The Washington herald., 1914-10-21

mans mother. The old lady was terrible
in her grief. She was haggard, white,
trembling. She made a brave attempt
to control herself, but the sight Of her
daughters dress-stained with blood
and wrinkled-broke her.
She wilted like a woman stricken for
the last time. She cried out ferceIy that
it was her daughters dress and struck
a sense Of horror into the hearts Of
all the women-folk present by saying
simply:
They brought her home in the night
dead"
Doctors Face . Puzzle.
DR.. Carman sat in his accustomed place
beside his wife. While the district attor-
ney was producing the story of the die
tograph the doctors face was a puzzle.
When Boissonault told Of Mrs Carman's
intentions Of spying upon her husband.
whom she confessed doubling when
Boissonnault told Of Mrs. Carman's sue
cessful plan to coax her husband out into
the country for a day or so that the die
tograph might be installed and while II
was told how she decided that the little
instrument was such a treasure that she
would buy 1t outright, Carman sat with
his ruddy cheeks blazing, his close-set
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one side
Continually during the dIctograph tes-
timony Mrs. Carman pursed her lips,
half closed her eyes. and watched her
husband. Several times when she thought
that she had caught his eye she smiled
In deprecating manner, nodded reas-
suringly and leaned toward him as
though to receive, in return, assurances
that he did not really feel badly because
she was so silly.
She acted all the world like a school
girl who had been caught smuggling
candy in between her books.
Slapped Nurses Face.
Mrs. Elizabeth Verance, a trained |
nurse, was asked to describe what had |
in DR.. Carman's ofice when |
she called there on the night Of April 20 |
She said she had gone there to borrow |
some money from DR.. Carman. for whom |
she had previously worked. Just as she |
received the money someone raped upon !
he window Che same window through |
which the fatal shot had been fired
ater). and Mrs Carman called out to |
ct her in.
This is bad business for you borrow
ng money at your age" Mrs. Carman ia !
alleged to have said. The witness said
nat Mrs. Carman then slapped her (Mrs.
'erance's) face and the doctors also. At
his some women in the court room
'roke into loud laughter and were re-
ouked by the Judge.
While Colder was testifying, Mrs.
Carman removed her jacket, rested her
Irm upon the counsel table and watch
ID him intently. She showed abso-
utely no emotion.
Says She Walked Through Room,
Colder said he had seen a woman
lressed in white pass through an outer
Dom of the house just before the
hooting, but had not seen her return
Upon cross-examination, counsel for
he defense tried to establish the point
hat Mrs. Carman was too tall to
tand beneath the window screen
which had been lifted on its hinges by
h. shooter.
Colder said that the woman who ad-
nitted him to the house was the same
ne he had seen pass through a rear
DOM and go through a door way. He
aid she was Mrs. Powell, although
he record OF the inquests showed that {
e had said then she was Mrs Carman.
Hazel Coombs was recalled and
estified she had known Mrs. Carman
or twenty years and that it was Mrs.
'arman who had admitted Colder to
he house. This was the first big point
or the State.
DR.. Howard NJ. Fhipps, who had per-
ormed the autopsy upon Mrs. Bailey,
aid that the fatal bullet had passed s
hi ough both her lungs. DR.. Phipps,
n describing the inquest, testified
hat the doctors found evidence that
FRS. Bsiley was soon to become a {
lother.
william D. Bailey. husband of the t
woman, said: I
Il was in my office in New York t
ity on the day of the shooting, June {
0. 1 returned to Hampstead about I
80 in the afternoon. 1 ate my sup '
er and about twenty minutes to 10 s
eceived a telephone message saying !
hat my wife had been murdered in I
report. I hurried to Freeport, not 5
eing able to believe that Louise had I
cen killed. I went to the office of '
'r. Carman and there I saw her lying
cad on a couch"
Mr.. Bailey's examination was brief,
nd he was not cross-examined.
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