The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-10-23
MRS. .CARMANMAKES SWEEPING DENIAL 0F CHARGES OF MURDER
Accused Woman Takes the Stand and in Clear Cut Story Tells of Incidents
 Leading to Killing

Mineola, N. F., October 22.--Mrs. Flor ence Conklin carman took the witness stand in her own defense today and en- tered sweeping denial of the charge that she murdered Mrs. Louise Bailey
 Item by item, Mrs Carman went over the story of Celia Coleman. the negrcss in her employ at the time tragedy in the Carman home at Freeport last July, and declared false every accusation the domestic made in her testimony yester- day.
 fabrication from beginning to end was. in the essence. her characterization of the maids narrative of events of the night Mrs. Bailey was shot and killed in the office of pr. Edwin Carman, the de- fendant's husband, and of subsequent happenings in the Carman home.
 Responds Frankly
 The story told by the negro girl was of fered by the prosecution as tending di- rectly to connect Mrs. carman with the shooting and the efforts of Mrs. Car mans counsel today in. questioning his client were designed chiefly to discredit the servants testimony. Mrs. carman re- spc nded with alaerity and seemingly with entire frankness. She looked into faces of the jurors with steady eyes when she de- sired to impress them with some particu- lar point and she seemed resentful when certain points in the story of the negress were under discussion.
 Mrs Carman was on the witness stand nearly an hour under direct examination. She will undergo cross-examination to- morrow
 The wife of the Freeport physician ad- mitted she had installed telephonic instrument in her husbands office, but denied she was ''insanely jealous" She said she had heard people ask her hus- band how all his girls were some- times he had stayed ont all night. If her husband wasias bad as he had been paint ed to her, she wanted to know it. If she found out what she had heard was true. she said, she had determined she; would continue to live in the house with him but WOuIQ nOvS1, fSpcoRs tO Al4lH aBhlu. T u0Hs on the morning after the murder. she de- clared, she tore out the device that the district attorney had termed a ':mechan- ical eavesdfnpper' because she thought her husbanf already had enough to bother him..
 Cofsborates Testimony
 Mrs. carm&n even corroborpted some of the states wltnessss by admitting that on the evening of the murder. she had called to her daughter. Eiisabeth. to stop playing the plano. She did this. she swors. because she had . headachs and not, as the prosecution had ihtimatsd. because she wanted to listen over the mechanical eavesdropper to what her husband was saying to woman in his office.
 She admitted, too, that on one occasion she looked in the same window as that through which the assassin of Mrs. Bailey fired becapse she Knew trained nurse ne appeared to be fond of was in hia office,
 When Mrs. carman slapped down from the stand she apparentax was n fresh as whom she went oI1.kz
 Mrs. carman told tlee' following story:
 T am the defendant I was married 10 Dr. Carman in 1892
 Early in the morning Of June 30.. day shopping. rstuFnsd to Freeport
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