The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1914-07-09
It is Not At All Certain the
Prosecutor Has Enough
Evidence.
TO BRING FORMAL
MURDER CHARGE
Accused of Staying Mrs.
Louise Bailey, Now Re-
mains in Jail

Mineola, L. t. July o.-lt is not al
all certain that there will be enough eyi
dence for grand jury indictment
against Mrs. Florence Carman, who is
charged with the murder of Mrs. Louise
Bailey and who was arrested yesterday
This was the opinion expressed to-day
by Assistant District Attorney Weeks
The case is expected to come before the
grand Jury late to-day, but it is not
likely that all the witnesses can be heard
to-day.
After her husband left Mrs Carman
broke down and her condition became so
acute physician was called and he ad-
ministered sedatiyes.
George Levy, attorney for Mrs. Car
man, said to-day he had discovered two
new witnesses whose testimony was
considered extremely valuable. He also
said he had information that two OF
the witnesses whose testimony was in
strumental in causing the arrest OF Mrs.
Carman were far from the Carman home
at the time OF the murder.
IT is not unlikely. said Assistant Dis
trict Attorney Weeks, that when Mrs.
Carman appears before Coroner New
ton on Monday for hearing she viii be
discharged.
Freeport, n. Y, July 9.--Mrs. Florence
Conklin Carman, wife of DR.. Edwin Car
man, was arrested yesterday. accused as
the mysterious assassin, who week ago
Tuesday night murdered Mrs. Louise
Bailey, wife of Hampstead manufac-
turer, by firing bullet through her
heart while she was standing in the ply
scian's office Last night Mrs. Carman,
at whom the finger of suspicion has been
pointing since the discovery was made
that she had installed telephone in
strument in her husbands Office so that
she might hear what went on between
him and his women patients, is locked
UP in Nassau county jail at Mineola.
There she will remain until Monday,
when she will be taken out and again
examined by the coroner, before whom
she pleaded not guilty when arraigned
yesterday after her arrest IN the room
where Mrs. Bailey died.
Mrs. Carman's iron nerve Ia shattered,
for as the steel barred door of the Mine
ola jail closed behind her she pulled her
heavy veil from her face and broke down.
Her husband and the sheriff who took
her in an automobile from her home
here to the jail, assisted her to the top
floor of the building
The immediate cause of the arrest was
the testimony given yesterday morning
by Eliwood T. Bardes, an insurance
agent, whom the authorities called the
single reliable eye witness of the crime.
He is being detained as a material wit
ness, for his story is of so great i'm
portance that the authorities said they
feared an attempt might be made to get
him out of the jurisdiction of the New
York courts.
Bardes' story, briefly told. is this:
At 1880 o'clock on the night of the
murder, Bardes said, he determined to
pay a professional visit to DIR. Carman
and allow him to dress minor injury
TO one of his heels. He left his home
and walked to the physician's home.
Arriving, he decided he could dress the
injury himself and thereby save a doc
tors fee. So he walked past the house
and then turned around to begin his
Journey home. At that instant be heard
an explosion.
He thought it was caused by an auto
mobile tire, but when he looked for the |
machine he could not find il. He turned !
his ewes toward the lawn at the side OF |
DIR. Carman's home. A woman, tall, well |
built. hatless, wearing a light shirtwaist |
and ad ark skirt. was moving away from |
one of the windows at the side of the
o,,ts off, I'd tho nf tho I
house. She was not running, not cas-
ually strolling around the lawn; she was
walking ain hurry" the witness swore.
Bardes. the last witness to take the |
stand before the inquest was ended. was
discovered only Yesterday. His story |
might still remain untold had he not |
mentioned it, first to woman, who /
promptly telephoned the district attor.
ney, and then to a Catholic priest he Wis
tied for advice. The priest urged Bardes
10 make his story known. But before
an opportunity presented itself he was
taken in custody by orders of the dis
trict attorney.
Bardes testified yesterday after Mrs.
Carman's l2-year-old daughter, Eliz-
abeth. had tried to strengthen her moth
er's alibi. and representatives Of the 4
manufacturers of the telephone instru-
ment had told Of selling the device TO
The physicians wife and Of installing "
in her home.
Coroner Newton. after spending an
hour studying the testimony of Bsrdes
and other witnesses. wrote out his
charge, stating that he docs upon his
oath. say that Louise Bailey came 10
her death by criminal means, by reason
of = bullet fired into her body with
revolver held hy Florence Carman.' He
then ordered Mrs. Carman's arrest.
George Levy. Mrs. Csrman's counsel,
teiephoned Dr. Carman Of this action.
Word was sent TO Mrs. Carman that
che was about II BE- arrested and a few
minutes later county officials entered the
physicians Office Mrs. Carman. pale.
controlling her emotions. accompanied
bv her husband. her attorney and others,
came in = minute later. Coroner Nor I
ton. for years an intimate friend of :
the family. vifh tears in his ewes. read
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