The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-07-04

Mrs Powell

arriving at II o'clock. She was n, on
that train.
He said Mrs Bailey had reminded him.
during the conversation between them the
night OF the murder. that she had met
him Mt the home of q man named klmbsl,
who lived next to Mrs. Bailey in Hemp
stead DR. Carman did not remember
this meeting. he said. He also thought
she might have called al his Office the night
before she was murdered. but he didn't
see any OF his patients that night. ms he
had to go out on a desperate case.
81 gave her some two grain pink
quinine tablets and another medicine.
he said. Il don't quite recall what the
other tablets are. Then she asked me
when the trolley TO Hampstead ran next
looked a. my watch and told her II she
hurried she could just catch the next
trolley but I'm not sure whether we re-
ferred to the 8 or s 80 trolley.
Then | walked over with her toward
the door. As I opened II for her I heard
the crash OF glass. I turned suickly.
saw the lace curtain move and saw
pistol come through the hole In the glass
and waver.
Thinks Weapon % Nickel.
Il think 1t was a nickel pistol. and
think the hand that held 1t was white.
| saw the back of two fingers. and II IL
my impression that they were of the
left hand | didn't see the arm above
the fingers and don't know whether there
was coat sleeve On a dress sleeve around
the wrist.
The hand kept moving for moment.
and when I realized that N was re-
voIver jumped behind the operating
table | made one dive, and the mo-
ment | got there heard the shot Then
I got up on my feet.
I'm shot. said Mrs. Bailey.
Pshaw. you're not shot said. Then
I saw blood on her mouth. and she
fell forward. I caught her and laid her
down. She never spoke again"
He reiterated that he believed the time
was SIS, although he couldn't BE- sure,
1t may have been earlier.
Then ! ran To the waiting room and
let Archie Post and George Colder in.
called up DR. Runce immediately and
then telephoned to the Elks Club for the
Coroner. lie wasn't there. hut | got him
at the Town Hail. told him what hap
pened and he said he'd be right down.
Then ! called up police headquarters.
asked for tho captain and was told he
was out So / told whoever was In
charge.
II examined Mrs. Bailey and saw she
was dead. and then / sent Archie Post to
get Theodore Bedell. ! thought he would
know her and whore she lived, because
Mrs. Bailey had told me of knowing the
Kmballs. and knew Bedell's son had
married Kimballs daughter Post came
back and said he couldn, find Bedell bu,
later | gol Bedell myself. and ne told me
that the oman was Mrs. Bailey"
Mrs. Powell In the Room.
who came into the office during the
period of confusion after the murder
Mrs. Powell came IN and ] think Mrs
] cnnRliD in "A fnpmpnt -
Did Mrs. Carman come into the office %
was the next question.
No. she didn't" said the doctor. 81
am positive OF this, although I think sh,
may have come into the waiting room
| But | am not positive that she did
when did you first see her after The
shooting"
| upstairs after the excitement was al
over" said the doctor. The family wa,
all together up there. In either Mrs. Pow
ellis or Mrs, Csrman's room, and DIR
Runcie was with them"
Dr. Carman said he did not know who
let Mrs. Bailey into the anteroom. II.
didn't know where Mrs. Carman was II
the period between the end of supper anC
the firing OF the shot He said that wher
| he went into his Office he left Mrs Car
man at her supper.
when did you first learn that YOU
wife had installed dictograph'" Mr.
|
mot until 5 o'clock Wednesday after
noon. the day after the shooting" sait
Carman. when | got home from my
calls that afternoon my wife told me sh'
had had II installed, and said she hat
put II In the garrett"
what did you say about that"
II don't remember"
Mr. Smith wanted TO hear more abou
Mrs Carman's first confession TO he
husband that she had installed a dicto
graph to listen to what he said I,
patients and what patients said to him.
When got home after my calls
said Carman 81 found Mrs. Powell m!
wife and DR. Runcie all together in IN
house. Then some one suggested tina
my wife tell me about the photograph
She did tell me about IT, and that's al
that happened"
Tells of Attack ON Nurse.
Did she say why she put It in2"
she didn't say why. but ] knew, Sh
wanted to hear what was going on 1
my Office Six or seven weeks ago
was in my office with patient, nurs,
who lives in Seaford---"
what was thai nurses name"
Mrs. variance"
"Did you attend her professionally ."
II don't remember whether I did o
not. Mrs Variance had borrowed none
from me once or twice and this evenin
she came into my Office and said Sin
wanted to pay me back SIS OF the ~
she owed me. But she said she wante
to borrow $50 more.
IT told her ] couldn't see the arithmet
OF that and she told me she would pa
7 me back soon: that her boys were n,
working, and that she needed the none!