The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-07-09
Evidence Against Mrs. Car
man Regarded as Far
from Conclusive
DOCTOR VISITED
HIS WIFE IN JAIL
Prisoner in Better Spirits Having Re
covered Her Composure-the strik.
ing Testimony of Bardes ON Which
She Was Arrested.

MlNkOLA, J.. l., July 9.-It is not at
all certain that there VIII be enough evi-
denee Tor a grand jury Indictment against
Mrs. Florence Carman, charged with the
murder OF Mrs. Louise Bailey and yester-
day committed to the county iai awaiting
an examination on the charge This was
the opinion expressed today by Assistant
District Attorney Weeks
Mrs. Carmans case was expected In
come up before the grand jury late TODAY,
but, according to Mr. Weeks, there was
little likelihood of an indictment
The number of witnesses to be exam
med would preclude this possibility to-
day.
IT IS not unlikely he said, that when
Mrs Carman appears on Monday before
Coroner Norton, who will then be acting
IN the capacity of justice of the peace,
she will be discharged "
At that time Mrs Carman's attorney
will have a right to cross-examine the
witnesses who testified against the pris.
oner
DR.. Carman who has come to Mineola
today, found his wife in better spirits
when he visited her III jail She seems to
have recovered her composure and to be
less nervous
After her husband left Mrs. Carman
broke down and her condition became so
acute that the prison authorities called in
the staff physician. She was taken to the
wardens office. where she became quieter
after sedatives had been given her.
She refused, however, to go to bed
George Levy, attorney for Mrs Carman.
SAID today that he had discovered two
new witnesses whose testimony he consid-
cred extremely valuable He also said he
had information that two of the witnesses
whose testimony was instrumental in
causing the arrest of Mrs Carman, had
been far from the Carman home at the
time of the murder
| The immediate cause of the arrest of
| Mrs. Carman at the close of the inauest
Yesterday was the testimony given by Ell
| wood T. Bardes, an insurance agent.
whom the authorities called the single
reliable eyewitness of the crime Bardes
IS under lock and KEY also He is being
detained as a material witness. for MS
story Is of 50 great Importance that the
authorities feared an attempt might be
made TO get him out of the jurisdiction of
the New York courts
| Bardess story, briefly told is this At
80 o'clock on the night of the murder.
| Bardes determined to pay a professional
visit to DIR. Carman and allow him to
| dress minor injury to one of his heels
| Arriving at the physicians house he de-
clded he would dress the injury himself
and thereby a doctors fee So he
walked past the house and then turned
around to begin his journey home At
! that instant he heard an explosion He
thought it was caused by an automobile
| tire, but when he looked for the machine
| he could not find it,.
Saw Woman Walk Away.
He turned his eyes toward the lawn at
the side of DR. Carman's home A wo-
man 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 not run
ming, nor casually stroiling around the
lawn; she was walking in hurry the
witness swOre.
| Bardes, the last witness to take the
stand before the inquest was ended, was
discovered only yesterday. His story
Knight still remain untold had he not men
| toned it. first to a woman, who promptly
ttelephoned the district attorney, and then
to Roman Catholic priest whom he
visited for advice. The priest urged
Bardes to make his story known But be
fore an opportunity presented itself he
was taken in custody by orders of the dis
triet attorney.
| tion of the woman seen in the yard that
corresponded closely with that of a pa
tient who saw Mrs. Carman in The doc
ing took place