Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-07-03

PROBE OF MURDER


the thirty eight-ealibre revolver with
which the murder was committed.
They searched in vain. Not even
a suggestion Of the weapon was found
nor were any footprints of a telltale
nature discovered. The search is be-
ing continued today
1t became known today that the po-
lice have been making inquiry in all
stores on Long Island as to whether
a thirty-eight calibre revolver has
been purchased of late and if so to
obtain complete description of the
buyer
Mrs carman to Be on stand
Mrs. CArman is to be put on the
witness stand in the inquest today
She will be asked to tell Of the con-
versations between her husband and
patients heard over the photograph
which she had installed in his Office
and connected with her room that
she might ascertain for herself
whether village gossip concerning
him was true.
Mrs. Carman admits that her jeal-
ousy prompted her to install the die
tograph without his knowledge, but
she maintains that the things she
heard over it convinced her that her
husband was true to her.
The police are reported to have o.
which she inscribed some of the con-
versations she is believed to have
heard, and that this will prove a SEN
sation if Mrs. Carman is questioned
about it.
Mrs. Carman said today that she
will welcome an opportunity to face
the county authorities on the stand.
She AYERS that she does not know
anything about the tragedy except
what her husband has told her.
Special efforts are to be made to-
day to gain additional information
from two patients of DIR. Carman,
who assert that Mrs. Carman APP
peared fully dressed soon after Mrs.
Bailey was shot down. Mrs Carman
declared she was in her room resting
on the bed when the shot vas fired
and did not go downstairs.
Miss Helen Coombs. who says she
was in the waiting room of DR.. Car
mans office, has declared Mrs Car
man admitted patients rho came to
the door just before Mrs. Bailey Was
shot A woman, Miss Coombs be-
lieved to have been Mrs. Bailey, en-
tered without knocking, the girl re-
clared. Another important whno IS is
George Colder, who was also in the
waiting room. He also beli-ses ne
saw Mrs. Carman. Colder declared he
saw a woman in white in the front
mart Of the house before tho shooting
and later in the private office. Much
| Importance is attached to the Iden-
tity of this woman, but I; lder has
been able to describe isr no further
than to say that she woe d white
shirtwaist and skirt. The jealousy of
Mrs. Carman continue to figure prom
inently in the case today. 1t was re
ported in the village that on one oc-
casion Mrs. Carman had slapped the
! face of a woman who was with the
physician at one time.
The dictagraph set by Mrs. Carman
| to trap her husband was not imper-
| feet, as both she and DIR. Carrnan
| have stated. 1t worked perfectly-so
clearly that she could have heard
Mrs Bailey's gay laughter as DR..
Carman chatted with her Tuesday
night.
When questioned regarding the
truth of rumor that Mrs. Car
man about two weeks ago, shortly
after the installation of the dicta-
| graph. had entered the doctors office
/ suddenly and scratched the face and
pulled the hair of a certain woman
patient, DR.. Carman said:
Yes There is something to that.
Something like that did happen, but
you are a little on the wrong trail
You have the wrong woman"
DIR. Carman again declared last
night that he could not recall ever
having met Mrs. Bailey before the
evening of the tragedy.
Mrs. Carman was taken to Hemp
stead yesterday afternoon by her law
yer to view the body of the
identify her. The trip was made
in a closed automobile with all
the curtains drawn closely. Mrs.
| Carman wore q Yale blue polo
coat over white summer dress and
white shoes and stockings. Her face
was hidden by a heavy brown veil.
When she arrived at the undertake
| ing establishment at Hampstead, the
body of Mrs. Bailey was not there,
and she had to wait for about twenty
! five minutes. As soon as the body
was brought from the Bailey home,
Mrs. Carman was taken into the room
were it lay.
Poor woman I'm sorry for her."
Mrs. Carman is reported to have said
as she gazed at the body of the muir
der victim. II never saw her before
| in my life"
She remained in the room for about
five minutes, then returned to the au-
tomobile and was driven to her home
| IN FreepOrI.
District Attorney Smith held an
! other conference with Mrs. Carman at
her home yesterday afternoon, when
she returned from Hampstead, Just
what was brought out at this confer
ence could not be learned, as the dis
! trict attorney would not talk for pub
LEGATION. He did say though, that the
papers had not treated him fairly
and hereafter he would say nothing
at all about the investigation that
he is conducting. He would not say
what he proposed to do further in the
case Mr.. Smith admitted that he
had been given a % calibre revolver
at the Carman home yesterday.
William Bailey, the husband of the
murdered woman. is almost distracted
by the death of his wife, and he had
slept little since the tragedy. His
mother in-law, Mrs. Jennie Duryea,
is under the care of physician at
the Bailey home.
"My little girl and I were very
happy" said Bailey yesterday.
There was nothing to mar our
home life and I cannot account for
her death except that the fiend who
shot her down mistook her for some
one else, or else the shot was meant
for the doctor. l know that no one