Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-07-18
BURNS FRAMED
] CASE ,|SCHAR|GE
OF MRS. CARMAN
Declares TRAMP" Who Testi-
fled Against Her Is One of
Detectives Men.

I
NEW YORK, July 1S.-Preparing
for complete rest of several weeks
at Lumberville, Pa, Mrs. Florence
| Carman, indicted on a manslaughter
charge in connection with the mys-
terious killing of Mrs. Louis Bailey
in her husbands office, today de-
nounced Detective William J. Burns
as a bully and a brute She de-
clared the tramp who swore he saw
her run from the window through
which sped the bullet that killed Mrs.
Bailey, was zone of Burns's crea-
tures.'
At liberty on $4,000 bail Mrs. Car
man planned to leave here tonight
| or tomorrow morning for Philadel-
phia, with her husband, DR.. Edwin
| Carman, and her little daughter,
Elizabeth. From there the party will
go to Atlantic City, and thence to
Delaware Water Gap. After few
days at the Gap they will retire to
the Carman farm, a few miles dis
! tant.
"It is unbelievable. said Mrs. Car
man, that the grand jury indicted
me on the testimony OF a negro
J woman who has twice changed her
stories, and tramp. who did mot ap-
| pear in the case until Burns came
| into it.
Burns was sent TO my house by
District Attorney Smith as my friend.
| The first thing he said as he stuck
his jaw out and leered into my face
was. L have come to get somebody
and that somebody is you
The first work of Attorney Levy,
! fot. dafonSa ba announced TO-
day, will be an effort to have the in
dictment dismissed.
After saying she expected to be
proved innocent, and to go right on
with her life there and be as happy
as she ever was, she went on;
i am innocent. No one will ever
be able to find verdict against me
if | get a square deal. was not
| Jealous of my husbands patient.
( did not shoot her. | did not know
| her. My only fear for the future is
| that | may be framed up by detec-
tives'
William j. Burns. the detective.
when informed Mrs. Carman had
/ charged that Farrell had been plant
ed by Burns" made an emphatic de-
nial of the charge.
Il never heard tell of Farrell in my
life until after his story was told to
| the district attorney. SAID MI. Burns.
Nor did my men have anything to
do with Farrell or the finding of him.
Did also plant the dictagraph! And
did | also plant the negro maid,
I Celia Coleman, who testified that she
had seen Mrs. Carman come in by
way of the kitchen door from the
yard where the shooting was done?
Mrs. Carman is merely acting as per-
sons in such cases always act. seek
ing to put on others the responsibility
| for her own act"
Mrs Carman in the statement said
| that it was not true that she was
''insanely Jealous, as the newspapers
lead people to believe She ex-
planned she was merely curious. say
ing that "the fact of the matter Is
that | had been on numerous oc-
casions with my husband at various
affairs. and had many good time
with him. But on such occasions
people would roul him about his
many girls, and hint that the doctor
was regular devil ] simply made
up my mind TO find out what was the
truth in those remarks, not because |
was insanely jealous, but because |
~anted to find out--l was curious.