The Washington times., 1914-07-05
MAN AND ) WOMEN
. TRA|LEDFOR MURDER
District Attorney Puts Guard
Around Or. Carman's House
at Freeport.
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would be put on the stand. At the
home of Miss Combs, IS Southside ave
nue. it was said that she was not in
Freeport today.
Says She Saw Mrs. Powell.
Her mother, Mrs. Benjamin Combs.
said she had heard from her daughter
an that she knew about the visit to
Dr. Carman's. She said her daughter
had been the first patient to enter the
waiting-room, and had preceded into
the private office a patient, whom she
believed to be Mrs. Bailey. and who was
admitted by the wife of DR.. Carman
at the waiting-room door. Miss Combs
left before the shooting. Her mother
said she left the doctors office about
80 o'clock, meeting Mrs. Combs a few
minutes later. AS Miss Combs left the
doctors house she met and talked with
Mrs. Powell on the veranda- She knew
Mrs Powell well, the two working in
the same office building.
Al the home of the Freeport man
whose movements had been under in
vestigation since the shooting on Tues
at home. His father, however. said that
the rumors connecting him with the
case were absolutely unfounded. He adj
mitted that his son lived apart from his
DR.. Carman had nothing TO do with the
matter. The separation, he said, was
Of two years standing.
My son usually leaves his place of
employment at South Jamaica at 4
O'Clock in the afternoon said the
father. "on Tuesday he went from
there straight to Rockville Centre. 1
know, because / saw him there some
time between s and 9 O'Clock that even
ing. He left, saying he would go home
missed the car and took the next one to
Freeport, met his mother there, and
went home with her.
Rockville Center Clue.
When it was realized that Mrs. Bailey,
before going to the Carman home, at
Freeport, had been visiting a friend at
Rockville Center on Tuesday afternoon
until about O'Clock, efforts were made
TO learn how the man in question had
spent the time between his arrival at
Rockville Center and his meeting with
his father there between and clock.
The father could not say how that time
mad been spent, but was sure II was all
spent in Rockville Center. He said he
did not know whether his son knew
Mrs. abbey. The son did know Dr.
Carman, he said, but as far as he re-
called. had not been attended by the
doctor for years.
At Lynbrook the mans wife also de-
MED that he had had any cause to
bear grudge against DR.. Carman.
She admitted that she was a patient
Of DR.. Carman, but said he was her
family physician, as well as that of her
husband. Asked when she had seen
her husband last, she said last week.
but later fixed the day as Monday, the
day before the shooting at the Carman
home. At that time, she said, her hus-
did not seem at all excited She herself
she said. had not visited Dr. Carman's
office for several months, and had not
called there since the time mentioned as
the date Of the installation of the die
tograph- She insisted that neither her
husband nor Mrs. Carman had any
reason to suspect the doctor. She would
not tell why she and her husband had
parted
Several private detectives of a New
York agency are in the village, but the
police are unable to learn who had re-
tanned them. At the home of William
d. Bailey in Hampstead it was denied
that Mr.. Bailey had employed them. He
was contented to let the local authori-
ties show what they could do i'm solv-
ing the case first. II was said, but mad
several influential friends who were
willing to help him see that the case
was not dropped
Following the revelations at the in
quest of the violent scene wherein Mrs.
Csrman had slapped the face of 4 nurse
named Mrs Variance, when she found
ner IN the doctors office receiving
money from him: an effort was made