Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-07-01
Mrs. William Bailey Fired
On through Window in
New York Office.
is ON HER FIRST VISIT
Husband Expresses Surprise
His Wife Is Patient OF
Prominent Physician.

Freeport. y. Y, July 1.-THE author
nes today are seeking a motive for
he murder last night Of Mrs. William
sa;,ev wife of William Bailey Of
Jar,nstaad. in the Office Of DR.. Edward
Iarman.
The husband of the dead woman Is
hat manufacturer in Brooklyn He
vas surprised to learn his wife had
,een a patient of DR.. Carman and de-
Jared As far as he knew she had no
.nemies.
DIR. Carman told the police he knew
10 cause for the crime or reason to be
ieve the shot was intended for him.
Mrs. Bailey was shot through the heart.
According to Carman, she arrived at
lis office, which is in mis- home, at 80.
An hour later she was preparing TO
cave. when a window pane was brok-
an. a mans hand holding a revolver
hrust in. and the shot fired that end
ID her life. Mrs. Bailey had visited
Mrs John Graham, who is i'll at her
1ome in Rock vile Center. and on leav-
ng at o'clock announced she was go
ng home directly.
Her First Visit to Office.
The crime has caused intense excite
nent on account of the social prom
nence and wealth of DR.. Carman and
lis family. 1t was Mrs. Bailey's first
visit to his Office Carman said he
vas not acquainted with her before.
Two men patients waiting in. an
outer Office said they heard 10 noise
Int9 saeEZ|ssrs, .sSs-sfief by s1e rapaTt
II the pistol saoS When they eDterea
he consultation room. Mrs. Bailey was
lead, and they helped Carman carry
he body to a couch.
Mrs. Bailey was Sc. small, with re-
narkably pretty figure and exception
lily handsome She was always
eader in the social affairs of her neigh
oorhood. She leaves a. daughter of !
Il and son of L.
carman's Story Supported.
Evidence was accumulated today to !
uppOrt Carman's story. In the phy-
iician's room four feet from the win
low detectives found an instrument :
.ase bearing on the white enamel fin /
sh, powder burns and furrow that
night have been plowed by a bullet as
sped toward Mrs. Bailey This in
trument case was so low that had
ne shot been fired inside of the room
ne person who held the pistol must
ave squatted on the floor. Il was.
loweTer, directly in the path that a
ullet would have taken from a pistol
hoved through the broken pane in the
octor's Office
In the presence OF detectives en-
aged by the county and by the muir
cred Womau's S husband Carman today ]
the murder scene. He was
bout to pull aside a curtain to permit
RS. Bailey TO leave his office, he said, {
hen he heard a crash of glass and
w the hand with the pistol poked
rough the broken pane. He and the
Itient were two feet apart and he :
d not know at which the weapon
as aimed !
Another Woman In Case?
He ducked behind the operating c
air and as he did so the postol was
ed and quickly withdrawn. Detec-
es learned that few minutes after
shot was fired a young woman hur-
q into a railroad station, apparently
great agitation, and took the first
In for New York. Although Carman
listed he had not met Mrs. Bailey
ore last night, detectives are work
on the theory that jealous woman
N the background.