Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-07-01
MYSTERY SURROUNDS
WOMAN s MURDER IN
PHYSICIAN OFFICE
Hand Thrust Through Window
and Bullet Fired Which
Caused Death
By Associated Press

Freeport, n. Y, July 1.-The police
and county authorities are seeking a
motive for the murder last night OF
Mrs. William Bailey, wife of William
Bailey, of Hampstead. in the office OF
DIR. Edward Carman. William Bailey,
husband fthe dead woman, is hat
manufacturer in Brooklyn. He was
surprised to learn that his wife had
been a patient of DR.. Carman, and
declared that so far as he knew she
had no enemies. DR.. Carman, too,
told the authorities that he knew OF
no cause for the crime, or reason to
believe the shot was intended for him
Mrs. Bailey was shot through the
heart and died instantly. According
to DIR. Carman she arrived at his Of
flee, which is In his home, at 7.30
o'clock. An hour later, he said, she
was preparing to leave when a window
pane was broken, a mans hand hold
ing a revolver thrust in and the shot
fired that ended her life.
Chief of Police Roland NJ. Lamb
began an investigation with County
Detective Phieas Seaman. They found
that the window through which DR..
Carman said the shot had been fired
was covered by n wire screen which
was operated by hinges from above
and could be opened from the inside.
Further investigation showed that the
glass broken from the window and the
putty holding the glass had fallen
both inside and outside the room.
The mystery was further increased
when Bailey. the husband of the MUIR
dered woman, told the police that he
did not know that his wife had gone
to the doctors office. He was sur
prised when told that Mrs. Bailey was
accustomed to call on the doctor ac-
casionally for treatment.
Visited Sick Woman
Before going to the doctors office
Mrs. Bailey had visited Mrs. John c,
Crabau, who is i'll at her home in
Rockville Center, and on leaving her
at O'Clock had announced that she
was going directly home.
Outside of the tragic features of the
murder, the crime caused the most In
tense excitement here on account OF
the social prominence and the wealth
of DR.. Carman and his family. Mrs
Carman is the daughter of Frank
Clapp Conklin, one of the wealthiest
residents of the south shore of Long
Island. Mr.. Conklin make his home
with his daughter. Mrs. Bailey, who
was SO years old, was small with a re-
markably pretts figure and was con-
sidered exceptionally handsome. She
always had been q leader in the social
affairs of her neighborhood. She
leaves two children, daughter, Ada
lade, II years, and a son, / Q years old
First Visit, He SAYS
DR.. Carman said to-day that Mrs
Bailey's visit to his office last night
was her first and that he had not been
acquainted with her before that time
TWO men patients who were waiting
in the PHYSICIANS outer office when
Mrs. Bailey was shot said they heard
no noise until they were startled by
the report of a pistol When they en-
tered the consultation room Mrs
Bailey was dead and they helped DIR
Carman carry her to couch.
So many persons had trampled the
grass outside the window of the doc
tors ONCE that bloodhounds brought
to the scene to-day proved useless
/ They became confused in the maze OF
trails.