Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-07-03
DOCTORS WIFE
NOT At BAILEY
MURDER PROBE
District Attorney Says He Has
Good Reason for Not Call
ing Her to Stand.
KEEP SHARP WATCH
ON cARMAN FAMiL 7
States Attorney to Sift Charges
of Laxity in Solving Long
Island Tragedy.

F'REEPORT, N. T., July Tins
name Of DR. Edwin Carman's wife
did not appear on the list of wit
nesses summoned for the inquest this
afternoon into the death Of Mrs.
Louise Bailey. who was murdered n
DR.. Carman's ofice last Tuesdaz
night. Since almost every one else
IN and about the physicians house
that night had been notified to ap.
pear at the inquest the omission II
Mrs. Carmanis name caused rnucA
comment The district attorney ex
planned that he had an excellent res
son for not calling Mrs Carman This
afternoon. It was understood that he
desired to reserve her testimony srr
the grand jury unimpaired by any
premature revelations at the inquest
Among the witnesses called we're
Archie Post, Joseph Colder and Miss
Hazel Combs, patients who vert
waiting in DR.. Carman's outer Office
when Mrs. Bailey was murdered
These three have told stories which
did not agree with the tale told br
Mrs. Carman, who has declared that
she was in her bedroom when the
fatal shot was fired and for half an
hour before
A man named Burke resident oy
neighboring village, had been sum
moned. 1t was said, to repeat story
he had told detective about aefn4
seen a woman dressed in white run
ming away from the window OF the
doctors Office Immediately after the
shot was fired
Miss Combs has said that she saw
Mrs. Carman on the front porch Of
her home only a few minutes before
the murder was committed.
Mrs. Carnaan Wants 10 Testify.
Talking over the telephone foda4
Mrs. Carrnan declared that she want
ed to testify at the inquest and stood
ready TO tell all she knew II reaiize
fully that in a measure ] am under
suspicion she said, 'and that at the
present moment am restrained -
my movements. No one need fear
however. that I am going to try to
run away or to shirk any ordeal that
l may be put TO"
Mrss Carman denied a story thar
several weeks ago she had attacked
afwomau patient in her husbands 81
Nee II know what that report re-
ferred to, -hoBaaEnr. she adfea
There was what might be termed
a scene IN the doctors Office with >
woman There was woman IN tbs
ltll1Ctf DuL LIZZIE Was HDtfllIl% -E~4 lIttEf
no violence and no serious conflict
The physicians wife repeated her
declaration that she had never seer
Mrs Bailey until she looked upon
her dead body at the norgue yester
day afternoon.
Were you jealous Of Mrs. Bailey y
she was asked.
mo, indeed. she answered
That Attorney General Carmody
has detailed four men TO IN
yestigate the murder as a re-
suit of complaints OF Iaxity by the
local authorities. and that county
detectives have been detailed to trail
DIR. Carman, Mrs Carman. Mrs. Ida
Powell. her sister. and Mr.. and Mrs
Platt Conklin. her parents and re-
strain them If they attempt TO leave
Nassau county, was one Of the SEN
sational developments in the remark
able murder mystery.
Attorney General Carmody, who Is
reported to be in New York city +
expected here some time todav- There
is much bitterness among the local
residents over the way the case has
been handled. 1t is openly charged
that only a half hearted effort is
being made to unravel the mystery
and that most of the persons inter-
ested in the case are fraternity mem
bers.
II is understood that the attorney
general viii be represented today Al
the inuuest and that some OF the Wit
nesses, especially George Colder, .
teamster. who tells a story of what
occurred in and about the house the
night of the murder He was a pa
tient sitting in an ante room Of the
physicians Office awaiting treatment
/. Watch Family Of Doctor.
That orders had been issued by the
local authorities to restrain all the
members Of the Carman household L
they attempt to leave the county was
admitted today by one Of the four
men who has been detailed on an all
night watch of the homestead The
police had automobiles and motor
cycles in readiness to take up the
trail should the family leave In an au-
tomobile. DIR. Carman and the others
stayed In the house all night
The four men on duty, who were
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