The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1914-07-08
SAYS WOMAN WAS
SHOT BY HIRED
MURDERER
GunmaD's Weird Tale Of Bailey
Killing Mystery
CASE WITH GRAND JURY
Prosecuting Attorney Says Case Will
Be Pressed Until an indictment
is Found

FreepOt, l.. l., July i.-DlStrlct Al
torney Lewis j. Smith late tonight adj
mitted that he was investigating a
striking story that had been brought
| to him in the midst of the inquest yes
| terday to the effect that hired sun.
man had been procured by jealous
woman to come to Freeport on Tues
| day last with the revolver that killed
| Mrs. Louise Bailey in the private Of
| flee Of DR.. Edwin Carman. The story,
according to the District Attorney,
| was told him by a man who said he
was disgrantled comrade OF the gun
man, and who said he was led to
be inferred there was a possibility
| that the informer, despite his self-im-
| plcation, might be telling a false
hood, perhaps for no better reason
than to procure temporary free board.
Pending the outcome of the investiga-
ton, the man was being kept in Gus
| today under surveillance of the local
authorities in Freeport, the District
Attorney said.
it lilSlllAl AtAOiltf iiihiNhAFN
what his attitude in the Bailey muir
der case at present was when he told
the newspaper men, after a confer
ence with chief of Police Roland b.
Lamb and County Detective Thomas
Murray at the Elks' Club tonight:
"This case will go before the Grand
Jury the first thing after the jury con-
yenes on Thursday morning. Ii viii
be carried through before this Grand
Jury, and the next, and soon, for ten
years. if necessary, to get at the bot
tom of this mystery. There will be no
let up until it is cleared up absolute.
~
The story told to the District Attor-
ney and admitted by him tonight, was
| that yesterday. while the inquest VAS
in progress. shabbily dressed man
applied at the Elks Club and asked
who was the chief Investigator of the
Bailey shooting. He was taken he
fore District Attorney Smith, to
whom he said that six or seven weeks
ago he acted as a go-between in BRING
ing about meeting between a Free
port woman and one Joe Anderson,
who. he said was gunman of New
York. The woman. he said. told An
derson that she was suspicious of
man and of Mrs. Bailey and after
talking the thing over proposition
was made whereby Anderson was TO
so to Freeport and shoot the man.
According to the man nov under
surveillance. the woman went to New
York on Tuesday. met Anderson
there. and arranged for him to 20 TO
I'rceport that evening For doing SO.
the informer said the woman gave
Anderson $50. When Anderson arriv-
ed there he went to the Carman home
where, according TO the informcr. the
woman by a signal showed him that
Mrs Bailey was in the Office.
Anderson, according to the story.
went 10 the window Of the doctors OF
nee, where presently the woman came
out and joined him. Anderson raised
the screen outside the window and
shattered the window glass with the
butt of his revolver Thereupon, the
man said. the woman. glaring through
the window. became so enranged with
jealousy that she snatched the revol
yer out of Anderson's hand and her
self fred the shot that killed Mrs. bal
ley.
The gunman. the informer continu-
ed. snatched back the rcvolvcr from
her. jumped over the fence sepa -lting
the Carman home from the grounds
Of the Black family on the west. and
escaped to New York.