Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-07-06
Effort Resumed to Discover
the Person Guilty of Shoot
ing Mrs. Bailey.
TRAGEDY OF WEEK AGO
IN DR.. CARMAN'S OFFICE
Colored Youth Testifes He Saw Man
Run Toward Back Fence After
Shot Was Fired.

who was shot and killed last Tuesday
night while in consultation with Dr. Ed
win Carnan. a prominent Freeport ply
sician. in his office. was resumed today.
Assistant District Attorney Weeks ex-
hibited an unopened box of .4S-caliber re-
volver cartridges. which he said he had
found in the attic of the Carman home
DR.. Carman told him. said Weeks. that
he did not know how the cartridges came
to be in his house. A .3s-calber bullet
killed Mrs. Bailey.
The first witness called today was Celia
Coleman. a colored maid. in the Carman
home. She began her story by telling
who was at the dinner table Tuesday
night. The witness said Mrs. Carman
complained of having a headache. and
said she was going upstairs. The witness
saw her leave the dining room and later
heard footsteps she believed were those
of Mrs Carman on the stairs.
She admitted having talked with George
Levy, Mrs. Carmans attorney. the morn
ing after the murder She insisted that
no one else was present at the confer
ence.
DO you know what perjury means?
asked the district attorney.
The witness answered that she did.
memory Is Eaulty.
The district attorney then asked If she
had not told him previously that Mrs.
Carman was present. The witness said
she did not remember.
Her memory was faulty regarding the
things Levy had talked about. but she
was sure Mrs. Carman had never spoken
to her about the shooting and that the
r,byvS icip haI RI al
what she had seen the night of the mur-
der.
When did you change your mind about
what you told me Mrs. CarInan had told
you, and when did you lose your MEM
ory? Who told you to change your state
ment?'' asked Mr.. Smith
NOBODY said the negress.
The witness admitted that she had
signed a paper for Mr. Levy without
reading it or without having 1t read to
her.
Mrs Jennie Duryea. mother of Mrs
Bailey, testified that her daughter had
been complaining of feeling bad, and
that it was she who urged her to go to
a doctor.
william d. Bailey. husband of the
not complained to him of feeling ILL.,
and he was not aware she ever knew
of DR.. Carman. Madeline Bailey. seven
teen years old, daughter Of the Baileys
toned DR.. Carman's name to her.
The next witness, Miss Hazel Combs
said she arrived at Dr. Carman's office
about Z o'clock, and a man and woman
she did not know were in the waiting
room. She said she saw Mrs. Carman
walking around the house and saw her
admit a man patient COLDER and go
into DIR. Carmans Office to answer the
telephone before the doctor came out
of the dining room. Mrs. Carman de-
tered her husbands office since she
saw Mrs. Variance, the nurse, kiss him.
Saw Man Flee After the Shooting.
Charles Anderson, a negro youth. then
testified that as he was passing the Car
man house about o'clock last Tuesday
night he heard a report he thought was
caused by firecracker. He looked in the
yard and saw man running toward the
back fence. The man jumped over the
fence and Anderson later saw him emerge
from an alley in the next street
Another Man Is Target.
W J. W. Half. jr.. of Lynbrook. near
here, who strongly resembles Dr. Carman
and drives an automobile OF the same
type. reported to the Freeport police that
early this mornin~ while driving his ma
chine not far from where Dr.. Carnan was
fired upon last night a man standing be-
side the road fired one shot at him Half
is longtime friend of Or. Cat7man.
Officers Adhere to Theory.
Despite assertions of Dr. Edwin Car
man that several shots were fred at him
last night by man on a bicycle near
Rockville Center while returning to his
home here, after visiting a patient at
Roosevelt. Lewis Smith. district attor-
ney. and Sheriff Stephen P. Petit today
declared they were still firm in the belief
that it was woman who shot and kill
ed Mrs. Louise Bailey In Dr. Carman's S
office last Tuesday night
Sheriff fettit today admitted that the
investigation had narrowed down to
three points, each of which leads to the
same person or persons, and from infor-
nation now in his hands he was led to
believe that an arrest would be made
soon. 1t also became known today that
detectives in the employ of the district
attorney are engaged in running down
all clues along the three lines Indicated
by Sheriff Petit.
Story of the Attack.
DR.. Carman told the police the follow
ing story of the attack on him: He had
been out making professional calls and
passed through Rockville Center on his
way home. There he met Garland Ga
den, an actor. and invited him to ride
home with him.
"Gaden accepted my invitation said
Dr. Carman, "and got into the car We
stopped in store. and as We again got
into the car I noticed a man on a BIZ
cycle near the curb. We drove off with
out paying particular attention to the
man.
when about mile and a half out of
town l heard report and thought one
of the tires had exploded. My friend got
ont of one side Of the machine and I got
ont the other. AS soon as put my foot
on the ground heard another shot. and
when 1 looked around 1 saw the man /
had seen when we came out of the store
standing beside his bicycle with a re-
Colyer in his hand. Gaden shouted: NV
God. Car,nan. he's trying tokin YOU
We both jumped into the car: there
was another report and a bullet went
singing by my head. Gaden and leaned
Tar over in our seats to be out of range
III bullets. and I opened the throttle as
far as it would 60"
DR.. Carman on his arrival in Freepori
hurried to police headquarters and told
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