The Sentinel=record., 1914-10-24
CARMAN TRIAL
IS NEARING end
BELIEVED THAT CASE WILL BE
GIVEN TO THE JURY EARLY
SATURDAY NIGHT.
Mrs. Carman Undergoes Grillina
Cross-Examination and Members Of
Family Testify in Her Behalf.

| 'Mineola, N. Y, Oct. 23.-Mrs. Flor-
ence Conklin Carman, on trial in the
supreme court here for the murder of
Mrs. Louise Bailey, may know her
fate by tomorrow night. Her counsel
and District Attorney Lewis J. Smith
| informed Justice Charles H. Kelby at
the close of the proceedings today
that they undoubtedly will complete
their cases before the noon recess to-
morrow. The entire afternoon thus
will be left for the summing up,
which probably will occupy three
hours, and the delivering of the
charge to the jury. The charge is ex-
pected to be brief one. The case,
therefore, should be in the hands of
the jury before nightfall
This was the defense's uay in cours.
Witness after witness went on the
stand and gave testimony for RMS.
| Carman The defendant herself sub
mitted to a grilling cross-examination
! Cross-eXaminIng her installation OF
mechanical housekeeping device"
in the office, of her husband, Dr. Ed
win Caman, she told how men
friends of her husband had asked him
in her presence how all of his girls"
were
| Other men, she said, soemnly had
told her that the doctor was a devil
with the girls"
She brought her story down through
a long period, during which she kept
| hearing things about her husband and
his girls" Then she admitted that
| she became suspicious of DIR. Carmau.
She had the mechanical eavesdrop.
per" installed in his office to deter
mine whether there was any truth in
the reports that had come to her
ears.
She also admitted to the district at
torney that if a woman patient came
to her husbands office many times
she became suspicious of the woman
and also of her husband
District Attorney Smith talked to
Mrs. Carman in voice almost as low
as hers and at times he almost
pleaded with her to answer his ques-
| ton.
Mrs. Carman frequently became con-
fused, and at times she hesitated and
fenced with the prosecutor. but he
asked the same questions again and
again until she gave an answer that
he let stand on the record When he
interrogated her regarding her failure
to write a note of coincidence TOT the
| bereaved family of the woman killed
~,
the house to express her sympathy,
Mrs Carman appeared to be on the
| verge of a breakdown. She resorted
many times to her silver filagree bot
tie of smelling salts.
When it was all over, she hurried
to her seat, listened intently while
her little daughter. Elizabeth, testified
in her mothers defense. Meanwhile,
Mrs Carman showed increasing
signs of nervousness, and attention
when her aged, gray-haired mother
took the stand and began her testi-
mony, the woman on trial for her
life burst into tears, her shoulders
shaken by her sobs.
Elizabeth patted her mothers arm
ana uIGeu HeI not 10 cry. II was i've
minutes before Mrs. Carman dried
her eyes. From then until adjourn
ment was taken late in the afternoon
she retained her usual composure.
All of the members of Mrs. Car
mans family testified in her behalf
today. Their stories were corrobora
tive and each witness fatty denied
there was even the smallest particle
of truth in the story told by Celia
Coleman.
/ One witness was Ferdinand @.
Morton, negro lawyer. who was EN-
ployed to get a sttement Celia de-
lColeman. In this statement celia de-
MED that she knew anything more
about the murder than she too at tie
inquest when her story was favorable
u to Mrs. Carman. The maid had de-
clared she lied at this hearing be-
cause Mrs. Carman had asked her to,
and because she then felt sorry for
her mistress.
Mrs. Carman declared tonight that
she had not the slightest doubt that
the jury would speedily bring in a
verdict of acquittal once the case was
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