The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-07-09
Coroner Formally, Charges Her
With Shooting Husbands
Patient Through Window of
His Office
Jealousy and Hatred
Back of the Crime
Witness Testihes He Saw Wo-
man Resembling Her Stand
ing Near Window on Night
of Shooting

Freeport. l. l., July s.--Mrs. Ed
win Carman is in the Nassau county
Jail at Mineola. formally charged with
numbering Mrs. Louise Bailey in Ut.
Carman's office on the night Of June
30.
She was arrested at home this
afternoon. after Elwood T. Bardes, g
life insurance agent. who lives mere,
had testified at the inquest that he
saw a woman resembling Mrs. Car
man standing within ten feet OF the
window of TIE doctors office.
This testimony. clear and direct,
was SO positively corroborative OF the
stories told by other distnterested wit
nesses George Colder and Hazel
Combe. that Coroner Norton. District
Attorney Smith and sheriff Petit oct
ed upon the sheory Of the murder
that they had formed. and which was
approved by Detective William J.
Burns. That theory can now be told.
for 1t Is the one upon which Mrs.
Carman will be prosecuted.
Insane With jealousy.
They hold that this woman, OF dis
tinsutshed appearance and forceful
mind had long been Jealous OF an
attractive and agreea BILE husband.
upon whom women smiled easily. She
had reached a time Of life when mere
sugptcions are apt to become obses-
sions. Unable to curb her mad 5eal-
ousy, she did the unheard OF thing Of
spying upon her husbands profession
al secrets with a dictaEraph.
Whether or not her suspicious had
centered upon Mrs. Bailey. casual
patent. does not appear. but she
rushed to the dtctagraph tthis Is the
theory the minute Mrs. Bailey was
admitted last Tuesday night to DR..
Car1nan's Office. AS thu doctor ,aIked
TO Mrs Bailey, the wife on the floor
above heard something, or construed
what she heard into something that
gent her downstairs, pistol In hand, IN
saneIy angry She whether AZ
the doctor or Mrs Bailey none can
teli4~-aud her bullet struck the wo-
man.
This is the estimate q the case that
Ehe authorities have had for several
DAYS, bat until the testimony II the
inquest this morning they heSitaied
10 arrest Mrs. CarmAn, fearing that
they could not present reasonable EVIL
denee for the foundation of an inalct~
tnent. They deferred action also be
rause of a situation which is found
only in villages, friendship and neigh
bcrtiuess,
Disfastefui Task.
The coroner who went TO Mrs. Car
mans home this afternoon and read
to her the accusation Of murder.
hated his lob. The sheriff who touch
cd her officially upon the shoulder
and placed her under arrest was gem
timely sorry that his duty ran fhaE
way And even the district attorney
who had been irritated and harrSAstse d.
huruaneiy eympathized with this wo-
man OF splendid bearing and keen
mind. when the blow fell upon her
She conducted herself. when they
went to take her to jail as everybody
In Freeport felt certain she would do.
She came quickly from her bedroom
and faced the officials with her head
up and her shoulders thrown back.
There were tears III her eyes. but
there was not a quaver In her voice.
She did not trennble or display the
least indication OF n nervous break
down. Her tears sprang, no DOUBT.
from grief over her mothers dam
perous condition, and from emotion
caused by DIR. Carman's lack OF com
posture. as much as from her own
plight The mother. Mrs Pfatt Conk~
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