Norwich bulletin., 1914-07-02
BELIEVE MRS. BAILEY
 WAS SHOT BY WOMAN.
Doctors Wife Had Telephone Con- trivance So She Could Hear What Went On Between Her Husband and Women Patients.

Freeport, N. Y, July 1-No arrests had been made late tonight of any person suspected of having shot and killed Mrs. Louise Bailey, a Hampstead matron, while she was in the office of Dr. Edwin Carman, a local physician, last night. The sheriff, district attor- ney and county detectives were still following clues in the hope of running down the murderer, but all admitted that evidence sufficiently tangible to warrant an arrest was not yet at hand.
 Telephone Device in Closet.
 On information which he declared had been given him by member Of the firm that installed the instrument. Sheriff Stephen Petit said he had dis covered in the Carman home tele- phonic device. the wires of which led from the doctors office to closet in the bedroom of his wife. According to the sheriff, Mrs. Carman admitted to him that she had the instrument in- stalled because she wanted to hear what went onr between her husband and women patients, and that she had been much conforted' by fhat she had overheard. The sheriff said also that Dr. Carnan, when questioned about the telephonic device, told him that his wife had admitted to him that she had had the machine put in and that she had removed the receiv- ing end in her closet early this morn ing and hid 1t in the attic. The sheriff said that Mrs. Carrnan at his request had gone to the attic and brought the instrument to him. A revolver of small calibre also was found in the physician,s home today.
 Mrs. Carnan Heard Shots.
 Tn her talk with the sheriff today Mrs. Carman told the sheriff accord ing to a statement made by MT. Pet tit, that she had arrived at her home about half past seven o'clock last night She immediately went to a room the rest of the night. She was lying across the bed when she heard the shots fired down stairs. The sheriff added that Mrs. Carman denied ever having seen Mrs. Bailey.
 < Dr. Carman also was the subject of close questioning concerning the oc- currenees in and about the house be- fore the mysterious hand with a re- .yoiver in it was poked through the broken window pane and shot hred which killed Mrs. Bailey. What he told the authorities seemed to have satisfied them that he had no know ledge of the person who committed the crime.
 Woman in White Seen.
 One story in circulation among the townspeopie today was to the effect that persons passing the physician residence at the time or the murder saw a woman dressed in white run across the lawn immediately after the shot was fired. They believed the ex- plosion was that of firecracker dis charged by some early celebrant of the Fourth of July. and gave little heed either to the explosion or to the wom- an in white. Detectives tonight were endeavoring to trace the persons who are said to have seen the woman, but their efforts at late hour had been unavailing.
 A policeman has been stationed in front of the residence of Dr. Carman with instructions to allow no one to enter or leave the place without per mission, except pr. Carman and his children. The sheriff said tonight that several persons, including a woman might be detained as material wit nesses to the killing. He declined however. to give any names.