Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1914-08-09
Physicians Wife, Indicted, Woman of Strangely Var
 ing Personality.
WILL NOT SUGGEST
 SOLUTION THEORY
Mrs. Garman Bitter Toward All Those Wh1 Have Had Part in Her Prose. tnti0nx While Husbands Altitude
 Is one That Puzzles Officials.

Mincola. l.. l.. Aug. S.-Nearly six weeks have passed since Mrs. Louise Buryea Bailey of Hampstead was shot to death by some one who stood just out side the window of Dr. Edwin Carman's office in Freeport, l.. l.
 Long ago the physicians jealous wife, Mrs. Florence Conkln Carman, went through the ordeal of arrest and indictment, and is now in a secluded retreat, free under bail bond, awaiting trial in the fall on man. slaughter indictment.
 But no end has come, either in Long Island or elsewhere, to the tre- mendous interest that was awakened by the tragedy, which is still an un- solved mystery.
 The question of the wifes guilt or innocence is still being debated vigor- ously among not only her friends and acquaintances, but among all sorts of persons who never saw her and never heard of her until the morning of July 1, when the newspapers told of the staying of Mrs. Bailey.
 Two Vital Questions.
 District Attorney Lewis J. Smith and Sheriff Stephen P. Petit pointed out early in the case that there were two vital questions: Who had the motive to kill? Who had the op2or- tunity to kill?
 Mrs. Carman admittedly was jeal- ous of her husbands woman patients She confessed that she spied upon them with dictagraph. Undoubtedly she could have listened to her hus- band and Mrs. Bailey talking on the night of June 30-the night of Mrs. Bailey's murder. Once previous to June 30 the presence of wsman nurse in the doctor5s consultation room provoked her to burst in and slap the wOman's face.
 As to the opportunity to shoot and then escape, an inmate of the house might have gone down the back stairs, stepped out upon the lawn, fired, and then within second or two, have rushed back into the kitchen and up- stairs. According to the testimony of the colored maid, Celia Coleman. Mrs. Carman rushed out just before the shot was fired and rushed back i'm mediately after it.
 The Coleman's girls story and that of tramp, Farrell, who said he saw a woman of Mrs. Carman's build, out side the window at the instant of the shooting, are convincing to the au- thorities.
 Mrs. Carman's Personality.
 The only thing that Mrs. Carman's friends have to say is:
 But Florence couldn't possibly have done such a thing; she is not clear, frank eyes, even now, when she is under suspicion. Listen to her soft, cultured voice, ultra-feminine and ap- pealing."
 And, indeed, it was hard to believe when one first talked to the stately. perfectly gowned society leader of the Long Island town that she could blaze up into such fury as to impel her to shoot defenseless woman in the back.
 Latterly, though-after her arrest other side. She voiced openly her hatred of every one and everything that had to do with the accusation against her-the officials, the grand jury, the newspapers, the detectives.
 Her trial. scheduled for September or October before Justice Kelby in the Mineofa court house. undoubtedly will be the most celebrated ever held on Long Island. The verdict of the twelve Nassau county citizens who will sit on the jury will be awaited with the greatest interest by the whole country, for no murder case since that of Stamford White and that of Rosenthal has aroused more widespread interest.
 Friends of the Family.
 "You couldn't convict that woman with twenty eyewitnesses to the shooting" said a prominent Nassau man as he stood on the steps of the Mineola jail the afternoon Mrs. Car man was rushed over there from hef home following Coroner Norton's yer. dict.
 Qistrict-attorney Smith himself who knew more about the details oi the case than any one else and whc will conduct the prosecution, admit ted that day to the same reporter with an air of despondency that he thought about the same way.
 It was believed by every one that sentiment already existed in her flaw. or that could not be overcome. First