Norwich bulletin., 1914-07-16
Mrs. Carman May
 Tell Her Story
SENT PETITION REQUESTING
 PERMISSION TO TESTIFY
PHYSICIAN DIsAPPRovEs
Offers to Waive Immunity if Permit .ted>te Appear-Wanted to Tell Story
 to Newspaper. Men.

Mineola, N r., July 15.-When the grand jury investigating the murder of Mrs. Louise Bailey in Preeport on June 30 and the alleged complicity of Mrs. Florence Conklin Carman com pleted the work mapped out for it today. only three more witnesses re- mained to be heard These will ap- pear upon the resumption of the pro- ceedings tomorrow morning District Attorney Smith said he believed the ipquisitors would dispose of the case nnmediately and that action of some kind might be expected by noon or soon thereafter.
 Whether Mrs. Carman herself will be brought from the Nassau county jail to tell her story to the jurors is problem which only the grand jurors themselves can solve. Their final de- cision is expected to be made tomor- row morning
 Requests Privilege of Testifyins. District Attorney Smith stated posi- | lively that he would refuse the physi- clans wife permission to testify even though she should sign a waiver of | immunity. Then her attorney George NJ. Levy and her husband visited her | in the jail and had her sign a petition ! addressed to the grand jury in which | she requested the privilege of appear \ ing before that body and abandoned | all rights which she might have of ! claiming protection from prosecution ! Tn return Tor teStlfying.
 The members of the grand fury ar gued among themselves for more than | an hour late today over the petition. | They then took an adjournment Some 1 1t was reported, favored hearing what
 Mrs. Car1n8n might have to say. while | others sided with the district attor- ney that it would not only be unwise | to listen to her but would be con- ! trary to a decision of the appellate di-
 vision of the supreme court handed
 down thirteen years ago which stated. | in effect. that a person charged with
 murder cannot offer evidence before
 a grand jury.
 Wanted to Tell Story to Newspaper
 Although Mrs. Carman was anxious
 late todag, District AttoTney smith
 would not permit her to do so.
 The witnesses who appeared today were Henry De Beau Gaston Bofsso-
 nault, who sold Mrs. Carman the tele-
 phonic device she had installed in her
 husbands office; H. Burneu, who
 made the installation: Hazel Combs, a patient of Dr. Carman: Anna Kahn,
 her friend; Nellie Gherkin- Dr. R. D.
 Grimmer. Dr. Howard Phipps, Coroner
 Norton. Frank J. Farrell and Archie
 Wallace, deputy sheriff. Of these, Farrell was by far the most important
 witness.
 | SdW all woman tn Ion9 Cloak FarrelPs story, as he told 1t to Dis-
 trict Attorney Smith, was that on the night of June 20, being out of a
 job and hungry, he started for the
 back door of the Carman home to ask for food He was rounding one of the corners of the house. his story goes, when he saw a tall woman dress
 ed in either long cloak or a kimono
 come from the back door, go directly l to a window in which he now knows to be the doctors office and break the glass. Farrell said he didn't know whether the woman had a revolver
 or not. If she did, he did not see it.
 Farrelrs story continues that he heard [ a shot and quickly hurried of. for , he had no desire to be around any , place. he said, where bullets were n- able to be flying
 When he read about the murder in
 the newspapers, Farrell was quoted as saying, he went to the district At- 5 torney. He wasn't sure that it was at Dr. Carman's house that he had t seen the woman and heard the shot
 until he was shown the place. His
 story furnishes corroboration for Celia = Coleman, a negro maid in the Carman l residence, whose amplified story told . yesterday was to the effect that her r | mistress, dressed in a kimono. rushed
 through the kitchen directly after the
 shot was fired
 k After he testified Farrell was lock- ed up in the same jail with Mrs. Car e man, where he has been held for more :. than a week as a material witness.
 Bardes' Testimony Eliminated. h Of the other witnesses, the only ont = who did not testify at the inquest wa. a Nellie Gherlfn. with whom Elwood T Ii Bardes, whose story was responsible
 for the arrest of Mrs. Carman board
 ed. Her story dealt with the accoun 2 which Bardes had given her of seeing s a tall woman in a dark dress and a white shirtwaist hurry away from d window in Dr. Carman's office directl.
 after he heard the report of a revo1
 yer. Now that the district attorne. e claims he has established that Mrs IT Carman was dressed in a kimoni Is when, he alleges. the shot was fired y Bardes' testimony will be eliminated
 One of the witnesses tomorrow vii
 be Dr. Runcie, who was called to tn n Carman house directly after the mur It der by Dr. Carman- Who the other = would be could not be ascertained iron et the district attorneys offlce tonight.