The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1914-07-01
Freeport, N.Y., Authorities Seek Mo-
tive for Assassination In
Doctors Office
SHOT COMES FROM OUTSIDE
Physician Unacquainted With the
Victim and Neither Had
Any Enemies

Freeport, n. Y, July Authorities
today are seeking the motive for the
murder last night OF Mrs. William Bal
ley wife OF William Bailey. of Hemp
steaed. in the Office of Or. Edward Car
man. The husband OF the dead woman
Is a hat manufactures OF Brooklyn.
He was surprised to learn that his
wife had been patient of DIR. Carman
and declared that as far as she knew
she had no enemies. DIR. Carman. too,
told the police he knew Of no cause
for the crime or reason to believe the
shot was intended for him.
Mrs. Bailey was shot through the
heatr. According to Carman she ar
rived at his office, which is in his home
at 1880 o'clock. An hour later she
was preparing to leave, when win
dow pane was broken, a mans hand
holding a revolver and thrust in and
the shot fired that nded her life.
Mrs. Bailey had visited Mrs. John
Grabau, who is i'll, at her home AT
Rockville Centre. and on leaving at
O'Clock announced she was going di-
recly home.
The crime caused intense excitement
on account OF the social prominence
and wealth OF DIR. Carman and his
family.
IL was Mrs. Bailey's first visit to his
Office, Carman said, he not being ac-
quainted with her before. Two mer
patients, waiting in an outer office
said they heard no noise until they
were startled by the report of pisto
shot When they entered the consul
tation room Mrs. Bailey was dead and
they helped Carman carry the body t.
q couch.
Mrs. Bailey was 36, small. with q
sremarkably pretty figure. and excep-
tionally handsome. She always was .
leader In social affairs in the neigh
borhood. She leaves a daughter, aged
seventeen, ard a son, aged twelve.
Evidence Supports Doctors Story.
Evidence accumulated today to sup
port Carmans story. In the physi-
clans room, four feet from the win
dow. detectives found an instrument
ish powder burns ard furrows that
might have been ployed by the bullet
This instrument case was 50 how that
had the shot been fired from inside the
room>the person who held the pistol
must have squatted on the floor 1t,
however,.was directly i'm the path>that
the bullet would have taken from a
pistol showed through the broken pane
i'm the doctors Office.
In the presence Of detectives en-
gagged by the county and by the mur-
dered womans husband. Carman to-
day rehearscd the murder scene. lie
was about to pull aside the curtain to
permit Mrs. Bailey to leave his office,
he said when he heard a crash of
glass and saw a hand with n pistol
pohed through the broken pane. He
and the patient were two feet apart
and he did not know at which the
weapon was aimed. He duckcd behind
an operating chair and as he did so
the pistol was fired and quickly with
drawn.
Detectives learned that a few min
utcs after the shot was fired, "A young
woman hurried into a railroad station,
apparently In great agitation, and took
the first tain to New York. Although
Carman insisted he had not met Mrs.
Bailey before last night, detectives are
working on the theory that a Jealous
woman IL in the background.