The Sentinel=record., 1914-07-09
CHARGED WITH KILLING MRS.
 OFFICE A WEEK AGO.
NEW WITNESS IS DISCOVERED
Insurance Agent Saw Woman Answer ing Her Description Leave Window
 Immediately After the Fatal Shot Was Fired-in Jail Awaiting Trial.

Freeport, N. Y. July S.-Mrs. Flor ence Conklin Carman, wife of Dr. 1 Edwin Carman, was arrested today accused of being the assassin who week ago last night murdered Mrs. Louise Bailey, wife of lHempstead manufacturer, by firing bullet through her heart as she stood in the l Iphysician's office.
 Tonight Mrs. Carman. at whom the finger os suspicion has pointed since the discovery that she had installed a telephone instrument in her husbands office to hear conversation between him and his women patients is in the Nassau county jail at Mineola. There she will remain until Monday, when she again vii be examined by the coroner's jury before whom she plead ed not guilty today when arraigned after her arrest in the room where Mrs. Bailey died.
 Mrs. Carman's nerve is shattered When the steel bar of the door of the Mineola jail closed behind her today she pu'ed her heavy veil from her Iface and broken down. Her husband land the sheriff who took her in an lautomobile from her home here to the jail assisted her to the top floor ot the building.
 The immediate cause of the arrest was testimony given this morning by El wood T Bardes, an insurance agent, whom the authorities called the single eye witness of the crime. Bardes also is under lock and key, de- tained as a material witness; for his story is of such importance that the authorities feared an attempt might be made to get him out of the 1uris. diction of New York courts.
 Bardes' story briefly is this:
 At 7:3O o'clock on the night of the murder Bardes said he determined to visit Dr. Carman to have him dress minor injury. He walked to the 6hys-
 cians house. Arriving he decided le could dress the injury himself and thereby save the doctors fee So he walked past the house and then turn ed around to begin his journey home
 At that instant he heard an explos. ic1. He thought it was caused by an automobile tire but when he looked TOT the machine he could not find it He looked toward the lawn at the side of Dr. Carman's home A woman tall well built, hatless, wearing light shirtwaist and a dark skirt was moving away from one of the windows at the side of the physicians office toward the rear of the house. She was walking "in hurry" tho witness swore
 Bardes was discovered vesterday His story might still remain untold had he not mentioned it. first to woman who telephoned the district attorney and then to the priest he visited for advice. The priest urged Bardes to make his story known But before an opportunity presented itsef he was taken into custody by orders of the district attorney
 Bardes testified today after Mrs. Carman's 12 year old daughter Eliz abeth, had tried to strengthen her mothers alibi, and representatives of the manufacturers of the telephone instrument had told of selling the de- vice to the phycian's wife and of ln- stalling it in his home.
 Coronor Norton. after spending an hour studying the testimony of Bardes and other witnesses, wrote out his charge, stating that he does oa oath say that Louise Bailey came to her death by criminal means, by reason of Ia bullet fired into her body with a revolver held by Florence Carman.,
 He then ordered Mrs. Carman's arrest.
 George Levy, Mrs. Carman's coun- sci teiephoned Dr. Carman of this &C., ton
 Word was sent to Mrs. Caramn that she was about to be arrested and few minutes later county officials entered the physicians office. Mrs. Harman, pale but controlled, accom- panied by her husband. her attorney and others, came in a minute later. lNoroner Norton, for years an intimate friend of the family, with tears in hls eyes, read his charge and the warrant