The Washington herald., 1914-07-09
when word reached the house that
warrant had been issued.
Her Child BevvIIderrd.

when word reached the house that a
warrant had been issued.
Her Child BewiIdered.
The beautiful child, Elizabeth. who
testified at the final session OF the In
quest early in the day, did not seem to
understand the situation. Her evidence
helped hasten the arrest Of her mother,
albeit she told hef story clearly. con-
nectedly and with childiike simplicity.
The child surveyed the crushed woman
sitting IN q corner waiting for the swift
ride to Mineola and wanted to know
thing which had happened to her mother.
/. When will you bring mamma back.
Mr.. Petit" asked the child as the ac-
eused woman rose to go.
Tomorrow. DEAR" said the sheriff.
tomorrow"
Then. in the sherifrs car. Mrs. Car
man was taken to Mineola and to Jail
She passed In the ride across the hard
roads within a quarter mile of the home
of William A. Bailey. whose wife she
Is accused OF numbering
"God Hip Heri"
IF she Is guilty. God help her," de-
clared Mrs. Jennie Duryea, mother of the
slain woman. And II she is innocent,
God help her. She can not know the
beautiful home she has brokeh up"
Bailey. the sombre husband, bowed his
head God help her." he said. And
that was all he said
The arrest was not expected today. II
was thought that IT would be made late
at night and that Mrs. Carman would be
taken TO MineoIa in secret A throng
which blocked the motorcar in which
Mrs. Carman rode to jail assembled In
poplar shaded Merrick road struggling for
points of vantage from which TO see the
accused woman. Fully fifty motorcars-
huge. expensive looking machines weight
ed with smart-looking summer folk-Iined
either curb all along the block in which
the Carman house stands
wild Ride to Jail.
By deliberately driving his machine
through the blockade, Sheriff Pettits
chauefrer forced the speedy roadster. in
which the weeping woman was huddled,
TO the open road and set forth with sig
nal roaring and exhaust, vomiting a
cloud Of blue smoke. Forty, fifty, sixty
miles an hour. the long. low car sped
through Baldwin. Hampstead and Garden
City. Behind IT, endAngering life all
along the way. few eighteen other cars
bearing reporters and others interested
MOcking the protests OF policemen. con-
stables and frightened villagers and OBJ
scuring the road in dust. the swift pro-
cession rushed to Mineola, where Mrs
Carmsn was taken into the private apart
ments Of Warden William Hulse, in the
Nassau County jail. There her "'pedi-
gree" was taken. Then she was led TO
a cell and the door was shut with a
clang. The crowd melted, the officials
departed and the first step toward clear
ing the tragic mystery Of Merrick road
had been taken.
New Witness Causes Arrest.
Whatever doubt had existed that Mrs.
'arman would be arrested and formally
harged with the murder Of Mrs. Bailey.
vas utterly dispelled at the final session
Il the inquest this morning. A motive
vas supplied by CASTOR Boissonnault.
dapner man who sold to Mrs. Carman
the dictagraph. with which she spied
lpon her husband as he talked with his
women patients. But something more
onclusive was needed. something which
would link woman-a woman who might
With reason be assumed to be Florence
the murder was necessary.
Elwood ID. Bardes. peddler of insurance
'olicies. a witness found no earlier than
asst night in his boarding house in Free
'ort, Suppled the necessary link In
wenty minutes on the stand in the
'OrOner's Court he shattered all doubt.
ie came to testify, he said. because his
riends and employers told him that it
vas his duty. He heard the shot He
ooked and saw woman-a hatless
woman in dark skirt and light waist
away from the window.
Tht was enough. Justice Of the Peace
Norton. sitting as coroner. listened TO
District Attorney Smith say that no
more witnesses would he called and ask
or a verdict A mighty hush had fallen.
Every man. woman. and child crowded
nto the stuffy room knew that Mrs. Car
nan was TO be arrested. They went
way spreading the news and the whole
ounty rushed to Freeport.
Bardes was taken into custody as a
Material witness. He was given over to
he sheriff for safe keeping. On Monday
e will face Mrs. Carman.