The Washington times., 1914-10-24
CARMAN DEFENSE
RESTS ITS CASE
Prisoner May Know Her Fate
Late This Evening, Family
Believes.
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tCOntlnue0 from F1rSt PaSe.)
terious man" was seen fleeing from DR..
Carmans home a few minutes after
Mrs Louise Bailey was murdered there
on the night of June 80. was introduced
early today.
Rudolph Loewe, a chauffeur, took the
stand and told how he heard a shot
house on the night Of June 80. He was
about FIFTEEN feet from the house, he
said. Following the sound Of the shot
he said a man vaulted over the fence
around DR.. Carmans yard. and ran
dark suit and no hat
On cross-examination Loewe said he
first told of what he knew on Septem-
ber q. when he telephoned DR.. Carman.
He said the man he saw running away
the same size as Frank Farrell. the
State witness, who said he was In the
yard the night Of the murder, and saw
a woman fire the shot
Loewe. while being cross-examined.
told Of seeing two women come out OF
the doctors office soon after the shoot
ing. He said that after the man ap-
peared and ran down the road, he
turned around and looked in the doc
tors office. He said he could see the
doctor holding a woman up. Then, he
said, q woman in white entered the
two women emerged from the house and
walked away.
Grilled the Witness.
Smith gave Loewe quite a grilling and
the witness became somewhat confused
as to the location Of places at the house,
but he didn't change his main testi-
mony in any particular.
Ferdinand Miller. who has charge Of
the bloodhounds belonging to the Long
Island Railroad Company that were
used in an effort to trace the murderer
Of Mrs. Bailey next testified.
John ]. Dunbar. Freeport police
man, next took the stand. He told of
first seeing Farrell. the States witness,
on July s, standing on the edge OF the
Carman property, with newspaper in
his hand. He told him he would have
to move on" he said.
Dunbar then told of his examination
Of the Carman house and grounds. He
told of the picket being broken off the
fence and how the ground on the prop
erty on the other side from the Car
man yard showed signs Of trampling.
Dunbar had charge, he said, Of the
On the case. He said he
first took the dogs to the yard adjoining
the Carman house at the spot where
the fence was broken. He said they
picked up scent there and went d.
rectly to the window of DR.. Carman's
office through which the fatal shot
was fired.
There he said, one of the dogs growled
as it shifted the window sill. From
there, he said, the hounds followed the
scent back to the fence again, over 1t,
across the adjoining property to the
street and down the Merrick road. The
trail was followed as far as Lynnbrook.
he said, where 1t was lost in the oiled
roadway.
Dunbar was not quizzed very closely
On cross-examination.
Harriet r. Wallace, who lives around
the corner from the CarTnan home. on
She said she left home between $40 and
BIS o'clock on the night Of the shoot
Ing. She said she saw man on the
1ther side Of the street. He was stand
ng in the shadows at first, she testified,
and then he started to walk along Mer- |
rick road. He took few steps and
hen stopped, she said. She was excused |
much cross-examination.
Constable Takes Stand.
Roland NJ. Lamb. president Of the vii |
age, was the first witness in rebuttal
Tor TIE State. He told IF going to the
home at about $50 o'clock on
he night Of the shooting. o. seeing a |
2rowd Of about twenty persons there |
,rd Of noticing one man jump over the |
fence.
His testimony was given, 1t was ap- |
2arent, to disprove the evidence Of the |
1fficer who told of thu bloodhounds |
Hork The State sought to show that |
with such crowd about the dogs |
would rot lie able 20 follow a scent |
through the yard.
Following Lamb. Sheriff Petit was
{ called to the stand In an effort TO |
liscredir Dur bars testimony in regard |
o seeing Farrell. Petit swore Dun
.er told him he first saw Farrell at the |
Iiks' Club when Fettit AMI Smith were
him thera.
Constable Phineas Seaman was called |
s another witness to discredit the
bloodhound story. He told CT being at
he Carman house the night of the
murder. and said that several persons
n the crowd there leaned on the win
ow sill where the murderer's arm
ested before the bloodhounds were
sed. He said 1t would have been i'm
'ossible for the dogs to have picked up
scent there. Seaman swore that on
hat night Dunbar told him he didn't
hink the dogs were doing any good"
John c. Quinn. employer of the hus-
and of the slain woman, was the next
Witness. Smith asked him if on the
lorning after the murder DR.. Carman
idn't tell him that the hand he saw
hoved through the window was that
T a woman. Attorney Graham at once
bjected Justice Kelby recessed court
or luncheon. saying he would rule on
he question after reconvening.
Quinn was announced as the States
asst witness.