The Washington herald., 1914-10-17

MOVIE REELS
may PICTURE
CARMAN CASE
Made to Husband
of Woman Accused Of Kill
ing Mrs. Bailey.
OFFERED HER 100000
Murder WouldBe Shown Like
that of Caillaux in Paris
Last Winter.
LAWYERS STILL ARE AT WORK
Prosecution to Say She Meant to Hit
Husband-Defense that She
Was Upstairs. ,
LAWYERS STILL ARE At WoRI
suecial 10 me- Washinrtou Heraid.

Special to The Washington Herald.
MineoIa. L. l., Oct IA proposal
to stage the celebrated Carman murder
case as a six-reel motion picture fea-
ture, II il reported today, has been
made to DR.. Edwin Carman. the husband
Of the woman who goes on trial for her
life next Monday for the shooting Of
Mrs. Louis D. Bailey.
As the subject Is reported to have
been broached to DR.. Carman, the six
reel feature is TO begin at the Carman
house. and follow the story OF the as
sassination into the very room in which
Mrs. Bailey was shot TO death. Other
scenes are to be laid about the Mineola
Jail and the county courthouse, the
scene OF the trial.
Like CaiIIaux Case.
DR.. Carrnan IL reported to have spoke
to one OF his intimates somewhat In this
fashion:
MY wife is certainly the most widely
known woman in this country. I've had
an offer TO put the murder on a. . six
reel feature I've been offered all the
way from $4,000 to 100000 for the
rights"
Should the Carman case be staged,
the motion picture concern will be fol-
lowing in the footsteps OF the French
company which put on the CaillRux case.
Although II would seem that the coun-
ty prosecutor and Mrs. CarmRn's a.
torneys had had ample time in which
to prepare their cases, today found them
still at work over law books and min
utes.
Contention, according to report, with
which the district attorney will 20 into
court on Monday 10 that Mrs. Carman at
tempted TO kill her husband when she
Al e
Mrs Bailey received the bullet which
went several feet wide OF the mark.
Say She Was UPstaIrs,
The defense will maintain that Mrs.
CaFman not only did not commit the
crime. but could not have done %, as
she was upstairs in her room at the
moment OF the tragedy. Furthermore,
the defense will show that every in
cIdent in connection with the crime
points to a man as the assassin. Stress
will be laid by Surrogate Graham, Mrs
Carman's chief counsel, upon the failure
Of the prosecution TO present any evi-
dence OF the existence Of q revolver in
the Carman house. The weapon has
never been discovered.EaA, dusty box OF
.3s-caliber cartridges, the size of the fatal
bullet, were found in the Carman garret
So far as 'properties'' in the case ar
concerned, they are 1eW-tne olctograpf
and its wires and the dusty box Of cart
ridges about complete them. For the en-
lightenment Of the jury, District ATTORNEY
Smith will have in court q stand for th'
display Of three large surveyors plani
Of the CarmAn premises-one showing th'
setting Of the house in its plot of ground
approaches to IT, and the relation Of ad
joining housesi another Of the first floor
with the doctors ofiee and the furniture
therein placed as at the time of the mur'
der; and the third giving the arrange
ment Of roe1ns on the second floor, Mrs
CarmAn's' chamber, and the rooms Of hel
sister, Mrs. Powell. and her mother, Mrs
Plat Conklin.