The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-07-15
TESTIMONY WAS
AGAINST WOMAN
Colored Maid in Carman Home
Tells Startling Story
About Doctor
Wife.
SHE RAN INTO HOUSE
Mrs. Carman Agrees to Go Before the
Grand jury and Tell Her Own
Story To
day.

NEW YORK, July 15--With the de-
tense staggering under the crushing
blow administered against It in the
evidence OF colored maid, District
Attorney Smith today predicted an
early ending Of the Nassau county
grand jury's probe of the Freeport
murder OF Mrs. Louise Bailey. The.
grand Jury resumed its sessions today
at Mineola.
The evidence given by Cecilia Cole
man, negro maid in the Carman home,
Is declared to have been vital blow
to the defense and Mrs. Florence Car
man. the doctors wife. who is held in
connection with the murder. DR.. Car
man and Mrs. Carman's attorney were
visibly worried.
While the session of the grand Jury
lis secret, the facts to which the negro
maid testified leaked out. She is
said to have declared that immed-
lately after 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. Bailey's life was fred
from the outside OF the house through
window into DR.. Carman's consulta-
tion room. Mrs. Carman has main
tanned that when the shot was fred
and for some time afterward she was
lup stairs and In negligee.
| The Coleman girls story differed
materially from the one she told at
Lar, hot %i,,oca
she stated tnat her mistress did not
leave the kitchen for long time pre-
ceeding or following the shot.
Mrs. Carman is expected to take
the stand in her own defense before
the day is over. She has asked per-
mission to testify and the district at
torney has consented to allow her to
do so II she signs waiver Of i'm.
munity. This she has stated she will
do.
Other witnesses today are expected
to be Elwood r. Bardes, an insurance
agent, who says ne saw woman, full.
ly dressed, near the window through
which the snot was fired, right after
the shooting; CASTOR Boissonnault.
who sold Mrs. Carman q dictograph,
and Calvin Burrell, who installed it.
District Attorney Smith plans to
have Mrs. Platt Conklin, mother OF
Mrs. Carman, make deposition to be
read before the grand jury If illness
prevents her testifying. District At
torney Smith said today that he ex-
pected to find two women who were
in the waiting room at DR.. Carman' IS
home and fled when the fatal shot was
fired. These women are said to be
prominent residents in or near Free.
port They have kept silent. fearing
publicity, it is said.
| Another Strong Link.
| NEW YORK, July 15.-Adding an
other strong link to the chain Of cir
cumstantial evidence that lis being
wrapped about Mrs. Florence Carman.
Frank Farrell, tramp, gave import
ant testimony today before the Mas
sau county grand jury at Mineola, in
vestigating the murder of Mrs. Louise
Bailey. Farrell told the grand jury
that he applied to the Carman home
for food on June 80, the night Of the
murder. He said the negro maid re-
fused his request. He was just leav'
ing the back door, he asserted when
he heard a pistol shot. Turning
around, he said, he saw a woman run
ming from the window into DR.. Car
mans oflce-through which the fata'
shot was fired-to the kitchen door,
Asked how she was dressed, Far
rell told the grand jurors, that as
near as he could make out she wore !
long coat. He said, however, that II
was dark and that he couldn't make