South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-07-06
Freeport Police Question DR..
Carman and Wife Following
Discovery of Cartridges Like
One Which Killed Mrs. Bailey
AUTOPSY BREAKS DOWN
TESTIMONY OF DOCTOR
Examining Physicians Find
Flaw in Carman'S ExpIana-
ton of Murder-Hunt Mask
ed Men Who Shot at Suspect

NEW YORK. July 6.--While the
police OF F'reeport. l.. l., we're search
ing today for a masked man whom
DR.. Edwin Carman. in whose office
Mrs Louise Bailey was shot 10 death,
accused OF having tried TO assasslnate
him last night, Sheriff Petit OF Mas
sau county. received from his detec-
tives a box OF 3s-calibre cartridges
which were found in the attic OF the
home OF DR.. Carman.
The finding of the cartridges led at
once TO a new and interesting line OF
inquiry for the reason that Mrs.
Bailey was killed with a bullet from
a 3S-calibre weapon, and all Of the
occupants of the Carman home siren
uously denied ever having possessed
any such revolver.
When the announCA2ent was made
that Mrs. Bailey was killed by bull
let of 3S-calibre every member Of the
Carman household denied at once that
any such weapon carrying bullet or
such size had ever been In the pos
session Of the inmates of the home.
Two weapons of different sizes were
produced and great stress was laid
upon the fact that neither OF them
cou ldpossibly have been used for the
crime.
Interested I'm Find.
The officials were more interested
than they were in the prospects for
getting any substantial help from the
testimony of the members of the i'm
mediate family at tOday's inquest.
The cartridges were not turned over
by Mrs. Carmsn or any member or
the family. They were found only
after a long search. They were con-
cealed under a bundle in the attic
almost at the same spot where Mrs.
Carman admitted that she had hid the
dictagraph after taking the machine
from the walls of the doctors Office.
When the officers came into pos
session Of the cartridges of the exact
size needed to fiji the murder weapon.
they at once asked members of the
Carman family:
VINO hid those cartridges in the
attic?"
where is the pistol for which they
were bought"
Deny Any knowledge.
To both of these questions the doc
tor and his wife answered they had
not the slightest knOwnedge.
In addition to the new find the Of
fcials took for investigation the re-
port OF the physicians who made the
autopsy upon Mrs. Bailey's body. This
report il is stated. makes il practi-
cally certain that DR.. Carman is rad
ically mistaken I'm his statement con-
cerning the manner in which the muir
der was done.
The physicians found that the bull
let entered behind the shoulder and
ranged downward. Had Mrs. Bailey
been standing in the position indicat
ed bv DR.. Carman when the crime was
reconstructed by the officials and the
shot had been fired from the broken
window. the bullet would have taken
an upward range and come out OF the
neck instead of the side OF the heart.
Seek New Story.
This physical fact brought striking
ly before the officials, led them TO seek
a new story OF the killing, which
would let the course of the bullet fit
with the setting of the scene in the
doctors office.
In addition 20 the members Of the
Carman household. including Mrs.
Carman's sister and her daughter.
there were summoned for the inquest
William u. Bailey widower of the
slain woman, and his daughter. BY
them the coroner hoped TO trace the
movements Of Mrs. Bailey for some
time previous 20 the shooting.
II was also the plan Of the coroner
10 ask the young Bailey girl about the
telephone conversation she heard
some time before the murder in which
the name Of DR.. Carman figured. The
coroner had been informed that the
daughter heard her mother mention
the doctors name in the course of a
conversation, which fact is thought
10 have a possible bearing upon the
tragedy.
Call Young Woman.
Miss Helen NJ. COmbe and another
young woman who were in DR.. Car
mans Office on the night OF the shoot
ing. were also summoned as witnesses
at the inquest. At the same time the
county officials were tracing all the
telephone calls that had come to both
the Carman and Bailey homes during
the few days previous TO the muir
der. The detectives thought that
they might follow a number of these
calls through the exchange records.
bat they did not explain why they
We're so anxious TO find out who had
been doing the telephoning.