The Washington times., 1914-10-18
JEALOUSY AS MOTIVE
.|N.BA|LEY MURDER
State Will Say She Was Unin-
tended Victim Of Mrs. Car.
mans Bullet.

NEW YORK, Oct. 1s-The trial of
Mrs. Florence Conklin Carman for the
murder of Mrs. Louise Duryea Bailey
begins tomorrow morning in the little
supreme court chamber Of the Nassau
County Court House. in Mineoia.
the jury. District Attorney Smith viii
accept no man in whom he sees ten
dency toward susceptibility to the
charms OF woman. He will approve of
no man who knows personally the
stately woman accused Of the murder.
and unromantic mind
Inc state Is going to contend that
Mrs Carman murdered Mrs. Bailey in
rage Of Jealousy. Smith will contend
mat the accused woman's husband, DR..
Edwin Carman. in whose office Mrs.
Bailey was killed. was the intended VIC
tim; that Mrs. Carman fred blindIy, but
with the hope that the bullet would find
its mark; that Mrs. Bailey was the un-
intended victim; that this constitutes
murder In the first degree .
He will call to the stand the family
of the murdered woman; Celia Coleman,
the colored maid Of all work in the
Carman house; Frank Farrell, an un-
employed stationary engineer, who says
he saw the shot fired. and several other
witnesses in an effort to convict.
Calls Jealousy Motive. 49,.
He will seek to prove the motive,
jealousy. by calling CASTOR Boissonault.
the man who sold to Mrs Carman a
photograph. with which Mrs. Carman
spied upon her husband while he talked
to women In his office. He will call
was Jealous of her popular husband.
and then he will try to prove by cir.
cumstance and alleged eyewitnesses
that Mrs. Carn1an fred the shot.
For the defense John ]. Graham.
surrogate Of Nassau county. and George
Morton Levy have adopted policy OF
attack upon the States witnesses.
They will seek to prove no alibi. but
rather to destroy the credibility Of the
stories Of the States witnesses. They
will point to the fact that Celia Cole
man has told several conflicting stories
and they will threaten her with per-
jury charges. They will contend that
Farrell was nowhere near Freeport on
the night Of June 80 .
Tall. stately, coldly beautiful and
superbly self-contained is this woman
who will be the heroine of one of the
most remarkable trials after one of the
strangest tragedies in the history of
the country. .... -.
Case of Mysteries. .....
But one ancontestible fact exists:
Mrs. Bailey, a very plain and almost
unknown woman was shot through the
heart on the night Of June 20 in the
doctors office. What she was there
for; why she had come from Hemp
stead to Freepcrt unannounced to con-
suit a doctor who says that he never
had seen her before; just where she was
in the little office when the shot was
fired: whether she saw her ASA ssin:
what she had said to the doctor-all
these things are mysteries.
No one can answer these questions
except DR.. Carman. He has told a
story-a story so simple as to be won
derful. The State will contend that
Mrs. CaIman can tell what Mrs. Bailey
said in reply. Two days after the muir
der it was discovered that Mrs. Carman
had a photograph In the doctors office:
that she had been in the habit of listen
ing in her room to what was going on
in the office.
Then. after the discovery Of the dicto-
graph. the story began to unfold. It Is
a story built on a few facts and q flood
Of conjecture and deduction. ......E
It was learned that Mrs Carman was
plethoric. srubicund country doctor.,~H He
was popular with men and women-the
kind Of a man generally spoken OF as
1.-The life Of the party" He enjoyed an
extensive practice. Many women were
included in his list of clients. He Is a
argue. and worry would find no lodging
within his mind. o.
Must First Prove It.
II was rumored that he was 2 bit of
Lothario. but this would be said Of
any man in his position. It is another
thing to prove 1t. 1t came out that
one night some time before the tragedy
Mrs. Carman peered through the same
window through which the fatal shot
was fired and saw the doctor give to
nurse, Mrs. Elizabeth variance. SIS. and
saw Mrs. variance repay the doctor
with a kiss on his rudy cheek. Mrs.
Carman rushed into the house, snatch
ed the money from Mrs. variance, slap
ped the nurses face, and let 1t be
known then and there just what she
thought Of such things.
Then there came rur1ors of a spat
at dance at the Freeport Club be-
cause Mrs. Carman thought the doc
tor was too attentive 20 several
women there. The doctor admitted
the spat but laughed il off as lust
a little foolish mistake" And then
into the story there came a thousand
and one rumors of evidences Of Mrs.
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