Arizona republican., 1914-07-03
While Physicians Wife is
 Viewing Body of Mrlr- dered Woman, Detectives Are Searching for Revol- yer With Exploded Shell
AN AUTOPSY
 IS ORDERED
Despite Protests of Illus band Officials Insist Elk animation Must Be Made and Threaten Supreme Court Order
ASSOCIATED PRESS DIsPArcHl


 FREEPORT, N. r., July 2.-While Mrs. Edwin Carman in Hampstead this afternoon was viewing the body of Mrs. Louise Bailey the Long Is land matron, killed by a mysterious shot through a window in Dr. Car mans office here on Tuesday night. detectives were pumping out a cess pool and well in the rear of the phv- slclan's residence and a cesspool in the cellar. In one of the three places. the detectives said they expected to find a revolver containing one ex- ploded shell
 Late tonight the hunt for the wea- pon was still in grogress, but none of the detectives believed their search would be rewarded before morning. The body of the murdered woman was taken from her home in Hemp stead to the undertaker'S morgue for an autopsy which had been ordered by the district attorney. William D. Bailey at first refused to allow his wife's body to be moved from the house, but after the authorities had threatened to go to the supreme court and obtain an order permitting an autopsy he gave his consent.
 Detectives are questioning every person known to have been near the physicians home on Tuesday night in an effort to oetain even the slight est cleV 10 the murder.
 Mrf* Carr an and her attorneys were waiting at the morgue Mrs Carman was taken into the rear room and asked to look at the dead Woman's features.
 Poor Woman.' exclaimed the phy- sician's wife. T am so sorry for her"
 Have you ever seen this woman before?" her attorney asked. Mrs. Garman. perfectly calm, replied:
 No, have never seen that wo- man in my whole life"
 The physicians who performed the autopsy traced the course of the bull let, but nothing else having bearing on the tragedy was revealed.
 Detectives interviewed late today, Miss Helen Combs, a lawyers stem ographer who told them she was in the physicians house at the time of the shooting, having gone there for 1 treatment. She said she was ad- mitted to the house by Mrs Carman. Dr. Carman was eating dinner and Miss Combs said she was told to wait
 While I was there" Miss Combs 1 is said to have told the detectives, "a woman whom I know was Mrs Bailey arrived. She did not knock or announce herself She walked right in and a few moments later went into the doctors office. While she was there Mrs. Carman passed | through the room and went on the porch and while she was there ] heard her tell one of her children not to play the piano as the doctor had patient in the office That was about ten minutes before heard the shot"
 In telling her story to the detec- tives and the district attorney yes terday Mrs. Carman said she return ed from New York about ' o'clock the night of the murder and went immediately 10 her room on the sec ond floor of the house. where she prepared 10 retire She denied goine to the ground floor even when the shot was fired.
 Miss Combs, the detectives also say told them it was a woran and no' Dr. Carman, who folded Mrs. Bailey's hands across her breast Dr. Carmar told the police it was he who folded her hands.