Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1914-10-24
Defense Virtually Rests
Yesterday-Only One I'm
important Witness Yet.
MRS. CARMAN HER
OWN BEST WITNESS
Mother. Daughter. Sister and Husband
COrrObOrate Her Story En-
poets Early Verdict
Anticipated.

Mineola, l.. t., Oct 23.-Tomorrow
afternoon the jury which is to decide
whether or not Mrs. Florence Conk-
lin-Carman murdered Mrs. Louise
Duryea- Bailey, will retire to delibcr-
ate upon the evidence The concen-
sus of opinion is that several ballots
will be necessary but that the verde
will be forthcoming before nightfall
This afternoon the defense rested
virtually. There is but one NOR
witness to be called and his testi-
mony will be comparatively unim-
portant. Mrs. Carman went back f
her cell tonight with a smile on he:
face. She assured her mother, ner
husband and her little daughter tina!
she would spend Sunday with them {
free woman, and to such an extent
did she show this conviction they ac-
cepted her view and they went home
happy.
The accused woman's 10-year-ol5
daughter Elizabeth, her aged parents
Mr.. and Mrs. Plat Conklin, her siste,
Mrs. Ida Powell; her niece, Mrs. He.-
en- PowellCordy, and her husband
The cherubic DR.. Edwin Carman testi
fled in her behalf today.
The stories were all refutati m
of the accusations Of Celie Coleman
the negro maid OF all work. Before
they were put upon the stand District
Attorney Smith put Mrs. Carman
through 80 minutes Of cross exami-
nation. While he trapped her into
several significant contradictions, she
was better witness for herself than
were any of her relatives. Mr.. Smiths
crosse examination was subtle and
Adolf. He managed to force Mrs. Car
man into admitting she was SUSPECT
Gus OF any woman who came to her
husbands office; that she suspected
the doctor of improper relations
with his women patients; that sha
never felt sorry enough for the
Duryea-Bailey family to send them a
letter OF sympathy, and that she
valued the money her husband made
more than his undivided love. But
he did not shake her main story, nor
did he find out whether anybody had
seen her in the waiting room after
the murder.
This point was the most debated
topic during the noon recess. Mrs,
Carman, under redirect examination
said she went down stairs after the
shot; that she stopped in the waiting
room and that she returned to her
room, where later her sister told her
what the trouble was. But District
Attorney did not ask any of her re,a-
tives if they saw her during any tim >
between the shot and the fearful
meeting of the women of the family
in Mrs. Carman's room some time
after the tragedy.
John j. Graham, attorney for the
defense, declared that the omission
of this evidence did not embarrass
Mrs. Carman in the slightest degree.
Blames RumOrs.
just before the defendant took the
chair she crossed over to her mother,
Mrs. Conklin, sitting at the counsel
table, leaned over and kissed her,
Mrs. Carman," began the district
attorney, you said you were suspi-
cious of your husband When did you
get suspicious?"
About a year ago."
What caused her suspicion she
could not say. A woman did not
cause it-"just rumors."
Were the rumors about a woman ~
NO. Just somebody asking him