Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-10-24
CARMAN MURDER CASE
WILL BE GIVEN JURY
LATE THIS AFTERNOON

till the proceedings began.

yers till the proceedings began.
Rudolph Loewe, first witness called
to-day, testified that he was on his
way to DR.. Carman's office and within
shot which killed Mrs. Bailey was
fired. Loewe heard the shot. looked
UP and saw "a man run across the
lawn and leap over the fence.
Loewe said after he had heard the
shot and seen the man jump over the
fence he looked into DR.. Carman's
office and saw the doctor with a
woman in his arms.
There were two women in front of
the house. Mr.. Loewe added. He also
saw a man he did not know standing
in the vestibule to the doctors office.
How near were you to the two
women you saw on the steps?" Mr..
Smith asked.
About fifteen feet" Loewe replied.
He said the man he saw was my
height and not so thick"
Justice Kelby had to leave his seat
on the bench and stand beside tho
witness chair to shout his questions.
Swore He Heard Shot
Loewe was quite positive that not
withstanding his infirmity he had
heard the shot.
Justice Kelby asked him how long
he had looked into the doctors office
and he said about thirty seconds. Then
he left, but before doing so he saw
a door. open and a woman in white
enter the office. BY that time the
woman who had been shot was lying
on the floor.
John ]. Dunbar a Freeport police
man, testified that after the murder
he brought bloodhounds to the Car
man house. He said he found the
broken picket in the fence, mentioned
In UnGfnr6nN
picket was opposite the broken win
dow. he said. On the premises next
door he found near the fence a place
where mans feet had been; appar-
emily the man had been standing there
for some time.
After bringing the bloodhounds to
the house, Dunbar said, he took them
to the trampled ground and they went
from there to the broken picket. Then
the dogs were allowed to smell the
window sill. They growled, ran all
the way around the house, came up to
the place in the fence where the picket
was broken, left the premises and went
west as far as Lynnbrook, three miles
away. where they stopped, having lost
the trail.
Follow Dunbar's Trail
On cross examination Dunbar said
he had taken the screen off the win
dow the night of the murder, propping
it up with a piece of new shingle
which he found near a small outhouse
being built in the rear of the Carman
residence. The dogs, after smelling
the window sill. went to this house.
he said. The district attorney sought
to show that the animals followed
Dunbar's back trail.
Stories Contradicted
After NJ. Haughey, trainer of blood
hounds, had corroborated Dunbar's
testimony the defense announced that
1t rested its case.
The first witness called in rebuttal
was Richard Lamb, president of the
village of Freeport and chief of police
Mr. Lamb said that many persons had
had their hands on the screen and
window sill before the bloodhounds
arrived. Through Mr.. Lambs testi-
many District Attorney Smith brought
out the fact that Mrs. Carman would
not have been permitted to leave Mas
sau county on the night of the murder
and that had she attempted to do so
she would have been arrested. Mr.
Lamb said that he had issued such in
structions. He denied that she was
under suspicion at the time, but said
he did not think 1t wise then to permit
any person in the house to leave the
county.
SnerlH PeItltt, OF Nassau county,
contradicted some of Dunbars testi-
mony. He sal dthat Dunbar was con-
fronted by Farrell on July 6, just after
Farrell had been arrested, and that
Dunbar said then that he had never
seen Farrell before. This contradicted
Dunbar's testimony. Sheriff Pettitt,
as we'll as the next witness, Phineas
Seaman, a county detective, testified
that a great many persons had han
died the screens and window sill be-
fore the dogs arrived. Both said, in
addition, that fifty or more persons
had tramped over the lawn.