Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1914-07-07
Noted Detective Called to
Help Solve Mysterious
Shooting of Woman.
"NO MAN MURDER
MRS. LOUISE BAILEY"
SO Declares Sheriff, Who Asserts Suf-
ficipnt Evidence Has Been Gath
cred Despite Attempts to Shield
the Guilty Person.


tragedy which cost Mrs. Louise Bailey
her. life last Tuesday night was re-
enacted tonight by William J. Burns
and three of his detectives in the Of
flee of DR.. Edward Carman and on
the grounds surrounding the houses
Burns himself played the part of the
murderer. One of his detectives play
ed the role of DR.. Carman and another
detective impersonated the woman
whose death has become the center of
one of the greatest murder mysteries
in the history of Long Island.
AS an audience the detectives had
District Attorney Smith, who today
sent for Burns and his men; Sheriff
Petit, Dr. Carman and Mrs. Carman.
The Carmans watched the perform
ance with interest. Mrs. Carman was
silent but watched every move the de-
tectives made.
Burns, as the murderer, made his
way to the window through which
the fatal shot was fired from every
conceivable section of the house and
yard which might afford him safety
from detection by persons in the doc
the house.
A half-dozen times he crept to the
window, raised the screen, pushed the
curtain aside and snapped the ham,
mer of his revolver upon an empty
cartridge chamber. DR.. Carman, act
ing as stage director and fixing the
actors to suit the real condition as he
saw them last Tuesday night, declared
that Burns enactment of the tragedy
was startling in it's logical sequence
and possibilities.
Several times Mrs. Carman declared
that Burns and his men were uncan-
ny.
Immediately after the rehearsal of
the tragedy, the Carmans, District At
torney Smith and Sheriff Petit went
into consultation. Later Burns and
the two officials had another secret
session.
After the two conferences, Sheriff
Petit declared:
eve will no longer submit to being
baked, nor do we desire that the case
can be further looked upon as an
unsolved mystery. We have decided
that definite step must be made.
We found that certain cross purposes
were creeping into this affair, and we
have decided to let the Burns men
solve the riddle.
"Persons cannot then say that seri-
GUS effort is not being made. We
know who planted the motor car
agency and under the window through
which Mrs. Bailey was shot. We know
the origin of the false rumors which
have been put forth with the idea of
distracting attention from the main
facts.
eve have decided that there must
be rapid action and there, will be.
The solution of this mystery will be
rapid likewise.
"No man murdered Mrs. Bailey. We
shall present our evidence to the
grand jury on Thursday. You may
look for an arrest almost any time.
That Is as far as I can go now"
OFFERS Row.
This first decisive stroke toward
solving the riddle of Merrick road
came today when Sheriff Petit and
District Attorney Smith told Coroner
Norton that they were through CO.
operating with him on this case. They
told him fatty that they did not be-
lieve his inquest was developing any
thing that would warran grand jury
in returning an indictment, and after
torrid argument, declared that they
did not need the evidence CLEANED
from the inquest witnesses.
1t was for this reason that Norton
at the time for converting the inquest
declared another postponement. He
set the time for Wednesday morning
although Petit and Smith declared
they were possessed of sufficient evil
dence to go along with continuation
of the inquest.
An International News Service re-
porter was told by persons in a po-
siton to know that the county officials
! were finding themselves baked at
every turn. They found that all their
facts, all their evidence, was being
given to friends Of the Carman fam
lily.
Involves Society Leaders.
The new evidence which the sheriff
and district attorney have obtained
and which they have turned over to
Burns involves the names OF three