The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1914-07-06
Is Narrowing to Three Points, All
Leading to Same Person
or Persons
INQUEST IS RESUMED TODAY
District Attorney and Sheriff Still
Believe It Was Woman Who
Did Killing

Freeport, n. Y, July 6.-Despite the
assertions of DR.. Edwin Carman that
several shots were fired at him last
night by a man = n bicycle near
Rockville Centre, while returning
home here after visiting n patient at
Roosevelt, District Attorney Smith
and Sheriff Petit declare they still
firmly believe IL was woman who
shot and killed Mrs. Louise Bailey in
Carman's office last Tuesday night.
The inquest today is not expected to
develop any startling facts not al
ready known. Petit admitted the in
vestigation has narrowed to three
points each of which leads to the
same person or persons.
The inquest was resumed today and
Assistant District Attorney Weeks
exhibited an unopened box of cartrid-
ges of the calibre OF revolver he said
he had found i'm the attic of the Car
man home. DIR. Carman told him.
said Weeks. he did not know how the
cartridges came to be i'm the house.
A thirty-eight calibre bullet killed
Mrs. Bailey.
Celia Coleman, negro maid i'm the
Carman home. was the first witness.
She began her story by telling who
was at the dinner table Tuesday
night. She said Mrs. Carman com
planned of headache and said she
was going upstairs. The witness saw
her leave the dining room and later
hear footsteps she believed To be
those OF Mrs. Carman on the stairs.
She admitted she talked with George
Levy, Mrs. Carmans attorney the
morning after the murder. She in
sisted no one else was present at the
conference.
You know what perjury means?"
asked the district attorney. The wit
ness answered she did. The district
attorney then asked several times if
she had not told him previously that
Mrs. Carman was present. The wit
ness said she didn't remember Her
memory was faulty regarding the
things Levy had talked about, but she
was sure Mrs. Carman had never
spoken to her about the shooting.
when did you change your mind
about what you told me Mrs. Carman
had told you. and when did you lose
your memory? Who told you to
change your statement"
Nobody" said the negress. The
witness admitted she signed a paper
for Levy without reading it or having
ii read To her.
Miss Hazel Combs testified she ar
rived at Carman's Office about
o'clock and a man and woman she did
not know were in the waiting room.
She said she saw Mrs. Carman walk
ing around the house and saw her
admit n man patient (Golder) and go
into Carman's office to answer the
telephone before the doctor came out
of the dining room.
Mrs. Carman had denied on the
stand that she ever entered her nus
bands office since she saw Mrs. Vari-
ance. nurse. kiss him.
Charles Anderson, a negro youth,
testified he was passing the Carman
house about o'clock Tuesday night
and heard report he thought was
firecracker. He looked i'm the yard and
saw a man running toward the back
fence. The man jumped ever the
fence and Anderson later saw him
emerge from an alley i'm the next
street
The inquest was adjourned until
Wednesday to allow the district attor-
ney to get now witnesses
Friend Is Fired At.
w. j. Han. Jr., of Lynbrook, who
closely resembled DIR. Carman and
drives an automobile Of the same type.
reported to the treeport police that
early this morning while driving his
machine not far from where DIR. Car
man was fired upon last night that "A
man. standing beside the road. fired
one shot at him. Haff Is long time
friend of Carman's.
DIR. Carman was shot at three times
Saturday night as he drove i'm his au
tomobile through the town of Baldwin,
near here. None of the bullets struck
him. In the car was Garland Gar
deau, friend of the physician. The
shots were fired by a man who dis
mounted from bicycle as the doctor
passed him on the road. The man used
pistol.