Iditarod pioneer., 1914-08-29
MYSTERIOUS MURDER CASE
 TO DEVELOP A SENSATION

Mineola, N Y, July l4.-On the night of June 90 last Mrs William Bailey, wife of prominent citizen, was assasslnated in the office of Dr. Edwin Ndrman, a l'reeport L. i, physician. Mrs Edwin Carman wife of the physician. was arrested charged with the murder. Mrs Bailey called on the doctor, who says he did not know her and after srending an hour was abgut to leave with prescription he had given her. hand smashed the glass of the window of .he office on the ground floor, pistol was pushed through and Mrs. Bailey was shot dead.
 The mother and sister of Mrs. Carman say that at the time the doctors wife was lying on her bed in a room upstairs, sui far.ug from headache They went down when they heard thc shot, leaving her there
 Mrs Carman, it developed later had been jealous of her husband. She had seen him kiss nurse in his office, She did not like the visits of women there. So she had q Gictag.aph installed from his office to her bedroom, and she often listened to his con yfrsation with women patients. On the occasion of Mrs Baileys visit, she said she was not listening.
 The dctueraph was put in few weeks ago from $ cabinet in the doctors office to a desk in Irs. Carmans bedroom. shortly after the killing it was torn out and hidden. When detectives in the house found the wires Mrs. Caruan did not hesitate to tell the whole story of having it placed in the house
 The story of Mrs Florence ConIlin Car mans movements just before and after Mrs Baley fell to the floor with bullet in her heart was unfolded by nine witnesses be fore the grand Jury today. Meanwhile detectives were running down a clue which it was believed would reveal the identity of TWO strange women seen hurrying from the doctors ctice few minutes after the tragedy These women, it is believed, may be able to corrohorate the testimony Of FL wood T. E&rdes St the inquest and the story tclI the grant jury today 5y CeEa Coleman. a negro maid in the Carman home.
 1t was Bardes' statement that he saw 8 woman dressed a> Nr-. German was dressed walk away from outside windo" in Nr Carman's office immediately after BarGe~ heard a crash of glasS ana the repor, of 9 revolver that was responsible for the ar rest oi Mir. Carnan.
 At the inquest Celia Coleman fatly de- nied that she had seen Mrs Carman the night cf tie murder from the tilne hsr mistress lei, tho dinner table until fifteen minutes after the shot was fired.
 Today, according to reliable authority the maid declared that after she heard the tinkle of breaking glass and the report of pistol she saw her mistress hurry into the kitchen through the back door and go up stairs
 These witnesses, in the order named, ap- pcared before thc grand jurv: George A. Fairfield, surveyor; Dr. Carman, Celia Cole man, Mr. Jennie NIryea mother of the murdered woman; Miss Madeline Bailey her daughter; William Bailey, her husband: Mrs, Mary himbalI, her cousin, and Archie Pc. and George Colder, patients who were in the Carman nome on the night of the murder.
 Dr, uarman's story, it is understood was much the same as the one he told at the inquest He was not asked to sign S waiver of immunity. The murdered wom- ans family and relatives were called to tell of her actions on the day of the murder and of how they were informed of her death.
 Colder has changed his story since the inquest, when he said he was sure it was Mrs. Carman he saw through the hall just prior to the murder and that he was also positive he saw her on the porch and in her husbands office while Mrs Bailey body WAS still lying on the floor
 His revised assertion is that he isn't sure the woman he saw was Mrs, Carman. The district attorney said Colder had at first made an honest mistake"
 District Attorney smith said the jurors questioned Celia Coleman closely The am pIltjcations she made were of the utmost | importance, he declared
 Luther Hess, the Fairbanks mining man, who has been on d visit to Marvel creek, | in the huskokwim country where he has extensive interests, arrived in the city | Wednesday, after an absence of about | month.
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