The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1914-10-21
Celia Coleman Tells Trial Jury
That Mrs. Carman Con-
fessed to Her.
sTAR WlTMEss ON STAND
Describes Incidents and Re-
lates Conversation Just af.
ter the Shooting.


Coleman, nero maid IN the Carman
household and star witness for the
state. testified today at the trial o.
Mrs. Florence Conklin Carman, ac-
eused OF the murder of Mrs. Louise
Bailey, that Mrs. Carman had appear
ea revolver In hand, moment after
MrA Bailey had been shot and said
II shot HIM Celia thought Mrs.
Carman referred to her husband Dr.
Earman.
The next morning about daylight
Mrs. Carman came to my room" Celia
continued. She said %, Celia, what
did / XIII that woman for? hope
God win forgive me. You stick to
me and II anything happens to you
VIII take care of your little boy
Under the questioning of the dis
trict attorney Celia told her story as
I am from Charleston, s. G. I
went to work at Dr. Carmanss May
10, 1914. On the night OF June 80.
] served dinner at GAS o'clock. After
dinner started to wash the dishes.
While was washing the dishes
Elizabeth, Mrs. Carman's daughter.
came into the Kitchen: Soon after,
Mrs Carm an came In. She was
dressed in a kfmono and had a shawl
around her neck. She told Elizabeth
to go into the house. Then Mrs
Carman went out the back door. A
minute later heard a crash of glass
and the report of a pistol. Mrs. Car
man came in the door again.
.tI was standing at the door be-
tween the pantry and the kitchen
She said to me i shot him. Then
she showed me q black revolver that
was about nine inches long.
grabbed her by the arm and told her
not to go into the 0mce. She said
she was not going to do anything
lse.. Then went into the ONCE.
THE body of dead white woman
was lying on the door. Mrs. Carman
followed me into the once. She
stayed there about half minute and
then went out to the waiting room.
DR.. Carman was there and SO was
another man i went into the kitch-
en- and returned to the ONCE in about
a minute. Mrs. Powell (Mrs. Car
mans sistef-) was In there then. Then
went back into the kitchen. finished
washing the dishes and went to my
room and went to sleep. The next
morning about daylight Mrs. Carman
came to my room. She said 'Ohl
Celia, what did kill that woman for
I hope God will forgive me-. You stick
to me and if anything happens to you
I'll take care of your little boy.
81 saw Mrs. Carman later that
morning at the breakfast table and
she burst into tears. Afterwards she
came into the kitchen and told me to
forget that had seen her the night
before. Later that day Mrs. Carman
came In with her lawyer, Mr.. Levy.
Mrs. Carman winked at me and then
he asked me what I knew. told
Mr.. Levy that didn't know anything
..Mr. Levy came again the next day.
Before he came, Mrs. Carman told me
to tell him was not downstairs after
dinner. She wrote out some state
nnent andI signed it without reading
1T. The statement was not true.
s%The day after the murder Mrs
Carman came into the kitchen and
asked me to make fire In the stove
which did, Later she came down
stairs with bundle of letters and
burned them up in the fire. That
same day she told me to call her faith
er in the barn because she wanted
him to get the revolver out OF the
house. Mr. Conklin, her father, came
in and went to her room and then
a came downstairs again He had a
hammer with him. He returned to
the barn. The next day Mrs. Carman
came into the kitchen and asked me
to step into the Office. went In and
the detectives began to question me-
Ibid you tell the truth at the cor
one1,s inquest 2" the district attorney
asked.
Il did not the witness answered.
The district attorney then turned
the witness over to John y. Graham,
Mrs. Carman's counselt, for cross ex-
animation.
A crowd that eclipsed the previous
day sought to enter the tiny court
room today in anticipation of hearing
Celia tell her story. Less. than two
hundred were able to do SO and these
.,.-nra = early all women.