Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1914-07-15
ARREST IN MYSTERY MURDER.
Wife of Physician Taken Into Gus
tody-Installed Secret Telephone.

Freeport, n. Y, July 9.-Evidence
was submitted to-day to the grand
jury by District Attorney Smith, who
Is endeavoring to secure an indict-
ment against Mrs. Florence Conklin
Carman, who was arrested late yes
terday, charged with the murder of
Mrs. Louise Bailey, ten days ago.
Mrs. Carmln was arrested following
testimony at the inquest by Elwood
L. BardeS, an insurance agent, who
testified that he was passing the
house on the night of the murder.
heard a crash and saw a woman run
from in front of the window to the
rear of the house. He said the wo-
man wore a white waist and dark
skirt.
Other witnesses Swore Mrs. Car
man vas thus dressed in the evening.
She swore she wore a kimona, and
was in her bedroom when the shot
was fired.
Mrs. Carman is in Jail, suffering
nervous breakdown. DR.. Carman, in
whose Office Mrs. Bailey was when
the assassin fired through the win
dow, declares his wife is innocent
and will prove it.
Arrest of Mrs. CaIman.
Mrs. Carman, at whom the finger
Of suspicion has pointed since the
tragedy, in that she had installed a
telephone instrument in her hus-
bands office to hear conversations
between him and his women patients.
is in the Nassau county Jail at Mine
ola. There she will remain until
Monday, when she again will be ey-
amined by the ron before whom
she pleaded not guilty when arraign-
ed after her arrest in the room where
Mrs. Bailey died.
Mrs. Carman's nerve is shattered.
When the door of the Mineola iail
closed behind her she pulled her
heavy veil from her ace and broke
down.
The immediate cause Of the arrest
was the testimony given by Elwood
L. Bardes, whom the authorities
called the single reliable eyewitness
of the crime. BardeS is also under
lock and key, detained as a material
witness, for his story is of such i'm
portance that the authorities feared
al attempt might be made to get him
out Of the jurisdiction of the New
York courts.
Bardes' story, briefly told, is this:
At 100 o'clock on the night of the
murder, Bardes said, he determined
to visit DR.. Carman to have him
dress a minor injury. He walked to
the physicians house. Arriving, he
decided he could dress the injury
himself and thereby save a doctors
fee. So he walked past the house
and hen turned around to begin his
journey home.
At that instant he heard an eyDlo-
sion. He thought 1T was caused By
an automobile tire, but when he
looked for the machine he could not
find it. He looked toward the lawn
at the side Of DR.. Carman's home. A
woman-tall, well built, hatless,
wearing a light shirtwaist and a
dark skirt-was moving away from
n of the windows at the side of the
physicians office toward the zeal of
the house. She was walking in a
hurry" the witness swore.
Bardes was discovered yesterday.
His story might still remain untold
had he not mentioned it, first to :
woman, who telephoned the district
attorney, and then to a priest he WIS.,
tied for advice. The priest urged
Bardes to make his story known. But
before an opportunity presented it.
self he was taken into custody by
order Of the district attorney.
Bardes testified after Mrs. Car
mans 12-year-old daughter had tried
to strengthen her mothers alibi, and
representatives of the manufacturers
of the telephone instrument told Of
selling the device to the physicians
wife and of installing it in her home.
Gunman Witness Locked Up.
Mineola, l.. l., July 9-Meyer New
man, alias Duke de Leon, was locked
up here to-day charged with carry
ing a pistol. A 80 calibre revolver
was found on him. Newman de-
scribes himself as a gang leader of