The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-07-07
BURNS TAKES HAND
IN BAILEY MURDER
He Is Called Upon to Solve Mys-
terious Tragedy in Doc
tors Office.
RAPID ACTION is PROMISED
County Officials Had Found
Themselves Baked at Every
Turn of Investigation.
RAPID ACTION is PROMISED
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her life last Tuesday night was re-
enacted tonight by William j. Burns
and three Of his detectives In the Of
flee Of DR. Edwin Carman and on the
grounds surrounding the house. Burns
himself played the part OF the muir
derer. One OF his detectives played
the role OF Or. Carnan and another
detective impersonatcd the woman.
whose death has become the centre
Of one OF the greatest murder Inys-
teries In the history OF Long Island.
AS an audience. the detectives had
District Attorney Smith, who to-day
sent for Burns and his men: Sheriff
Petit, DR.. Carman and Mrs. Carman.
The Carmans watched the performance
with Intense interest. Mrs. Carman
was silent, but watched every move
that the detectives made. Burns. as
the murderer. made his way to the
window through which the fatal shot
was fired. from every conceivable sec
tion Of the house and yard which
might afford him safety from detec-
tion by persons in the doctors office
or on the road in front of the house.
a half dozen times he crept to the win
dow, raised the screen. pushed the cur
tain aside and snapped the hammer
of his revolver upon an empty car
fridge chamber. Dr. Carman, acting
rs stage director and fixing the ac-
tors to suit the real conditions as lie
saw them last Tuesday night, declared
that Burnss enactment Of the trag
edy was startling In its logical Sc
quence and possibilities. Several times
Mrs. Carman declared that Burns and
his men were uncanny.
BURNS AND OFFICIALS
HOLD SECRET SESSION
Immediately after the rehearsal of
the tragedy. Burns and the Carmans,
District Attorney Smith and Sheriff
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Burns and the two officials had an
other secret session.
After the two conferences, Sheriff
Petit declared:
we will no longer submit to being
balked, nor do we desire that the case
be further looked upon as an unsolv-
able mystery. We have decided that
definite step must be made. We
found that certain cross purposes were
creeping into this affair, and we have
decided to let the Burns men solve tho
riddle
People cannot then say that seri-
Gus effort is not being made. We
know who planted the motor car
agency card under the window through
which Mrs. Bailey was-shot. We know
the origin Of the false rumors which
have been put forth. with the Idea of
distracting attention from the main
facts.
We have decided that there must
be ra pid action, and there Will be. The
solution OF this mystery will be rapid
likewise.
NO man murdered Mrs Bailey. We
shall present our evidence to the grand
jury on Thursday. You may look for
an arrest almost any time. That is as
far as | can 80 now"
This, the first decisive stroke toward
solving the riddle OF Merrick Road.
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District Attorney Smith told Coroner
Norton that they were through CO.
operating with him on this case. They
told him fatty that they did not be
lieve that his inquest was developing
anything that would warrant grand
jury in returning an Indictment, and.
after torrid argument. declared that
they did not need the evidence CLEANED
from the inquest witnesses.
II was for this reason that Norton,
At the time for reconveninE the in
quest, suddenly declared another post
ponement. He set the time for We'd
nesday morning. although Petit and
Smith declared that they were pos
sessed OF sufficient evidence to go
along with a continuation OF the in
quest
OFFICIALS FIND THEMSELVES
DALKED At EVERY TURN
dispatch representative
was told by persons in best position
to know that the county officials were
finding themselves baked at every
turn. They found that all their facts,
all their evidence was being given to
friends Of the Carman family.
The new evidence which the sheriff
and district attorney have obtained,
and which they turned over To Burns,
involves the names OF three promi-
nent Long Island women. Two men.
both residents OF Nassau County are
to be brought into the new and sensa-
tional evidence. Stories OF motorboat
and automobile parties, OF raids by
irate relatives of the wives and hus-
bands OF those persons involved, OF
actual fist fights and threats of shoot
ing, of deadly feuds which were buried
temporarily because Of the fear of pub
iicity, and other like tales, will be un-
folded in the general denouement of
tho Merrick Road mystery. The Off
Gals declare that it is impossible now
10 supply the names of the characters
In this wild romance which culminatc ted
IN tragedy. But they withhold them
FOR purposes of expedicncy merely
Now that this section OF Long Island
knows which way the wind is blowing
the people of Hampstead, Mineola. Gar
den City. Freeport, Baldwin. Rockville
Centre and other towns In this section
arc bandying the names about with
utter disregard for discretion.
The most important testimony
brought forth Al to-days hearing was
that OF Thomas Murray, a constable,
who told Of finding AN unopened box
of .3S-calibre cartridges in the attic of
the carman home. 1t was r as -calibre
bullet that killed Mrs. Bailey.
Hazel Coombs and Hannah Kahn,
the two young women who were in
Dr. Carman's waiting room at the time
of the shooting. both corroborated the
evidence OF George Colder that Mrs
Carman was moving in the lower part
of the house ut the time OF the shoot
ing. instead of being upstairs.
SIGNS AN AFFIDAVIT
WITHOUT READING TT
celie Coleman. the negro cook en-
ploycd in the house. admitted that on
the morninS following the shooting
he had been questioned by Mrs. Car
mans lawyer, and signed an affidavit
without reading II.
Charlie Adams and Percy Smith. two
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