The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-10-25
|CARMAN CASE
IN JURY's HANDS
Attorney on Both Sides Give Great
oratoricaI Efforts In Their Final
Arguments In Court
Room.
CLIMAX
Court Room damned With People
Who Listened to Stirring Appeals
That Justice BE
Done.

MINEOLA, L. L, Oct. 24.-Follow-
ing a three hours stirring and, dra-
matte appeal in her defense. n a
masterful summing up OF the evidence
against her, the final step in the try
ing of Mrs. Florence Carman on a
charge OF numbering MIS-. Louise
Bailey was being taken here tonight.
Justice Kelby, shortly after Z o'clock,
adjourned court for an hour, follow
ing the completion Of the district at
torney's address. When court con-
vened again, he began his charge to
the jury. Tonight the fate OF the
beautiful wife OF the Freeport physi-
clan rested with the twelve men who
have listened five days TO the evil
dence for and against her.
The arguments by the attorneys be-
gan shortly before two o'clock this
afternoon. Attorney Graham, for the
defense, was the first to speak.
Though he had told the court that he
would complete his summing up IN
two hours, 1t was after five O'Clock
that he sank in his chair exhausted
by a great effort on Mrs. Carman's
behalf. After a recess of a few min
utes District Attorney Smith began
his address. But he too, had prom
ised the court to confne his sum
ming up to two hours and he did 80.
But In that time, he gave q mastery
account Of the prosecutions efforts TO
convict Mrs. Carman OF murder IN
the first degree.
Moro than three hundred persons,
jammed in the little high-ceilinged
court room, hung IN the every word
of the two men. During the long ap-
peals, not a sound disturbed The
speakers. When Graham finished his
appeal with an especially dramatic
climax there was scarcely a dry eye
In the court room.
"There are two doors through
which you can send this woman"
Graham cried, facing the jury, Just
before he completed his summing up
OF the defense. "You hold her life
and happiness and the happiness OF
her loved ones in the hollow OF your
hands. One door Is over there.
Through that she will go back to the
little jail and from there she will go
IN the Hudson to that great prison
from where so few return. Through
the other, a larger, a better ana
broader door-you can send her home
where she can re-establish herself In
the tender relations OF mother and
wife.
God works IN mysterious ways
sometimes. 1t may be that he visited
this sorrow on this woman as a warn
ing to wives and mothers OF being
suspicious OF husbands and fathers. II
40. we accept the burden. We leave
to YOU gentlemen in all confidence, n
future happiness of this woman All
1 ask Of you is that you give q deci-
sion on the evidence as introduced
A few feet away, Mrs. Carman,
grasping her daughter Elizabeth tight
ly held her handkerchief to her eyes
as her body shook convuisively, DR..
sitting nearby with head
bowed. When court announced recess
Mrs. Carman's aged parent, her sister
and husband and child gathered
around the attorney. Sobbingly they
offered him their thanks for his SUI
preme effort to have Mrs. Carman set
free.
Smiths nnal appeal was almost as
with o~ratorical thrills as that
Of his rival lawyer.
1T have finished with the case" ne
said. II ask you to conjure up no
mental pictures Of an orphan child.
should I choose to do 80 I have q
in the beautiful daughter OF
the murdered m Madeline Bailey
is an orphan in fact-not in fancy.
Her mother whom she loved, fell be-
fore a murderess' bullet. I do
as1, YOU to form a mental picture, but
let that picture be Of ~blindfolded Jus
tfce standing with scales evenly bal
Be Just to his woman Judge
We all men by their acts and do in
to none.
Gentlemen, I have finished"
Bird. Eye View sf carman Case.
The crime.-Mrs. Louise Bailey.
wife of a well-to-do citizen Of Free
port. shot to death by a hand thrust
through window of Dr.. Carman's Of
fee in his residence in Fneeport on
the night Of June 80, 1914.
The prosecution claims.-Mrs. Car
guilty Of firing the shot because
her jealousy had been excited by
what she had heard going on in tho
Office over a photograph which she
admitted having had installed so
that she could "spy" on the doctor.
The defense claims Mysterious
committed the murder: evidence
introduced to show he was seen flee.
from the scene of the crime . few