The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1914-07-10
KNOWS WOMAN WHO
KILLED MRS. BAILEY
DISTRICT ATTORNEY POSITIVE
WHO DID SHOOTING, HE
ALLEGES.
WILL DEMAND INDICTMENT
Secret Witness at Inquest Into Free
port Mystery Says Gunman Sup
piled Weapon-Demand
indictment.

Freeport, N. Y, July 9.-The grand
jury is ready to begin it's investiga-
ton of the murder of Mrs. Louise Bal
ley at Mineola, the county seat, Dis
trict Attorney Smith announced. He
added that he would demand that an
indictment charging murder be re-
turned against woman who, he said,
he was positive shot Mrs. Bailey in
the office of DR.. Edwin Carman.
May Ignore Demand.
Upon what evidence the demand for
the indictment will be based the dis
trict attorney would not say. He adj
mitted there was a possibility the grand
jury might not heed his demand be-.
cause of insufficient evidence.
Il believe, though" he went on,
that the indictment will be returned.
If the unexpected should happen, the
evidence at hand and any new facts
that may be discovered, will be pre-.
scented to the next grand jury. / in.
tend to have this woman indicted if
have to present the evidence to every
grand jury that meets in Nassau coun.
ty for the next ten years"
The story told by the witnesses who
were previously examined at the in.
quest has just been revealed
Boldly Tells Story.
A half hour before the proceedings
opened man whose name remains a
secret, walked up to Carl Darenburg.
q captain of the local police depart
ment, and boldly informed him that he
knew who killed Mrs. Bailey. He then
told the captain the story he later re-
peated to the district attorney, his as
sistants, and several private detec-
tives. Briefly, it is as follows:
On the morning of murder of the
woman suspect met him (the new wit
ness) and man whose name he gave
and who, he said, is in Kansas City, in
New York. The woman agreed to give
them $50, each if one would bring a
revolver and deliver it to her on the
lawn at the side of DR.. Carman's home.
The new witness and the man who, he
declared has fled, came to Freeport
from New York on the same train with
the woman. The missing man had the
revolver in his pocket.
Goes to carman Home.
AT half past o'clock that night he
went to the Carman home and there
met the woman who said she wanted
to scare someone inside. After a
short talk the woman took the revol-
yer, the man propped up the screen
and broke the window, and then stood
to one side while the woman thrust
the weapon through the opening that
had been made and fired Then, ac-
cording to the story, she handed the
revolver back to her accomplice, who
leaped over the low fence at the side
OF the house, and escaped, while the
woman disappeared in another direc-
ton"
According to the story, the man who
told it decided to inform the authori.
ties when his companion failed to turn
over the money collected for bringing
the revolver from New York and car
rying 1t away. 1t was at first decided
to hold the man who told the story
as a material witness. After detec-
tives had taken him to several places
in an attempt to verify his assertions
and he had assured the district attor-
ney that he would not go away, he was
allowed to return to his home
Il do not know whether to believe
his story or not" said District Attor-
ney Smith.
According to the story he told, the
first name of the man who carried the
revolver is George and he is known in
New York as gunman.