The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-04
MRS. EDWIN CARAVAN CROSS EXAMINED AT
 C:!gE;;:,I0NER' 'S|NQUEST
mphatically Denies She Was on the Porch of Her Home Just Prior to the
 Bailey Killing

Carman, wife of tho Freeport physician in whose office Mrs. Louise Bailey, wife of a wealthy New York manufacturer was mysteriously murdered Tuesday night, sat on the witness stand at the coroners inquest more than two hours today and submitted to rigid cross examination concerning her actions just prior to the killing. just after it. and | at the moment 1t occurred. Mrs. Carman emphatically denied she l was on the porch of her home just be- | fore the murder, that she had walked around on the ground floor while Mrs. Bailey was in her husbands office, or that she entered the office while the victims body was lying on the floor, George Colder. a patient, who had been waiting to see pr. Carman on the night of the murder, swore he had seen the physician's wife do all these things. When 1t was suggested that perhaps | Colder had mistaken Mrs. Carman for her sister the witness was confronted with both women and immediately identi- fled Mrs. Carman as the one he had seen.
 Mrs Carman, although nervous, told substantially the same story she related l the morning after the murder. This was that she had gone to her room im- | mediately after dinner the night of the murder and except for space of a min ute had remained there even after she heard the tinkle of breaking glass and the report of the revolver as 1t sent a bullet through Mrs. Bailey's heart. | She told how she had contracted for | the installing of the teephonic instrument | in her husbands office so she could hear hot ha 0oId fn hiox t.af o,fo ,1 how she had ripped 1t out the morning | after tho murder before she had clothed | herself or had her breakfast Spied on Husband Mrs. Carman also told Of spying on her husband through the same window the assassin used, of seeing him hand a nurse, Mrs. Variance. a $2o bill and of l watching the nurse kiss her husband on l the cheek. The kiss. she said, caused | her to rap on the same pane of glass I which later was broken by the person who killed Mrs Bailey Then she went inside, where she slapped the nurse s | face, demanded and received the $2o bill and in turn was warned by her husband | that if she ever repeated the performance, or ever spied on him again "all would | be over" between them. 1 Mrs. Carman's sister. visibly nervous, also testified. The other witnesses were pr. Carman himself, two patients who were waiting to consult him, and the physicians who performed the autopsy
 on the body of the slain woman. The 1 others under subpoena will tell their | stories when the inquest is resumed Mon- | day.
 Mrs. Carman later was placed on the | stand. She appeared calm, but her re- sponses to District Attorney Smiths ques- | tions were in a low tone. She told ot l Viaito n dana rfu York on the day of the murder. She was | dressed, she said, in a blue suit She ! returned to Freeport about o'clock, ate dinner and immediately retired to her room.
 Mrs. Carman denied she was on the front porch or the front steps at any time after she returned from New York. She
 she said. until she heard confusion of noises. She heard glass breaking and a l pistol shot, but she did not know which noise she heard first. She jumped up i'm mediately.
 After got up from the bed," Mrs. Car
 man said. T went out into the hall and looked over the banister. I heard lot
 of commotion and after returning to my room to put on kimono I went down.
 stairs. I did not go into my husbands office. We once had quarrel and he told me never to look in his office again. So
 went upstairs again."
 Why didn't you look into the office?
 asked the district attorney.
 Because the doctor had forbidden me to-"
 "He did not tell you to stay out when there was a dead woman in the office, did her"
 T did not know anyone was dead.'' You knew something serious had hap pened didn't you?'
 T thought so. but I didn't know what
 had happened"
 Trembling as She Answers
 Mrs. Carman was trembling as she an-
 swered these questions.
 Tn regard to the purchase of the tele- phonic instrument. Mrs. Carman said she
 had visited the offices of the manufacture
 CTS in New York. believing the instrumen,
 she had in mind was one that would re. cord conversations. She told the agenl first she was a dressmaker but later ad-
 mitted her identity.
 I About the affair with the nurse. Mrs
 Carman said she approached the window looking into the doctors office by going through the kitchen and passing around the rear of the house.
 "I looked in and saw the doctor lowing to the nurse" she said.
 "Then he put his hand in his pocket took out $20 and passed 1t to the nurse
 Then she leaned over and kissed him or
 the check. I knocked on the window and
 then went into the office. slapped ths nurses face, told the doctor and the wom-
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