The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1914-07-09
BURNS ENGAGED
IN BAILEY CASE
Famous Detective and Men Starr
to UnraVeI Mystery
MURDER SCENE is RE-ERAC7ED

at Inquest by Prosecutor Smith
Man In Town Near Freeport, NJ. Y.
Complains of Being Fired Up7r
Shortly After DR.. Carman Claim:
Bullets Were Aimed at Him:
Freeport, N. Y, July THE muir
der OF Mrs. Louisa A. Bailey was re
enacted by w. ]. Burns, DR.. EGwir
Carman, Mrs. Carman and Burns de
tectives. Mr.. Burns was Tie stage
manager and leading man. 1t was
more exciting than the most thrilling
movie.
The criminal expert proceeded tc
stage the murder as nearly as it coulc
be done.
The celebrated detective took the
part OF the assassin. creeping. pisto
in hand, to the window of DR.. Car
mans office through which Mrs
Bailey was shot. A Burns operative
impersonated Mrs. Bailey and stood
with DR.. Carman in the doctors office
Mrs. Carman remained in her bed
room, where she says she was when
Mrs. Bailey was murdered, and Burns
detectives in the anteroom of the Of
flee attempted to see and hear all that
George Colder, Hazel and Other
patients who waited here last Tues.
day night have testified to.
Tho Of he 10.
suddenly ple med and carried out by
Mr.. Burns ter he had talked witt
District Attorney Smith and Sheriff
Petit.
Mr.. Burns, after placing his actors
went out in the Merrick road and then
tried to gain the house undetected but
failed. Then he tried another ap
proach. This time nobody saw him
until he raised himself above the sill
OF the window through which Mrs
Bailey was shot.
A short inquest into Mrs. Bailey.
death was featured by the failure o.
the prosecutor to put important WI.
nesses on the stand.
Celia Coleman, nurse for sin
weeks in the Carman home, said she
heard the shot and ran into the bur
ler's pantry between the dining room
and the kitchen. 81 stood there" she
continued, with the door from the
pantry into the kitchen open all the
time. just listened and stayed there
for three or four minutes"
Witness said she saw Lawyer Levy
of the defense Wednesday and Thurs
day and he asked her 10 sign an aft
davit containing the statement that nc
one ran through the kitchen on Tues
day night. The affidavit had not been
read by her and she was not told what
was in it. Mr.. Levy asked her to sign
paper and she signed.
Bailey testified that his wife had not
complained to him of feeling i'll, had
never told him she was going to con
suit physician. had never said she
had been TO see DR.. Carman, had never
said she had been in DR.. Carman's
Office and had never heard her speak
OF DR.. Carman.
Hazel Combe and her friend, Han
nah Kahn, were the next two wiz
nesses. Miss Combe was a patient OF
the doctor. She went to the Carman
house about Z O'Clock the night of the
murder and sat in the waiting room.
While she was there a man and a lady
came in, she said. The lady was evil
IDENTIFY Mrs. Bailey.
al
was waiting" she continued. "She
came into the waiting room to answer
q knock on the door. She told the
man who stood outside that the doctor
was asleep" Miss Combe said thai
Mrs. Carman was dressed in blue
skirt and white shirtwaist in direct
contradiction of Golder's assertion
that she was all in white.
Hannah Kahn said that she saw
Mrs. Carman dressed in a blue skirt
and white waist waiting on the door
w. P. H. Half, Jr., of Lynbrook, a
coal dealer and owner of the Rock
away Times, told reporters that he
was shot at early Monday morning by
a mysterious man not very far from
where DR.. Carman said he was shot at
Half exhibited dent in the side of
his car as proof.
DR.. Carman told more about the
shots which he says were fired at him
while he was out in his automobile
and said:
81 don't know what to think about
this last attempt at my life. Maybe
some people think it is strange" He
said it appeared to him that the
shooter was left handed.
A box of cartridges was found in
the attic of the doctors house. They
were of 3S-caIiber. The bullet that
killed Mrs. Bailey was that size and
the box was found in box, where it
might have been for years. No
cartridges had been taken from it and
the authorities do not believe that was