The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-07-18
RestOratives Given After She
Left the Court Room
Yesterday
is FREE AT HOME
UNDER $4,000 BOND
District Attorney Reiterates That He
Has New Evidence That May Lead
to Finding of Indictment for High
er Degree of Homicide.

FREEPORT, n. Y, July 1S-PIans
for the immediate future TODAY occu-
pned the attention of Mrs Florence
Carman, who was yesterday released
from the county jail at Mineola under
bail of $4,000, for trial this fall un-
der the grand jury Indictment charging
her with manslaughter in the first de-
gree in connection with the death of
Mrs. Louise Bailey. With her hus-
band, DR.. Edward Carman, and her
daughter, Elizabeth, Mrs. Carman plan
ned to start today or tomorrow on an
automobile tour to Philadelphia, At
lantic City and the Delaware Water
Gap. The Carmens expected to be gone
about q month, spending a part Of the
time at their farm near the Delaware
Water Gap.
In a statement Mrs. Carman told for
the first time her story-the story sho
| sought to tell to the Nassau county
grand jury, but which that body re-
| fused to hear. Her statement. besides
| detailing the occurrences on the night
| of the tragedy, contained a denuncia-
| tiOn of the detective employed, and d
| declaration that she has no fears of CON
viction "unless they frame me up
| She said it was not true that she was
insanely Jealous of her husband, as the
newspapers had lead the public to be
lieve, that she was only curious. Mrs.
| Carman declared her determination to
remain in Freeport after her trial.
When Mrs. Carman was led into the
courtroom for arraignment she plainly
showed the strain she had been under
since her arrest. Her face was wan and
pale. When the clerk of the court ask
ed how she would plead, her lips open
ed to answer, but Mr. Levy interrupted
her.
Upon the understanding that his
client would have the right to with
draw her plea within two weeks and
file a demurrer and motion to squash
the Indictment on the ground Of in
sufficient evidence, her counsel entered
a plea of not guilty
After the bail bond had been arrang
ed and signed, the physician 5 wife was
led to an anter0om and there she col,
lapsed The Jail physician and her hus-
band administered restoratives and
then assisted Mrs. Carman back through
an underground passage to the Jail.
There her two suitcases, which she
had packed during the morning, were
obtained and few minutes later, as
sisted by her husband, one of her bonds
men and her attorney, she came from
the Jail and entered a waiting hmou-
sine.
u can t talk, = she said to reporters.
q am too overcome. | still fail to un-
lerstand why the grand jury declined
to heed my plea to tell my story.
While she was on her way, District
Attorney Smith reiterated that he had
: new evidence which might later lead
to finding of a superseding indictment
charging Mrs. Carman with a higher
Z degree of homicide. He sent detectives
to a marsh about a mile from the Car
man home to dig in a place where an
informant said he had seen a man bury
| revolver the day after the murder.
No revolver was found there, however.
The district attorney also asserted
: that if certain elews were developed 2
member of the Carman household would
be placed under arrest as an accessory
after the fact.