South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-10-20
Defendant in New York Murder
Mystery to Tell Story to Off
set Testimony of Maid, Pro-
SeCutiOn'S Star Witness.
DEFENSE LAYS CRIME
TO AN INSANE WOMAN
Attorneys for Accused Find
Man Who SWearS He Came
Near Being Victim of Maniac
Who Was in FreepOrt.

NIINEOIA. y. Y, oct 2O.-AIrs.
Florence G.. Carman will take the wit
ness stand in her own behalf at her
trial on the charge Of numbering
Mrs. Louise Bailey. This positive
statement was made today by a MEM
Der of the legal staff that is serving
as her counsel.
Mrs Carman, ne said. will tell her
own story to refute that of Celia
coleman. the colOred maid, who IS the
chief reliance of the prosecution; she
viii tell how she became jealous of
her husband, Dr. Edwin Carman, how
she spied upon his actions. and how
she passed the evening on which Mrs.
Bailey was shot to death in the ply
sician's office.
Ii became known today that the
batteries of the prosecution would be
directed against Dir. Carman as we'll
as against his wife during the trial.
Dist Atty. Lewis J. Smith of Nassau
county. announced that ne was pre-
pared to prove that Or. Carman knew
his wife had fired the shot that killed
Mrs. Bailey.
smith declared ne was prepared to
show that Dr. Carman failed to no
Ufy the authorities of the crime, and
that the physician made every effort
TO cover the tracks of the woman
whom he knew TO be guilty of the
crime.
stage All Set.
The second day of the trial found
the stage all set for rapid work. The
jurors. all married men, were selected
Yesterday Dist Atty Smith said he
expected to make his opening ad-
dress brief lie admitted that he
would make a big point of the fact
that Mrs. Carman had secured a dist
agrapb with which TO spy on her hus-
y Il l-Hr
the jury that Just one month prior
90 the murder. Mrs. Carman raped
on the same pane OF glass that was
broken by the fatal shot" He also
asserted that he would show that
celia Coleman was coached for the
testimony she gave at the cOroner's
inquest and that the maid had per-
jured herself in the attempt TO pro-
teCt her mistress.
The prosecutor said he would rely
for conviction upon three witnesses,
The Coleman woman. Frank Farrel,
the tramp who claims he saw the
crime committed, and Elwood P.
Bardes.
Find New Witness.
Judge Graham, one Of Mrs. Car
mans counsel, said TO-DAY that he has
found new witness. Henry Siltox,
OF Philadelphia. who knew the wom-
an Mary Manley. who died iG a
Buffalo asylum for the insane after
COnfessing that it was she who fired
the shot through the window Of Or.
Carman's office. SiltOx viii testify
according To the defense, that this
woman sent him r box Of poisoned
candy and that she a murder mania.
Tie VIII also show that the woman was
in Freeport at the time of the Bailey
shooting
Mrs. Carmau arrived i'm court I'm
before the proceedings started. She
was greeted afeCtionatelv by her sis
ter. Mrs. Ida Poweii. who came over
from FreepOrt with Dr. Carman. Mrs
Carman wore the same costume as on
the opening DAYS.
After the usual preiminarieS in
opening court Dist. Atty smith be-
Ean his address to the jury
The L jurors We're chosen Monday
They were chosen rapidly typical
suburban jury OF business men and
farmers. Only - talesmen were eN-
amined.
IL is stohd. unmpreSsive jury
the kind which might be expected TO
DO a lot of arguing and then dis
agree For the state Dist Atty. Lewis
T. Smith asked each talesman wheth-
IT he would convict a person OF first
leeree murder on evidence that was
only circumstantial.
Also ne sought for traces Of bias
and preconceived decision and wanted
"a know whether the testimony OF a
negro girl-Cecilia Coleman-Would
Eud as much consideration as the
word OF a white girl
The wiseacres-and Nineola was
lIled with theuI Monday-shook their
heads sagely when the trend OF the
district attorneys questions went
abroad. Just as they thought. Smith
hasn't anything but circumstantial
evidence. Smith is getting nervous
already.
Refuses To Talk.
Hut the district attorney when the
words OF the Long island sages were
repeated 20 him refused 10 talk. But
his opponents. John J. Graham and
George Morton Levy counsel for Mrs.
Carman. paid him the compliment OF
saying that there was no way of tell
ing how Smith would jump hy the
direction Of his head
For the defense Mr.. Graham did
the Juror examination.
Supreme Court Justice Charles IT..
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