The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1914-07-09
PLANS TO EXPOSE
HAND OF MYSTERY
THAT SHOT WOMAN

Frceport,- N. z, July 6-The name OF
Dr. Edwin Carman's wife did not ap-
pear on the list Of witnesses sum-
moned for the inquest, this afternoon,
into the death Of Mrs. Louise Bailey,
who was murdered in DR.. Carman's Of
flee last Tuesday night.
Since almost every one else in and
about the physiclan's house that night
had been notified to appear at the in
quest, the omission of Mrs. Carman'S
name caused much comment. The dis
trict attorney explained he had excel
lent reasons for not calling Mrs. Car
man. 1t was understood ne desired to
reserve her testimony for the grand
jury, unimpaired by any premature
revelations at the inquest.
Among the witnesses called were
Archie Post, Joseph Colder and Miss
Hazel Combs, patients, who were walt
ing in DR.. Carman's outer office when
Mrs. Bailey was murdered. A man,
named Burke, resident OF a neigh
boring village, had been summoned, II
was said, to repeat a story he had told
q detective about having seen q woman
dressed in white running away from
the window OF the doctors office i'm
mediately after the shot was fired.
Talking over the telephone today
Mrs. Carman declared that she wanted
to testify at the inquest and was ready
to tell all she knew. Il realize fully that
In q measure I am under suspicion"
she said, 'and that at the present mo-
ment I am restrained as to my move
ments."
Mrs. Carman denied a story that sew
eral weeks ago she had attacked a
woman patient in her husbands Of
f1ce. She repeated her declaration that
she had never seen Mrs. Bailey until
she looked on her dead body at the
morgue yesterday.
"Wer0 you jealous of Mrs. Bailey?"
she was asked.
mo, indeed" she answered.
Mrs. Carman Views Body.
The body of the murdered woman
was taken from her home in Hemp
stead to an undertaking morgue for an
autopsy, which had been ordered by
the district attorney. William d.
Bailey at first refused to allow his
wife's body to be moved from the
house. but after the authorities had
threatened to go to supreme court
Justice and secure an order permitting
the autopsy, he gave his consent.
Mrs. Carman, wife of the doctor in
whose office the woman was shot, and
her attorney were waiting at the
mofgue. Mrs. Carman was taken in
to a rear room and asked to look at
the dead woman's features.
Poor woman" exclaimed the ply
siclan's wife, II am so sorry for her"
Have you ever seen this woman be-
fore?" her attorney asked.
Mrs. Cnrman, perfectly calm, re-
piled: mo, / have never seen that
woman in my whole life"
The physicians who performed the
autopsy traced the course Of the bull
let, but nothing else having a bearing
on the tragedy was revealed.
Detectives late yesterday interviewed
Miss Helen Combs. a lawyers steno-
grapher, who told them she was in the
physicians house at the time of the
shooting, having gone there for treat
meEt. She said she was admitted to
the house by Mrs. Carman. DR.. Car
man was eating dinner and Miss
Combs said she was told to wait.
Miss Combs Story.
while 1 was there Miss Combs is
said to have told the detectives, "a
woman whom 1 now know was Mrs.
Bailey, arrived. She did not knock or
announce herself. She walked right in
and q few moments later went into the
doctors office. While she was there
Mrs. Carman passed through the room
and went into the kitchen at the rear
OF the house. Later she went out on
the porch and while she was there ]
heard her tell one OF her children noA
to play the piano as the doctor had
patient in the office That was about
10 minutes before I heard a shot"
III telling he- story to the detectives
and the district attorney yesterday,
Mrs. Carman declared she returned
rrom New York about o'clock the
night of the murder and went imme-
diately to heT room on the second floor
of the houce where she prepared to re-
tire. She denied going to the ground
floor even when the shot was fired.
Miss Combs, the detectives also say,
told them 1t vas n woman and not DR..
Carman who folded Mrs. Bailey's hands
across her breast after the body had
been raised from the floor and placed
upon the Office couch. Joseph Colder,
another patient who was waiting to
consult Dr CarTnan, also told the po-
lice II was q woman who did this and
ne added that 1t was'.a woman who
admitted him to the physicians resi-
dence. DR.. German told the police 1t
was he who folded Mrs Bailey's hands.