South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-07-14
Missive Containing White Pow
der Believed to Be StryCh-
nine is Received by Suspect
in Jail Cell.
GRAND JURY BEGINS
PROBE OF MURDER
Stage All Set for Fight to Sc
cure Indictment of PhySi-
clans Wife for Staying Mrs.
Louise Bailey.

NEW YORK. July 1.-THE Nassau
county grand jury today began an IN
vestieatiou of the mysterious muir
der OF Mrs. Louise Bailey who was
shotto death in the Office of Dr. Ed
win Carrnan at FTeeport, IA L, WIN
a revolver held in an unknown hand
that was pushed through the glass
OF the window.
he would ask an indictment against
Mrs Carman who IL now In jail
charged with the crime.
William D. Bailey, husband OF the
slain woman and the victims motn-
er, Mrs. Jennie Durea- both teStihed
that they did not know that Mrs.
Bailey had gone to consult DR.. Car
man on the night she was shot June
30. Mr.. Bailey did not even know
that his wife was i'll.
Plot to Poison Woman
Sheriff Petit Of Nassau county
New York, today began the investi-
cation of an alleged plot 10 poison
Mrs. Florence Carman, who is held at
the Mineola jail.
A letter containing a quantity Of
white powder. supposed TO be strych-
nine was received by Mrs Carman at
the Jail, with the advice Scrawled on
a single sheet of paper, take one
dose of this and you will feel all
right"
The authorities refused to discuss
the letter or its contents until the
powder could be analyzed and the
work OF tracing the letter started.
Mrs. Carman turned the letter, and
its contents over TO her husband, DR..
Edwin Carman.
Both the accused woman and her
husband expressed considerable alarm
over the missive and it was feared
the incident may have a serious ef-
feet upon the health Of Mrs. Car
man. unstrung as she is by her jail
experience
MY wife received a letter contain
ing a white powder which L believe
to be strychnine," admitted DR.. Car
man. We have not the faintest idea
as who could have sent it. The let
ter and the powder have been turned
over to the authorities to investigate"
Work for Indictment
The stage was set today for plans
by which Prosecutor Smith hopes TO
secure the indictment OF Mrs. Car
man for the murder.
Or. William III. Runcie. who was
called on by DR.. Carman on the night
that Mrs. Bailey was shot TO death.
in the Carman office was regarded
as one of the most important witness
ses before the grand jury.
81 was eating my dinner shortly
before o'clock on the night Of
June So" said Or Runcie, when the
telephone bell rang, and DR.. Carman
said over the wire:
Come right over: something ter
rible has happened
Il hurried over and found Archie
Wallace, assisting Plat COnklin.
father OF Mrs. Carman, from an au-
tomObile. Cecilia Coleman. the maid.
was standing on the lawn.
The body Of Mrs. Bailey was ly-
ing upon a couch in the doctors Of
fee, with the blood running from the
mouth, showing that she had not
been dead very long. Or. Carman
was very much agitated. He ex-
claimed:
"A terrible thing has happened;
this viii ruin my practice. Later he
exclaimed:
This Is a devil OF a thing then
advised me TO go upstairs and quiet
the women 1 found Mrs Carman
upstairs In negligee She wore a
wrapper. but her feet were bare"