The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1914-10-24
MRS. cARMAN SUBJECTED TO
GRlLLlNG BY DISTRICT
ATTORNEY.
TESTMIMONY WAS UNSHAKEN
She Declared Her innocence, and Her
Attitude on the Witness Stand Made
a Deep Impression on the Jury and
the Spectators.

Mlneola, N. Y, Oct. 23-Mrs. Car
man, accused of the murder of Mrs.
Bailey, remained unshaken and was
smiling throughout a gruelling cross.
examination today
She declared her innocence. stating
that she was upstair sin her room
When the shot that killed Mrs. Bailey
was fired. Her attitude today, follow.
ing her statement yesterday, made a
deep impression on the jury and the
spectators.
She faced crowded court room
Among the 2O9 or more spectators
who occupied dyery available bit of
space were long time friends and
neighbors, whose faces were wreathed
with hopeful smiles as she began her
story Ranged directly opposite her
chair, within the enclosure and less
than dozen feet away, were the
mother, the daughter and husband of
the woman whose life the state as.
serts she took
rms little group OF school girl,
grandmother and middle-aged man
followed with intense eagerness ev.
cry word of her testimony.
Just before the defendant took the
chair she crossed over to her mother.
Mrs. Conkhp, sitting at the counsel
table, leaned over and kissed her.
Mrs. Carman," began the district
attorney, you said you were suspi-
cious of your husband. When did you
get suspicious?'
About year ago."
What caused her suspicion she
could not say. woman did not cause
them, Just rumors.''
Were. the rumors about a woman?'
NO. Just some one asking him
about his girls. Somebody told me
he was devil with the girls"
She could not recall who told her
this, or where or when. At MIR
Smiths bidding she named many
men, friends of Dr. Carman, but could
not name one of them as having said,
How are all your girls?"
Some women, Mrs. Carman said.
weie more attractive to her husband
than she was, she had thought. She
did not know if there were more htan
Cne, but she wanted to find out.
81 had no particular woman in
mind" she said
Mr.. Smith asked if she thought
Mrs variance, the middle-aged nurse
whose face she slapped, was more at
tractive than she. Mrs. Carman smil-
ed and asWered "No."
Under the rapid volley of the dis
trict attorneys pitiless questions,
Mrs. Carman's color rose and fell. She
bit her lips; she clenched her gloved
hands often. She appeared to be- about
to faint, but her smelling salts reviv.
ed her.
She was made to describe the en-.
tire scene with Mrs. Variance. She
said she saw DR.. Carman give the
nurse SIS and saw her kiss him after
wards. 1t was the passing OF the
money and not the kiss that disturb
ed her, she said.
you didn't object to another wom-
an kissing your husband in graft
tude?"
"Oh, no." replied Mrs. Carman.
How long after the passing of
the money was the kiss administer
ed?"
"A few minutes. They were sitting
down alongside each other at the
time
Mrs. Carman said she did not rap
on the window when the kiss was
given, but waited until Mrs. Varance
started to leave the Office
you went pretty fast around the
lawn to get to the door before Mrs.
Varance, didn't you?"
Yes"
In reply to an inquiry Mrs Carman
indicated that she slapped Mrs Var.
ance with the back of her hand
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