.'' He said Col. Cooper was justified in de mianding of Carmack ''that the offen sive use of his name should cease.' "Did vou ever .listen to more with ering skreasm, more biting scorn, more poisonous innuendo than in these editorials written by the greet est master of invective tha.t the South has produced ? '' asked Anderson. Cooper, he said, determined that these attacks should cease, so he wrote a note. All he asked wgs that he, a private -eitizen, be permitted to live out this days in peace. "W\hat if Col. Cooper did say 'one of us must die ?' The man had been driven to desperation. Did Carmaek, when he got that message recall the day when Cooper gave him the only opportunities he ever had~? Did he remember the Colonel's family? His beautiful, sensitive daughters, his young sons? Did he recall the old days? Oh. why did he not say to Ed Craig: 'Tell my old friend I did not mean to hurt him; that I was only ha *n1 little honest fun. "But the news brought to him by Ed Craig that his old friend was be ing tortured to death by his merciless pen, delighted him so that he looked pleased.' Think of it, he looked pleas. ed, you remember that the State brought it out. Yes, so pleased over his old benefactor's agony that he telephoned out in an hour andl secure~d a revolver. That's how pleased he wa s. - IConspiracy Theory Scouted. Juidze Anderson scouted the con rae - theo. .IIe said he would not u nsult the intelligence of t-he jury by argning that the meeting on Seventh li;n tViucital. Ile tL lared tiuat Col. Cooper had a right to cross the street and address Carmack. "The interpretation you put upoj Col. Cooper 's action depends upon his character and his purpo.e in going over there, not upon the fact that he did go over there. If Robin Cooper had gone over there and struck Sena toi Carmack with his fist, and if after being struck Senator Carmack had drawn a -revolver, Robin Cooper would have had a legal and moral right to kill Carmack. Tihat, gentlemen, is the law of this State." Judge Anderson then devoted near ly an hour to quoting decisions, read ing in many instances the entire case reported. "When a man has abused you and you go to him -and demand that he stop it, and you fear you may offend him and that he may assault you," declared Anderson, "you have a right to put a pistol in your pocket. If you h'ave this Tight -and the law says you have, then you -have a right to defend yourself, if in the exercise of that right, your opponent assaults you." Turns Attention. to Mrs. Eastman. Judge Anderson then turned his at tention to Mrs. Eastman's testimony. He said Mrs.- Eastman's memory and her oondition mentally when she wit nessed the shooting were responsible for the inaecuracies in her testimony. "Mrs. Eastman is a beautiful, an exquisitely beautiful and surpassing ly charming woman," said Judge An derson. "I yield to no one in mytad miration for her. But she is a deli cate, nervous, excitable woman. Let -s see some things Mrs. Eastman did not see. She did not see Robin at all until it was nearly over. She did not see Col Cooper s revolver, yet he says himself he had it drawn. She says Carmack reeled, staggered out into the street and fell. It could not have happened, gentlemen. If he had reel-. ed and staggered out into the street he would have fallen that way; his head, not to the north, as he was fouad. but with his head to the east. She says she did not see Senator Car mack fire, yet we know that be did. And I still believe that Mrs. Eastman believes every word she told you was a statement of what she saw. She thinks she saw it, but she was excited and frightened and nervous." Judge Anderson then analyzed Rob in's story and declared every word of it was reasonable. 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