Omaha daily bee., 1914-07-07
TRIES TO KILL DR.. CARMAN
Physician Says Man on Bicycle
Fired Three Shots at Him.
SHERIFF LOOKS FOR WOMAN
officer says He Has Evidence as e
Identity of Mrs. Bniley's slayer
and that lie VIII Make
Arrest soon.

FREEPoRT, n. Y, July k-Despite as
sertions OF DR. Edward Carman that sew
eral shots were fired at him last night by
a man on a bicycle near Rockville Center,
while returning 20 his home here after
visiting a patient at Roosevelt Lewis
Smith. district attorney. ard Sheriff
Stephen p. Petit today declared they
were still firm in the belief that It was
a woman who shot and killed Mrs. Louisa
Bailey in DR.. Carmans office last Tues
day night.
Sheriff Petit today admitted that the
! Investigation had narrowed down to three
points, each OF which leads TO the same
person or persons and from information
now in his hands he was led to believe
that an answer would be made soon. II
also became known today that detectives
In the employ OF the district attorney are
engaged in running down all clues alonE
the three lines indicated by Sheriff
Petit.
Inquest Resumed.
The inquest was resumed today.
Assistant District Attorney Weeks ex-
hibited an unopened box OF thirty-eight-
caliber revolver cartridges. which he said
he had found In the attic OF the Carman
home. DR.. Carman told him. said Weeks.
that he did not know how the cartridges
came to be in his house. A thirty-eight-
caliber bullet killed Mrs Bailey.
The first witness called today was Celia
Coleman, a negro maid I'm the Carman
house. She began her story by telling
who was at the dinner table on Tuesday
night The witness said Mrs Carman
complained OF having headache and
said she was going upstairs.
She admitted having talked with George
Levy. Mrs. Carman's attorney the morn
ing after the murder. She insisted that
no one else was present at the conference.
DIdn't Remember.
The district attorney then asked is she
had not told him previously that Mrs.
Carman was present. The witness said
she didn't remember.
w. ]. w. Haff. jr,. OF Lynbrook, near
here. who strongly remembles DR.. Car
man and drives an automobile OF the samS
type. reported to the Freeport police that
early this morning while driving his
machine not far from where DR.. Carman
was fired on last night, a man standing
beside the road fired one shot at him.
Haff is a friend OF Dr. Carmsn.
Mrs. Jennie Duryea. mother OF Mrs,
Bailey. testified her daughter had been
complaining OF feeling bad and that II
was she who urged her to go to a doctor
William D. Bailey. husband OF the MUIR
dered woman, said his wife had not
complained to him OF feeling Ill and he
was not aware that she ever knew DIT
| Carman.
Sees Her Admit Patient.
Miss Hazel Combs said she arrived al
Dr. Carman's office about o'clock and
saw Mrs. Carman walking around the
house and saw her admit man patient
COLDER. and go into Dr. Carman's office
TO answer the telephone. before the doctor
came out OF the dining room. Mrs. Car
man denied on the stand she ever en-
] tered her husbands office since she saw
Mrs. Variance, the nurse, kiss him.
Charles Anderson. a negro youth, tes-
titled that as he was passing the CarmAr
house about s o'clock last Tuesday might
he heard a report he thought was caused
by a firecracker He looked In the yard
ana saw a man running toward the back
fence. The man jumped over the fence
and Anderson later saw him emerge from
an alley in the next street.