Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1914-10-24
Mrs. Carman's Case Closed
Attorneys Sum Up Evidence

Mrs. Carman would be freed that a
home coming party" in Freeport is
spoken of
Mrs. Florence Canklin Carman was
charged with the murder of Mrs.
Louise Bailey. who was mysteriously
shot in the consulting room of the
accused womans husband, physi-
clan. June 30 last.
The death OF Mrs Bailey in the
home of widely known Freeport
practitioner and within a few yards
of the famous Merrick road, the main
highway from New York TO Montauk
Point, excited the residents of this
section to a high pitch
Mrs. Bailey was the wife of w. ID.
Bailey. well-to-do hat manufacturer.
Their home life had been happy and
they had two young children. On the
fatal evening she had been visiting
a friend and she stopped in DR. Car
mans office about eight o'clock in
the course of her trip home There
is some doubt concerning the nature
of her Illness. She had never con
suited DIR. Carman before.
Her consultation finished, Mrs.
bhhtf AbSt " ltdNt anu III ' al iiieill
stepped to open the door Just then
there was a crash of glass at the
window DR. Carman saw a revolver
thrust through the hole and threw
himself fat. shot rang out Mrs.
Bailey sank to the floor, crying. TN
shot" and died in few seconds.
Two men in the doctors ante room
rushed in. DIR. Carmen said he looked
out the window. but too late to see
anyone He then telephoned to a
physician living across the street and
+ half an hour later notified the coroner
and the police A search Of the
grounds disclosed no better clew
than safety pin and the fact piece
of shingle had been used to prop M
the screen Of the window through
which the shot had been fired. anC
this screen had been unfastened from
the inside
The physicians home Is wei
populated district and, many personi
were about But no one had seei
the murderer Hounds were put oi
the scent. They ran five miles Il
Lynbrook, but there lost whateye
trail they were following
Ah'hs hlN'l d Rtliph vi Eitdl III
terry. came the astonishing discover.
that the doctors wife had placed |
dictagraph in his office seven week
before. The wires led upstairs to TIL
bedroom of Mrs Carman.
Mrs. Carman is a fine, stately, In
tellectual woman. 46 years old Tn
Carmans had been married twent
! years and had a daughter twelv
/ years old. But she had decided. afte
consultation with her mother. tina
certain stories about her husban
. should be investigated She wen
to a company in New York, repre-
sented herself as a dressmaker, bu
afterward admitted that she was tn
wife Of doctor, and contrived {
have the dlctagraph installed Will
the doctor was absent
Mrs, Carman declared that whs
she had heard over the dictagrap
wires had assured her that the do
!, tor was absolutely faithful to he
. She said she was upstairs lying dow
in her room at the time OF the mu
> der and had not used the dictagrar
that day
Following the discovery of the di
AntIt Mtlt HtNfldl SAoit
told of seeing woman in whi
dress on the Carman lawn the mig
of the murder, There were warrior
other conflicting rumors. one of the
,s brought the fact that Mrs. Carm;
r. had given money and had struck tn
Y. woman in the consulting room whe
A. the murder occurred a few weel
d before the crime.
Is Mrs. Carman was held in such hi
r esteem that the authorities did n
.e wish to take hasty action against HI
Iy She appeared at the coroner's inque
m and testified in composed voit
o. From many angles her story of
movements on the night OF the mi
der was attacked.
The case was brought before {
grand jury. which brought in the 81
prising verdict of manslaught
against Mrs. Carman Later the sti
T laid new evidence before the gra
jury and superseding indictment
! murder in the first degree "
brought in. Mrs Carman was mu
affected by her incarceration in Mi
T. ola jail and several times was
ported desperately i'll. Her husba
has stuck to her through thick a
thin