The Washington herald., 1914-10-18

\ a garden window, which she herself
broke. the bullet which killed Mrs
Bailey.
That the bullet was intended for Mrs
Bailey has never been the contention ol
the prosecution. The dead woman with
the bullet in her breast sufficed to brinG
| the living one to the bar.
The dictograph-thats decidedly French
in its suggestion. however II figured in
the ultimate crime. Mrs. Carman ad.
mitted that the lashIng her pride had
suffered in the gossip of friends had In.
duced her to install it-that she might
disabuse her mind OF any suspicious OF
her husband. She wanted to hear what
he said to his. patients. many OF them
women, when they visited his ONCE.
That she wanted to be sure to hear
was betokened, the prosecutor con.
tends. by her admonition to Elizabeth,
her little daughter, not to play the
piano the evening Of the murder "as
1t would annoy the Doctor" And just
little while after the child had raised
her hands from the keys came the
crash Of glass and the shot through
the shattered window pane
Had any one been listening then at the
dictograph receiver upstairs sheer he
would have heard Mrs. Bai1ey's amazed
cry, MY God, Doc-I'm shotF' His easy
rejoinder. mo. you're not" and then
the thud and roll -Of the =woman's body
on the floor.
But Mrs. Carman says she was in her
room on the second floor at that moment;
also that she had never heard anything
over the dictograph save things which
gave her comfort"
But very early the next morning she
ripped out the dictograph and hid It in
the garret. And there the sheriff found IT.
So now Mrs. Carman goes to trial.
defended by Surrogate Graham, one of
the most skilled criminal lawyers in
the State.
Against her she has q determined dis
trict attorney, at whose right hand stand
two witnesses, Celia Coleman, the Car
mans colored maid, who knows what
took place in the German house that June
night, and Frank Farrell. known In the
early stages of the case as the tramp" {"
who ran away from the Carman house
that night after seeing, he says. a woman
walk from the window of the doctors
office Immediately following the firing
OF a shot.
To offset the evidence the prosecution
will present, the defense has-but 1t will
not tell what It has. That will be dis
closed only at the trial
Mrs. Louise d. Bailey, who lived at
Hampstead, left her home on June %.
saying she was going to visit friends in
Rockville Center. She was shot dead
that evening through the window of DR..
Edwin Carman's ONCE at lis Merrick
Road, Freeport.
story of the Crime.
Mystery has surrounded the case since
the murder night, when a hand, alleged
to have been a woman's broke a window
in the physicians consulting room and
poked revolver through. An instant
later there was report. and Mrs. Bailey
called out she was shot
Search for the assassin was made
more difficult through the apparent lack
OF motive. DR.. Carman swore he had
never seen Mrs. Bailey previous to the
night she was killed
The victim. the wife Of william D.
Bailey, a wealthy hat manufacturer.
She had gone to the physicians office
after visiting a friend at Rockville
Center.
Even the visit Of Mrs. Bailey was
shrouded in mystery. Neither her hus-
band, any member OF her immediate
family nor friends could account for It.
DR.. Carman said she called because she
had malaria.