Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-10-20
CARMAN CASE
IS OUTLINED
CONTINUED from First page.)

the last time she saw her daughter
alive was at 1920 o'clock on the after
noon of June 30.
"What is this?" asked Mr. Smith,
handing the witness a dark cloth OBJ
ject.
That's my daughters dress said
Mrs. Duryee, swallowing hard.
Madeline 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
accordian pleated. There was a dark
stain on the back of it, Mrs Duryee
said her daughter was thirty -eipht
years old and described her. The
witness was then excused and Harry
de Beau, a real estate dealer of
Hampstead, was called.
De Beau said that at 7:06 o'clock on
the night of June 30 he saw Mrs.
Bailey at the corner near the Car
man house. He had known the wom-
an 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 Of
fee
Katherine Haggerty, of Rockville
Centre, the next witness, fixed Mrs.
Bailey's whereabouts at o'clock on
the night of the murder at the home
of mutual friend. Mrs. Graheaw, in
Rockville Centre.
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 five witnesses had followed one
another in rapid succession on the
stand
Miss Hazel Cowles. a stenographer
OF F'reeport, 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 woman wearing a dark dress
entered. 1t was inferred that the
woman was Mrs. Bailey. Mrs. Car
man 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.
Coriden Norton, coroner and JUS
tlce of the peace in Freeport was
called to the stand.
Coroner Norton said that he was
called to the Carman house about
S;45 o'clock, Mrs. Bailey was dead
then.
Later that night, the coroner said,
he examined the office, the window
through which the shot had been
fired and the ground outside. He
said the window screen was propped
up with piece of single. The
staple and fastenings of the screen
were unchanged. Some of the glass
from the broken pane was ON the
floor of the office. some was on the
ground outside and some was held
| between a lace curtain stretched
across the window and the inside
window-sil he said.
William D. Bailey. husband of the
victim, testified that he had been
notified about 9 o'clock of his wife's
death. When he arrived at the Car
man house, ten minutes later, he
| found her dead body on the sofa.
DIR. Howard e. Phipps, of Hemp
stead. who performed the autopsy,
testified that Mrs. Bailey would have
become mother had she lived
| George Colder, of Freeport. testified
that while waiting in DR.. Carman's
reception room on the night of the
murder he heard a crash of glass,
closely followed by a revolver shot.
Colder said that with Archie Post,
who was also in the reception room,
he ran out on the lawn in search OF
! the assailant. but saw no one.
Just before the shooting, Colder
said he heard some one in the house
playing a piano. A woman's voice
called from upstairs stop playing
Then he saw Elizabeth Carman, the
defendants daughter pass down the
hallway few seconds after the play
ing ceased
A woman in white. Colder said
passed down the hall from the front
of the house to the rear and back
again few minutes before the shoot
ing The curtains in the waiting
room to the hail. he said. were cper
wide enough to see into the room al
the opposite end of the house. From
! the time the woman in white passed
down the hallway till he heard the
crash of breaking glass and the re
volyer shot, the witness said that h'
had seen no one else in the hall.