Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-10-21
DAMAGING EVIDENCE AGAINST
PHYSICIANS WIFE IN MURDER
TRIAL At MiNEoLA.
CAME INTO ROOM
HOLDING SMOKING REVOLVER
Told Nesress "a Shot Him."
Supposedly Referring to Husband
Later Expressed Regret Because She
Killed Mrs. Bailey and Asked Maid
to Forget What she Saw and Hoard.

Mineola, \. " Oct. c1.-Celia Cole
man. negro maid in the Carman house
hold, star witness for the state. testi-
fed today at the trial of Mrs. Florence
Conklin Carman. accused of the murder
of Mrs. Louise Bailey, that Mrs. Car
man had appeared. revolver in hand.
shot and said:
Il shot him.
Celia thought Mrs. Carman referred
to her husband, Dr.. Coleman.
Girl Relates Story.
Under the questioning of District
Attorney Smith, Celia told her story as
follows:
i Il Went to work at DR.. Carman's May
IS. 1914. On the night of June 80
served dinner at 6:4o o'clock. After din
ner l started to wash the dishes.
While I was washing the dishes
, Elizabeth-ATrs. Carman's daughter
came into the kitchen. Soon after
ward Mrs. Carman came in. She was
dressed In a kmona and had a shawl
around her neck. She told Elizabeth
to go back into the house. Then Mrs.
Carman went out the back door. y
minute later I heard a crash of glass
and the report of a pistol. Mrs. Car
man came in the door again.
Says She Shot "Him.'
{! Il was standing in the door between
the pantry and the kitchen. She said
TO me. + shot him. Then she showed
me revolver. a black revolver that
was about nine inches long. grabbed
/. her by the arm and told her not to go
into the office. She said she was not
going to do anything else. Then I
F, went into the office.
/ The body Of dead white woman
was laying on the floor. Mrs. Car
man followed me. She remained a
half a, minute and then Went to the
/ waiting room, DR.. Carman was there
and so was another man. I went into
the Kitchen and returned to the office
in about "a minute. Mrs. Powell-Mrs.
Carman's sister-was in there then.
+ Then | went back into the kitchen,
: finished washing the dishes, went to
M room and went to sleep.
+; Regretted Crime.
! The next morning Mrs. Carman
came to my room She was dressed
| in night dress She said. O, Celia.
what did / kill that woman for. l hope
and if anything happens TO YOU l will
take care of your little boy
+, Il saw Mrs. Carman later that morn
! ing at the breakfast table and she burst
| into tears. After breakfast she came
! to the kitchen and told me to forget
l had seen her the night before. Later
she came in with her lawyer"
4 Mrs. carman ConsuIts With Lawyer.
/ Mrs. Carman winked at me when
she asked me what I knew. I told Mr..
Levy that didn't know anything.
"Mr. Levy came again the next day.
Before he came Mrs. Carman told me
to tell him I was not down stairs after
/ dinner. She wrote out some state
ment and signed It without reading 1t.
He read 1t, however. The statement
F., was not true.
"The day after the murder, Mrs Car
man came into the kitchen and asked
me to make a wood fire In the stove
which I did. Later she came down
i stairs with bundle of letters and
burned them. That same day she told
me to call her father from the barn
because she wanted him to get the
revolver out of the house. Mr.. Conk-
! lin. her father. came in and went to
her room and then came down stairs
again He had a hammer with him.
He returned to the barn. The next
day, Wednesday, Mrs. Carman came
into the kitchen and asked mo TO step
into the office. went in and the de-
tectives began to question me-"
Admits She Falsified at Inquest.
Did you tell the truth at the cor
oner's inques?' the district attorney
asked.
'I id not" the witness answered.
The district attorney then turned
the witness over to John j. Graham.
Mrs. Carmans counsel.
A crowd that eclipsed the previous
DAYS throng sought to enter the tiny
court room today in anticipation of
hearing Celia tell her story. Less than
200 were able to do so and these were
nearly all women. AS Celia testified.
Mrs. Carman sat we'll back in her chair
and never once took eyes from the wit
ness.
On cross examination Celia said she
! never had seen Mrs. Carman wear her
kimono before the night of the murder.
! She said Mrs. Carman stood in the
) kitchen for ten or fifteen minutes be-
), fore she passed out of the back doo,
! and that the crash of glass and the
} shot occurred Immediately afterward.
!. Hides Revolver in kimono.
! "Did you know whom she meant
when she said. L shot him'?' MIR. Gra-
ham asked
NO, did not"
| Mrs. Carman carried the revolver.
the witness said, hidden in the folds OF
her kimono, when she went into the
office. Mrs Carman said nothing to
4 anyone, she added. She looked in and
went out in about thirty seconds. Mrs
Carman did not express surprise when
she discovered she had killed woman
and not a man.
Celia said she told Mrs. Carman the
4 morning after the murder that God
!, will forgive anything but murder
"Do YOU believe that God will for
u give your perjury" she was asked.