Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 70, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 February 1909 — PATTERSON BROUGHT INTO CARMACK CASE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

PATTERSON BROUGHT INTO CARMACK CASE

Defense Declares Juror Whitworth Expressed Dias.

Nashville. Tenn., Feb. 2.—For the first time the name of Governor Malcolm R. Patterson was- mentioned in tlie trial of Colonel Duncan B Cooper,

Robin J. Cooper and John D. Sharp for the killing of Senator E. W. Carmack. Judge W. M. Hart decided that Juror J. M. Whitworth was physically able to continue in the box. Immediately Judge Anderson of the defense announced that he had evidence that Whitworth had expressed a vilolent opinion and was tncompe tent. He declared that the defense preferred, because of Whitworth’s standing in the community, to see him excused because of illness He added, however, that his duty to his clients compelled him to ask that Whitworth be dismissed as incompetent. One of the first witnesses called by the defense swore Whitworth had declared that the killing of Carmack cost Governor Patterson many followers and that he, Whitworth, believed the governor had a hand In the murder. Another witness swore that Whit worth, a few days after the slaying, openly declared “every damned one of these men (defendants) ought to be hanged.” These charges will be investigated today.

J. M. ANDERSON.