The Sentinel=record., 1914-07-04
TESTIMONY IN FREEPORT, N. Y. MURDER CASE IS RATHER
 STARTLING.
WIFE 'SPIED ON HUSBAND
Saw Him Give Nurse Money and Saw Nurse Kiss Him--Wife Denies CompIicity or Knowledge of Death of Mrs. Louise Bailey.

Freeport, N. r., July 3.-Mrs. Ed win Carman, wife of the Freeport physician in whose office Mrs. Lou ise Bailey wife of a wealthy New York manufacturer, was mysteriously . murdered Tuesday night, sat on the witness stand at the coroner's in quest more than two hours today and submitted to a rigid ss-examina- ton concerning her actions just prior to the killing, just after it, and at the moment 1t occurred.
 Mrs. Carman emphatically denied she was on the porch of her home just before the murder, that she had walked around on the ground floor while Mrs. Bailey was in her hus- bands office, or that she entered the office while the victims body was lying on the floor George Colder, a patient who had been waiting to see Dr. Carman on the night of the mur- der, swore he had seen the physi. clans wife do all these things.
 When it was suggested that per. Laps Colder had mistaken Mrs. Car man for her sister, the witness was confronted with both women and i'm. mediately Identified Mrs. Carman as the one he had seen.
 Mrs. Carman, although nervous. to!G substantially the same story she re'ated the morning after the murder This was that she had gone to her room immediately after dinner the night of the murder and except for space of minute had remained there even after she had heard the tinkle of breaking glass and the re. port of the revolver as it sent a bul. let through Mrs. Bailey's heart.
 She told how she had contracted Tor the installing of the telephonic instrument in her husbands office o she could hear what he said to his women patients and how she had ripped it out the morning after the murder before she had clothed her. self and had her breakfast.
 Mrs. Carman also told of spying on her husband through the same win dow the assassin used, of seeing him hand a nurse, a Mrs. Variance. a SEQ Dill. and of watching the nurse kiss her husband on the cheek. The kiss. she said, caused her to rap on the same pane of glass which later was broken by the person who killed Mrs Bailey. Ten she went inside where she slapped the nurses face. demanded and received the s2O bill and in turn was warned by her nus band that if she ever repeated the performance or ever spied on him again "all would be over" between them.
 Mrs. Carman's sister, visibly nerv. ous. also testified. The other wit nesses were Dr. Carman himself, two patients who were waiting to consult him, and the physicians who per formed the autopsy on the body of the slain woman. The others under subpoena will tell their stories when the inquest is resumed Monday.
 In her testimony Mrs. Carman told of visit to department stores in New York on the day of the murder. She returned to Freeport about ' o'clock, ate dinner and soon retired to her room.
 Mrs. Carman denied she was on the front porch or the front steps at any time after she returned from New York. She was in her room, lying across the bed, she said. until she heard a confusion of noises. She heard glass breaking and a pistol shot, but she did not know which noise she heard first. She jumped ! up immediately.
 After l got up from the bed," Mrs. Carman said ''I went out into the hall and looked over the ballustrade. l heard lot of commotion and after returning to my room put on a kimono; I went downstairs. l did not go into my husbands office. We once had quarrel and he told me never to look in his office again, so l went upstairs again"
 Why didn't you look into the of