The Sentinel=record., 1914-07-07
COUNTY AUTHORITIES TAKE DE. ClSlVE STEP TO SOLVE THE
 MURDER MYSTERY.
TESTIMONY IS CONFLICTING
Other Witnesses FlatIy Contradict Testimony Given by Mrs. Carman Regarding Her Actions on the Night of the Murder of Mrs. Bailey.

Freeport, N. Y., July 6.-The head
 of national detective agency to- ] night began an investieation into the
 murder of Mrs. Louise Bailey, who
 was killed mysteriously in the office | of Dr. Edwin Carman last Tuesday night. This detective is in the em-
 ploy of the Nassau county authori- ! ties and ten men from his office are
 working on the case.
 After the chief had inspected the grounds and the Carman house he re-
 turned to the lawn and the murder was rehearsed. Later the chief re- | turned to the house to resume his
 examinations there.
 The inquest into the murder of
 Mrs. Bailey was abruptly adjourned today until Wednesday. This action
 was taken to give the authorities a chance to investigate several new clues and to look into the story told 1 last night by Dr. Carman, who inform
 ed the police that a bicycist who had
 followed his automobile from Rock vile Center, near here, had fired ] three shots at him while he was
 driving along lonely stretch of road. 1t was learned later from Sheriff 1 Petit that after it had been decided
 to adjourn the inquest two witnesses
 whose identity the sheriff refused to | disclose, had been brought into the Elks club, where they underwent an examination lasting over an hour be- hind locked doors. The sheriff re- fused to discuss his conversation with these witnesses further than to say that their statements were of the highest importance.
 Four persons living near the spot where Dr. Carman said the attempt
 was made upon his life told investi-
 gators today that they, too, had heard shots. Detectives were unable, how
 ever, to find any one who had heard
 the shot which J. w. Half Jr., resi-
 dent of Lynnbrook, neighboring village, said was fired at him early
 today while he was driving his auto mobile outside Freeport. Half, who resembles Dr. Carman in figure and
 face, is the owner of an automobile
 of type similar to the one owned by the physician.
 The inquest was adjourned after several witnesses had been heard. Two of these witnesses, Miss Hazel Combs, patient of Dr. Carman, and
 Miss Anna Kahn, a friend who ac- companied her to the office of the physician less than an hour before
 Mrs. Bailey was murdered, flatly con
 tradieted Mrs Carman's statement
 that she was not walking around the ground floor of her home that night,
 was not in her husbands office and
 had not admitted any patient.
 Both these women swore they had seen Mrs. Carman enter her hus-
 banTs office to answer the tele- phone and corroborated the testimony of George Colder, the witness who tes-
 tified Friday that Mrs. Carman had
 admitted him to the houe"
 The corroboration, combined with the testimony given by q negro maid in the Carman house, constituted
 what was declared by District At torney Smith to be the most impor- tant information elicited during the days proceedings. The maid who ad-
 mitted that she had long talk with George Levy, counsel for Mrs Car
 man, the morning after the murder appeared to be troubled with a seri.
 ous loss of memory. To many vital questions she answered T don't re- member" When asked if she knew what perjury meant she asserted that sometimes she coud remember events and sometimes she could not.
 County detectives tonight began in-
 vestigating a story told by Dr. Car
 man that a former resident of Free port now living in Philadelphia had
 notified friend of Dr. Carman that while out in a motor boat near here recently one of the women of the party, said to be auburnhaired, had
 threatened to kill Dr. Carman when
 an opportunity presented itself. An
 auburn-haired woman, said to have
 been much excited, was seen boarding
 car here for New York early in the morning after the murder.