The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-07-03
WHERE WAS
MRS. CARMAN?
Wife of Doctor, in Whose Of
fee Patient Was Killed
Through the
Window.

united Press Leased WIRE Service.
NEW YORK, July 3-Still cropping
their way with only threads Of evi-
dence to lead them. the police dnd
county authorities at Freeport, l.. L.,
continued their efforts today to solve
the mystery Of the shooting Of Mrs.
Louise Bailey. wife Of the well to do
Brooklyn manufacturer. in the Office
Of DR.. Edwin Carmen.
In the belief that the murderer who
fired through q window Of DR.. Car
mems ofiice, threw away the death
weapon. every foot of territory about
the Carmen home has been searched.
The house was also ransacked but no
trace OF the revolver was discovered.
Mrs. Carmen viewed the body Of Mrs.
Bailey yesterday and may be examin-
ed at tho inquest which will be re-
sumed today. She stoutly declares
that no formal denial Of her guilt is
necessary as she knows nothing Of the
killing of the woman in the offlce of
her husband.
Special efforts are to be made today
to gain additional information from
two patients of DR.. Carmen who as
sert that Mrs. Carmen appeared fully
dressed soon after Mrs. Bailey was
shot down. Mrs. Carmen has declar-
ed she was. in her room, resting in bed
when the shot was fred and did not
go down stairs.
Miss Helen Combas who says she
was in the waiting room Of DR.. Car
mems office, has declared Mrs. Car
men admitted patients wno came to
the door Just before Mrs. Bailey was
shot. A woman. Miss Combes believes
to have been Mrs. Bailey, entered
without knocking, the girl declared.
Another important witness Is Geo.
Colder. who was also In the waiting
room He also believes he saw Mrs.
Carmen. Golden declared he saw a
woman in white In the front part OF
the house before the shooting and lat
! er in the private Office. Much i'm
portance is attached to the identity
OF this woman, but Colder has been
able to describe her no further than
say that she wore white shirt waist
and skirt.
The jealousy Of Mrs. Carmen con-
tinued to figure prominently In the
case today 1t was reported in the
village that on one occasion Mrs. Car
men had slapped the face OF woman
who was with the physician.
An Arrest Today.
NEW YORK. July 3.-The woman
whose hand pushed aside the screen
to a window in DR.. Edwin Carman's Of
fee at Freeport, L. l., and shot down
Mrs Louise Bailey, wife Of a promi-
!nent Hampstead citizen, is expected to
be under arrest today. County off,
cials admitted just before the start OF
the inquest this afternoon that they
had definitely determined that the as
sassin was a woman.
Meanwhile Mrs. Nellie Carman, wife
of the physician, declared that her
jealousy against her husband had been
definitely removed by what she over
heard on the dictograph she installed
in his Office.
There Is complete harmony in our
home now" Mrs. Carman told the I'm
ited Press this afternoon just before
the inquest started. ''My husband and
L are reconciled. l am not jealous
now.
"Of course I realize that the public
may consider me suspect in-as-much
as my movements just now are re-
stricted but I am perfectly willing to
tell my story before the inquest or
other official investigation. When
that comes out there will be no real
reason to suspect. know more than
have already said Of this unfortunate
case.
cit is absolutely false that I kept
a diary of things I heard on the dicto-
graph I had set up in the doctors Of
flee.
Likewise it is false that I was jeal-
GUS of Mrs. Bailey I never saw her
before I gazed on her dead body yes
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