New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-09-11
DOCTORS WIFE BACK
IN MINEOLA JAIL
She Breaks Down in Cell
and Is Transferred to
MatrOn'S Room,
WCTTM'SMOTHERGLAD
Prosecutor Hints That Perjury
Charges May Arise from
Study of Afhdavits.

Mrs. Florence Csrmsn, wife OF Dr.
Edwin Carman, Of Freeport, Long Isl
and. must face trial on the charge OF
murder in the first degree for the shoot
ing Of Mrs. Louise Bailey in DR.. Car
mans Office on the night of June 80
The Nassau County Grand Jury, the
same body which indicted her in July
on the lesser charge Of msnslsughter
in the first degree, yesterday tound ~
indictment for the graver crime
The superseding indictment was the
result of the examination of several
new witnesses by District Attorney
Lewis J. Smith and supplementary
statements by previous witnesses be-
Cor the grand jury in the last few
DAYS,
Mrs. Carman was committed to the
Mineola Jail without bail, pending her
trial. which is expected to take place
next month. After d few hours IN
regular cell she was transferred 10 the
mstron's room, which she occupied
after her first arrest.
The Carmans had been Informed OF
he action of the grand jury prlor 70
the filing of the indictment. Dr. Car
man and his wife appeared at the
County Courthouse an hour before the
indictment was handed up to Justice
Kelbv. In that way Mrs. Carman avoid
cd the humiliation of being arrested In
her home and brought to the jail. An
,icipating the action of the grand jury,
sheriff Stephen P. Petit went to Free
port 10 arrest her. only TO find that she
had gone to Mineola 70 surrender.
Woman Breaks Down.
Mrs. Carman bore up well during
he, arrangement before Justice keiby,
bue WAS said to have broken down and
was II a highly nervous state at the
Jail last night. Her counsel, George W.;
Levy, entered plea Of not guilty ana
asked for bail. which was refused by
the court, as is customary in murder
cases in the first degree.
The accused woman appeared to be
lumfounded at the new turn IN her
case. She remarked TO friends ss she
was leaving the courtroom for the jail
that she could not understand how
the members of the same grand jury
which returned an indictment for only
manslaughter should have changed
heir opinion. DR.. Csrmsn was with
his wife throughout the court proceed
irgy and accompanied her to her cell.
"Her complete generation IS Ger
tain" he said, "but il is frlghtful 70
think that she must now remain IN
isil, in a common cell, until her trlal'
One of the strongest pieces OF new
evidence which led the grand jury 70
md the superseding indictment was
said to have been the testimony OF
carpenter, who swore that, notWltn.
stsnding the repeated statements OF
DR.. Carman and his wife that they
never had revolver in the house save
Of small calibre, he had seen a revolver
of large calibre in the CsTman home at
Freeport while working on the house
a few days prior to the shooting OF
Mrs. Bailey.
other witnesses we're said to have
told the grand jurors that DR.. Carman
was we'll Acquainted with Mrs. Bailey.
Celia Coleman, the negro servant OF
the Carnans, II is understood, divulged
more than she had previously related
regarding what happened on the night
Of June 80, particularly with reference
10 the movements of members Of the
family before and after the shooting.
Policeman q Witness.
walter COEIenSt OF FIecpOINs Tue
aYgt policeman to reach the Carman
home is said to have furnished new
evidence. Several other witnesses who
had not testified before the grand jury
when Mrs. Carmap was first indicted
were also examined.
District Attorney Smith intimateo
Yesterday that the grand jury was com
pairing various affidavits favorable Il
Mrs. Carmsn with the facts as they hac
heen laid before them, and that IN
dietments for perjury might be the re-
suit
District Attorney Smith said last
night that he would ask the Appellate
Division to grant q special term of the
Supreme Court in October for tht
Csrman trial. Otherwise the case prob
ably would 90 over until next year
As the next regular term of the Su
preme Court at MineOla in December
has q full calendar.
Mrs. Jennie L. Duryes, the mother
Of Mrs. Bailey, when told of the new
indictment said that she was glad OF
the outcome.
81 have been At loss to under
tand how Mrs. CArnan could wall
the streets If FEeeport under such 6
rloLu," she said at is only justice
that she should be indicted for murder
~ the frs. degree and ! am glad Of The
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