The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-07-15
MRS CARMAN'S
 NIECE WILL BE CALLED BY STATE
She Is Understood to Be
 One of Women Who Fled : at Fatal Shot
NEGRO MAID TO GIVE IMPORTANT. EVIDENCE
Doctor Still Insists Mrs. Bailey Was Killed By
 Mans Shot


 Mineo1a, L. IT, July 16-A grand drew because of friendship for the Carman family resumed today it's de- Alterations in the case of Mrs. Flor ence Carman, held in jail as having fired the shot which killed Mrs Lou ise Bailey in Dr. Carman's office at Freeport on the night of June 80. It was expected that the jury would complete it's work today and that, if an indictment were found, it would be returned tomorrow.
 With the resumption Of the hearing, District Attorney Smith amounted that he had issued a subpoena for Mrs. Ellen Gorby, a, niece of Mrs Carman. It is understood that she Is one of the two women who have been sought since the murder as having been in the doctors waiting room and who fled when they heard the shot fired.
 The first witness examined today was Henry DeBeau. who testified to seeing Mrs Bailey going to the Car man home. Another witness was Miss Helen Combs, who was in the wait ing room when the murder was com mitted.
 District Attorney Smith has planned to call three physicians, pr. Roy D. GTimmer. pr. Howard Phipps and Dr. William Runcie, who performed the autopsy on Mrs Bailey 8 body.
 Of the three physicians, Dr. Run Icie. who has been a close friend Of the Carnan family and lives across the street from them in Freeport, wa8 the first person called by pr. Carman after the murder. He is expected to tell the grand jury about the -l ver- <{<-.. 1t is said, told him about the tela- phonic device by means Of which she. was enabled to hear conversations be- tween Dr. Carman and his women pa.- tients.
 Witnesses under subpoena for today included Gaston Boissonau1t and F. c. Burne1I, Of the company that in tsalled the telephonic wires and in- struments for Mrs. Carman; Coroner Morton and Mrs Ida Powell, sister of Mrs. Carman. The coroner is expect ed to produce the bullet, the medicine and the handbag purse she carried when she was killed.
 The district attorney announced that he had learned the names of the two women patients who were in pr. Carman's office at the time of the murder and who fled. They live near Fsreeport, it is said.
 The testimony of EIwood T. Bardes, whose statement at the coroner's in- quest that he saw 8 woman walk from the office window to the back or the Carman house just after the murder shot which resulted in Mrs Carman being charged with the nur-7 the grand jury.
 District Attorney Smith expected today to close his case before the grand jury on Friday.
 More details of the story of the Carman negro maid. Celia Coleman, as told to the grand jury yesterday became known today. Besides saying that Mrs Carman had hurried the kitchen from the back yard inn mediateIy after the shot which killed Mrs. Bailey was fired, the gtxa. it is understood, said Mrs. Carnaan had on 8 kirnono but has insisted that she was in her bedroom.
 day that he was sure that the hand thrust through the window when the shot was fred was a mans. He re- called he said, that on the wrist he saw a mans cuff.
 Alvah Smith and Daniel Rayner, members of the grand jury and close friends of the Carmans, asked to be excused from the jury today. Their request was granted. Their with drawal still left a quorum of grand Jurors and the proceedings VIII not be invalidated.
 Dr. Carman made public today a letter addressed to his wife from Ro- chester, N. Y. The writer said he had shot Mrs. Bailey. He had donne6 wo- mans clothing, he said, as a. disguise The letter was written in what was apparently a disguised handwriting and looked as if it might have been penned by woman. It was not talk eu seriously.
 The story of the negro maid that Mrs. Carman had on a kinaono when she saw her run into the kitchen con tradicts the account of EIwood Iardes, heretofore the chief witness for the state. Bardes said that the woman he saw had on a, white waist. Because of this clash Of testimony. Bardee, it was said. might not be called before the grand jury.
 The last witness before the jury was Frank J. Farrell, tramp. who went to the back door of the Carman house on the night of June 30 to ask for food. It is understood that Far relrs story corroborated in general the account given yesterday by Celia. Coleman.
 Mrs Carman was not called. Her counse had agreed to waive inannu- 11fty for her. but in the opinion of the district attorney it was tnexpedient to :, he