The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-10-23
Made Excellent Impression on the
Jury BY Her Calm, Collected
Manner While Telling
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BELIEVES NOW IN HUBBY
People Had Said the Doctor Was
"some Devil With the Women"
But She Doubts Him
No More.

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MINEOLA, L. L., Oct. 23.-Her tes'
timony mistaken despite a searching
cross examination lasting more than
an hour, Mrs. Florence Carman, &C.
cused of the murder Of Mrs. Louise
Bailey, was excused from the witness
stand today. Replying at all times to
the district attorneys battery OF Ques-
tions, in a low we'll modulated voice
and always perfectly cool and collect
ed, Mrs. Carman made a visible i'm.
preston on he jury and spectators
alike. Never once did she contradict
herself o. waver in the slightest from
testimony she gave on direct examin-
alton yesterday. She answered every
question of the district attorney
even when he pressed into her inner
most secrets.
What did the public say about your
husband that made you suspicious OF
him ?, was one of Smiths questions.
They said he RAJ some devil with
the women" she answered simply,
without the least bit OF hesitation.
Mrs. Carman stoutly declared she
heard nothing over the photograph that
made her jealous. She asserted that
after listening on the photograph sev-
eral times she decided her suspicious
were unfounded. The district attor-
ney tried hard to trick her On this
statement but his efforts failed.
Following Mrs. Carman on the stand
today came her little daughter and
aged mother. Elizabeth, the daughter,
her big black eyes looking straight at
the judge as she answered questions.
presented a splendid witness for her
mother. She told how after hearing
the shot, she ran up stairs and found
Conklin also proved a good witness
for the defense.
Maid W. Mistress.
MINEOLA, L. l., Oct. 23.-The word
CT a negro maid against that OF her
mistress: the word of a simple. un-
educated girl-who admits that she
perjured herself, lied repeatedly, be-
fore finally telling what she now
swears is the truth-against that OF
a refined, cultured woman; that is
what the jury in the trial Of Mrs.
Florence Carman will have to choose
from when all evidence is in and the
case has been placed in their hands.
Mrs. Carman faced the ordeal of
cross examination today. She told
her story late yesterday, directly, with
the utmost simplicity and without a
break or tremor. She could have
shown no less emotion had she been
explaining to the jury or to women
friends why she preferred two Jumps
in her tea instead of one.
If Mrs. Carman felt that her life
depended upon the impression she
left with the jury, she masked what
in her heart and mind complete
1y. There was nothing dramatic about
her recital Of her movements of the
night OF June 80 when Mrs. Louise
Bailey was shot down in the office
of DIR. Carman. The accused woman
seemed prettier yesterday than on any
day since the trial began. Possibly
the breezes which scurry through the
court room at intervals have famed
back some of the color which fed
during her long confinement in a jail
cell. AS the day dragged on during
the Gull reading Of the statement Civ.
en- the colored lawyer. men known
later as busters Or strike
breakers" gave their testimony
tending to show that Frank Farrell,
the tramp, could not have been in
Freeport or the night of the murder,
Mrs. Carman never appeared to tire,
while many ome spectators wilted
and faded. There was no reason to
believe that Mrs. Carman would
weaken under the cross examination
of District Attorney Smith today,
She is not the weakening kind.
She told the same story yesterday
that she related before Coroner Nor
ton at the inquest. Here and there
n detail was added, but never did she
wave from a fact. She told of see
ing a man whom she did not know
when they left the dinner table to &c
TO the office. There were also two
women in the office. These are the
two women who so mysteriously dis
appeared directly after the shot wa:
fired through the window. The pres
ence of the strange man, who also
disappeared, furnished a, part of the
defense's contention that it was ;
man who fired the shot.
Evidently intending to argue to tn,
jury that a person who broke tn,
glass in the window Of DR.. Carman',
Office must have suffered liberation:
on the hanGs or arms. Attorney Lev,
asked Mrs. Carman if she had sucl