SENATOR CARMACK.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 792, 15 April 1910, Page 5

SENATOR CARMACK.

i-■.'■': .'■■'■. ' ——— '• •'■■:. V' I HIS MURDERER PARDONED. :\ • n> Teldererii -Press Association—Oonirrlrtl '.' ; .; ~ New York, April ,13. ,% 1 -The Supremo Cqurt: of Tennessee con-.." firmed tho sentence of twenty years', im- ' ■'■ prisonment passed on Colonel Copper iu March of last, year for tho murder of Senator Carmacic and granted Robin :. Cooper,, his son, are-trial.. , , ' The Governor thereupon parpoped Colonel Cooper; Mr. Carmack's friends ar?, iiidignant at the hasty action of the ■' ; Governor.. ' '.'.' . ■ lEx-Senatpr Carmack was met in the i street at Nashville by Colonel Copper ami his son, Kobin Cooper, tind ytas sno|; and killed, ill the three were armed,.' arid , it is said that young. Cooper fired . first, Mr. Carmack replying. It is also ■ ; said that Colonel Cooper's pistol was , not'discharged. 'Mr. Carmack was a.prohibitionist, a political opponent of , Colonel Cooper, and editor of tho Na?h T yillo "Tennessean." His articles in'that papnr had offiadei Colonel. Cooper.] ■;