The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-07-06
MYSTERY OF
HER MURDER
Shooting Of Mrs. Bailey Not
Solved Yet and Further
Complications
Arise.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service j
I NEW PORK, July 6.--With the in
vestigation into the mysterious shoot
4 ing OF Mrs. Louise Bailey at the home
OF Dr.. Edwin Carman. at Freeport, L
l.. hourly becoming more involved
District Attorney Smith planned &c
continue the inquest today and trace
the movements Of the murdered VIZ
man from the time she left her HOO
last Tuesday to the time she waa
ed by a revolver thrust throuE g
window in DR.. Carman's ONCE
Offlcfals were mystified WIZ told
by Dr.. Carman OF an attack made up
on him last night as he was passing
along dark stretch of road from Lyn-
burg The physician accompanies BY
one Gader, an actor, rushed into police
headquarters and excitedly declared
three shots had been fired at the doc
tor. They asserted the man came up
] behind the doctors auto on bicycle
and fred directly at him. None Of the
shots took effect, not even hitting the
auto. Investigation was started and
a witness found who declared he saw
the doctors auto and heard the shots
but did not see any man on a bicycle.
Both Carman and Gader were highly
excited and said that after the attack
| they put on full speed and drove d.
rectly to headquarters. The doctor
said he thought tire had exploded
when the first report was heard. and
| slowed up. On looking back however,
he saw a man on bicycle who fred
at him.
| For time the doctors story COM
pletely upset theories OF officials that
jealous woman hau fired the shot
which killed Mrs. Bailey. 1t bore out
the first suggestion that the shot was
fred by some one seeking Dr.. Car
mans life.
The authorities are conducting q
rigid. investigation OF the story by
Dr.. Carman but at the same time are
proceeding on the theory that 1t was
a woman who killed Mrs. Bailey. DR..
Carman appeared nervous and It was
evident the strain he had been under
for the past week was telling on him.
He said he was worried for fear some
one would plant" q 3S calibre revolver
on the premises. The authorities are
searching everywhere for such re-
volver as the bullet taken from Mrs.
Bailey's body was 3S.
Clara Coleman, negro maid in
the Carman home was the first wit
ness called in the inquest today. She
declared she did not recall seeing any
one enter the kitchen few minutes
before the shot was fired at the vim
dow in Carman's Office.
Friday, George Colder swore posi-
lively that he saw woman walk
through the house, the dining room
and kitchen. He then heard faucet
turned on and water running. A little
later the woman walked back and
within few minutes the shot was
fired. Colder said he took this woman
to be Mrs. Carman.
The police declared today that a
box Of 3S calibre cartridges had been
found in the garret Of the Carman
home. but no trace has as yet been
discovered OF revolver OF that CALI
bre Sydney Schaloc, tai1ors help
err. who saw woman running from
the Carman house directly after the
shooting was served with subpoena
today to appear at the inquest.
Schaloc will be asked to repeat in de-
tail his story of the auto he saw near
the Carman home and Of woman
dashing across the yard and entering
the machine.
Colder also declared he saw Mrs
Carman in the doctors Office after
the shooting.
The maid declared today that Mrs.
Carman was upstairs for some time
after the shot was fred. After the
shooting she said she saw the physi-
clans wife in the passageway outside
the Office but did not think she came
down stairs Immediately. District At
torney Smith said the maid was per-
turing herself when she said she did |
not remember what she said to the
attorney about Mrs. Carman previous !
ly.
She said she had signed some sort
of a paper at the Office OF Mrs. Car
mans attorney but did not know what !
it contained. The maid said she was I
near the door OF DR.. Carman's Office
but did not hear any exclamation or
the sound of anyone running away.
A Crazy Man Loose.
NEW YORK, July 6.-Intimations
that maniac may be at large in the
vicinity of Freeport, l.. l., today threw
the village into renewed turmoil Of
excitement while the inquest into the
ieath of Mrs. Louise Bailey was in
progress before Coroner Norton. AS
testimony was being taken of the mys-
.erious shooting of the wife of the
wealthy Brooklyn manufacturer while
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