The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-07-05
CONTINUE SEARCH
FOR MURDER GUN
Authorities Consider Pistol One
Piece of Evidence to Connect
Any One With Crime.
SEEK TWO STRANGE WOMEN
Inquest Into Killing of Mrs.
Louise Bailey Will Be Re
sumed on Monday.


dozen detectives to-day renewed their
search for the revolver with which
Mrs. Louise Bailey was slain on Tues
day night IN the office of DR.. Edwin
Carman. Unless there is a radical
change in the trend Of the ease. which
an assistant district attorney admit
ted the authorities consider improb-
able. this revolver is the one piece
Of evidence by which they actually
can connect any one with the murder
Photographs Of woman suspect
were obtained to-day by private de-
tcctvcs. who will cndeavor to have
pawLhrokers in New York and New
Jersc? cites identify them as likncsscs
Of woman they suspect of having
purchased revolver. The detectives
also declared they were anxious to d.
terininc what outgoing calls passed
over the telephone in the carman home
for several days prior 10 the murder
and tc learn the identity OF two strange
women whom Mrs. Carrnan and her
sister. Mrs. Ida Powell, said they had
seen hurrying from the Carrnan home
immediately after the murder
IDENTITY OF WOMEN
STILL * 4 MYSTERY
The Investigators refused tonight
to say whether they had obtained a
list OF nr. carman's women patients.
and would see every one of them to
determine whether ii was two of their
number who sped from the house
while Mrs. Bailey was lying on the
floor of the physicians oilic,. The
identity of these women. if tho. we're
in the house. as Mrs. Car,nan and her
sister said. is "a mystery detectives are
anxious to solve.
The funeral of Mrs. Bailey was held
to-day at the Bailey home in Hemp
stead Services were private
DR.. Carman to-day announced that
his wife had succumbcd to the strain
Si ho
She kept herself we'll under con-
troll on the stand yesterday" the Dhy-
siclah said, but OH returning home she
had to give in To-day she Is not feel
Ing we'll and can see no one
DIR. CAEMAN DECLARES
HIS WIFE TOLD TRUTH
AS for the testimony offered yes
terday by George Colder. lie was mis-
taken when lie said he saw my wife on
the front porch and around the house
just before aud just after Mrs. Bailey
was killed. My wife told the truth and
all she knew. Neither of US will have
anything more to say until the Inquest
is ended"
When the inquest Is resumed Mon
day il was learned today, an affidavit
from Celia Coleman, Il negro maid in
the Carman home. will be introduced
She swcars Mrs. Carman was not in
the Kitchen the night of the murder,
and that neither she nor any one else
passed In or out of the back door be-
fore the shot was fired
Mrs. Elizabeth Variance. tho nurse
whom Mrs. Carman saw kiss Dr. Car
man, VIII appear AT the inquest. Miss
Hazel coombs. 4 patient waiting To see
the physician. hut who says she left
tho house just before the murder. will
be !, with ness, as we'll AS Miss Madeline
Bailey. daughter of the victim. who
will. II is said. testify about talk
l,rr l.. 4. a q
MORBID HOLIDAY CROWD
At FRFEPORT VILLAGE
Shaken into II state bordering on tur-
MOL hy the mysterious murder of Mrs,
carman here, the little village of Free
port. Long Island. was flooded to-day
with curious visitors, taking advantage
sensational crime.
CLOSELY guarded In her beautiful
attractive wife Of the village phv.;i
cian.
:, There Is now not tho slightest doubt
carInan Is under suspicion in connec-
tion with the events which led to the
firing Of a shot through = window of
the life of Mrs. bailey.
The questions Of District Attorney
smith In the inquest YESTERDAY made
that her movements were restricted.
In face OF tile tire which has been
turned upon her. Mrs. .Carman is as
cold rs steel. Apparently nothing can
break down her stoicsn.
HOLIDAY PARTIES ARRIVE
TO VISIT SCENE OF CRIME;
Long lines OF autoInobilcs. bearing
holiday parties from New York. filed
house with its broad, screened vc-
ran'la. in the front OF which 4 great
rose bush in full bloom clinss. WAS
pointed out to tho sightsecrs.
Every t'recpDrt knows
Carinans. The villagers stood on the
street corners to-day and discussed
veloped at the inquest before Coroner
Norton: They marveled at the cool
ths Snav tiis as sms st9od n,
George Colder. the farmer nH witness, a
with her sister. Mrs. Ida Powell. Mrs.
Carm;n hardly moved an cyelid as
Colder locke ut the two women for
an instant Then he WAS asked which
one he saw sitting on the front porch
the night of the shooting: which one
he saw walk through the house only
u few minutes before line shooting.
Colder did not hesitate. He pointed at
Mrs. Carman.
That is the woman" he said "She
is the the one on I na saw, and she Is the one
Colder also insisted that he saw
Mrs. Carman in the Office Of her hus-
band band soon after Mrs. Bailey fell Il
Colder who helped DR.. Carman pick
up the body of Mrs. Bailey and place
IL on couch. He told his story with
the utmost assurance. but on the main
points was absolutely contradicted by
Mrs. Carman and her sister, Mrs. Ida
Mrs. CARMAN NOT on
PORCH Al ANY TINE
Mrs. Carman declared she went di-
rect to her room after dinner. disrobcd
and lay down on the bed to rest. She
was not on the front porch at any
time. she declared. Mrs. Powell said
she was dressed in white that evening
but could not rcmember having been
on the porch. and II She was. ''it was
only for q few minutes"
The full story Of the installa ton of
dictagraph by Mrs. Carman. because
OF her jealousy OF her husband. has
now been laid bare Both Carman and
his wife have also admitted that 1t was
at the same window through which the
shot was fred Tuesday night that Mrs.
Carman raped one night some time
ago when the physician was in his
Office with nurse.
Then she knocked at tho door, forced
aumittauCc, and. on entering the room