The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-07-05
SAW A WOMAN
FLEEING AFTER
BAILEY MURDER
New Witness Says She Ran
to Waiting Auto and
sped Away.
MOTHER ADDS POINT
FOR MRS. CARMAN
She and Other Daughter, Not
Doctors Wife, on
the Porch.
PHYSICIAN PLEASED
At NEW DEVELOPMENTS
Believes Inquest Tomorrow
Will Lift Cloud That Hangs
Over Family.
PHYSICIAN PLEASED
AT NEW DEVELOPMENTS

rrrrPoRT. L. T.. July Mrs. Edwin
Carnan smiled confidently this evening a.
enc sprinked the roses IN her garden.
and the doctor. her husband. stanchiy
nNntaining her innocence OF the murder
~ Mrs Louise Bailey. made his profes-
.onal calls about town with a new lift
70 his shoulders.
There was excellent cause for their
good humor because the investigation OF
the murder has taken a new and sur
prning tv's'. Every scrap OF fresh ed-
derce has been IN Mrs. Carman's favor.
hui me Identity Of Mrs. Bailey's assassin
IA greater mystery than ever. The
-'rer ~ Mrs. Carman and her husband
was apparsn, when they talked to a re-
porter for THE SUN tonight
testimony Will be given at the resump-
''or Of the inquest tomorrow morning
that woman fed from the Carman
grounds Immediately after the report OF
the pistol that killed Mrs Bailey. and es-
caned in an automobile.
Her sister on the Porch.
Ms. Carman's negro cook, Celia Cole
man. will testify that she was In the
kitchen continuously from the supper hour
Until after the shooting and that n6bo4y
raised through the kitchen. There was
only ono other way OF getting 10 the porch
and 70 the window OF the doctors office.
ard tina, was through the front OF the
house.. No one was seen to pass that way.
vs. Carman's mother. Mrs Plat Conk-
In, who In III OF heart trouble, will de.
rose that after supper last Tuesday eve
mig she spent some time on the porch
with her other daughter. Mrs. Ida Powell
and that Mrs. Carman was not on the
porch as Colder. the farm hand. declared.
And. finally Mrs. Powell will correct her
: testimony OF Friday by saying that she
spen. several minutes on the porch at this
time Colder processes he saw Mrs Car.
man there.
These are all strong points for Mrs
Carman taken in connection with her hus.
bands statements in her favor.
Saw woman Flee In Auto.
A witness has been found who say,
that he saw woman run from tn,
carman grounds after the shot was fre,
that killed Mrs. Bailey. spring into al
automobile whose engines were alread,
racing and drive rapidly toward Bald
win, II this story liz true Il tends to ex
onerate Mrs. Carman. although 1t bring
even more mystery into an already BAT
fling case
The witnesses name Is Sidney Schioss
He ~ youth Of 20 who works for JOIN
schr!eber, a tailor of ~ Railroad ave
nue. Freeport. Last Tuesday even
Ing Young Schloss started for
' bicycle ride and pedalled slowly alon
tae Merrick road. AS he reache
Grove street, a block from the Carma
house, he heard a noise like the repor
OF pistol, although at the time h
thought some youngster. anticipating tn
Fourth. had exploded a firecraclSer.
minute later he was all eyes and ears.
woman came running from the Ca.
man yard-a woman OF medium heigh
Tier head was covered with a lace scar
'so Schloss thoughD and her figure wa
oonrc tlcd by a long white automobi
coat She was running as fast as sh
could and Schloss wondered Why. TT
next instant he noticed that an autom'
Bile was standing near tho Elks clul
house, half a block from where Lee stoo
and that the chauffeur. who was muffie
10 the eyes, was holding open the tor
neau door Schloss heard the engine
OF tine car racing and making a grei
noise in the stiffness and the whole bus
hes struck him as queer
Machine speeds Away.
~ he looked the woman In the viii
eott sprang into the car. the chauffeI
sNng her a hand, and the automobl
dartrd away. taking the road TO Baldwi
S'noss went on about his business, ia
NIX a long bicycle ride. and did not kno
until hours later that all Freeport w
excited over the assassination of MI
Balloy. Then he wondered what won
DE the wisest thing for him to do.
didn't like to get himself involved. b
le finally decided that it was his ~
10 tell the prosecutor what he had Sc
end heard.
As II happened, the lads curious g
Psr!ence fitted we'll enough with d
r0yery "a very trivial thing II was
farded. although It might prove to be
the utmost importance) that was ma
We morning after the murder, Und,
Meath the window through which NJ
bailey was shot down an ordinary safe