The Anderson daily intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1915, 1914-07-04
MRS. CARMAN TELLS TREND
OF HER JEALOUSY ON
STAND
INQUEST is BEGUN
Delving Into the Incidents At
tending Death of Mrs.
Louise Bailey
(By Associated Pressl


Freeport. y. V. July 3.-Mr: Edwin
ca.man, wife of the Freep0rt physi-
clan in whose Office Mrs. Louise Bail
e., wifi, of II wealthy New York man
| ufacturer. was mysteriously murdered
Tuesday night, was on the witness
stand at the cOroncr's inquest more
| than two hours today and submitted
to rigid rr0Ss examination concern
ing her actions just prior to the kill
ing, just cfter IL. and ut the moment
il occurred.
Mrs. Carman emphatically denied
she was on the porch OF her home
just before the murder. that she had
walked around on the ground floor
| while Mrs. bailey was in her hus-
lands office. or that she entered the
office while the vi2tim's body was ly.
ing On the floor. George Collier, q pa
titent who had been waiting to see
DR.. Carman on the night of thu mnr-
der. sworc he had seen he physician .
wife do all these things
When II was suggested that Colder
had mistaken Mrs. Carman for her
sister. the witness was confronted
with both women and Immediately
identified Mrs. Carman as the one he
had seen.
Mrs. Carman, although nervous. told
substantially the same story SHE re-
lated the morning after the murder.
This was that shc had gone TO her
room Immediately after dinner ue
| night of the murder and OK cept for n
space OF a minute had srefnained there
even after she heard the finkir ui
~ HO tvyo 80 ~
revolver AZ it sent a bullet through
Mrs. Bailcy's heart.
Explained Device.
She told how she had contracted for
the installation of the telcphonic in
strument In her husbands office SO sine
! could hear what he said to his wom-
| en-paticnts and how she had ripped
1t out the morning after the murder be-
fore she had clothed herself or had
her breakfast.
Mrs. Carman also told of spying on
her husband through the same win
dow the assassin used, of seeing him
hand. nurse. Mrs. Varianc $50
bill and of watching the nurse kiss
her husband on the cheek The kiss,
she said, caused her tn rap on the
same pane of glass vic, later was
broken by the person y. % killed Mrs.
Bailey. ->
Then she went inside. where she
slapped the nurses fece. demanded
ard received the, $40 hill and lii turn
WAS warned by her husband that IL
she ever repeated the performance or
ever spied on him again "all would DO
over" between them. 81
Mrs. Carman's sister, visibly ner-
vouis. also testified. The other Wit
nesses we're DR.. Cnrman himself, two
patients: who were waiting to consult
him. and the physicians who perform
cd the autopsy. The others under sub
pocna will tell their stories Monday.
Carman Supports Wife.
DR.. Carman denied that his wife had
been in the office after the shooting.
He might have seen her in lne waiting
room. he said. He saw her next ufr-
stairs. he said. "after everything hae
quieted down."
WHO let Mrs. Bailey into the
house?" a:ked the district attorney.
II do not know" the physician re-
piled. - :,
He said Mrs. Bailey died two minut-
es after she was shot. Ho told Of re-
moving the bullet and he identifis1t II
when It was shown to him. He aaid
he heard no sound outside OF the VIM
dow before the glass was pushed in. :
DIR. Carman said he did not know
| where Mrs. Carman. was when the
shot was fired.
Mrs. Harman when placed on tho
| stand appeared calm. She told OF vis-
its to department sores I'm New York
! on the day OF the murder. She was
dressed. she said, In blue suit, She
, returned to Freeport about 2 O'clock
ate dinner and imnedinte.y retired
tc her room.
Mfs. Carman dcnteG she was on the
front porch or the front steps at any
timss after she ratrrne.i from New
York. She was in her room. l, ing
across the bed, she said, until she
[ head a confusion Of noises. She
Heard glass breaking and pistol shot,
but she did not know which noie., she
head first. She ujmped up Immediate
/ ly.
Didn't visit Office. -
after got up from the red. Mrs.
Carman said. II went out Into the
hall and looked over the hanister. I
heard a lot of sonniotion and after
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