The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-10-24
mrs. CARMAN is
Confident JURY
Will ACQU|T HER
Accused Woman Probably
Will Know Fate by
Nightfall.
BOTH SIDES PROMISE
TO END CASE BY NOON
Summing Up and Delivery Of
Charge Then Will
Follow.
DAY FOR DEFENSE IN COURT
Defendant Submits to Grilling Gross.
Examinations, and Others Ap-
pear in Her Behalf.
DAY FOR DEFENSE IN COURT
Defendant Submits to Grilling Gross.
Examinations, and Others APP
pear in Her Behalf.

M1NEoLA. October 23.-birs. Flor
ence Conklin Carman, on trial hero for
the murder of Mrs Louise Bailey, may
ISknow her fate by tomorrow night
Her counsel and District Attorney
LewisyJ. Smith to-day Informed Justice
Charles II. Kelby they undoubtedly
would complete their case before the
noon recess Tomorrow.
Tho entire afternoon thus will he left
for the cumming up and the delivering
or the charge to the jury. The case
should be in the hands Of the jury be-
fore nightfall.
This was the defense's day. Witness
after Witness gave testimony for Mrs.
CatmRn. The defendant herself sub
mitted to a grilfing cross examination
Eaplaining her installation OF a me-
chanical "eavesdropping'' device In
the office of her husband. DR.. Edwin
Carnnn, she told how men friends of
her husband had asked him In her
presence how 'all Of his girls were.
Other men. she said solemnly. had
told her the doctor was Il devil with
the girls"
She brought her story down through
- long period, during which she kept
hearing things about her husband and
,a,is giris.''
|IXDMTTS SHE BECOMES
SUSPICIOUS OF HUSBAND
~ Then she admitted she. became sue ;
Isplclous OF Dr. ca rman and had tire '.ms4
chanical nvesdropped" installed in hts
Office. She admitted that II woman
patient came to her husbands Of
flee. many times she became suspicious
of the woman and also of her husband.
Mrs. Carman frequently was con-
fused and Mt times hesitated and fenced
with the prosecutor. When interrogated
regarding her failure to write note OF
coincidence to the family of the woman
killed or to call at the house to
express her sympathy, Mrs. Carman ap-
peared on the verge of breakdown.
When It was over she hurried to her
seat and watched her little daughter
Elizabeth. walk TO the witness stand
Then she listened intently while the
child testified In her mothers defense
Meanwhile. Mrs Carman showed In
creasing signs Of nervousness. and
when her aged. gray-haired mother
took tho stand and began her tcsti-
mony. the woman on trial for her life
burst into tears.
All members Of Mrs. Carman's family
testified In her behalf to-day. Their
stories were corroboratiye, and each
witness denied there was the least
truth in the story told by Celia Cole
man. the servant, who gave testimony
on Thursday intended to connect Mrs
Carnian directly with the murder.
Another witness was Ferdinand O.
Morton, negro lawyer. employed 10
get a statement from Celia Coleman for
the district attorney. This statement
afterwards was turned over to the de-
tense. In this statement Celia denied
she knew anything moro about the
murder than she had told at the inquest
when her story was favorable to Mrs.
Carman. The maid has declared she
lied at this hearing, because Mrs. Car
man had asked her to and because she
then felt sorry for her mistress.
NOT SLIGHTEST DOUBT
Of VERDICT OF ACQuITTAL
Mrs. Carman declared tonight she
had not the slightest doubt the Jury
would bring In q verdict of acquittal
Mrs. Carman, smilingly stepped into
the witness stand for the ordeal Of
cross examination by District ATTORNEY
Smith.
Mrs. Carman." began the district
attorney, you said you were suspicious
of your husband. When did you get
suspicious?"
About year ago"
What caused her suspicion she could
not say. woman did not cause it,
Just rumors."
Were the rumors about woman?"
No Just some one asking him about
his girls. Somebody told me he was
a dcvil with the girls
She could not recall who told her
this.
Somebody was asking him, How are
all your sirls?' all the time" she
said. II thought maybe there might
be some truth in what they said. They
would say to me. The doctor Is some
devil"
did you have an inclination to hear
what tho doctor had to say to his
women patients?"
an way. yes Some of his patients"
"Did your suspicious increase with
time?"
"They increased right up to the time
Of the murder. They have all been
dispelled now"
How long have you been In that
frame of mind?"
Y Ever since the terrible tragedy.
What I heard, or rather what didn't
hear, over the telephone instrument re-
assured me-
q For several minutes Mrs. sCarman
aought to evade a direct answer to the
district attorneys question as to
whether she thought iixr husband was
truthful. Finally She said: "No."
She explained that she had no real
reason to doubt him, however. She
was suspicious at first of the women
.Eho called frequently at his office;
S36ally, she was suspicious OF nearly
fall of his women callers, r,
81 got tired of hearing things,'' she
HAfd the fact that a woman would
come TO his of.lce afterwards was
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