Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-10-20
CARMAN CASE
OUTLINED BY
PROSECUTOR
Declares Jealousy Was Defend
ants Motive for Murder Of
Mrs. Bailey.
SLAIN WOMAN'S MOTHER
BREAKS DOWN IN COURT
Case Moves Rapidly, a Dozen
Witnesses for State Being
Called During Morning.

MINEOLA. n. Y, Oct s0--Sneed
almost unparalleled in nlardey trial
marked the second days forenoon
session in che trial of Mrs. Florence
Conklin Carman, charged with the
murder of Mrs. Louise Bailey IN the
office Of DIR. Edwin 0nrman, the dc.
fendant's husband, in Freeport, on
June so last.
In two and half hours the district
attorney made his address TO the jury
and dozen witnesses testified for the
State. The star witnesses for the
prosecution, however, were yet to take
the stand, as District Attorney Smith
seemed to have decided TO develop the
States case in chronological sequence.
The first witnesses. therefore, sim
ply established the whereabouts of the
victim on the day of the murder, her
death, it's cause--a bullet wound--and
but few of the details of the crime
The fact that Mrs Bailey was
prospective mother when she was
shot and killed was revealed when
DR.. Howard M. Phipps testified re.
garding the autopsy. He stated thai
this condition existed and that there
was evidence an attempt had been
made to prevent motherhood.
DIR. Griner corroborated the testi-
mony of DR.. Phipps.
Celia Coleman, the negro maid in
the Carman household, and two other
witnesses, upon whom the State leans
heavily, were to take the stand. II was
believed, this afternoon.
In opening for the prosecution,
Lewis ]. Smith, the district attorney,
sketched in some details Mrs. Bailey's
action on the day of the murder, the
arrangement of the Carman house In
general and the physician's office par
ticularly. He told the jury how the
wire screen at the window TO the
Office was propped up. the window
pane broken, q revolver thrust
through the opening and bullet fired
into the heart of Mrs. Bailey, AL
though she died within a minute, he
said her body lay on the floor for
some time before the police were noti-
fed
I'VE shall show continued the dis.
irict attorney, that the shot that
kilBd Mrs isaifes WAS fred by this
| defendant We shall show that she
passed through the kitchen out
through the side yard g moment be-
fore the shooting and that she re-
mediately after IL. We shall show
further that the motive was jealousy
and suspicion of her husband.
ITO prove this we shall rail- a woman
whom Mrs. Carnan slapped on one
occasion when she saw her husband
give her money while the pair were
in the physician's office.
"Also we shall show how she se-
cured telephone instrument or
mechanical eavesdropper SO that she
could spy upon her husband, of whom
, she was intensely Jealous.
I'VE will further show how this de-
fendant arranged to have the caves
dropper installed in her aiishera' 5
Office, how she had the transnitter
placed behind an instrument case in
the Doctors office and the receiver
in the drawer of desk in her bed
room"
The district attorney also told how
the defendant tore out the instrument
the morning after the murder and hid
IL In the garret. 1--WE win show some-
things about George Levy. this de-
fendant's counsel Mr.. Smith con-
tinued. 1--WE viii show how she call
ed this lawyer in the day after the
murder and consulted him and how he
Immediately questioned the colored
girl, Celia Coleman, about what she
had seen. We will show that before
this defendant had even been sus-
pected, she began to prepare for her
defense, and that she instructed the
colored girl what to say in case the
officers of the law should question her.
After we show all this. gentlemen, we
shall expect you to bring in verdict
of murder in the first degree"
Victims Mother First Witness.
Mrs. Jennie Duryee, mother of the
victim, was called as the first wit
ness. Mrs Duryee motherly look
ing woman of seventy years. burst
into tears as soon as she took the
stand. She said between sobs that
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