New Britain herald., 1914-07-08
MRS. CARAVAN: HELD
 ON MURDER CHARGE
Doctors Wife Arrested for Death
 of Mrs. Louise Bailey.
CoR0NfR'S INQUEST IS CLOSED

New Witness Testified He Saw Wom-
 an Running Away From Physicians
 Office Window Shortly After Shot
 Was Fired.
 Freeport, N. Y., July S.-Mrs. Ed win Carman was arrested this after noon in connection with the murder of Mrs. Louise Bailey.
 The inquest into the death of Mrs. Louise Bailey, mysteriously murdered on Tuesday night, June 30, in the of- flee of pr. Edwin Carman, a practicing physician of this village, was closed shortly before noon today. No verdict was immediately announced.
 New Witness Testifies.
 Ellswood Bardes, a new witness, testified just before the hearing closed that he had seen a woman he was unable to identify, running away from the doctors office shortly after the shot which killed Mrs. Bailey was fired. She wore a dark skirt and white shirtwaist. Witnesses testify ing at previous sessions of the inquest swore that Mrs. Carman was thus garbed on the night of the murder. She has maintained, however, that she was dressed in a kimono and in her bedroom. In this contention Mrs. Carman was borne out on the stand today by her younger daughter, Eliza beth.
 The district attorney informed the coroner after the inquest that he be- lieved a woman should immediately be arrested and held for the murder.
 Gaston Boissonault, manager of the detective division of a company which manufactures devices to record con- versations, was the first witness called today at the inquest. # t Installed Telephone Device.
 It was Roissonault's company that installed telephone device in Dr. Carman's office some time before the murder. at the order of Mrs. Car man. The witness told today of the first call of Mrs. Carman at his office. She first said she was dressmaker then admitted her identity, adding atssi1e bad many domestic troubles and wanted to hear what went on in her husbands office. This was on May 19. The witness said arrange ments for the rental of the instru- ment were made that day. On the same day Mrs. Carman made plans to take her husband away for two days while the instrument was being installed.
 Saw Nurse Kiss Doctor.
 The witness said Mrs. Carman had tc Id him about seeing a nurse kiss pr. Carman. She said she was so mad" he went on, when she saw that kiss that she almost broke the window by on it."
 Mrs. Carman told him further, he said. that she knew her husband met many women both in his home and outside, and she asked the witness whether he could furnish detectives to follow him. She said emphatically, however, that she would not get a divorce on account of her daughter.
 Had Received Letter.
 The witness said one of his in- struments was installed after he re- ceived a letter from Mrs. Carman husband out of the way. The letter, WAuSh 4l1Ss SdA llidu ldIcI uCIIidHuCu and received. informed him that Mrs. Csrman's mother would meet the man sent to install the instrument.
 Mrs. Carman and her mother called upon him next in May. said the witness. Mrs. Carman told him she was satisfied" and that she had been keeping in a diary a record of she had heard over the in- ~f fryyy npt ha said hn had difficulty in hearing all that went on In the doctors office because the doc- tor and his women patients some times whispered. She bought two additional batteries on this occasion.
 Boissonault denied that any instru- ments had recorded Mrs Carman's with him, and he was then excused.
 Daughter on Stand.
 Elizabeth Carman, twelve years old daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Carman was called. She said after dinner on the night of the murder her mother told her to stop running around the house and to sit down and be quiet. So, said Elizabeth, she went in the dining room and sat down. The din- Ing room was dark and the curtains between it and her fathers waiting room were pulled aside. She saw two persons, a man and a woman, in the waiting room ten minutes before the murder. She saw no one in the hall Directly after the shot was fired she ran upstairs and saw her mother, her aunt and her grandmother there. Her mother. she said, was in kimono.
 Detectives today were running down a new theory of the killing that was advanced in Freeport yes- terday. This was to the effect that a New York gunman played part in it, that he brought the weapon from New York. broke the glass of the window looking upon Dr. Car mans office. handed the gun to the slayer. took it back after the shoot ing and then escaped with it.