The Washington herald., 1914-10-26
DISAGREES
IN CARMAN CASE
CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE.

ton Levy. Mrs. Carman's lawyers. will
appeal for the release Of their client on
bail District Attorney Smith. the only
man in the courtroom who looked capable
OF standing on his feet when the Jury re-
ported today. says that he viii offer no
opposition and considers that $4,000 will
be sufficient
BY pure will-power and refusal to
give way to her nerves. Mrs. carman
sat through the dark night and chilly
dawn. waiting the verdict. She refused
to sleep. She refused to lie down. She
; sat up, keeping her drowsy husband
awake by forced laughter and trivial
jokings. She wrote half a dozen letters
to friends and in each OF them declared
she would call some time during the
week.
weepH when Jury Reports.
She watched the dogged jurymen file
in and buried her face in her hands as
Albert F. Ludlum. the foreman from
Oyster Bay growled to Justice Kelby
that the jury was hopelessly divided.
But. gentlemen" argued the justice,
surely after SO long you should agree
Is there not something 1 can do? Can
not enlighten you on some points Of
Iaw?"
There is no point Of law involved"
shouted John II. Molyneaux. I'VE can't
get together on the evidence. It's no use.
We'd be here until Gabriers trumpe!
stopped U.S."
Then as Justice Relby waved his hand
and dismissed the jury, Mrs Carmans
will collapsed. She crumpled like a dis
appointed girl. Her arms were stretched
out on the counsel table and she buried
her face In them. Her body shook con-
vulsively.
Il am very, very sorry," whispered
Graham. putting his arm around her.
I'm so disappointed" she wept, so
disappointed. thought they would send
me home"
The jurymen filed out so close to her
that they could have touched her bowed
head and Warden Hulse arose to escort
her back to her cell.
LudIum scores Two Jurors.
A dozen weary reporters struggled to
their feet, wiping their eyes to drive OF
the encroaching sleep. A score Of women
who had come early Saturday morning
looking well gowned and fresh. but now
were bedraggled and unkempt, arose
from their chairs where they had slept
all night. Three newspaper women who
had gone to sleep on a row of benches
were shaken into consciousness and, all
together. the exhausted crowd crept out
into the morning air TO hear Ludlum,
the foreman make a speech on the court
house steps in which he denounced
Hovey and Aston for their "obstinacy"
and disregard of facts"
Resolutely and scornlng to heed the
snarling comments Of their fellow Jurors.
the quiet Aston and the huge Hovey.
trudged through the crowd and down to
the Garden City Hotel. where they de-
clared they had done their duty.
The gloom of Graham and Levy was
as stygeian as the anguish Of Mrs Car
man was poignant. She was led back
to the Jail stumbling and crushed. There,
in her cell, she collapsed. DR.. Guy F.
Cleghorne. the prison physician, was
called in to revive her. She became hys-
tericsl and sedatives had to be admin
istered. Then she went TO sleep-a dead
sleep Of exhaustion. which lasted until
late in the afternoon.
Smith Sorry for Her.
II thought sentiment would free her."
declared District Attorney Smith. when
the jury was dismissed. Il did my best
In the face Of great feeling OF opposition.
The men who refused to acoIit her did
their duty. She Is a guilty woman, and
she knows II.
However. II Is not for me to have
prejudice. am sorry for her; sorry for
her baby Elizabeth, and would be glad
to see her back to Freeport and to her
family"
The jury split on the testimony of
Celia Coleman, negro hOusemaid in the
Carman home. Hovey and Aston declared
from the start that they believed the
girl was telling the truth. This, they held.
in spite Of Celia's admitted perjury on
occasions previous to her testifying at
the trial
You can as easily move those walls
as sway my opinion" Hovey roared.
Aston and l will never capitulate."
Curse ReaIHtInE Jurors.
Mrs. Carman refused to make a state
ment after the verdict and Graham and
Levy cursed the two jurors who barred
the path OF their client to freedom.