The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-10-23
APPEARANCE ON STAND
WITHOUT GREAT CLIMAX
She Is Fifth Witness for Defense,
After State Rests It's
Case.
DENIES DAMAGING EVIDENCE
Testimony Of Celia Coleman Is De-
clared False in Every
Particular.
Especial to The Times Dlspatch.l ]


MINEoLA. October 22.-AIrs Florence
Z Conklin carman told her story on the
witness stand in the Nassau County
supreme Court late this afternoon 1t
was her appeal to farmer jury for her
life She told II evenly, slowly and in
wonderfully soft. appealing voice.
The greatest moment In her life came
while evening was falling: while dusk
vas enshrouding the little. droning
courthouse. 1t was a simple story
5 there was no great climax--but. she told
II under the beautiful influence of the
sunset hour.
Before her sat farmer jury-twclve
men. who, under normal circumstances,
should have been embracing their wives
and children after {, day OF toll In the
fields and the dusty country roads.
They went to bed with the words OF
thfs marvellous woman sharing in their
hearts the thoughts OF home. their own
CHEEKY hcarths and their own pretty
babies.
Mrs. Carman was tile NTH Witness
called by the defense. She took the
stand at Exactly 4:32 O'clock. Mr.. Levy,
OF her counsel. undertook the question:
irs OF the defendant after she had been
sworn In by Clerk Samuel Ransom.
EVERY ACCUSATION
rs DECLARED FALSE
item by item Mrs. Carmar went over
the story of Celia Coleman. the negro
maid iniher employ al tile time OF the
tragedy I'm the Carman home In Free
sRports last June, aud declared false
avery accusation the domestic made In
g her testimony yesterday. A fabrica-
ton from beginning to end was. I'm tho
5 essence, her characterization of the
ttlala'sfTarrHtlye of events OF the night
& Mrs, Bailey was shot and, killed In the
s OF ca.s0f Dr. Etfd lin Enrman. the d e..
4 s3stfd&Bt bus ba nd mn -. dS 3aubseqaent
& happenings IN the Carman, home.
&. ! The story told sby the. negro girl
4 was offered by the prosecution ns
Il tending directly eo connect Mrs. Car
man with the shooting. The efforts
OF Mrs. Carmans coufisel to-day I'm
questioning his client were designed
chiefly to discredit the servants tes-
t.mony. Mrs. carman responded with
alacrity and seemingly with entire
frankness. She looked into faces of
the Jurors with steady eyes when she
desired to Impress them with some
particular point, and she seemed re-
scntful when certain points In the
! story of the negress were under dis
cussion.
Mrs. Carman was on the witness
1 stand nearly an hour under direct ex-
animation. She Will undergo cross
Examination tomorrow.
DENIES THAT SHE IS
ISSANI;LY JEALOUS
The wife of the Freeport physician
admitted she had Installed 4 telephone
Instrument In her husbands office, but
denied she was "insanely jealous"
She said she had heard people ask her
husband how "ali his girls were.'
Sometimes he had stayed out all night
II he. husba nd was as bad as he had
been painted to her, she wanted to
know II. IL she found out what she had
heard was true, she said. she had de-
l.x- Il n, Nf..a
the house With him, but would never
speak TO him again. Then, on the
morning after the murder, she declared,
she tore out the device that the dis
z trict attorney had termed a ''mechani
cal seayesdropper" because she thought
her husband already had enough to
= bother him.
Mrs 3Carmans even corroborateG some
of the States witnesses bysadmitttHg
that on the evening OF the murder she
had called to her daughter Elizabeth
to stop playing the plano But she
did this. she swore, because she had "a
headache and not. as the prosecution
has intinated, because she wanted to
listen over the mechanical eavesdropper
to what her husband was saying to a
woman in his Office.
&. She admitted, too. that on one oc-
caslon, she looked In the same window
as that through which the assassin Sf
Mrs. Bailey fired. because she knew a
= - y s
to be fond, was in his Office.
When Mrs. CRrman5 stepped down
from the stand. Ehe apparently was as
fresh as when she went on. y
Mrs. CARMAN ON STAND
TELLS HER sToRY
- Mrs Carman on the stand told the
following story: as -
"I am the defendant. / was married
to DR.. Carman In 1892.
"Eerly in the morning of June 80.
.914, j went. to New York l spent
the day shopping. returned to Free
port with O headache on n train at G
O'clock
coat and went to the supper table. I
answered the front door once. ad +
mitted man don't know. still
had the headache at this time. After
( supper went right up to ;bed ] une
S dressed and put my clothing away.
wentSto bed. n was i'll. i heard Eliza,
beth playing the piano. told her to
2 stop, Il, ~ Z
Z soon after heard shot and some
comnipti0n downstairs. ] put on my
kimono. also put on my slippers, i
went downstairs INTO the pantry. room.
Iscould not see In the office. The door
was closed. i beard the doctor talk
thsn., u went back upstairs. thinking
that everything was all right. I met
J Powell came up and told fme that some
woma had been shot in the Office;
Mrs. Gonklin also cam up ss,. !.
81 The Z district attorney called about
ID :30s O'clock that night. II went to bed
VI 10 o,oIock. II had not been Off the
NJ aid hot go intoi the Office was bee
:fcsuse Dr. CRrtnsn told Sme never TO go
I init the once af ter we had the trouble
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