The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1914-07-10
TEN SLEUTHS TAKE
UP MURDER CASE
INQUEST INTO KILLING or FREE.
PORT MATRON is AID
JOURNED.
ANOTHER SHOOTING EPISODE
Man Who Resembles Dr.. Carman As
Gcrts He Was Fired On-Snots
Heard, Physician Says, Were
Meant for Him.

Frccport, n. Y, July S.-Ten detec-
tiyes, representing an agency of IA
tional prominence, have begun i~nvesti-
cation into the murder of Mrs. Louise
Bailey, who vas mystCriously killed III
the Office of DR.. Edwin Carman a week
ago. The detectives were employed
by the Nassau county authorities.
Hehearse the Murder.
After q conference with the authori-
ties. the chief Of detectives went TO
the Carman home. There he inspect
ed the grounds and, With three of his
men, searched the house. After the
chief had been in the house hall an
hour the murder was rehearsed with
the chief acting the part of the muir
derer. TWO OF his men inside the
Office took the parts If Dr.. Carman
and Mrs. Bailey. When this rehear-
sal was over the chief and his men
searched the Carman place and the
property adjoining.
The inquest into the murder OF Mrs.
Bailey VAS abruptly adjourned. This
action was taken to give the authori-
ties a chance to follow several clues
and to Investigate the story told Sun
day night by DR.. Carman. who in
formed the police that a bicyclist who
had followed his automobile from
Rockville Center, near here, had fred
three shots at him while he was driv-
ing along a lonely stretch of road.
Another ALLEGED Shootinu.
Four persons living near the SPOT
where DR.. Carman said the attemut
was made upon his life. told investi.
gators that they had heard shots. De-
tectives were unable, however. to find
any one who had heard the shot which
}. +. Haff. Jr., a resident of Lynbrook.
a neighboring village. said was fired at
him Monday while he was driving his
automobile outside Freeport. Haff,
VINO resembles DR.. Carman in figure
and face, is the owner Of an automo-
bile OF a type similar to one of several
owned by the physician.
The inquest was adjourned after
several witnesses had been heard.
TWO of these witnesses, Miss Haze
Combs. a patient of DR.. Carman. ana
MISS Anna Kahn. a friend, who ac-
companied her to the Office Of the rhv-
stefan less than an hour before Mrs
Bailey was murdered, contradicted
Mrs. Carman statement that she was
not walking around the ground floor
or her home that night, was not in her
husbands office and had not admitted
any patients who called.
Contradict Doctors Wife.
Both these women swore they had
seer Mrs. Carman enter her husbands
once to answer the telephone and cor.
roborated the testimony of George
colder. the witness who testified Fri
day that Mrs. Carman had admitted
him to the house.
The corroboration, combined with
the testimony given by a negro maid
In the Carman home, constituted what
was declared by District ATTORNEY
Smith, to be the most important in.
formation ELECTED. The maid. who ad-
mitted that she had a long talk with
George Levy, counsel for Mrs. Carman
he morning after the murder appear.
ed 10 be troubled with a loss OF mem.
DRY. TO many vital questions she an.
S"ered: i don't remember"
The grand jury, it was announced
VIII begin an investigation Thursday.