New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-07-07

appear at the inquest that angercd the
Coroner and precipitated the break.
The Sheriff and the District Attor-
..ney are carefully guarding the identity
of these witnesses and have permitted
no inkling OF their stories TO get
abroad. They fatty declined 10 take
the Coroner into their confidence. The
Coroner knows no more to-day who
these witnesses are. or what their
testimony will be, than the rankcSt
outsider does.
The Sheriff and the District AttOr-
rey have complained bitterly that.
through some mysterious leak all
their plans had been tipped OF in ad-
vance to those whom they least wished
TO know them. They have accused no
one Of this leakage.
Coroner Norton. after abruptly adj
jourRing the inquest after the nooa
recess. would offer no other eNplana-
ton than 81 have the right TO. and !
want 70. You'll have 10 be satisfied
with that"
The new witnesses will be taken be
fore the grand Jury in Mineola, which
begins its sitting Thursday. Before
that body the District Attorney will
ask an Indictment for murder IN the
first degree.
Detectives in Conference.
Late tonight Smith. Petit and
Burns were in conference al ;he Elks
Club. II is reported that thcy were
discussing the advisabihty Of making
an arrest within the next day or two.
The case against the woman suspect
has narrowed down so much within the
last twenty-four hours that. when the
INQUEST was recoNvCnCd to-day, II was
decided that il would be a waste OF
time TO put either Mrs. Elizabeth Nau-
ance. the nurse whom Mrs. Carman
slapped, or Platt Conklin on the stand.
The inquest developed one point
which has deeply interested the DIS
trict ATTORNEY i'm the examination OF
Celia Coleman, the negro maid OF the
Carmans She swore that before noon
on the dav after the murder George
VI. Levy. counsel for Mrs Carman,
went TO the Carman house. and after
questioning her wrote out an afhdavlt,
which, she said he got her TO sign.
Shc swore that she did not read this
paper and that Levy did not read II 10
her. Levy later said he read II 70 her
four times. and in discussing her tost-
mony made this remark: why 10
think for one moment that any one
would try to frame up witness IKE
that would be 10 accuse man Of IN
sanity e..
That Levy should have thought II
advisable 20 get an affidavit from the
Coleman girl before noon of the day
after the shooting IS Icgarded as I'M
portant. At that time the dctograph
had not been discovered. and Mrs
Carman had not been annoyed by lhe
suspicious which. she later SAID, were
directed against her. ..
s seemingly well founded report
tonight stated that the new evidence
will include the story Of an all nlgnl
Yachting party following an automool'e
sioy trip" involving some OF the most
prominent men and women IN Ions
Island Society. According 10 TINS re-
port the yachting party started from
Jamaica. kettle,
hushed up, though IN several nome
there we're embarrassing explanations
Rnsv as they were in developing the
evidence against the person suspected
Of shooting Mrs. Bailey, the author
tics TO-DAY did not overlook the story
DIR. Carman told late last nlght OF
hing fired al three times while ne was
,;d;n- in his automobile between Rock
v;Jlc Centre and Roosevelt They are
sill investigating his statements. ,
Horny Colder, who said he heard the
sbo,e and saw Dr.. Carman's car, was
brouqbt "a Freeport for an examination
Iv the District Attorney. Golder's story
vsried only slightly from the one ne
. told Sheriff Petit early this morning.
Correspondents for The Tribune
found four persons living along me
Centennial Road. upon which Carmah