The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1914-07-09
JAIL MRS. CARMEN
FOR MURDER OF
MRS. BAILEY
Physicians Wife is Formally
Charged With Crime
ALLEGED WITNESS is HELD
EllWood T. Bades Says He Saw Wo.
man Near Window After Fatal
Shot Was Fired

Freeport n. Y, July 9.-Mrs. Flor
cnce Conklin Carman, wife Of Or. Ed
win Carman, was arrested yesterday,
accused as the mysterious assassin
who last week murdered Mrs Louise
Bailey. wife of Hampstead manu-
facturer, by firing bullet through
her heart while she was standing in
the physicians Office Last night Mrs
Carman, at whom the finger of sus-
picion las been pointing since the dis
coyery was made that she had install
ed a telephone instrument in her hus-
bands Office so that She might hear
what went on between him and his
women patients, was locked up in the
Nassau county Jail at Mmeola. There
she will remain until Monday, when
She will be taken out aud again eX-
amined by the corones, before whom
she pleaded not guilty when arraign-
ed yesterday. after her arrest in The
room where Mrs. Bailey died.
Mrs. Carman's neve is shattered,
for as the stcelbarred door of the
Mneola Jail closed behind her she
pulled her heavy veil from her face
and broke down. Her husband and
the sheriff who had taken he in au
automobile from her home in free
port TO The jail, assisted her to the
top floor of the building
The immediate cause of the arrest
was the testimony given Yesterday
morning by Ellwood r. Bardes, an in
surance agent whom the authoilos
called he single reliable eyewitness
of the crime. Bardes is under lock
aud key also. lie is being detained
as material witness Tor hiss story
is OF SO great Importance that the ma
thorities said they feared an attempt
might be made to get him out OF tho
jurisdiction OF the New York courts.
Bardess story briefly told. is this.
At 7.20 O'Clock on the night of tle
murder Bardes determined to pay "a
professional visit TO nr. Carman and
allow him to dress q minor injury to
one of his heels. Arriving at the ply
sicians house. he decided he could
dress the injury himself and thereby
save "a doctors fee So he walked
past the house and then turned
around TO begin his journey home Al
that instant he heard an explosion
lie thought il was caused 10y an auto
mobile tire. but when he looked fo
the machine he could not find it. lie
turned his eyes toward the lawn at
the side of Dr. Carman's home. a
woman, tail, well built, hatless. wear
ing q light shirtWaist ana dark
skirt. was moving away from one OF
the windows ut the side of the phyai-
clans office toward the rear Of the
house. She WAS not running. not cls-
ualiy strollng around the lawn: she
was walking lin a hurry" the Wit
ness swore.
Elrdes, the last witness TO take the
stand before the inquest was ended.
was discovered only Tuesday His
story might still remain untold had
he not mentioned it. first to a woman
who promptly tolephoned the district
attorney and then 10 a Roman Caih0-
Tic clergyman whom he visited for
advice. The latter urged Bardes 20
make his story known. But before an
opportunity presented itself he was
taken in custody by orders of the dis
trict attorney Bardos testified YES
torda. after Mrs. Carmans l2yoar
old daughter Elizabeth had tried 90
strengthen her mothers alibi. and
representatives OF the manufactu -ors
OF the telephone instrument had told
of selling the device TO the phYsi
clans wife and OF installing it in her
home.
Coroner Norton. after spending an
hour studying the testimony of
Rardcs and other witnesses. wrote
out his charge. stating that ho docs
upon his oath say that Louise Baiioy
came To- hef death by criminal means.
hy reason OF u bullet fired at her body
with revolver held by Florence Car
man." lie then ordered Mrs. Car
mans arrest