Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-07-15
MAKES PUBLIC ALLEGED coNFES.
SION OF STRANGER WHO
ADMITS CRIME.
ALLEGED COMPRESSOR SAYS
HE WAS DISGUISED AS WOMAN
Letter Not Taken Seriously at Mineo'a,
Who're Grand Jury is Hearing Evil
dsnee Against Mrs. Carman-state's
Attorney Decides Not to Call Mrs.
carman to Testify.


jury. from which two members with
, drew because Of friendship for the Car
man family, resumed today Its delib-
erations in the case of Mrs. Florence
Carman, held in Jail as having fred
tho shot which killed Mrs. Louise
Bailey In Dr. Carman's office at Free
port on the night Of June 80. 1t was
expected that the jury would COM
plete Its work today and that II an in
dictment was found 1t would be re-
turned tomurrow.
District Attorney Smith announced
he had summoned Mrs. Ellen! Corby. a
niece of Mrs. Carman. 1t is under
stood she Is one Of the two women
who have been sought in the murder
as having been In the doctors waiting
| room and who fed when they heard
the shots fred.
Mrs. carrnan Not Called.
The first witness examined today
was Henry DeBeau. who testified to
seeing Mrs. Bailey going to the Car
| man home. Another witness was Miss
Helen Combs. who was In the waiting
room when the murder was committed.
It was thought likely that Mrs. Car
man would not be called Her coun-
sci had agreed to waive Immunity for
her. but in the opinion Of the district
| attorney It is inexpedient to have her
| testify.
Letter Disersditsd.
Dr.. Carman made public today q
letter addressed to his wife from
Rochester. N. Y. Tho writer said he
had shot Mrs. Bailey. Heahad donned
a woman's clothing he said. as dis
suise. The letter was written In what
| was apparently disguised handwriting
and looked a. II It might have been
penned by y woman. It was not taken
tseriously. ~ 81. H.,
| The last witness before the Jury was
| to the hack door Of the Carman house
on the night Of June 80, to ask for
food. It Is understood that Farrellas
story corroborated ins general the
account given yesterday by Celia Cole
man.
Maids Story Hits Mrs. carwan.
While the grand jury was engaged in
hearing nine witnesses tell what they
knew about the murder OF Mrs. Bailey
and the actions Of Mrs. Florence
, Conklin Carman Just before and just
after the crime. detectives were run
ming down a clew District Attorney
Smith said he believed would lead to
the finding Of the two strange women
/ who Mrs. Carman and her sister, Mrs.
Ida Powell. said they saw hurrying
away directly after Mrs. Bailey fell to
the floor Of DR.. Edwin Carman;s office,
in Freeport, with a bullet thru her
. heart
These women, the district attorney
asserted, may be able to offer cor
roboration to the testimony given by Ell
wood 7. Bardes at the inquest and the
story told to the grand jury today by
I, Celia Coleman, negro maid in the
| Carman home
Saw Woman Leave Window.
1t was Bardes' statement that he saw
a woman dressed like Mrs. Carn1an
walk away from outside the windowAin
| DR. Carman's Office Immediately after
the murder.
The negro maid amplifed the testi-
mony she gave at the inquest. Ac-
cording to reliable authority. her story
nov is that after she heard the tinkle
of breaking glass and the report OF q
revolver her mistress hurried into the
! kitchen thru the back door and went
upstairs.
| At the inquest Celia Coleman denied
I! she had seen Mrs. Carman the night
| Of the murder from the time she lea
Il the dinner table until fifteen minutes
after the shot was fired. when she said
! Mrs. Carman was in her room. -
These witnesses. in the order named
appeared before the grand Jury today:
George A. Fairfield, a Surveyor: DIR
Carman. Celia Coleman, Mrs. Jennie
Duryea. mother Of the musdered wo-
man: Miss Madeline Bailey. her daugh-
ter: William Bailey, her husband: Mrs
May Kimball her cousin. and Archie
Post and George Colder patients: who
were in the Carman home the night OF
the murder.
Or. carnan Sticks % story.
| DR.. Carman's story, It Is underwood
was much the same as the one he told
at the inquest. He was not asked tc
sign a waiver Of immunity.
Colder has changed his story since
the inquest, at which he said he was
Csure it was Mrs. Carman he saw WALL
thru the hall Just prior to. the. murder
and that he was also positive he - !.
her on the porch and In her husbands
office while Mss. Bailey's body was
still lying on the floor. ~
| His revised assertion is that he ISM,
sure the woman he saw was Mrs. Cdr.
man. The district attorney said Colder
had at first made an honest mistake
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