Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 78, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 March 1909 — COOPER CASE WITNESS BOUGHT BY DEFENSE [ARTICLE]

COOPER CASE WITNESS BOUGHT BY DEFENSE

Post-Mortem Examination an Aid to Men on Trial / - -- Nashville, March 2. —The spectacle of counsel on one side not only selling a witness to the opposition, but haggling over the terms, was one of the incidents in the trial of Colonel D. B. Cooper, Robin Cooper and John D. Sharp for the slaying of former United States Senator E. W. Carmack.

The subject of the commercial transaction was Dr. McPheeters Glasgow, who had been employed by the prosecution to perform an autopsy on Carmack’s body. He was subpoenaed by the state but not used. The defense then summoned the doctor.

Attorney General McCarn made thia proposition: That if the defense would pay the state the costs of the autopsy, including Dr. Glasgow’s fee, the state would waive its rights. As Judge Hart said, "the defense wanted to see the goods before they bought,” and they offered to confer with Dr. Glasgow. To this the prosecutors entered an emphatic veto. "Pay whether you use him or not,* they said. Finally Dr. Glasgow became a witness for the defense. The significance of his testimony was \hat any one of the three wounds was necessarily and instantly fatal and. that if the senator did not fire the first shots be could not have fired at alt

S. J. Binning, formerly of 111., testified that on the day of the tragedy he saw Carmack examining a revolver near the scene of the shooting. Under cross-examination this wife ness became confused and weakened his direct testimony.