The Sentinel=record., 1914-07-03
CONFLICTING STORIES TOLD OF FiCiALS RELATIVE TO NEW
 WORKS MURDER MYSTERY.
HIS WIFE SEES THE VICTIM
Declares She Never Saw the Mur. dered Woman Before-Stenoaraph CT Tells Interesting Story of Move ments Preceding the Shooting.

Freeport, N. r., July 2.-While
 Mrs. Edwin Carman was in Hemp stead today viewing the body of Mrs Louise Bailey, the Long Island matron killed by a shot fired through a window in Dr. Carman's office here Tuesday night, detectives were pumping out a cesspool and a well in the rear of the physicians resi- dence and cesspool in the cellar. The detectives declared they ex- pected to find a .3S-caliber revolver containing one exploded shell. Late tonight the hunt for the weapon was still in progress but the detectives | thought their search would be re- | warded before morning. The body of the murdered woman was taken from her nome in Hemp stead to an undertakers morgue for an autopsy which had been ordered by the district attorney. William ID. Bailey at first refused to al:Hw his wife's body to be moved from the house. but after the au- thorities had threatened to go to supreme court justice and get an order permitting the autopsy he gave his consent.
 Mrs. Carman and her attorney were waiting at the morgue. Mrs. Carman was taken into rear room and asked to look at the dead wo- mans features.
 Poor woman," exclaimed the phy- sician's wife 'I am sorry for her"
 Have you ever seen this woman before?' her attorney asked.
 Mrs. Carman replied; No, have never seen that woman in my whole life"
 Detectives late today interviewed Miss Helen Combs, a lawyers sten- ographer, who told them she was in the physicians house at the time of the shooting. having gone there for treatment. She said she was ad- mitted to the house by Mrs Carman. Dr. Carman was eating dinner and Miss Combs said she was told to wait.
 While I was there" Miss Combs is said to have told the detectives, a woman whom I knew was Mrs. Bailey arrived. She did not knock or announce herself. a She walked right in and a few moments later went into the doctors office. While sine was there Mrs. Carman passed through the room and went into the kitchen at the rear of the house. Later she went out on the porch and while she was there l heard her tell one of her children not to play the piano as the doctor had a patient in the office. That was about ten min utes before I heard a shot" In telling her story to the detec- tives and district attorney yesterday Mrs. Carman declared she returned from New York about o'clock the night of the murder and went inn mediately to her room on the second | floor of the house, where she pre- pared to retire. She denied going to the ground floor even when the shot was fired.
 Miss Combs, the detectives also say, told them it was a woman and not Dr. Carman who folded Mrs Bai- ley's hands across her breast after
 the body had been raised from the floor and placed on the office couch.
 Joseph Colder, another patient, who
 was waiting to consult Dr. Carman.
 tolso told the police 1t was a woman
 who did this, and he added that it
 was a woman who admitted him to
 the physicians office. Dr. Carman
 told the police 1t was he who folded
 Mrs. Bailey's hands.
 The inquest will be held here to-
 morrow.