Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-07-06
Witnesses at Inquest Re-
fute Stories Told by
Mrs. Carman.
FIND BOX CARTRIDGES
OF Same CaIibre as Revolver
Used in Taking the Life of
Doctors Patient.

Freeport, n. Y, July 6.-Despite as
sertions of DR.. Edwin Carman that sew
erai shots were fired at him last night
by man on bicycle near Rockville
Center while returning home here af-
ter visiting a patient at Roosevelt, Dis
trict Attorney Smith and Sheriff Petit
declared they were still firm in the be-
lief il was a woman who shot and
killed Mrs. Louise E. Bailey in Car
mans Office Tuesday night.
The inquest today is not expected to
develop any startling facts not already
known. Petit admitted the investi-
cation had narrowed to three points.
each of which leads TO the same per-
son or persons.
When the inquest was resumed to-
day Assistant District Attorney Weeks
exhibited an unopened box of 3S-cali-
bre revolver cartridges he said he had
found in the Carman home. DR.. Car
man told him, said Weeks, that he did
not know how the cartridges came to
be in the house. A 3S-calibre bullet
killed Mrs. Bailey.
Celia Coleman, a negro maid in the
Carman home, was the first witness.
She began her story by telling who
was at the dinner table Tuesday night.
She said Mrs. Carman complained of
a headache and said she was going up
stairs. The witness saw her leave the
dining room and later heard footsteps
Hc.r--a- Af NIrc
on the stairs. She admitted she talk
ed with, George Levy, Mrs. Carutan's
attorney, the morning after the muir
der She insisted that no one else
was present at the conference.
DO you know what perjury means?'
asked the district attorney.
The witness answered she did. The
district attorney then asked several
times If she had not told him pre-
yiously that Mrs. Carman was pres
ent. The witness said she didn't re-
member. Her memory was faulty re-
garding things Levy had talked about, |
but she was sure Mrs. Carman had
never spoken to her about the shoot |
ing.
when did you change your mind |
about what you told me Mrs. Carman |
had told you and when did you lose |
vour memory? Yho told you TO |
change your statement"
Nobody" said the negress. The |
witness admitted she signed a paper
for Levy without reading it or having
it read to her.
Sees Colder Admitted.
Miss Hazel Combs testified she ar
z ]
o'clock. A man and woman she did
not know we're in the waiting room.
She said she saw Mrs. Carman walk
ing around the house and saw her ad-
nit a man patient COLDER and go
into Carman's office to answer the tel
sphone before the doctor came out or
the dining room. L
Mrs. Carman denied on the stand I
that she ever entered her husoands
office since she saw Mrs. Variance a
nurse, kiss him.
Charles Anderson, a negro YOUTH
testified he was passing the Carman
,ouse about Tuesday night, when
10 heard a report he thought was a
irecracker. He looked in the yard
md saw a man running toward the
,ack fence The man jumped over
he fence and Anderson later saw him
,meree from an alley in the next
street
w. ]. Han of Lynbrook. who close
v resembles DR.. Carman and drives
m automobile OF the same type, re-
ported to the Freeport police that ear
v this morning. while driving his ma ,
.hine not far from where DR.. Carman :
vas fired upon last night, man stand ;
ne beside the road fired one shot at
i'm. Haff is a long time friend OF ,
'arman.
The inquest adjourned until Wednes-
ay to allow the district attorney to
et Witnesses.