Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-10-23
mentioned her visit to the morgue tc
view the body of the woman the state
claims she killed.
Faces Jury With Steady Eyes.


Faces Jury With Steady Eyes.
She looked into the faces of the
jurors with steady eyes when she de-
sired to impress them with some par
ticular point. and she seemed resentful
when certain points in the story of the
negress We're under discussion.
Mrs. Carman was on the stand nearly
an hour under direct examination.
The defense sprans a surprise when
George NJ. Levy, her attorney, called
her name and asked her to take the
stand. The court has been adjourning
every day at 4:30 o'clock. The crowd In
the courtroom had been listening with
little apparent interest to stories told by
witnesses called in an effort 10 break
down the testimony offered by Frank
Farrell, the Bowery character. who is
another of the peoples important wit
neSses. Many of those who had been IN
attendance throughout the day had lett
when the defendant was called nearly
fifteen minutes after the regular CLOS
ing time.
Mrs. Carman admitted that she had in
stalled a telephone instrument in her
husbands Office, but she fatty denied
that she was "insanely jealous" she
said she had heard people ask her hUs-
band how all his girls We're Some
times he had stayed out all night. Be
cause of her daughter, she said, she did
not want to obtain a divorce. But Ii her
II
painted to her. she wanted to know 1t:
IF she found out what she had heard
was true, she said. she had determined
that she would continue to live In the
same house with him as If nothing had
ever happened, but that she would never
speak to him again. Then. on the morn
ing after the murder. she declared, she
tore out the device that the district at
tornev had termed a mechanical caves
dropper' because she thought her huS-
band already had enough to bother him.
She explained her every action.
Reasons for Requiring Silence.
Mrs. Carman even corroborated some
of the states witnesses by admitting
that the evening of the murder she had
called to her daughter. Elizabeth. to
stop playing the piano. But she did this.
she swore. because she had headache
and not, as the prosecution has init
mated, because she wanted to listen over
the mechanical eavesdrepper to what
her husband was saying to q woman in
his office
She admitted, too that on one occa-
sion she looked in the same window as
that through which the assassin of Mrs.
Bailey fired, but this, she said, was be-
cause she knew a trained nurse her hus-
band appeared to be fond of was in his
office.
In DENYING Celias story she made no
ton without reservation. Celia's testi-
mony. according to Mrs. Carman, was a
pure fabrication from beginning to end.
When Mrs Carman stepped down from
the stand she was apparently as fresh
as when she went on She walked around
the rear of the jury box, grabbed little
up in her arms and kissed her
again and again.
oh" she said, turning to her mother,
Mrs. Platt Conklin, Il do so hone they
will believe me. I told everything 1
knew I told the truth and that surely
should be enough"
Story Given in Detail.
Mrs. Carman told the following story:
Il am the defendant. I was married
to DR.. Carman in 1892.
early in the morning of June 80.
1914, I went to New York. I spent the
day shopping. I returned to Freeport
with a headache on a train at o'clock
"As soon as I got home I took off my
coat and went to the supper table.
answered the front door once. l admit
ted a man 1 do not know. j still had
the headache at this time. After sup
per I went right up to bed. I undress-
ed and put my clothing away. Then l
put on my night clothes and went to
bed. l was i'll. 1 heard Eliza beth play
ing the piano. I told her to stop. Soon
after l heard a shot and some commo-
ton downstairs. I sat up and put on
my kimono. I also put on my slippers.
1 went down stairs into the pantry
room I could not see in the office. The
door was closed. 1 heard the doctor