The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-07-11
ANOTHER WOMAN
IN CARMAN CASE
New Theory Causes District At
torney to Ask Postponement
of Examination of Prisoner.
THIS is NOW SET FOR JULY 21
Whole Aspect of Astounding
Mystery Entirely Changed by
Days Developments.

Frceport. y. Y. July lO.-rhe whole
aspect OF the astounding mystery in
which the murder of Mrs. Lula Bailey
is still cloaked was changed day,
when ii was discovered that the de-
tectives hired by District Attorney
Lewis Smith had caused the eXarnina-
tion or Mrs. Florence Conklin Carman
before Justice Of the Peace Norton, to
he postponed from next Monday until
July 81. 1t was because OF "a new and
startling theory advanced by his dc
tectives that Attorney Smith moved
that the hearing be postponed.
Counsel for Mrs. Carman. who is in
tho Mineola Jail accused of the murder
Of Mrs. Bailey. made serious objection
10 the postponement, but agreed when
assured that tho grand jury would not
take up the case Of the accused wom-
an until after her examination before
the Justice.
The new theory-thc theory on which
the state depends to bring Mrs. Car
man TO trial-involves another wom-
an. The detectives are not telling the
name Of the second woman. but they
have come 10 the conclusion that it
Mrs Carman killed Mrs. Bailey. she
did not shoot through the window:
that She tired the shot while standing
in tho door leading from the pantry
into tho office OF her husband. Or. Ed
win carman. and that tho window was
broken by a woman who was Mrs.
Carnan's accomplicc.
ABANDON IDEA or
SHOT THROUGH WINDOW
This new theory has so convinced
the authorities that they have virtu-
ally abandoned the idea that the shot
WAS fired through the window.
They arc working on the theory
that Mrs Carnan was accommodating
through the wires of the dictaSraph
evidence on which she might secure
divorce from Dr. Carman. The OH
cials declared that Mrs. Carman was
dominated absolutely by the woman.
upon whom they look as her accom-
plice or close friend. All this on the
supposition that Mrs. Carman is gull
ty. The detectives declare that il
Mrs. carman is not the woman who
fired the fatal shot. the other woman
they are watching is the murdercss.
The new plan OF activity adopted by
the detectives includes a series ot
facts which cannot be we'll controvert-
ed. inasmuch rs the most reliable wit
nesscS produced 1T the inquest sup
piled them.
To begin with, the deteativcs arguo
that il would lie IN iinpossii:ilty FOR
auy woman or man to have broken
the window, thrust in their hand, push
aside a curtain and fire fatal shot
without having alarmed either DR.. Car
nan or Mrs. Bailey so that they would
have dodscd out OF range.
Therefore. they figure that the hand
the womau's TO be eXact-who brcko
that window, did not fire tho shot. Tho
new theory is that Mrs Bailey was
sitting tho couch. and that DR.
carnan was nearby or that Carman
was seated and Mrs. Bailey was near
him. Whatever they talked about was
transmitted over the dictagraph wires
to the nadly jealous woman upstairs.
BI:LIEvE NEGRO COOK
SAW PERSON WITH Gun
The detectives believe that Celia
Coleman. the negro cook. saw some
one come into the kitchen and enter
the pantry. from which there is 4 door
leading to the doctors office That
person, they declare. held Il revolver,
and Celia. with all the fear of her race
for anything OF a sanguinary nature.
He'd
Then the window was broken JUST
who broke that window broke IL
with the sole purpose OF attracting tho
attention OF Dr. Carman and Mrs.
iailey to that spot Thus attracted,
the backs Of both AIRS. Bailey and DR..
Carnan were toward the pantry door.
The person at the window saw Mrs.
Bailey and Dr Carman near or ut the
couch. This tho authorities admit.
When the pane was broken the two
hed. They naturally He'd toward tho
operating chair. which was almost
against the west wall. and quite ont
of the range of vision permitted by the
Winoow, some one opened the pantry
door in the east side OF the room.
Then. while Mrs. Bailey and DR. Car
man was watching the window. or
while DR. Carnan was urging Mrs
Eailey to hasten out OF the office and
into ;he waitinC-room. the person III
the pantry door tired--dircctly and
without obstaclc-toward the fright
cnei pair Whether the shot was in
tended for Dr. Carman or for Mrs.
Bailey, is Getermiucd--nnuy y