Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1914-07-03
Detectives Are Searching Cess
pool and Well at Carman
Home Looking for Revolver
With Empty Chamber
CONTRADICTORY STORIES
CONCERNING MURDER
Witnesses of Circumstances
Attending Tragedy Give
Statements Of discriminating
Character to Officers,


Freeporl \. y. July While
Mrs. Edwin Carman was in Hemp
stead This afternoon viewing the body
of Mrs. Louise Bailey, the Long
Island matron killed by shot fired
through window In Dr. 'arman $
office here Tuesday night detectives
were pumping out cess pool and Il
well in the rear of the physician $
residence and cess pool in the eel
lar
In one of these three places the
detectives declared they expected to
find revolver containing one eNplod-
ed she'll Late tonight the hunt for
the weapon was still IN progress, but
the detectives thought their search
would be rewarded before morning
The body of the murdered woman
d was taken from her home in Hemp
stead 10 an undertaking morsue Tor
an autopsy which had been ordered
hv the district attorney. William u.
Bailey at first refused to allow his
Wife's body to be moved from the
house but after the authorities had
threatened TO go to a supreme court
justice and secure an order permitting
the autopsy. he gave his consent
Mrs. Carman Closely Questioned.
Mrs Carman and her attorney
were waiting at the norgue. Mrs.
Carman was taken to a rear room and
asked to look at the dead woman's
features.
Poor woman exclaimed the
PHYSICIANS Wife, Il ann 50 sorry for
her.
Have you ever seen this woman
before her attorney asked.
Mrs. Carman, perfectly calm, re-
hot
woman in my whole life
The physicians who performed the
autopsy traced the course of the bull
let but nothing else having a bearing
on the tragedy was revealed.
Detectives late todas interviewed
Miss Eelen Combs. a lawyers ste
nographer, who told them she was
in the physicians house at the time
of the shooting, having gone there
for treatment. She said she was adj
mitted to the house by Mrs car
man. Or. Carman was eating dinner
and Miss Combs said she was told to
wait.
Contradictory Statements.
While ] was there Miss Combs
is said to have told the detective, "a
woman whom | now know was Mrs
Bailey arrived She did not knock
~ dHHVhHit UtiNtlis Gnf Wdiktu llEIt
IN and few moments later went in
to the Doctors office While she was
theie Mrs Carmdn passed through
the room and went into the kitchen
at the rear of the house Later she
went out on the porch and while she
was there | heard her tell one Of her
children not to play the piano as the
doctor had a patient in the office
Ihat was about ten minutes before
! heard a shot"
In telling her story to the dctec-
i've and the district attorney yester-
day Mrs Carman declared she re-
turned from Now York about Z
O'Clock the night Of the murder and
went Immediately to her room on
the second floor Of the house where
she prepared to retire She denied
gong to the ground floor. even when
The shot was fired.
Woman Folded Victims Hands.
MISS Combs, the detectives also
say, told them it was a woman and
not pr. Carman, who folded Mrs.
bailey hands across her breast af-
Ter me body had been raised from
lhe iloor and placed upon the office