Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-07-01
Latest Evidence in the Murder
of Mrs. Louise Bailey
at Freeport.
SUPPORTS DR.. CARMAN'S
STORY OF OFFICE TRAGEDY
Detectives at Work on Clue. With
Jealous Woman in the Back
ground-Story of Crime.

FREEPoRT. y Y, July Mrs.
Louise Bailey was murdered last night
In the Office of Dr. Edward Carman. Evil
dence today supported his story that
she was killed by a shot from out
side through the office window In the
physicians room, four feet from the win
dow. detectives found an instrument case
bearing on its white enamel finish powder
burns and a furrow that might have been
plowed by the bullet as it sped toward
Mrs. Bailey. This instrument case is so
low that had the shot been fired inside
the room the person who held the pistol
must have squatted on the floor. II was
however. directly in the path that the
bullet would have taken from a pistol
showed through the broken pane of the
doctors office.
In the presence of detectives engaged
by the county and by the murdered wom-
ans husband. William D. Bailey. q
wealthy New York hat manufacturer. DIR.
Carman today rehearsed the murder
scene. He 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 hand with a pistol poked
through the broken pane.
Barely Two Feet Apart.
He and his patient were barely two
feet apart. he said. and he did not know
at which one the weapon was aimed. He
ducked behind an operating chair and as
he did so the pistol was fired and quickly
Withdrawn.
The detectives learned today that few
minutes after the shot was fired young
woman hurried into the Freeport railroad
sN,A.
took the first train for New York. She
was described as well dressed and auburu
haired.
Although Dr. Carman insisted today
that ne had not met Mrs Bailey until
she called at his office last night for/pro-
fessional advice, the detectives began their
work with jealous woman in the back
ground of their theories regarding the
identity of the criminal.
Shot Through Heart.
Mrs. Bailey was shot through the
heart and died instantly. According
to DR.. Carman. she arrived at his Office,
which is in his home, at 1910 o'clock
An hour later, he said. she was pre-
pairing to leave when the shot was
fired that ended her life.
Officials found that the window
through which DIR. Carman said the
shot had. been fired was covered by a
wire screen, which was operated by
hinges from above and could only
investigation showed that the glass
broken from the window and the putty
holding the glass had fallen both in
side and outside the room.
The mystery was further increased
when Bailey, the husband of the mur-
dered woman. told the police that he
did not know that his wife had gone
to the doctors office. He was sur
prised when told that Mrs. Bailey was
accustomed to call on the doctor for
treatment.
Before going to the Doctors office
Mrs. Bailey had visited Mrs. John c.
Crabau. who is ill at her home in
Rockville Center, and on leaving here
at 6 o'clock had announced that she
was going directly home.
Victim a Social Leader.
Outside of the tragic features of the
murder, the crime caused the most in
tense excitement here on account Of
the social prominence and the wealth
of DIR. Carman and his family. Mrs.
Carman is the daughter of Frank Clapp
Conklin. one of the wealthiest resi-
dents of the south shore of Long Is
land. Mr.. Conklin makes his home
with his daughter.
Mrs Bailey, who was thirty-six years
old was small, with remarkably pretty
figure and was considered exceptionally
handsome. She always had been a leader
in the social affairs of her neighborhood.
She leaves two children. daughter, Ade-
laide, seventeen years, and a son, twelve
Years old.
Two men patients, who were waiting in
the physicians outer office when Mrs.
Bailey was shot, 5. ID they heard no noise
until they were startled by the report of
d pistol. When they entered the consul
tation room Mrs. Bailey was dead and
they helped DIR. Carman carry her to a
couch
So many persons had trampled the grass
outside the windows of the doctors Of
flee that bloodhounds brought to the
scene today proved useless. They became
confused in the maze of trails