West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1914-07-09
BURNS ENGAGED
IN BAILEY CASE
Famous Defective and Men Start
10 UHraVsl Mystery
MURDER scene IS RE- ENACTED

Important Witnesses Are Not Called
at Inquest by Prosecutor Smith.
Man In Town. Near Freeport. N. y.
Complains OF Being Fired Upon
Shortly After Or. Carman Claims
Bullets Were Aimed at Him.
Freeport, N. ", July 1.-THE muir.
der OF Mrs. Louisa a. Bailey was re.
enacted by w. j. Burns, DIR. Edwin
Carman, Mrs. Carman and Burns de.
tectives. Mr.. Burns was the stage
manager and leading man. 1t was
more exciting than the most thrilling
movie.
The criminal expert proceeded to
. stage the murder as nearly as il could
be done.
The celebrated detective took tho
part OF the assassin, creeping, pistol
In hand, to the window of DIR. Car
mans Office through which Mrs.
Bailey was shot. A Burns operative
impersonated Mrs. Bailey and stood
with DIR. Carman in the doctors office.
Mrs. Carman remained In her bed.
room, where she says she was when
Mrs. Bailey was murdered, and Burns
detectives In the anteroom of the Of
fice attempted to see and hear all that
George Colder. Hazel and other
patients who waited here last Tues
day night have testified to.
The reproduction of the murder was
suddenly planned and carried out by
Mr.. Burns after he had talked with
s District Attorney Smith and Sheriff
Petit.
Mr.. Burns, after placing his actors,
went out In the Merrick road and then
tried to gain the house undetected but
failed. Then he tried another ap-
proach. This time nobody saw him
until he raised himself above the sill
of the window through which Mrs.
Bailey was shot.
short inquest into Mrs. Bailey's
death was featured by the failure OF
the prosecutor to put important wit
RerSaS on the stand.
Celia Coleman, a nurse for six
weeks in the Carman home, said she
heard the shot and ran into the but
ler's pantry between the dining room
and the kitchen. II stood there" she
continued, with the door from the
pantry into the kitchen open all the
time. / just listened and stayed there
for three or four minutes"
Witness said she saw Lawyer Levy
OF the defense Wednesday and Thurs
day and he asked her TO sign an aiIi-
davit containing the statement that no
one ran through the kitchen on Tues
day night. The affidavit had not been
read by her and she was not told what
was In 1t. Mr.. Levy asked her to sign
paper and she signed.
Bailey testified that his wife had not
complained TO him of feeling Ill, had
never told him she was going TO con.
suit a physician, had never said sho
had been to see DIR. Carman, had never
said she had been in DR.. Carman's
Office and had never heard her speak
OF DIR. Carman.
Hazel Combe and her friend, Han
nah Kahn, were the next two wit
nesses- Miss Combe was a patient OF
the doctor. She went to the Carman
house about o'clock the night of the
snurder and sat in the waiting room.
While she was there man and q lady
came In, she said. The lady was evil
IDENTIFY Mrs. Bailey.
Il saw Mrs. Carman twice while
was waiting she continued. "She
came into the waiting room to answer
knock on the door. She told the
man who stood outside that the doctor
was asleep" Miss Combe said that
Mrs. Carman was dressed In a blue
skirt and q white shirtwalst in direct
contradiction of Golder's assertion
that she was all I'm white.
Hannah Kahn said that she saw
Mrs. Carman dressed in a blue skirt
and white waist waiting on the door.
w. Il. II. Han, Jr., of Lynbrook, n
coal dealer and owner OF the Rock
away Times, told reporters that no
was shot at early Monday morning by
a mysterious man not very far from
where DIR. Carman said he was shot at.
Han exhibited a dent In the side OF
his Car as proof.
DIR. Carman told more about the
shots which he says were fred at him
while he was out in his automobile
and said:
IL don't know what TO think about
this last attempt at my life. Maybe
some people think It is strange" He
said It appeared to him that the
shooter was left handed.
a box Of cartridges was found In
the attic OF the doctors house. They
were of 38-caliber. The bullet that
killed Mrs. Bailey was that size and
the box was found in a box, where It
might have been for years. No
cartridges had been taken from IL and
the authorities DO not believe that was
of~ang Importance.