Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-07-15
MRS. CARMAN'S
DEFENSE DEALT
ANOTHER BLOW
Frank Farrell, Tramp, Says
He Saw Woman Entering
Kitchen After Shot.
DAMAGING TESTIMONY IN
MAIDS CHANGED STORY
Prosecutor Against Grand Jury
Hearing Story of Ac-
cused Woman.
Special to the Evening star.

Special to the Evening star.
NEW YORK. July 15.-Adding an
other strong link to the chain of cir
cumstantial evidence that is being
wrapped about Mrs Florence Car
man, Frank Farrell, a tramp, gave
important testimony today before the
Nassau county gand jury at Mineo-
la investigating the murder of Mrs.
Louise Bailey.
Farrell told the grand jury, it was
learned; that he applied to the
Carman home for food on June 30
the night of the murder. He said
the negro maid refused his request.
He was just leaving the back door,
he asserted, when he heard a pistol
shot. Turning around, he said, ne
saw woman running from the win
dow of DR.. Carman's office-through
which the fatal shot was fired-to the
kitchen door.
Asked how she was dressed. Farrell
told the grand jurors that, as near
as he could make out, she wore q
long coat. He said, however, that Il
was dark and that he couldn't make
out Just what she did wear.
~ Mrs Carman maintained that she
was upstairs wearing kimono when
tho shot was fired Celia Coleman,
the negro maid, who gave such dam
aging evidence against her yesterday,
asserts Mrs. Carman rushed into the
kitchen from the yard Immediately
after the shot was fred
She said Mrs. Carman was attired
IN long kimono covering night
gown.
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fuses the matter about the dress of
the woman seen in the garden.
Before the inquiry into the muir
der of Mrs Louise D. Bailey was
resumed at 10 o'clock today the dis
trict attorney said that he expected
all the witnesses win have been heard
by Friday afternoon and that an in
dictment would be returned Friday
evening
Two of Jury Withdrawn.
Two members of the grand jury
Withdrew because of friendship Tor
The Carrlan family. With the re-
Sumption of the hearing DistrictssAta
torney Smith announced that he had
Issued subpoena for Mrs. Ellen Cor-
by. a niece OF Mrs. Carman. 1t is un-
derstood that she Is one OF the two
women who have been sought since
the murder as having been in the doc
tors waiting-room and who fled when
they heard the shot fired
The first witness examined TO-DAY
was Henry De Beau, who test1f1ed TO
seeing Mrs. Bailey going to the car
man home Another witness was Miss
Helen Combs, who was in the walt
in,r room when the murder was COM
mitted.
It was thought likely that Mrs. Car
mar would not be called before the
iury. Her counsel had agreed to
waive immunity for her. but in the
opinion of the district attorney II is
tnexpedient to have her TESTIFY.
Dr. Carman made public today a
letter addressed to his wife from
Rochester N. Y. The writer said he
had shot Mrs. Bansy. He had donned
a woman's clothing, he said, as a dis
guise The letter was written III
what was apparently disguised hand
writing and looked as If 1t might nave
been penned by a woman. 1t was not
taken seriously.
There was even a larger throng
waiting about the court house today
than was in its corridors yesterday
DR. Carman, who is here, said today
that he was sure the hand thrust
through the window when the shot
was fired was a man s. He recalled,
he said, that on the wrist he saw
mans cuff.
Negro Maids Evidence.
The essential points given by Celia
(oleman yesterday were:
I She was in the kitchen of the Car
han house at the time of the shoot
Ne and Immediately thereafter.
Immediately after she heard the
lot she saw Mrs. Carman enter the
tchen
Mrs. Carman stopped long enough
ITO hold a short but important conver-
sation with her and gave her some
household directions.
Mrs. Carman entered the kitchen by
the rear of the house.
Mrs. Carman had NO revolver in
her hand when she came in.
After her conversation with Mrs.
Carman the maid went up stairs to
her room
The story Celia, told at the inquest
and in the AFFIDAVIT obtained from her
by Mrs. Carmans attorney are in
correct in so far as they contradict
or omit these points.
District Attorney Smith. In refus-
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