The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-07-01
Kills Her rs She Sits in Physi-
clans Office.
IN ARM THROUGH 4 WINDOW
Crash of Glass Is Followed by
Report of Gun.
The Detectives Are Looking for
Another Woman.

FreepOrt, N. T.. July 1.-The police
and county authorities today are
seeking a motive Cor the murder of
Mrs. William Bailey of Hampstead. in
the Office of DR.. Edward Carman.
William Bailey. husband of the
dead woman, is a hat manufacturer
in Brooklyn. He was surprised that
his wife had been a patient of DR..
Carman and -clared SO far as he
knew she had no enemies.
DIR. Carman, too, told the authori-
ties he knew of no cause for the crime
or reason to believe the shot was in
tended for him.
Mrs. Bailey was shot through the
heart and died instantly.
According to DR.. Carman she ar
rived at his Office, which is in his
home; at 1880 o'clock. An hour later.
he said, she YVES preparing to leave
when a window pane was broken, a
mans hand holding a revolver thrust
in and the SHOT fired that ended her
life.
Chief of Police Lamb began an in
vestigation with County Detective
Seaman. They found the window
through which DIR. Carman said the
shot had been fired was covered by
a wire screen which was operated by
hinges from above and could only be
vestigation showed the glass broken
from the window ana the putty hold
ing the glass had fallen both inside
and outside the room.
Husband Is Surprised.
The mystery was further increased
when Bailey told the police he did
not know his wife had gone to the
doctors offices. He was surprised
when told that Mrs. Bailey was ac-
customed to call on the doctor occa-
sionally for treatment.
Before going to the doctors Office
Mrs. Bailey had visited Mrs. John c
Crabau. who is i'll at her home IL
Rockville Center. and on leaving heI
at o'clock had announced that sh<
was going directly home.
Outside Of the tragic feature
OF the tnEf0eF the crime caaseS
the most intense excitement here
owing to the social prominence ant
the wealth Of DIR. Carman and hi
family. Mrs. Carman is the daughte
of Frank Clapp Conklin, one of tn
wealthiest residents of the Southshor
of Long Island. Mr.. Conklin make
his home with his daughter.
Mrs. Bailey, who was SO years old
was small with a remarkably prett,
figure and was considered exceptional
a leader in the social affairs of he
neighborhood. She leaves two chill
dren, a daughter Adelaide, IT years
| and son, IL years old.
DIR. Carman's Story.
Evidence accumulated today to sup
port DIR. Edward Carman's story tina
! Mrs. Bailey was killed by q shot from
outside through the office window. II
the physicians room, four feet from
| the window, detectives found an in
strument case bearing on its whit
enamel finish powder burns and I
furrow that might have been plowe
by the bullet as it sped toward Mrs
Bailey.
| This instrument case is so low tina
had the shot been fired inside tn
room the person who held the pfstO
must have squatted on the floor. j
was, however, directly in the path tina
the bullet would have taken from
pistol shot through the broken pan
of the doctor's office window.
| In the presence of detectives engage.
by the county and by the murders
| woman's husband, DIR. Carman toda
about to pull aside the curtain to permi
Mrs. Bailey to leave his office, he said
| when he heard a crash Of glass and sax
! q hand with a pistol poked through tn
broken panes. He and his patient wer
barely two feet apart, he said, and h
did not know at which the weapon wa
aimed. He ducked behind an operatin
cha1r ana as ne did so the pistol wa
fired and quickly withdrawn.
The detectives learned today that
few minutes after the shot was fired,
young woman hurried into the Freepor
railroad station, apparently in grea
agitation, and took the first train 70
New York. She was described as we
dressed and cuburn haired.
Il Although DIR. Carman insisted toda
that he had not met Mrs. Bailey unit
she called at his office for professions
advice, the detectives began their wor
with Jealous woman in the back
ground of their theory regarding tn
identity of the criminal.
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