Evening star., 1914-07-14
TRACE MOVEMENTS
Of MURDER VICTIM
Mrs. BaiIey's Relatives to Be
Called Before Grand Jury
This Afternoon.
DR. CARMAN, HUSBAND
OF ACCUSED, EXAMINED
Physician Not Asked to Waive I'm
munity, as Was Expected-Dia-
gram of House Submitted.

MINEOLA, n. Y. July 14.-At the
grand jury investigation this afternoon
into the murder of Mrs Louise Bailey In
the Office of DIR. Edwin Carman at Free
port the night Of June 20, District At
torney Lewis J. Smith has planned to
call the members of the dead woman's
family to trace her movements from the
time she left her home in Hampstead un-
til she arrived at the physicians office.
In the grand jury investigation the
presence of the dictograph in the Carman
home will play an important part. II
Mrs Carman Is a witness one of the
principal lines of questioning will be
whether she listened to a conversation in
the PHYSICIANS Office Immediately before
the murder occurred. She already has
denied under oath that she did so
No eyewitness of the crime has yet
.'een found, and the district attorney ad-
mitted the case must go to the grand
jury practically upon the same evidence
as at the coroner's inquest.
While there will be several grand jury
witnesses who did not testify at the in
quest, none of them will be able to
swear that he actually saw the firing of
the shot.
DIR. Carman First Witness.
DR.. Carman was the first witness
called this afternoon. He was on the
stand nearly two hours As he left the
thing about the nature of his testimony,
but said he had not been asked to
waive immunity, as had been expected.
District Attorney Smith said he was
satisfied with DR.. Carmans story and
had changed his mind about asking
him to sign a waiver of immunity
Neither DR.. Carman nor the district at
torney would say whether DR.. Carman
had In any important details altered
the story whicn he told at the cor
oners inquest. The chief point in this
account.was that his wife was upstairs
when the shot which killed Mrs. Bailey
was fired.
The doctor was followed by George
Fairfield, q surveyor, who had been
called upon to present a diagram of the
house where the murder was commit
ted. Among the other witnesses cited
band of the murdered woman; Mrs
Jenny Duryear, her mother; Miss
Madeline Bailey, q daughter, and Mrs.
William Kimball, cousin.
Mrs. Carman to Talk,
Tomorrow or Thursday Mr.. Smith
announced that he would give Mrs.
Carman, who is held in the county
Jail here charged with the murder of
Mrs. Bailey. an opportunity to tell her
story. Previous to hearing Mrs. Car
man. however. the district attorney.
it is said. would call Celia Coleman.
the Carman negro maid, who is ex-
pected to change her original story.
For two hours yesterday afternoon
Mrs. Carman's attorney questioned Ell
wood T. Bardes, the imprisoned wit
a q
saw a woman walking away from the
window through which the shot was
fired Immediately after the shooting
occurred.
At the end of the conference with
Bardes the Carman lawyer admitted the
witness had not in any way changed
the story he told at the inquest. In
stead. 1t was asserted. Bardes strength
ened his statement in important details
Investigation of the murder has led
District Attorney Smith to form a new
theory which Is in direct contradiction
to that brought forward by DR.. Carman
that the murderer had planned to kill
him and not his patient. chart which
the district attorney has had prepared
shows, he says, the identical positions
occupied by Dr. Carman and Mrs. Bailey
and shows that only the narrowest part
| of the physicians shoulder could have
been visible to the slayer while an al
most unobstructed view of Mrs Bailey
was obtainable The district attorney
also declared he was positively satisfied
! that 1.-The shot was fired by person who
| knew every inch. and intimately. Of the
| inside of the room in which the killing
occurred"
DR.. Carman asserted that he believed
that the slayer of Mrs. Bailey intended
| to kill him, but because he was out of
range of the revolver at the moment he
escaped.
Exhibits Maids Affidavit.
Because of a report that he had pre-
pared the affidavit of Celia Coleman,
the colored maid in the Carman home,
which she made the day after the shoot
ing. George M. Levy. counsel for Mrs.
Carman, has exhibited the affidavit. He
said he was anxious to show that the