Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-10-23
.GOSS|P|NG CAUSE
. 0F CARAVAN TRAGEDY
ACCUSED WIFE OF PHYSICIAN
SAYS PEOPLE MADE RE.
MARKS ABOUT HUSBAND.
REPEATEDLY TOLD HER
HE "WAs SOME DEVIL"
Mrs. carman smilinsIy Takes Stand
to Undergo Severe Cross Examina-
tion-Repeated Remarks of Friends
Caused Her to Become Suspicious
Friends of Woman Crowd Court.

Mineola, y. Y, Oct. 23.-Mrs. Flor
ence Conklin Carman, on trial for the
murder of Mrs. Louise Bailey, passed
thru the bitter ordeal of cross exam
ination today. Her story denying all
participation in the crime was un-
changed. When she had concluded.
members Of her household followed her
to the stand and swore that she had
testified as to what was true.
Mrs. Sarah Conklin. Mrs. Ida Powell,
Elizabeth Carman - mother. sister
daughter--one by one affirmed her
story that She was in bed when the
shot was fired; that she donned her
kimono and slippers, went down stairs
into the waiting room. leaned for Il
minute or two against the mantle piece
and then returned to her room. Ten
year-old Elizabeth testified that she
too went down the stairs behind her
mother, stayed there for a moment. re-
turned, and in a minute or two went
into her mothers room.
MY mother was there, she said.
Against the testimony of the Carman
household the state has the testimony
of Celia, maj id Of all work in the Car
man home, and Frank Farrell Celia
testified Mrs. 'Carman went out of the
kitchen a short time before the shot
was fired. reappeared few seconds
after it was fired, produced a revolver
from the folds of her kimono and said
Il shot him.
+, Farrall has testified that he saw a
woman dressed as Mrs. Carman was
l.. T.. 4.
house after the shot was fired.
Mrs. Carman faced her ordeal with
her lips parted in smile Once, as
the district attorney sent home ques-
tions concerning the jealousy that had
made her question her husbands faith
fulness. she came near fanting. She
broke down and cried when her trial
was over The reaction came when
her aged mother was on the stand.
Mneoa. y. Y, Oct 23-Mrs.
Florence Conklin Carman. on trial as
the slayer of Mrs Louise Bailey, smil-
ngly stepped into the witness stand
today for the ordeal OF cross examina-
ton by the district attorney. She ap-
peared cheerful and refreshed and said
she was ready to reply to all questions
District Attorney Smith might ask
her.
She faced a crowded court room.
Among the 200 or more spectators were
longtime friends and neighbors, whose
faces We're wreathed with hopeful
smiles. Ranged directly opposite her
chair within the enclosure and less
than a dozen steps away were the
mother the daughter and the hus-
band Of the woman whose life the state
| 4 - 4,
intense eagerness every word of her
testimony.
Just before the defendant took the
chair she crossed over to her mother
at the counsel table, leant over and
kissed her.
"Rumors" Cause Trouble.
Mrs Carman, began the district
attorney. you said YOU were suspicious
of your husband when did you get sus-
picious??'
about a year ago
What caused her suspicion she could
not say \ woman did not Cat;So tt
Just rumors.'
NO. Just some one asking him about
his girls Somebody told me he was
Il devil with the girls
SIie tbUlu iiol Itt'il WHO Iidu tclu
her this At Mr.. Smiths bidding she
named many men. friends of Dr. Car
man, but could not name one of them
as having said, How are all your
girls"
Somebody was asking him that
question all the time she said They
We're jestng. I thought at first, bu,
after a while | thought there might he
Il
would say to me, The doctor is some
devil
Suspicious All Dispelcd.
Did YOU have an inclination to hear
what the doctor had to say to his
women patients"
IN a way. yes. Some of his pa :
TENTS
Did you ask him where he was when
he was out all night %
Yes, and he told me
Did YOU believe him
YES, sometimes"
Did your suspicious Increase with
| time?"
"rhey increased right up to the time
of the murder. They have all been dis
PEELED now"
"How long have You been in that
| frame Of mind?"
ever since the terrible tragedy
What / heard or rather what / didn't
hear over the telephone instrument re-
assured me
Says Husband Is Untruthful.
The witness sought to evade ques-
! tion as to whether she thought thai
her husband was truthful. Finally she
said NO" She explained that she hat
| no real reason to doubt him. however
She was suspicious at first OF women
..o csnea frequently at his office