The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1914-07-09
FIND CARTRIDGES
IN CARMAN HOME;
WIFE is WITNESS

Freeport, N. Y. July THE inquest
into the death of Mrs. Louise Bailey,
wife Of New York manufacturer who
was shot and killed last Tuesday night
while in consultation with DIR. Edwin
Carman, q prominent Freeport ply
stefan In his office, was resumed to-
day.
Assistant District Attorney Weeks
exhibited an unopened box Of .38
calibre revolver cartridges, which he
said he had found in the attic of the
Carman home. DR.. Carman told him,
said Weeks, that he did not know how
the cartridges came to be in his house.
A .38 calibre bullet killed Mrs. Bailey,
The first witness called was Celia
Coleman, negro maid in the Carman
house. She began her story by telling
who was at the dinner table on Tues
day night. The witness said Mrs.
Carman complained OF having a head
ache and said she was going up stairs.
She admitted having talked with
George Levy, Mrs. Carman's attorney,
the morning after the murder. She in
sisted that no one else was present at
the conference.
The district attorney then asked IL
she had not told him previously that
Mrs. Carman was present. The wit
ness said she did not remember.
W., w. Harf, Jr., OF Lynbrook, near
here, who strongly resembles DR.. Car
man and drives an automobile Of the
same type, reported to the FFeeport po-
lice that early this morning. while
driving his machine not far from where
DR.. Carman was fired on last night q
man standing beside the road fired one
shot at him. Half is a friend of DIR.
CarE1an. L..-.. ..... 81.
Slain Woman Sick. e.
Mrs. Jennie Duryea, mother of Mrs.
Bailey, testified her daughter had been
complaining OF feeling bad and that
IT was she who urged her to go to a
doctor. KIT. ..a.
William d. Bailey, husband of the
murdered woman, said his wife had
not complained to him of feeling i'll
and he was not aware that she ever
knew of DIR. Carman. ~ IL
Miss Hazel Combs said she arrived
at DR.. Carman's office about o'clock
and saw Mrs. Carman walking around
the house and saw her admit man pa
tient (Golder), and go into DR., Car
mans office to answer the telephone
before the doctor came out Of the din
Ing room. Mrs. Carman denied on the
stand she ever entered her husbands
office since she saw Mrs. Variance. q
nurse, kiss him. FL.
Charles ANDERSON, q negro youth,
testified that as he was passing the
CarHnan house about s o'clock last
Tuesday evening he heard report he
thought was caused by a frecracker.
He looked In the yard and saw a man
running toward the back fence. The
man jumped over the fence and An
derson later saw him emerge from an
alley in the next street.
Fires at DR.. Carman.
( DR.. Carman, in whose office Mrs.
Louise Bailey was murdered last
Tuesday evening, was shot at three
times last night as he drove in an au-
tomobile through the town of Baldwin,
near here. None of the bullets struck
him. Tho doctor was on his way home
from Rockville Center, where he had
been attending patient.
Or. Carman told the police that as
he passed through Rockville Center he
saw an actor he knew whom he invited
to ride home with him. When they
were a short distance outside the town
they heard an explosion and thought
one Of the tires had given way.
The doctor said he stopped the car
and had started to get out when he
heard shot and, looking around, saw
O man standing beside a bicycle, point
ing q revolver at him. AS he jumped
back in the car he said that he heard
another bullet sing by his head, but
opened the throttle and was soon out
OF range.
A search was Immediately begun for
the man with the bicycle, although the
police suggested that DR.. Carman
might be mistaken.