The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1914-10-24
ACCUSED FIkAI
IN DEnytEI; GUILT
Mrs. Carman is Bitterly Cross
Examined.
FALTERS AFTER 0RlEAl
Her Testimony Denying Participation
In Crime Is Upheld by HUSBAND,
Mother, Sister and Daughter


Mineola, \. Y, Oct. 24.-Mrs. Flor
ence Conklin Carman, oh trial for the
murder of Mrs Louise ID. Bailey, pass
ed through the bitter ordeal of cross
examination.
Her testimony, denying all partlcl
patton in the crime, was unchanged
When she had ended members OF he1
household followed her to the stand
and swore that what she had testified
to was true.
Mrs. Sarah Conklin, DR.. Edwin )
Carman, Mrs. Ida Powell, Elizabeth
Carman-mother, husband, sister and
daughter-one by one affirmed mel
contention that she was in bed When
the shot was fired; that she donneo
kimono and slippers, went downstairs
into the waiting room, leaned for a
minute or two against the mantel
piece and then returned to her room.
Elizabeth, who is ten years old, ties
tilted that she, too, went down the
stairs behind her mother, stayed there
but moment, returned, and IN min
ute or two went into her mothers
room.
"My mother was there" she said.
DR.. Carman, during his cross-eXaml
nation by the district attorney, ad
mitted that he had seen Mrs. Bailey
before the tragedy, and that he be
lieved it was the night before"
DR.. Carman also testified that the
assassin's hand thrust through the
window of his office was that of
man. The defense, in order to sub
stantiate this contention, called to the
stand Charles Adams, a negro youth
who testified that he heard the shot
and Immediately saw a man dash
across the Carman lawn from the dl
rection in which the shot was fired.
This is the first time that DR.. Car
man has indicated that he had seen
Mrs. Bailey before the night of the
murder.
DR.. William Runcie, of Freeport
told of being called to the home OF
DR.. Carman on the night of June 80
and of seeing the body of woman or
the couch.
"Was she dead or alive?" Dead"
Ibid you go upstairs that night?'
"Yes."
did you see Mrs. Carman?" yes
"How was she dressed?" Gin XII
mono"
did you speak to herr" Eyes"
"What did she say" "She told me
that she had dictagraph in the doc
tors office and she didn't want him tc
know it."
Plat Conklin, the father of the de
fendant, followed.
Conklin, seventy-six year old, with
q full-grown beard and snow-white
hair, told of how he was called home
on June 80 from the Freeport club.
The witness then told of the gates
on his property, and said that at 6.3(
o'clock of that evening all of these
gates were closed, but after the muir
der he found they had been opened
He described the condition of the win
dow after the shooting.
Against the testimony of the Car
man household, the state has the evi
dence of Celia Coleman, the negro
maid in Mrs Carman's home, and thai
of Frank Farrell, former railroad en-
gineman.
Celia has testified that Mrs. Carman
went out of the kitchen a short time
before the shot was fired, reappeared
a few seconds after it was fired, pro
duced a revolver from the folds of heI
kimono and said: 81 shot him."
Farrell has testified that he saw
woman, dressed as Mrs. Carman was
dressed, flee from the window into the
house after the shot.
Mrs. Carman faced her ordeal with
lips parted with a smile. Once, as the
district attorney, Lewis J. Smith
threw home intimate questions as to
the Jealousy that had stirred her con.
corning her husbands relations with
women, she appeared to lose her splen.
did self-control and to falter. But
smelling salts, self-administered, soon
revived her.
She broke down after it was all over
and cried. The reaction came when
her aged mother was on the witness
stand.