The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1914-10-20
NEGRO maid Will
TELL OF SHOOTING.


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it was stated, upon the strength of the
case her counsel considered the Dis
trict Attorney had woven around her,
How Mrs. Bailey Was Killed
In opening for the prosecution Lew
is j. Smith, the District Attorney.
sketched in some detail Mrs. Bailey's
actions on the day of the murder, the
arrangement of the Carman house in
general and the physician office in
particular. He told the jury how the
wire screen at the window to the Office
was propped up, the window pane brok-
en-, revolver thrust through the open
ing and bullet fred into the heart of
Mrs. Bailey. Although she died within
a minute, he said her body lay on the
floor for some time before the police
were notified
"We shall show continued the
District Attorney, ''that the shot that
killed Mrs. Bailey was fred by this de-
PENDANT. We shall show that she
passed through the kitchen out through
the side yard moment before the
shooting and that she returned through
the kitchen immediately after it. We
shall show further that the motive was
jealousy and suspicion of her husband. :"
A Speedy Murder Trial
Speed almost unparalleled in a muir
der trial marked the second day IS fore
noon session in Mrs. Carman's trial.
In two and a half hours the District
Attorney made his address to the jury
and dozen witnesses testified for the
State. The star witnesses for the
prosecution, however, were yet to take
the stand, as District Attorney Smith
seemed to have decided to develop the
States case in chronological sequence.
The first witnesses, therefore, simply
established the wherea bouts of the vie
tim on the day of the murder, her
death, its csuse--a bullet wound-and
but few of the details of the crime.
Celia Coleman, the negro maid in
the Carman household and two other
witnesses upon whom the State leans
heavily, were to take the stand, it was
believed, this afternoon.
Mother of Victim First Witness
Mrs. Jennie Duryee, mother of the
victim, was the first witness. She said
between sobs that the last time she
saw her daughter alive was at $40
o o'clock on the afternoon of June so.
"What is ths9'i asked Mr.. Smith,
handing the witness a dark cloth OBJ.
.ect.
-" That S my daughter s dress said
Mrs. Duryee, swallowing hard.
Miss Hazel Cowles, of Freeport,
testified that she went to Dr. Carman IS
office to consult him on the night Of
June 80, and that while she was wait
ing in the reception room a woman
wearing a dark dress entered. 1t was
inferred that the woman was Mrs.
Bailey. Mrs. Carman passed through
the reception room twice, the witness
said, once after the woman in the dark
dress had arrived. When Miss Cowles
left the Office the dark -gowned woman
was still there
Coroner and Justice Testifies
Coriden Norton, Coroner and justice
| of the peace in Freeport, testified that
he was called to the Carman house
about S.45 O'Clock. Mrs. Bailey was
dead then.
i'obul tHdb the OOTOHtT Sdlu,
he examined the office, the window
through which the shot had been fred
| and the ground outside. He said the
window screen was proppcd up with a
piece of shingle. The staple and fasten-
| ings on the screen were unchanged.
Some of the glass from the broken
/ pane was on the floor of the office, some
was on the ground outside.
| w. y. Bailey, husband Of the victim,
testified he had been notified about 8
O'Clock of his wife's death. When he
arrived at the Carman house ten min
utes later he found her dead body on
the sofa.
Victim Would Have Been Mother
DR.. Howard E. Phipps, Of Hemp.
stead, who performed the autopsy,
testified that Mrs. Bailey would have
become mother had she lived.
George Colder, of ETeeport, testified
that while waiting in DR.. Carman 5 re.
ception room on the night of the muir
| der ne heard crash of glass, closely
followed by revolver shot. Colder
said that with Archie Post, who was
also in the reception room, he ran out
on the lawn in search of the assailant
but saw no one.
A woman in white, Colder said, pass.
ed down the hall from the front of the
house to the rear and back again few
minutes before the shooting. The cur
tains in the waiting room to the hall,
he said, were open wide enough to see
into the room at the opposite end Of
the house. From the time the woman
in white passed down the hallway till
he heard the crash of breaking glass
and the revolver shot, tine witness said
that he had seen no one else in the
hall. ....