Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-10-20
CARMAN MURDER
TRIAL IS RUSHED
District Attorney in Opening
Outlines Case and Asks
First-Degree Verdict.
VICTIMS DAUGHTER CRIES
AS DRESS Is SHOWN
Five Witnesses Testify Within the
First Hour-Trace Movements
of Accused Woman.

| M1NEOLA, N. Y, October 20.-In open
ing for the prosecution in the case OF
Mrs. Florence c. Carman, charged with
| the murder of Mrs. Louise D. Bailey.
| Lewis ]. Smith, the district attorney,
sketched today in some detail Mrs.
Baileys actions on the day of the muir
der, the arrangement of the Carman
| house in general and the physician's
Office particularly. He told the jury
| how the wire screen at the window to
the office was propped up, the window
pane broken, a revolver thrust through
heart of Mrs. Bailey. Although she
died within minute, he said. her body
lay on the floor for some time before
the police were notified.
I'VE shall show" continued the dis
trict attorney, that the shot that killed
Mrs. Bailey was fired by this defendant.
We shall show that she passed through
the kitchen, out through the side yard.
a moment before the shooting, and that
she returned through the kitchen i'm
mediately after it. We shall show,
further. that the motive was jealousy
and suspicion of her husband.
ITO prove this we shall call woman
whom Mrs. Carman slapped on one &C.
casion- when she saw her husband give
her money while the pair were in the
physicians Office. Also, we will show
why and how she secured a telephone
instrument or mechanical eavesdropper,
SO that she could spy upon her hus-
band, of whom she was intensely jeal-
Gus.
I'VE will further show how this de-
PENDANT arranged to have the caves
dropper installed in her husbands of
flee, how she had the transmitter placed
behind an instrument case in the doc
tors office and the receiver in the
drawer of desk in her bedroom"
Tore Out Dictagraph.
The district attorney also told how
the defendant tore out the instrument
the morning after the murder and hid
it in the garnet.
George M. Levy, this defendants coun-
sell" Mr. Smith continued. I'VE Will
show how she called this lawyer In the
day after the murder and consulted
him, and how he Immediately question
ed the colored girl. Celia Coleman,
about what she had seen.
1--WE will show that before this de-
fendant had even been suspected she
began to prepare for her defense, and
that she instructed the colored girl
what to say in case the officers OF the
law should question her. AFTER we
pect you to bring in verdict of MUIR
der in the first degree"
Mrs. Jennie Duryee, mother OF the
victim, was called as the hrst wit
ness Mrs Duryse; .a+n mo the t h%rst
into tears as soon as she took the
stand. She said, between sobs. that
the last time she saw her daughter
alive was at $50 o'clock on the aft
what is this?' asked Mr.. Smith,
handing the Witness a dark cloth OBJ
ject.
Mrs. Duryee. swallowing hard.
Daughter Cries Aloud.
Madaline Bailey, the dead woman's
daughter, was so overwhelmed at the
sight Of her mothers dress that she
cried aloud. The dress was blue and
ACCORDION pleated. There was a dark
stain on the back Of it.
Mrs. Duryee said that her daughter
was thirty-eight years old and de-
scribed her: The witness was then
De Beau said that at 7:os O'Clock on
the night of June 80 he saw Mrs.
Bailey at the corner near the Carman
house. He had known the woman for
several years, he said, and he knew
the exact time, as he was on his way
to catch a train for New York. He
saw Mrs. Bailey cross the street and
go toward the doctors Office.
Katherine Haggerty of Rockville
Center, the next witness. fixed Mrs
Bailey's whereabouts at s o'clock on
the night of the murder at the home
of mutual friend, Mrs. Graheaw, in
Rockville Center.
So swiftly did the case move that
within an hour after the converting Of
court the district attorney had made
his opening address to the jury and
I, five witnesses had followed one an
other in rapid succession on the stand.
| Miss Hazel Cowles. a stenographer of
Freeport, testified that she went to DR..
| Carman's office to consult him on the
night of June 80, and that while she
was waiting in the reception room a
woman wearing a dark dress entered.
| 1t was inferred that the woman was
| Mrs. Bailey. Mrs. Carman passed
through the reception room twice, the
| witness said, once after the woman in
| the dark dress had arrived. When
Miss Cowles left the office the dark
gowned woman was still there.
Coroner Tells OF His Inspection.
Coriden Norton, coroner and justice
Of the peace in Freeport, was called to
| the stand. Coroner Norton said that