Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1914-07-09
SUSPECT SPENDS
NIGHT IN JAIL
;Wife. Of Long Island Physi-
clan Has Terrible
Experience. 4
PLEADS NOT GUILTY
Prisoner Breaks Down and lmrlores
Keepers to Take Her to Her Dy-
ing Mother-And Little Daughter.

New York, July 81 am innocent;
I did not kill her," sobbed Mrs. Flor
enco Carman. as she broke down this
morning upon her first day in MN
cola Jail, for the first time since sus-
nc;on pointed to her as the person
who fired the mysterious shot when
killed Mrs. Louise Bailey at the Car
man home at Freeport.
Calm, master of her notions
poised, and self-possessed, Mrs Car
man did not even show any sign Oh
feeling when she was taken to MIN
cola Jail last evening. She parted
frmo her husband with the CHEEKY
assurance, Don't worry, Ed. l d'd
not kill Mrs. Bailey. This will come
out all right
But today, under the double pres
sure of being torn from the bedside
Of her diving mother, and being part
ed from her twelve-year-old daugh-
ter who unwittingly had added
link in the testimony against her
mother. Mrs. Carman lost her self
possession and sobbed and wept as
she brokenly denied any knowledge
of how Mrs. Bailey met her death.
81 was jealous, l admit it," the
prisoner stammered between her out
bursts of grief. "But I am innocent
God knows I am innocent. On, take
me home, and away from this"
Meanwhile little Elizabeth, Mrs.
Carman's daughter, stood out as
tragic figure in the case. Big Sheriff
Petit wiped away tears as the child
nIantivelv INQUIRED. "When will you
bring mamma back?"
81 just can't stand it without her.
the little girl ,ried, before the start
for the jail. "She must come back
SOON"
Freeport, n. Y. July 9.-Mrs. Flor
ence Conklin Carman was arrested IN
her home on Merrick road yesterday,
charged with numbering Mrs. Lulu d.
Bailey, of Hampstead, on the night
cf June 80. She was taken to Nine
ola jail, held without bail for. an
examination in the little court room
in Freeport Monday morning.
Mrs. Carman was arrested in the
room in which Mrs. Bailey died-the
private office of her husband, DR.. Ed
win Carman, the man of whom she
was insanely jealous and whose hand
had left the shoulder of Mrs. Bailey
but moment before the shot, which
Mrs. Carman is accused cf firing,
ended his patients life.
Justice of the Peace Corodon Nor
ton, coroner ex-oflicio, sat in the op-
Grating chair, back of which DR.. Car
man sought protection when the bull
let entered Mrs. Bailey's back. Mrs.
Carman. her boyish lawyer, George
NJ. Levy, Sheriff Petit, District At
tornev Smith, Dr.. Carman and EilZ-
abcth Carman, the accused womans
beautiful nine-year-old child, were
the only occupants of the room.
Mrs. Carman collapsed. She made
no outcry, caused no furore. She SIM
ply collapsed like a woman stricken.
The officials present say there was
not man present who did not weep
with her. The coroner was complete
! ly unnerved. The Carmans had, been
his friends for years. When he was
charged with malfeasance in his OIL
flee of justice of the peace recently
DR.. Carman gave him not only moral
| but financial support.
"This is painful duty said the
coroner. tears streaming down his
face, :'but I have to do it. You know
1 have to do it, .E3C>
eve know" replied. Mrs. Carman
simply. - .-.
The coroner, with trembling hands,
drew from his pocket commitment
papers which he had prepared. He
placed them on the Doctors desk anc
in the form proved by law informed
Mrs. Carman that she was accused
of murder.
"Do you plead guilty or not gull
ty?" he asked. tlti
q nlead not puiltYn renlied Mrs