The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-07-04

OF Long Island native. roughly dressed
for the work he does. but has a good
knowledge of the English language. and
apparently a good ability to understand
shades of meaning. His story did not
vary in the slightest from the story he
had previously told to newspaper men,
who informed the officials OF his impor-
lance rs witness.
Went TO Home often.
Colder is a widower, A. years old. and
has been In the habit OF going to DIR
Carman's house for months. three times
week. TO get medicine for his mother
in-law. who lives with him
IL got to the Carinan home at : o'clock
Tuesday evening. and saw on the piazza
a woman who he thought was Mrs. Car
man. Right here "A point or difference
was found.
How was she dressed" he was asked
IAN In white" said Colder Mrs Car
man said she wore white shirtwaist
and blue skirt. Colder looked into the
anteroom. saw several patients waiting
and then rode to town on his bicycle.
made purchase and returned. getting
back to the house at 30. he said
Mrs. Carman and her mother, Mrs.
Conklin. were on the stoop." Colder said.
II went into the waiting room and saw
Archie Post and young girl there.
few moments later another woman came
in Mrs. Bailey was in the doctors Of
flee when | arrived
while 7 waited ' saw the woman in
white. who | think was Mrs. Carman,
pass through the hall OF the house
toward the kitchen. going from the front
of the house. She stayed there mo-
ment and then walked from the kitchen
TO the front OF the house. I could see
through the half open portieres plainly
% 4 INs.. Ias \ "a
this woman again. I have always known
her AS Or Carman's wife.
she passed from the kitchen coward
the front of the house about i've minutes
before the shot was fired.
No one On the Lawn.
u heard distinctly the crash of glass
before the shot and the shot only a
second or two interviewed between the
two. Then ! ran into the doctors office,
/ looked out the front door, saw no one
on the lawn and turned back"
He saw Mrs. Bailey on the floor The
doctor was much alarmed and told him
to get Theodore Bedell. Colder told
! Archie Post, the other male patient ID
the ante. ON, to get Bedell and went
back into Inc doctors office
when | got back the same woman In
white, known to me as Mrs. Carman. was
! there. She was the one who had been OF
! the porch when l got to the house and
I the one who went through the hall In
| two directions while | was waiting. She
] the doctor and | laid the body out on the
couch and then the doctor gave me my
medicine
Then / went outside and looked at thu
! window from which the shot was fired
! | found the outside screen held out by q
! piece of wood about four inches long
/ The lower end OF the screen was out tive
| feet and a half from the window ledge
! stood under 1t and looked into the room
! through the broken window. The wood
was a piece of new shingle Then
went home"
stages Dramatic scene.
Then District Attorney Smith ordered
the policeman who was herding all M
prospective witnesses together In "A rea
room. where they could not hear wha
was going on in the court, to bring Mrs
Powell and Mrs. Carman into the room.
Mrs. Powell came first. She is shorte
, and slghter than her sister. Mrs. Powell
face was white. her lips twitched ner
| vously, while Mrs. Carman walked II
easily. In full possession of herself. pass
ing through the crowd and stepping
across the feet of the curious withou
visible annoyance or perturbation.
colder" said Mr.. Smith as the GROVE
In the court room grew hushed with TN
feeling of the Importance Of the moment
as well as its dramatic Interest. which
of these two women In the woman know
to you as Mrs Carman. the woman WIFI
wore white that night and who made tn
movements downstairs during the time yo'
have described"
This one over here" said Colder with
out an instants hesitation. lie pointe,
his hand straight at Mrs Carman.
Whether or not she understood JUS