Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1914-07-09
Doctors Wife Formally
Charged With Killing
Mrs. Louis Bailey.
THE ARREST FOLLOWS
EYEWITNESS STORY
Mrs. Carman Collapses When Weeping
Officers Eject Arrest, and Is TAX
en- TO Cell in MineOIa Jail
Through Crowded Streets.

Freeport, l.. l., July s.--Mrs. Flor
ence Conklin-Carman was arrested in
her home on Merrick road today on
the charge of numbering Mrs. Lula D.
Bailey of Hampstead on the night of
June 80. She was taken to Mineola
JAIL held without bail for an examina-
ton in the little room in Freeport on
Monday morning.
She was arrested in the rooms in
which Mrs. Bailey died-the private
office of her husband, DR.. Edwin M.
Carman the man of whom she was in
sanely jealous and whose hand had
left the shoulder of Mrs. Bailey but
moment before the shot which Mrs.
Carman is accused of firing ended the
life of Mrs. Bailey. Justice Of the
Peace Norton, coroner ex-officio, sat
in the operating chair back of which
DR.. Carman sought refuge when the
bullet entered Mrs. Bailey's back.
Mrs. Carman, her bolish lawyer.
George Levy; Sheriff Petit, District
Attorney Smith, DR.. Carman and
Elizabeth Carman, the accused Wom-
ans beautiful 9-year-old child, were
the only other occupants of the room
Of the tragedy.
Mrs. Carman collapsed. She made,
no outcry, caused no furore. She col
|alapsed like woman stricken. The
officials present declare there was not
a man present who did not weep with
mrs. Garman. 81 Y \ y y : ~ =
The coroner was completely un-
lnerved. The Carmans have been. his
friends for years. When he was
charged with malfeasance in his Of
flee of justice of the peace recently,
DR.. Carman gave him not only moral,
but financial support.
Accusing OFFICER Cries.
"This is a pitiful duty" said the
coroner, tears streaming down his
j face, ''but have to do it. You know
have to do it."
i 1--WE know" replied Mrs. Carman
simply.
i The coroner, with trembling hands,
papers he had prepared He placed
them on the doctors desk and in the
form provided by law informed Mrs.
Carman that she was accused of muir
der.
i "Do you plead guilty or not guilty?"
he asked.
4 81 plead not guilty." replied Mrs.
4 Carman in low voice.
AS the woman spoke she looked at
her husband. He stretched out his
arms and she threw herself on his
breast sobbing. He embraced her and
they stood thus a moment.
l The beautiful child, Elizabeth, who
testified at the final session of the in
quest early in the day did not seem to
understand the terrible accusation.
Her evidence help to hasten the arrest
of her mother, although she told her
story clearly, connectedfy and with
childlike simplicity.
\ Daughter Witnesses Arrest.
i The child surveyed the crushed
woman sitting alone in a corner
4 awaiting the preparations for the
swift ride to Mineola, and wanted to
know whether it was very, very ter
ed to her mother.
'When will you bring mamma back,
Mr.. Petit" asked the child, as the
accused woman arose to go.
Tomorrow. dear" soothed the
sheriff. TOmOrrOW. Viii
i Then in the sheriff's car Mrs. Car
man was taken to Mineola and to Jail.
i The arrest was not expected today.
It was thought that it would be made
late at night and that Mrs. Carman
would be taken to Mineola In the Sc
crecy Of darkness. But Norton pro-
claimed his authority and the arrest
came to change the wonted drowsi-
mess Of Freeport afternoon to the
garish hustle Of a fair dzy.
! Crowds Of Curious Gather.
I "A throng which blocked the motor
car In which she rode to jail as
sembled in Poplar Shade. Merrick
struggling for points Of vantage from
which to see the accused woman.
j Mrs. Carman was taken into the