South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-07-15
Prosecutor Smith Believes Evil
denCe Will Bring Indictment
of Doctors Wife But Keeps
Detectives on Search.
MRS. CARMAN APPEALS
TO PUBLIC; C0LLAPSES
Asks People to Withhold Judg-
ment Until Close Of Hearing
Two Members of Grand
Jury Withdraw.

NEW YORK. July 15.-DetectVes es
aruIoyed bv Dist Atty. Lewis j..
c,ojtb of Nassau county today began
searching for two missing WITNESSES
10 testify against Mrs. Florence ar
,rsn before the grand jury which Is
investigating the mysterious III s
or Mrs Louise Bailey in the Office OF
Dr Carman. husband OF the accused
woman.
These witnesses are wanted 20 sup
mort the story of the negro maid IN
the Carman household, Cecilia Cole
man. who told the grand jury that
Immediately after the shot was hreu
through the window of Or. Carman
office in FreepUrt, /. J., on the nlghl
Of June 80. Mrs. Carman ran INTO lne
kitchen call excited and out OF
breath
Although the prosecutor believes
that he has enough evidence TO Sc
cure an Indictment OF Mrs. Carman'
charging her with murder in the hrst
degree. he is working hard TO secure
anv new evidence that it is possible
10 get.
The chief points of the states case
against Mrs. Carman are these:
D-AIrs. Carman admitted tnat
she had installed a dictagraph in heT
husbands office because she learned
he was too attentive to some OF ms
women patients;
C2)-Dr. Carman testified that his
wife had watched him through the
same window which the fatal shot
was fired and once ran into his othce
and slapped a trained nurse because
Or. Carman had kissed her
(2)-Cecilia Coleman. negro maid
in the Carman household at Free
mort. testified before the grand jury
that Mrs. Carman ran into the litch-
en- immediately after the shot was
fired. that Mrs. Carman was excited
and seemed TO be hiding something
under her waist.
(D-E. n. Bardes, an insurance
agent. swore he saw a woman an. an
swering Mrs. Carman's description
leaving the window after the shot
was fred and walk toward the rear
or the house.
(5-wiIliam d. Bailey, husband
OF the murdered woman, says ne
knows Of no reason why his wife
should have visited DIR. Carman. as
she was not i'll.
Two Witnesses Missing.
The two missing witnesses are
both said 70 be women. who were In
pr Carman's waiting room on the
night Of the tragedy. They fled IN
terror when the shot was fired
George NJ. Levy. lawyer for Mrs
Carman, declared that he would 60
before the grand jury tomorrow with
information relating to Bardes
which. he believes. will have a bear
Ing upon the story which Bardes told
20 the district attorney.
Following her statement I'm which
size asked the public to withhold Its
Judgment and not condemn her until
she has had a hearing. Mrs. Carman
Is on the verge Of collapse in the
Mineola fail She is visited every day
by her husband who takes her fruit
candy. flowers or some other gift.
AlthouS IN Mrs. Carman has vOlun-
teered TO go before the grand jury
and tell all she knows about the case
it IS believed that Dist. Atty. Smith
will not allow her to do so.
Two Jurors Withdraw
Two members or the Nassau coun-
" grand Jury which is investigating
the case. withdrew today on the
ground that they are strong personal
friends OF DR. and Mrs. Carman. This
action left hut II men on the grand
fury. a bare quorum,
Alavah r. Smith and Daniel G. Ray
nor. the two men who resigned, told
Dist Atty. Lewis J. Smith that they
feared Their friendship for the Car
mans would bias their judgment.
When the grand jury resumed its
deliberations today Dr. Carman was
or hand 70 testify for the second
time.