The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1914-07-22
DOCTORS Wife n
cree FOR WHILE.
Mrs. CarTaan Released From
Jail on $4,000 Bond
COMPLAINS OF UNFAIRNESS
Woman Charged With MansIaushter
at Home-Methods Employed by De.
tective Burns Scored by Defendant.

at Home-Methods Employed by De.
tective Burns Scored by Defendant.
Mrs. Florence Conklin Carman, in.
dicted on the charge of manslaughter
in the first degree in connection with
the killing of Mrs. Louise Bailey,
| came back to her home and her family
in Freeport, N. Y, temporarily free
woman.
She was released for trial under
$4,000 bail fifteen minutes after the
grand jury made known it's findings to
Justice Van Siclen, sitting in the GRIM
inal branch of the supreme court at
Mineola.
She pleaded not guilty and was
given two weeks in which to change
her plea or demur to the indictment.
The bail was furnished by Emmett
Randall and Smith Cox, close friends
| of the Carmans, whereupon Mrs. Car
man was set free. Heavily yelled she
stepped into limousine with her hus
band and started for her home at
| Freeport.
1t had been rumored that a super
ceding Indictment, stronger than the
one embracing the manslaughter
charge, might yet be handed up by
the grand jury on the strength of ad-
ditonal evidence furnished by Celia
Coleman, the negro maid.
Mrs. Carman later gave an inter.
view to newspapermen.
81 was bitterly disappointed" she
said that the grand jury would not
hear me. 1t seemed so unjust. If
| they heard one side they should have
heard the other. Don't you think so?
Is a respectable woman to have her
reputation, even her life, sworn away
by a colored maid servant and a
tramp? 1t is terrible. 1t is unbeliev-
able"
"But do you think" put in one Of
the reporters, that you have not been
shown every kindness?"
"By my real friends, yes. But did
not know that those who have been
good friends could ever turn into such
| poor ones.
"Take Burns for instance-not that
he was ever friend or even acquaint-
ance. But could anyone be crueler?
He came to my house as friend. At
least the district attorney asked me
to receive him as such and | consent
ed. Do you know, gentlemen, what
he said to me, how he acted? Without
a moments warning he turned on me
and snarled: 4 have come to get some
body and this somebody is YOU AS he
spoke he poked his face close to mine
and his lips curled brutally. That was
the worst thing that has happened to
me-"
The most surprising feature of the
grand jury hearings which resulted in
the indictment of Mrs. Carman was
the startling story told by Frank ].
Farrell, tramp. His story follows:
81 went to Freeport the night of the
murder to look for work. l walked
along the Merrick road until reached
this house (the Carman house,.
81 was hungry. l did not go in the
front way, but started to go to the
rear door. l saw light there. l was
half way down the yard when | saw
tall woman in kimona with shawl
about her shoulders. | was a bit
frightened, for the woman was half
running and | did not know but that
she was coming after me.
But the woman did not seem to
notice me at all. And then | saw that
all her attention was on the house.
In another instant she had stopped be.
fore a window and her hand was
raised. 1t looked to me as If she poked
her fist through the window. l could
not see that she had any weapon in
her hand.
"Then there was a crash of glass.
That was enough for me. | was
stranger in Freeport and | did -
know what was happening, but | was
sure that | didn't want to get mixed
up in it whatever it was. That's why
| turned and made for the road.
"The revolver shot came a moment
later and changed from a quick walk
into run. If you're tramp it's not
very reassuring to hear revolver shots
back of you.
what became of the woman l don't
know. When | read in the paper the
next day about the murder | com
municated with the sheriff and told
him what / had seen that night. l
did not know until | read about it in
the newspapers that the place was DIR.
Carman's. l didn't even know there
was DR.. Carman. l didn't know
that was in Freeport and on the main
residential street when | heard the
shot fired"
But Farrell cannot identify the wo-
man he saw as the woman he has
been confronted with in the Nassau
county JAIL Mrs. Carman. He has been
taken to her cell, so it was learned,
time after time, and each time he has
said that to the best of his knowledge
he never saw Mrs. Carman before.
|
Dumped In River; Couldn't Swim.