Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1914-10-20
QUICKLY SECURE
CARMAN Case JURY
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BAILEY rose to leave and DR.. Carman
stepped to open the door, Just then
there was crash of glass at the win,
COW. DR.. Carman saw a revolver
thrust through the hole and threw
himself flat. A shot rang out. Mrs.
Bailey sank to the floor, crying, "im
shot!" and died in a few seconds.
TWO men in the doctors ante room
rushed in. DR.. Carman said he look
ed out the window but too late to sec
anyone. He then telephoned to a
physician living across the street
and half an hour later notified the
coroner and the police. A search of
the grounds disclosed no better cl.w
IMAM safety pin and that a piece
OF single had been used to prop up
the screen Of the window Through
which the shot had been fired and
this screen had been unfastened from
the inside.
the physicians home is in a we'll
populated district and many persons
were about But no one had seen the
murderer. Hounds were put on the
scent. They ran five miles to Lyn-
brook but there lost whatever trai!
they were following.
Then, after a period OF great mys-
terry, came the astonishing discovery
mat the doctors wife had placed
photograph in his office seven weeks
before. The wires led upstairs to the
bedroom of Mrs. Carman.
Mrs. Carman is a fine, stately, in
tellectual woman, 46 years old, The
Carmans had been married twenty
Years and had daughter II years
old. But she had decided, after con-
sultation with her mother, that GER
tain stories about her husband shou!l
be investigated. She went to com.
pany in New York, represented her
self as a dressmaker, but afterward
admitted that she was the wife of
doctor, and contrived to have the die
tograph installed while the doctor
, was absent.
Says Husband True.
Mrs. Carman declared that what
she had heard over the dictograph
wires had assured her that the doc
tor was absolutely faithful to her.
She said she was upstairs lying down
in her room at the time Of the muir
der and had not used the photograph
that day.
Following the discovery of the die
tograph there were several stories
told of seeing woman in a white
dress on the Carman lawn the night
Of the murder. There were various
other conflicting rumors. One of
them brought the fact that Mrs. Car
man had been Jealous of certain
Nurse to whom DR.. Carman had given
money and had struck this woman
in the consulting room where the
murder occurred a few weeks before
the crime.
The versions of Mrs. Carman's
movements were conflicting, too,
Cecilia Coleman, the negro maid, be-
came an important figure. Accord
ing to one version the Coleman girl
admitted Mrs. Carman had run in the
back door and through the kitchen
just after the fatal shot, warning the
maid not to tell anyone of what she
had seen.
Mrs. Carman was held in such high
esteem that the authorities did not
wish TO take hasty action against her
She appeared at the coroner's inquest
and testified in a composed voice
From many angles her story of her
movements on the night of the muir
der was attacked.
The case was brought before the
grand jury, which brought in the
surprising verdict Of manslaughter
against Mrs. Carman. Later the stats
laid new evidence before the grand
jury and a superseding Indictment
Of murder in the first degree was
brought in. Mrs. Carman was much
affected by her incarceration in Nine
ola Jail and several times was report
ell desperately i'll. Her husband has
] stuck to her through thick and thin