The Washington times., 1914-07-15
SAW WOMAN RUN
INTO CARMAN HOUSE
Tramp Declares to Grand Jury
She Wore Long Coat-He
Heard Fatal Shot.

NEW YORK, July Kidding another
strong link to the chain of circunl-
stantial evidence about Mrs. Florence
Carman. Frank Farrell, tramp. gave
important testimony To-Day before the
Nassau county grand jury a. Mineola.
investigating the murder Of Mrs.
Louise Bailey.
Farrell told the grand jury that he
applied TO the Carman home for food
on June 20. the night Of the murder
He said the colored maid refused his
request. He ives just leaving the Lack
door. he asserted. when he heard a
pistol shot. Turning around he said
lie saw 4 woman running from the win
COW into DR.. Carman's office, through
which the fatal shot was fired, to the
kitchen door.
Wore Long Coat.
Asked how she was dressed, Farrell
told tine grand jurors that as near as
he could make out she wore a long
coat. He said, however, that il was
dark, and that he couldn't make out
just what she did wear.
Mrs. Carnan has maintained that she
vas upstairs wearing kiruono when
the shot was firci. Celia Coleman. the
maid said Mrs. Carman was attired in
long kimono covering a nightgown.
The evidence given by Celia Coleman,
colored maid in the Carnan home, Is
declared to have been a vital blow to
the defense of Mrs. Florence Carman,
the Doctors wife, who Is held as a
material witness in connection with tie
murder. DR.. Carman and Mrs Car
mans attorney are visibly worried.
The Maids Testimony.
While the session Of the grand jury IS
secret, the facts to which the maid
testified. It is said that Immediately
sitter she heard the sound OF breaking
glass and the report of a pistol, Mrs
Carman, fully dressed, came running
into the kitchen from the outside of
the house.
The shot that ended Mrs. BaiIey's life
was fred from the outside Of the house
through a window into Dr. Carman's
consultation room. Mrs. Carman has
maintained that when the shot was
fired and for some time afterward she
was upstairs and in negligee.
The Coleman girl was on the stand for
I"SHly-HNc ana n6r
story differed materially from the one
told at the coroner's inquest. At that
time she stated that her mistress did
not leave the kitchen for a long time
preceding or following the shot
Mrs. Carman is expected to take the
stand in her own defense before the day
is over. She has asked permission to
testify, and the district attorney has
consented to allow her to do SO IL she
signs a waiver of immunity. This she
has stated she will do.
Other witnesses today are expected to
be Elwood T. Bardes. an insurance
agent, who says he saw a woman, fully
dressed near the window through which
the shot was fired right after the
shooting: CASTOR Bo.ssonnault. who sold
Mrs. Carman a dictagraph, and Calvin
BurreIl, who installed IL.
District Attorney Smith plans to have
Mrs. Platt Conklin, mother of Mrs.
Carman, make a deposition to be read
before the grand jury If illness pre-
vents her from testffying.
District Attorney Smith today said
that he expected to find two women
who were in the waiting room at DIR.
Carman's home. and fled when the
fatal shot was fired. These women are
said to be prominent residents in or
near Freeport. They have kent silent
fearing publicity, it is said.