The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-07-10
MUCH OF EVIDENCE
NOT CONVINCING
County Officials Are Seeking to
Strengthen Case Against
Mrs. Carman.
BURNS IN DIRECT CHARGE
Woman's Lawyer Expects So to
Weaken Testimony That Grand
Jury Will Not Indict.
BURNS IN DIRECT CHARGE
Especial to The Times-Dispatch.l

time since Mrs. Lulu Duryca Bailey,
OF Hampstead. was shot to death In
the Office OF DR.. Edwin Carman on
Merrick Road Freeport. on the night
of June 80. the Carman house faded
into insignihcance to day.
With Mrs. Florence Conklin Carman
In the Mineola jail, charged with the
murder OF the woman whom District
Attorney Smith wishes to establish as
Mrs. Carman's rival for the affections
of DR.. Carman, the Nassau County of
hcials set up to fix more definitely tho
facts and strengthen the evidence on
which they hope to bring Mrs. Carman
TO trial.
With this in mind and confessing
they could not hope to convict Mrs.
Carman of murder on the admittedly
Vulnerable evidence now in their pos
over the main investigation tonight
to William j. Burns.
The first thing that Burns did was
to take one Of his operatives to Min
cola There the operative-Jacle
Sloan-was admitted to the cell in
which Elwood Bardes is confined
Bardes is held because he could not
furnish the $4,000 bail demanded to-
day. He is held as material witness.
REFUSES TO TALK
AFTER Long INTERVIEW
Sloan spent three hours with Bardes.
He left the jail refusing to talk.
Burns himself motored to Frecport,
where. NJ the Carman house. he began
| questioning Celia Coleman. the colored
servant. District Attorney Smith de-
clarcd that the next step would be to
drag from tile colored woman's reluc-
| tant lips every detail that she knows
pertaining TO the murder of Mrs.
| Bailey. He declared that she has re-
vealed but an infinitesimal part of her
knowledge. Burns is inst ucted To use
every strategy to work from her the
story she Is thought to be withhold
ing.
The authorities declare they know
that they must reinforce much of the
testimony at the inquest.
Ii was decided that Mrs. Carman's
case would De put up to the jury on
| Tuesday, after Justice OF tie Peace
| Norton had conducted the cXamina-
| ton OF Mrs. Carman OH Monday.
| Mrs. Carman's lawyer hopes In tho
| examination to have much of the dis
| trict attorneys testimony broken. He
! figures that he can SO weaken the case
against his client that the grand jury
| will refuse TO indict.
! COLDER REPUDIATES
! PART OF TESTIMONY
Levy has procured from George
! Colder affidavit in which lie de-
! clarcs he would not know Mrs. Carman
! III he fell over her" To-day Colder
| told 4 reporter that his tcstimny was
| not see Mrs. Powell in the house. He
| saw her on the porch. He says that
! he saw a woman In the hallway, but
| he did not know her 10 be Mrs. Car
| man.
| Then II will be necessary for the de-
| tectives to make stronger the testi-
mony OF Bardes--the testimony which
| prccipitated the arrest of Mrs. Carman.
| To-day came forward II Miss Florence
Raynor. who lives in the village. She
| declares that Bardes called at her
| home on the night OF the murder She
says he called attS:30 o'clock. Bardes
was not ut all excited. she says, nor
| did he mention the strange things he
! had said he saw.
TO the detectives. Bardes is said to
| have declared that the report he heard
the report which he subsequently
! said was the crack of u murderer's
| pistol-mpress him as being tho
noise OF something falling. or of u
| motor tire exploding. The detective
will try to bring out the fact that the
! woman who Bardes was merely
strolling away from the window. and
! that Bardes, therefore, was not i'm
! pressed at all. Bardcs, it is said, did
| not read the papers. Hc was on his
| way to doctors house, not neces-
| sarily DIR. Carman. the district at
torney contends. He was not sure
whether DR.. carman was on Merrlck
| Road.
Eoth the efforts TO dscrcdit Colder
| and Bordcs were anticipated By the
district attorney. who to-nish. issued
the following statement:
II heard the story OF Colder before
| he appeared on the witness stand. He
| tol6 me tie sa% ne story ne told at the
| inquest. which was that when hc
called at the Carman home The night
! OF the murder, he saw a woman
dressed in white sitting on the porch.
,t,I Ia N
in Er. carmans Office. lie told me
he was sure he knew Mrs. Carman
| when he saw her.
Il told Colder he was mistaken.
| knew he was then. and krow he Is
| now. II was Mrs. Powell. Mrs. Car
mans sister who was on the porch
| ana IN the office.
"As for Bardes. his story stands ND
we'll. | believe he is telling the truth"
Mrs. Carman broke down to-day.
| The jail physician prescribed a nerve
scdative. and by the tire her hus-
band arrived to assist tho physician
she was calm once more.
PROBLEM Oh COURSE
TAKEN NY BuLLr.r.
Again the course taker by the bull
let which ended Mrs. Bailey's life
brings about "A problem which will.
If Mrs. Carman is eve: brought TO
trial be one Of the points made.
The bullet struci; the murdered
woman high in the back. 1t was taken
out OF her breast by Runcie at Il point
/ slightly lower than the spot on the
back where it entered
| This being the case. the following
problems present themselves:
In what position was Mrs. Bailey
| when the bullet struck hcr?" and Was
| il possible for Florence Carman-a
woman five feet seven inches tall--to
| break that window. pull aside the cur
| tain. and fire in such n manner rs to
permit the bullet tearing downward
through Mrs. Bailey's body?
is II reasonable to presume that
she stood on a box when she fred?
And is il probable that a woman
bent Oh murder would carry u box or
other temporary platform 10 n window
| mount the elevation. break the WIN
dow. fire downward. ana get herself