The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-07-06
Attempt to Stay Physician in
Whose Office Mrs. Bailey
Was Killed.
ASSAILANT RIDES
AWAY IN DARKNESS
Nearby Residents Contradict
Tale of Firing at
Car.
CARAVANS DREAD FOES
WILL HIDE GUN IN HOUSE
Keep Watch to Prevent Trick to
Fasten Guilt Upon Doc
tors Wife.

FREEPoRT. l. l., July DIR. Edwin
Carman. In whose office Mrs. Louise
Bailey was killed on Tuesday night by
a shot fired through a window, entered
the Freeport police headquarters at
1850 o'clock tonight and declared that
an attempt had been made TO assas-
sinate him by man who rode a bicycle
This man, he said. shot three times at
his automobile as he was driving along
Centennial avenue between Roosevelt
and Rockville Centre with Garland
Gaden. an actor-manager. living at
Roosevelt. but that the man with the
gun didn't even hit the car.
Earlier in the day DR.. Carman said
that he fears somebody would hide a
revolver in his house to fasten guilt
upon his wife and repeated his story
that he was confident that the person
who murdered Mrs. Bailey intended tho
fatal shot for him.
Still another angle to the mystery
was exploited in a rumor that three
women and a man were concerned in
a plot to take DIR. Carmans life. The
District Attorney admitted that detec-
tives were investigating a story that
one of the women killed Mrs. Bailey
and that man was present and aided
her to escape. The four persons arc
drug fiends, according to the tale.
Actor CONFIRMS story.
After telling his story of the shots
at his car on a lonely wooded stretch
of road by the mysterious cycler' whose
appea rance he was unable to describe,
the physician said he was more con-
WINGED than ever that somebody wanted
to kill HIM.
According to DR.. Carman-and his
story was confirmed by Gaden when
Sheriff Petit routed him out OF bed at
his home in Roosevelt al a late hour
the attack on his life took place shortly
after 1890 o'clock. just after he had
passed man riding "A bicycle and
slONtu uDNH VI ullNu
I'VE heard a sharp report" said
Gaden. land thought that one Of the
tires had burst. We didn't get out OF
the car, but I looked out OF the back
window Of the machine--it was a closed
car--and saw a man on n wheel about
forty feet behind the car.
Just then there was another shot
The man had come up about ten feet
nearer. Thirty seconds later he fired
a third shot. said to the doctor: Go
like hell and he did, speeding the car
about forty miles an hour to Roosevelt,
where I got out"
This version Of the attack OF the mys~
FERROUS cycler conceded with the start.
ling story which DR.. Carman related "
the police.
Hunt starts for Cyclis'.
Sheriffs. deputies and policemen
climbed into high power automobiles
and went on hunt for the cycler and
mis- gun.
Sheriff Petit. Officer Clarence Van
Ripper of Freeport and others went over
DR.. Carman's course and on his return
said that he visited the home OF Henry
Colder, brother Of George Colder, .Jr..
who was in Dr. Carman's Office when
Mrs Bailey was slain.
The Sheriff said that Henry Colder
old him he was in bed and awake when
ne heard two shots. Colder said he
got up. looked out OF his window and
Jaw an automobile standing in the mid
lie OF the road. Then the machine
moved forward about 900 feet, Colder
said stopped again and third shot
'ang out Colder declared that at no
lime did he see a man on a bicycle
George NJ Levy, Mrs. Carmans
counsel and ex-Justice of the Peace
\. Il. Wallace arrived at Golder's house
simultaneously with the Sheriff and his
,arty and heard Colder tell about the
shots and the queer movements OF the
Sheriff Petit said that two other men
living I'm the neighborhood interviewed
~ him insisted that they hadn't heard
my gun firing,
DIR, Carman and Gadcn agreed as 10
hese facts, which led up to the ride
n the automobile alons Centennial
venue. where they ran across the poor
The physician called at the Gadcn