New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-09-10
MAN IN SKIRTS
ON CARAVAN LAWN
New Witness for Accused
Tells of Disguised
Stranger.
DISTRICT ATTORNEY
SEEKS REINDICTMENT
Nurse Doctors Wife Admits AT"
lacking in Office Will APP
pear Against Her.

Interest in the CarmanB Bailey muir
der case al Freeport, l.. l., was revived
Yesterday by the activities OF District
Attorney Lewis j. Smith before the
Nassau County Grand Jury. Mr.. Smith
declared that several new witnesses
wcro examined whose testimony would
substantially assist the prosecution In
its effort to obtain an indictment Tor
murder in a higher degree against Mrs'
Florence A. Carman.
Mrs. Carman is now out on S2O,OOO
bail on an indictment for mans daughter
in the first degree on the charge OF
having shot Mrs. Lulu Bailey, who was
slain in the Office of DR.. Edwin Car
man. the defendants husband, in Free
port July 80. District Attorney Smith
expects to 20 before Justice kelby, IN
the Supreme Court at Mineola, to-day
or tomorrow and ask for the new in
dictment.
There was n report at Mineola yes
terday that the District Attorney had
found the revolver with which Mrs.
Bailey was shot, hut it was later dis
credited. The witnesses before the
grand jury yesterday included Mrs
Elizabeth Variance, the nurse who was
alleged to have been spled upon by
Mrs. Carman while in her husbands
office. She did not appear before the
grand jury that indicted Mrs. Carman.
Mrs. Edith Larkin, of 10 Thorne aV!
Hampstead, a friend and neighbor OF
Mrs. Bailey, was another witness. IL
was said she was examined in regard
to her knowledge of any acquaintance
nd llF nj
man. DR.. Carman and Walter Cozzens,
the first policeman to reach the Car
man home after the shooting, also were
witnesses.
George NJ. Levy, counsel for Mrs.
Carman. gave out an affidavit yester-
day made By John G.. Haberle, Of ALI
wood. y. j., in which the latter swore
he had seen n man in woman's clothes
on the Carman lawn the evening Of
June I. a month before the shooting.
Haberlc is a member and salesman ~
the Haberle Drug Company, OF 100
Fifth Rv., this city. The affidavit is
dated ut FreepoTt on August and &C
knowledged before Mary +. Southland,
notary public OF that town.
According TO the affidavit, Haberlo
called upon DR.. Carman on the evening
Of June and sold him a bill OF drugs.
As he left the house he met a woman,
who came across the lawn and asked
him il the doctor was in. He told her
the doctor was in his office. As Hab-
erie walked toward the street he turned
back and watched the woman. Instead
of going 70 the doctors Office she went
around the house toward the window in
the Office through which the fatal sho.
is supposed to have been fred.
Haberle started back. he swore, and
met the woman again in front Of the
house. He directed her 10 tho door
which led to the doctors office, but she
said to him: "Never mind; it's too
late, anyway" He walked 10 Grove ST.
with her, where she entered an auto.
mobile standing in front Of the house
of DR.. Fletcher. As she got into the
car she raised her skirt. exposing her
right leg TO the knee and revealing a
dark trouser leg, Haberle said. Haberls
described the woman as wearing light
skirt, dark waist and black hat. He
noticed that she had large feet, a grufF
voice and heavy features.
Haberle said that he took the train
for New York and forgot about the in
cident until he read of the shooting.
He swore that he told District Attorney
Smith Of the incident at the inquest
before he had seen DR.. Carman again
after the visit TO his house in June.
He said he had known Dr. Carman for
about a year and sold him drugs dur
ing that time.