The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1914-07-17
and Advertiser.
THE UNTAMED
SAVAGE IN Us.

In the private office of DR.. Edwin
Carman at Freeport, L. l., Mrs
Louise Bailey was moving toward
the door to go out. Someone outside
raised the window screen and with
the muzzle of a revolver cracked the
glass in the window pane. As the
doctor and the patient turned about
at the noise, the outsider fired and
Mrs. Bailey fell dying to the floor.
Mrs. Bailey belonged to the socially
protected class. She was not like
the Stun jewellers, continually expos
ed to violence She was not adven-
turous nor reckless. She was 30
years old and moved in circle where
law and custom are supposed to be
observed even in quarrels and enrli-
ties and heart-burnings.
She was atrociously murdered. It
does not matter what the motives
was. 1t does not matter what old OF
new passion of anger reused her as
sassin.
1t was private vengeance inflicted
in the midst of American society, as
deliberately as that visited by the
members of the "black hand in the
dago quarters Of our city slums.
Someone from among the respecta-
BILE element suddenly turned to the
strange task of murder and found ii
easy and simple.
How easy it was. And how lurid-
" it reveals the untamed savage that
so many Of US are, men and womer
whose lips repeat the laws Of civil
cation, but whose hearts are actuatet
by the laws of the Jungle.
Mrs. Carman, wife of the physician
in whose office the murder was com
mitted, has been held for the murder
One man, whose evidence is Of
doubtful value because contradictory
saws he recognized in Mrs. Cannon
likeness to woman in white shirt
waist and black skirt whom he saw
running toward the back Of the hou5'
after the shot was fired.
Mrs. Carman is said to be wo
man Of queenly stature and unusual
" handsome. She is intelligent, vel
educated, refined in manner, accuS
toned to good society and more thal
well-to-do financially. She Is a Per
feet example of the Puritan woman
Her ideals of life and conduct are a
clear-cut as her features, as t'dT art
neat as her dresses. Morally, she /
of the kind that keeps even the hen
of her garments from the suspic!ol
of contamination. She is as cold a
an iceberg, and her poise is perfect
her self-possession absolute. He
friends one criticism of her is tina
she is too self-contained; too reticent
too reserved.
She was as calm and composed, sh
was as perfectly and beautiful!
dressed, and her face wore as inscru
table a smile, when she came int
court to meet her inquisitors as
she we're attending a social function.
If she is murderess, Mrs. Car
man is the seething volcano covered
decentIy under the gray ashes Of re
serve, so that none may suspect tn
hidden fires that burn like tormen
in her heart.
Her little world esteemed her tn
embodiment of pride; admired her dig
nifty; vet she condescended to spy
through the window on her HUSBAND
and his patients; her jealousy drove
her to install a dictaphone in her nus
bands office that she might listen tc
every word he uttered and every
word that was said to him.
She was renowned for her self-con
troll, yet when she saw her HUSBAND
in a sentimental attitude with anoth
er woman, she rushed madly into th'
room and fought her like tishwife
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