Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-07-02
CARMAN REVEALS
THREAT Of DEATH
Doctor Figuring in Bailey Muir
der Mystery Tells of
Phone Message.
BULLET WAS INTENDED
FOR HIM, IT is BELIEVED
Either Lunatic or Woman May Be
Responsible for Crime-Ar-
rest Probable Today.

FREEPORT. n. Y. July 1.-TWO
weeks before Mrs. Louise Bailey was
murdered in the Office of DIR. Edwin
Carman some one called Or. Carman on
the telephone and threatened his life
With apparent reluctance. and more
than thirty-s hours after the tragedy.
the physician today gave this informa-
tton to the district attorney. The coun-
ty prosecutor failed to make him am
plify this revelation. DR.. Carman re-
fused to say whether the threatening
message came from a man or woman.
and remained silent under further ques-
tioning.
On the strength of this information
detectives continued to work on the
theory that the assassin who broke a
window in the doctors office Tuesday
night, poked a revolver through the
hole and fired the shot that killed Mrs.
Bailey. patient, had sought the doc
tors life and not hers.
The authorities. however, decided not
70 let their suspicious crystalline until
after the performance Of an autopsy on
Mrs. Bailey's body today.
Two Theories as to Slayer.
The police today are working on two
| theories. One is that a lunatic killed
Mrs. Bailey when shooting at DIR. Car
man. The other theory is that a woman
| fired the shot.
DIR. Carman has served upon many
lunacy commissions in Freeport and the
police believe some person who was COM
mitted to an asylum through his in
strumentality sought revenge and missed
/, his aim.
| Upon what they based their theory
| that a woman committed the murder
| the police refused to state, but de-
clared that they expected to make an
arrest. probably today.
investigation of the case yesterday and
| last night only served to deepen the mys-
terry surrounding Mrs. Bailey's reason
! Tor calling upon DR.. Carman for medical
advice when she might have sought a
physician nearer her home in Hampstead,
| hve miles from Freeport
After questioning the Carman family
and a negro maid employed there. Dis
trict Attorney Lewis p Smith stated that
he was convinced that the shot had been
| fred by some one outside the house, and
| not member of the household
Dictagraph Is Found.
Sheriff Stephen Petit discovered in the
Carman home yesterday a dictograph.
the wires of which led from the doctor 8
office to a closet in the bedroom of his
wife. According to the sheriff. Mrs. Car
man admitted to him she had the in
strument installed because the wanted
to hear what went on between her
husband and woman patients: and that
she had been much comfarted" by what
she had overheard.
The sheriff said also that DIR. Carman
when questioned, told him his wife had
armitted to him that She had the machine
put in He said she removed the re-
ar,d in Yesterday
morning and hid it tin the attick.
The sheriff said that Mrs. Carman. at
his request. had gone to the attic and
brought the instrument to him. A re-
volver of small caliber also was found
in the physicians home.
In her talk with the sheriff Mrs. Car
man denied ever having seen Mrs.
Bailey.
DR.. Carman also was the subject of
close questioning concerning occur
rences in and about the house before
the mysterious hand with revolver
in it was poked through the broken
window pane and shot fired which
killed Mrs Bailey. What he told the
authorities seems to have satisfied them
that he had no knowledge of the per-
son who committed the crime.
One story in circulation among the
townspeople was to the effect that per-
at the time of the murder saw woman
dressed in white run across the lawn
Immediately after the shot was fired.
Golden Makes Surprising Statement.
Joseph Golden. one OF the two men who
sat in DR.. Carman's waiting room when
Mrs Bailey was killed. surprised the au-
thorities today by declaring that he saw
Mrs. Carman enter the room minute or
two after the shot was fired. She helped
her husband lift the womans body to
couch, he said, and folded the hands over
the breast.
This contradicted Mrs Carman's state
ment that she did not see Mrs. Bailey
either before or after the shooting.
Further questioning brought from Cold
en- an admission that he might have made
a mistake and that the woman he saw in
the doctors office might have been Mrs.
Carman's sister. who closely resembles
her.