The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-10-24
Witness Testffying 1T the Trial
of Mrs. Carman
Swears He Saw q Man Run
From the Window.
WAS ONLY IS FEET DISTANT
Saw the Doctor Holding
Woman in His Arms
And Two Women in Front Of
the House.

Mineola, Oct. 24.-The defense of
Mrs. Florence Conkln Carman, on
trial for the murder Of Mrs. Louise
Bailey, rested shortly before noon to-
day. Counsel prepared to sum up and
indications were the case would reach
the jury late this afternoon.
Mrs. Carman's face was wreathed
in smiles when she entered the court
room. She bowed to several friends,
kissed her daughter Elizabeth, greet
ed her husband with nod and q
smile. and taking a seat at the coun-
sci table. chatted with him and her
lawyers till the proceedings began.
Rudolph Loewe, first witness, testi-
fled that he was on his way to DR..
Carman's office anG within fifteen feet
Of the window when the shot which
killed Mrs. Bailey was fired. Loewe
heard the shot, looked up and saw a
man run across the lawn and leap over
the fence. Mr.. Loewe was very deaf
and spoke English with a pronounced
accent. George NJ. Levy, Mrs. Car
questions into the witness's ear.
Loewe said after he had heard the
shot and seen the man jump over the
fence he looked into DR.. Carman's
office and saw the doctor with a wom-
an in his arms. There were two
women in front of the house, Mr..
Loewe added. He also saw a man he
did not know standing in the vestibule
to the doctors office.
'How near were you to the two
women you saw on the steps," Mr..
Smith asked.
about fifteen feet" Loewe replied.
He said the man he saw was my
height and not SO thick"
Justice Kelby had to leave his seat
on the bench and stand beside the
witnesses chair to shout his questions.
Loewe was quite positive that, not
withstanding his infirmity, he had
heard the shot.
Justice kelby asked him how long
and he said about 80 seconds. Then
he left. but before doing SO he saw a
door open and q woman i'm white
enter the office. BY that time the
woman who had been shot was lying
on the floor.
What the Blpodliounds Did.
John J. Dunbar, a Freeport police
he brought bloodhounds to the Car
man house. He said he found the
broken picket in the fence mentioned
in the testimony yesterday-the pick
ct was opposite the broken window.
he said. On the premises next door
he found near the fence a mans foot
prints; apparently the man had been
standing there for some time. After
bringing the bloodhounds to the
house Dunbar said he took them to
the trampled ground and they went
from there to the broken picket then
the dogs were allowed to smell the
window sill. They growled, ran all
the way around the house, came up
to the place in the fence where the
picket was broken, left the premises
and went west as far as Lynnbrook
three miles away, where they stopped.
having lost trail. On n
ination Dunbar said he had taken the
screen off the window on the night
of the murder, propping it up with a
piece of new shingle which he found
near a small clubhouse in the rear of
the residence. The dogs, after SMELL
ing the window sill went to his house.
he said. The district attorney sought
to show that the animals followed
Dunbar's back trail.
Defense Rests.
After NJ. J. Haughey, trainer of blood
hounds had corroborated Dunbar's tes-
timony, the defense announced that it
rested its case.
The first witness called in rebuttal
was Richard Lamb, president of the
village of Freeport and chief of pO-
lice. Mr. Lamb said that many per-
sons had had their hands on the screens
and window sill before the bloodhounds
arrived.
Sheriff Petit Of Nassau county, the
next witness, contradicted some of
Dunbar's testimony. He said Dunbar
was confronted by Farrell on July 6,
just after Farrell had been arrested
and that Dunbar said then that he had
never seen Farrell before.
Sheriff Petit, as well as the next
witness, Phineas Seaman, a county de-
tective, testified that great many
persons had handled the screen and
window sill before the dogs arrived
Both say, in addition, that fifty or
more persons had tramped over the
lawn.