The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1914-10-21
Mrs. Carnaan's
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went to work at DR.. Carman's Ma.
is, 1914. On the night Of June sc
served dinner at GAS o'clock. Aft
or dinner started to wash the dish
cs. While | was washing the dishes
Elizabeth, Mrs. Carman's daughter
came in the kitchen. Soon after
wards, Mrs. Carman came in. She
was dressed in kimona and had !;
shawl around her neck. She tolt
Elizabeth to go back into the house
lFhcn Mrs. Carman went ont the back
door. A minute later heard a crash
of glass and the report of a pistol
Mrs. Carman came in the door again
was standing at the door between
the pantry and kitchen. She said tc
me, | shot him. Then she showed
me revolver, black revolver tina;
was about nine inches long. grab
bed her by the arm and told her no.
TO go In the office. She said she was
not going to do anything else. Then
II went into the office. The body OF
a dead white woman was laying or
thc floor near the operating chair
Mrs. Carman followed me into the
office. She stayed there about hall
a minute and then went to the wait
ing room. Or. Carman was there
and so was another man. | went in
TO the kitchen and returned to tho
office in about minute. Mrs
Powell, (ATrs. Carman's sister) was
in there then. Then | went back into
the Kitchen, finished washing tho
dishes and went to my room ant
went to sleep. The next morning
about daylight, Mrs, Carman came tt
my room. She was in her night
gown. She said:
80, Celia, what did kill that wo
imam for. hope God will forgive me
You stick to me and if anything hap
pens to YOU, I'll take care Of your lit
tie boy"
saw Mrs. Carmen later that morn
ing at the breakfast table and she
burst into tears. After breakfast
she came into the kitchen and tolt
ME to forget that had seen her the
might before.
Later that day Mrs. Carman cam
in with her lawyer, Mr.. Levy. Mrs
Carmen winked at me and when he
asked me what | knew l told him |
did not know anything. Mr.. Levy
came again the next day. Before he
came Mrs. Carmen told me to tell him
was not downstairs after dinner
She wrote out some statement and I
Signed without reading it. He reaG
it however. The statement was not
true. The day after the murder Mrs
Carmen came into the kitchen ana
asked me to make wood fire in the
stove which l did. She came down
stairs with a bundle of letters and
burned them. That same day she
told me to call her father in from the
barn because she wanted him to gel
the revolver out Of the house.
Mr.. Conklin, her father, came in
and went to her room, and then came
down stairs again. He had hammer
with him. He returned to the barn.
The next day, Wednesday, Mrs.
lCarmen came in to the kitchen and
Iasked me to step into the office. ]
went in and the detectives began tc
|Question me.
Did you tell the truth at the cor.
toner's inquest" the district attorney
asked.
II did not" the witness answered.
The district attorney then turned
the witness over to John ]. Graham.
Mrs. Carmen's counsel for cross-ex.
Elimination.
| A crowd that eclipsed the previous
Iday's throng sought to enter the tiny
Icourt room today in anticipation OF
hearing Celia tell her story. Less
than 200 were able to do so and these
lwcre nearly all women.
For an hour and half Mr.. Ora
ham alternately shouted at Celia and
pleaded with her seeking TO make
II her vary the story. She admitted
va she was liv,ag III Sew YORK.
city at the expense OF Mas an county.
i Also that she had testified falsely in
hmany respects at the coroner'S in.
quest. But she explained that she
had done so to shield Mrs. Carmar
and the admission apparently did not
Idisturb her eQuanimity.