Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-07-10
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NEW WITNESSES

ly out to the street to an automo-
| bile, which stood q short distance
down the street with its engine run
ming.
AS this person stepped into tht
automobile the collector noticed that
there was a pair of trousers showing
beneath the edge Of the skirt. The
authorities have been sceptical that
young Schloss saw any one running
from the house, but this new story
puts that of young Schloss in diff
ferent light.
Mrs. CarmaH is bearing up bravely
in the Jail at Mineola, although she
is in a naturally nervous state. She
did not sleep until late at night and
the warden refused to call her at an
early hour, as she had requested, be-
lieving it best for her sleep to end
naturally Before going to bed Mrs.
Carman made arrangements to have
DIR. Carman called up on the tele-
phone that she might have word of
her mothers condition. DIR. Carman
had also arranged with Warden Will
lam e. Huls to be notified immedi-
ately by telephone if his wife showed
any signs of a collapse.
Mrs. Carman received a letter to-
day from her twelve-year-old
daughter Elizabeth, who testified
at the last session of the inquest in
an effort to strengthen an alibi for
her mother. The letter read:
Dear Mama: I'VE all think of
you always / don't quite know why
you can't come home, IL don't see
you very soon I'll write and ask Mr.
Petit (tl1e sheriff. why you do not
come home. Your loving daughter,
"ELIZABETH."
tho noiiraa fatxar bU the h1l-
let which ended Mrs. Bailey's life
brings about a problem which will,
if Mrs. Carman is ever brought to
trial, be one of the points on which
the bitterest fight will be made.
The bullet struck the murdered
woman high in the back. 1t was taken
out of her breast by DR.. Runcie at a
point slightly lower than the spot on
the back, where it entered. This be-
ing the case, the following problems
present themselves:
In what position was Mrs. Bailey
when the bullet struck her? Was 1t
possible for Florence Carman-a wom-
an five feet seven inches tall-to break
that window, pull aside the curtain
and fire in such a manner as to per-
NIT the bullet tearing downward
through Mrs. Bailey's body?
Is 1t reasonable to presume that she
stood on a box when she fired? And
Is it probable that woman bent on
murder would carry a box or other
temporary platform to window,
mount the elevation, break the win
dow, fire downward and get herself
and her platform away in time to
avoid detection?
If this improbability took place
and it is admitted that either Mrs.
Carman was high enough to fire on
level or downward or she did not
fire the shot through the window, or
she did not fire the shot at all, is it
not reasonable to presume that some
body knew what she was doing? OF
course, Mrs. Carman is tall enough to
look through the window. She did it
at least once before-notably the time
she saw Elizabeth Variance kiss Dr.
Carman's cheek. But Mrs. Bailey,
standing on tho floor of the office, was
at least three feet above any person
of five feet three inches who could
have fired the shot. II Mrs. Bailey
were STOPPING or on her knees or
seated on the floor or a low divan
it would be barely possible for such
a condition of affairs But IL the
doctor was standing, as he says he
was, is 1t probable that anyone could
be SO reckless q shot as to miss SO
prominent figure and hit one almost
out of the angle of range? DIR. Car
man declares that he and Mrs. Bailey
were standing
Another probability, assuming that
Mrs. Carman did fire the shot--is that
she had no intention of murder; that
she fired to brighten her husband;
that she fired blindly and at random,
and that the bullet struck the metal
of the operating chair and caromed
off into the body of Mrs. Bailey.