The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-07-03

Two women and two men we're in the
anteroom of DR.. Carmans office when
the shot was fired through the window.
One of these men, George Golden,
says that a woman member Of the
Doctors household, whom he thought
TO be Mrs. Edwin Carman, fully dressed
m white was in the front of the house.
presumably on the porch, ten minutes
before the murder
The authorities had expressed their
firm belief in the story they said Mrs.
Carman told. that she was lying on her
bed in her nlghtrobn, when the shot
was fred. The only other woman MEM
her of the doctors household. Mrs. Ida
Powell, sister Of Mrs. Carman. was
also upstairs when the shot was fired.
and verified Mrs. Carman's presence
there, District Attorney Lewis J. Smith
said.
Golden Is ~ years old. teamster af
Baldwins, l.. l. There are great dis
crepancies in the story he tells and tho
story Of Or Carman. lie said that he
had ridden over to the doctors house on
mis- bicycle TO get some medicine for his
mother. and arrived there at about 30
o'clock.
The woman who believe Is Mrs. Car.
man. opened the door for me" he said.
She is fairly tall and stout. This might
he either Mrs. Powell or Mrs. Carman,
and Golden was not sure which There
were two women Mrs. Hazel Combs and
another woman. don't know In the walt
ing room and Archie Post. Mrs. Bailey
was in the doctors office.
voice From the Piazza.
81 sat there about ten minutes. The
woman think is Mrs. Carman was sitting
in the front OF the house. Then she went
through the hallway 70 the kitchen and
came back again toward the front Of the
house She might have gone upstairs. but
n moment or two later | heard her tell
DR.. Catman's daughter. who was playing
the piano. to stop 1t. and the voice came
from the piazza outside.
Il sat near the window, which was
open. and no one went through the
grounds from the street while was there.
Then the shot was fred. This was at
about quarter to eight.
Post and | ran into the Office. and
saw Mrs Bailey lying on the floor.
ran out of the office door and looked
around There was no one In eight and
I feel sure that no one could have dis
appeared toward the front in the time IL
took me to get there.
''Then I went back into the office Or.
Carman was saying. What shall I do?"
He examined Mrs. Bailey and saw that
she was dead. and then We laid her on
the couch.
"He didn't telephone to any one while
7 was there and that was twenty min
utes Some one called him up. evidently
a patient. for distinctly remember hear
ing the doctor say. Take three pills day.
one after each meal
Came Into once, tie Says.
"The woman who had heen In the front
Of the house. who I think Is Mrs. Car
man. came into the office while was
there 7 noticed that she was dressed
all IN white"
was II a nightrobe?"
mo. II was a regular skirt and white
ehirtwast. and she also wore n white
belt. I am sure that the doctor did not
telephone to Dr. RuncIe. to the police or
Coroner while I was there.
" was in the office about twenty minutes
and then I went out Of the Office door and
around to the window. ! noticed that the
screen stuck out about two feet and y
half at the base. and there was room
enough for person to stand up under IT,
The moment l touched the screen saw
why. 4 piece OF board fell TO the ground.
] examined 1t. and IL was a new piece
Of shlngle about four inches long. II had
been placed about half way up the screen,
so apparently the window had ALL been
arranged for the shooting.
THE woman that came into the room
after the shooting was the same as the
one that had told Or. Carman's daughter
not to play the plano any more. ! recog-
nized her face and figure. and also her
voice. l am sure | would recognize her
again"
Shot Before = o'clock.
Or. Carman has said repeatedly that he
called up Or. William Harold Runcie. the
police and Coroner in quick succession
after the shooting The police record
shows that headquarters got the call st
. o'clock. Golden is sure that the shot
was fired before o'clock.
81 waited around there for about twenty
or twenty-five minutes after the shot was
fred. and then rode my bicycle home, a
distance of about two miles. ! was home
at fifteen minutes TO o'clock"
DR.. Carman said yesterday that Mrs
Bailey might have been in his Office once
before.
III she was" he said, "it was Monday
night. I had a desperate case to attend
to that evening, and when I finished sup
per looked into the waiting room. saw
that there was a crowd OF patients there
and told them all to go home that
cOulun dlleIO W any VI btiltN
Mrs. Bailey was there then, but | am not
sure.
After ! had given her the pills and she
was about to go ! stood talking casually
with her. Then heard the crash OF the
glass. turned and saw the revolver anc
the hand holding II. think the hand was
white and | am SURF ii was left hand.
After the shooting | worked over Mrs
Bailey for A moment or two, and ther
called up Or. Runc'e. He came over i'm
mediately ran over when ! told him i
was urgent and while he was coming ovel
called the police and the Coroner TIT
time was almost So
would Look Better.
''w'hy did you call Or. Runcle before
the police
81 thought another doctor there woulC
look better for me. and at first ] wal
confused. Runcie was over there In
few seconds after the shot was fred
when did you first learn that YOU
wife had installed a dIctograph in you
Office" District Attorney Lewis Smtl
made 1t public that Mrs. Carman had toll
the doctor yesterday morning.
The first / knew Of it was when Sheriff
Petit came to the house yesterday eve
ming. He told me my wife had a dicto
graph, and said didn't believe it. Thei
h.. asked wife and, she said that Sh