The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-10-20
VICTIMS MOTHER IS FIRST WITNESS IN CARAVAN TRIAL Called to Stand to Identify Clothing Worn By Mrs.
 Bailey. STATE WILL PUSH ITS
 CASE TO COMPLETION Taking of Testimony Goes On With Rapidity After
 Opening Addresses.

MineoIa, N Y Oct 2O-After several physicians have established the cause of the death of Mrs. Louise D. Bailey, who was shotfand killed in the office of Dr. Edwin Carman at Freeport on June 30, last. Celia Coleman, the ne gress maid in the Carman household, is expected to take the stand today to tell her story of the crime of which her former mistress. Mrs. Florence c. Carman Is accused. Questions put to talesmen yesterday by District At torney Smith indicated that about the testimony of the maid he will build his case against Mrs. Carman.
 The short time in which the jury was selected yesterday led District Attorney Smith to express the opin- ion that the trial would be short and that a verdict might be expected this week.
 Before court opened today, William ID. Bailey, husband of the murdered woman, indicated that he would occu- py less conspicuous position in the trial room than he did yesterday when he sat beside the district attorney and as a result brought references from Mrs Carnan's counsel to himself 8 seeking to influence the jurors. Whether Mrs. Carman will be a witness in her own defense had not been determined, it was said today. Her appearance on the stand would depend, it was stated, upor1 the strength of the case her counsel con- sidered the district attorney had WOW en around her.
 Miss Madeline Bailey, the r year old daughter of the murder victim, was In court to testify as a witness not wfthstanding the urgent request made by her father that she be spared the ordeal
 Miss Bailey came to the courthouse with her father ana grandmother, Mrs. Jennie DuTyea, Mrs. Bailey 5 mother Both the women were dress ed in deep mourning.
 Immediately after court opened Dis trict Attorney Smith began Bis open Ing address to the jury. He slzetched In some deaM Mrs. sBaileyss actions on the day of the murder, the arrange ment of the Carman house in eral and the physfcian's office particularly He told the Jury how the wire screen at the window to the ofl&e was propped up, the window pane brok- en, revolver thrust through the open ing and a bullet fired into the heart Of Mrs Bailey. Although she died within 8. minute, he said, her. body lay on the floor for some time before the police were notified
 We shall show" continued the dis
 tr1ct attorney, .sthat the shot tha+ killed Mrs. Bailey was fired by this 1 defendant. We shall show that she passed through the kitchen f,s,t 1
 fore the shooting and that she re-
 turned through the kitchen hrmedi- ateIy after 1t. We shall show further
 that the motive was jealousy and sus-
 ptcton of her husbai1d.
 eTo prove this we shall call a wo-
 man whom Mrs. Carman slapped on
 one occasion when she saw her hus-
 band give her money while the pair were in the physfcian's office Also
 we will show why and how she se- cured 9 telephone instrument or me- clandcaI eavesdropper so that she
 could spy upon her husband, of whom l she was intensely jealous
 l The district attorney also told how
 the defendant tore out the instrument
 the morning after the murder and hid lit in the garret-
 "We will also show some things l about George M. Levy, this defend ants counsel MT Smith continued
 we will show how she called this, lawyer in the day after the murder l and consulted him and how he innnae- ] diately questioned the cobored girl Ce-
 Ha Coleman. about what she had l seen.''
 John J. Graham of Ndrs. Carman's s (Oontinued on Page TwOl