New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-05-06

b. put on the stand and Mrs. Black and
her daughter will be asked If they can
identify him. If they can, that fact
will, with Celia Coleman's testimony,
practically deprive Mrs. Carman of all
hope Of escaping conviction, 1t Is
thought. Even now her situation is Tar
from hopeful.
To persons who heard Celia Coleman
TODAY and last October it seemed that
her story hurt Mrs. Carman more to-
day than before. She is a young woman
of twenty-six, who derived little bene-
fit from the brief schooling she re-
ceived in the South. She is not clever
and her mental processes are slow
And in considering what she said II
was not to be overlooked that there Is
no apparent reason for the girl to lie
What has size to gain by swearing away
Mrs. Carman's life?
There was nothing different in the
testimony she gave at the hrst trial
and her story to-day. She began by
telling of her entering the Carman EN-
plov on Nav 10, 1914, of her good
treatment by the Carmans and of the
unimportant incidents Of the hours di-
rectly preceding the murder.
Says Mrs. Carman Confessed.
after dinner" she said, elizabeth
Mrs. Carman's young daughter), came
into the kitchen where | was washing
the dishes. Mrs. Carmsn came in the
kitchen a few minutes after and told
Elizabeth to stay back. Then Mrs.
Carman, who was wearing a shawl
over her shoulders, went out the door
leading from the kitchen to the rear
lawn. After she went out can't tell
how long after heard crash OF
glass and then a shot. Mrs. Carman
came back right after that into the
kitchen. She had both hands under
her shawl She drew her right hand
from under the shawl and showed me
a dark revolver, saying, I shot him..
Then, with her left hand, she opened
the door leading into DR.. Carmsn's Of
flee and went in there.
81 followed Mrs. Carmsn In. / stood
around, looking at the body or Mrs.
Bailey. Mrs. Conklin MRS. Carman's
mother, noticed me and said, why
doesn't Celia go back into the kitchen 7
so went back.
AT $50 the next morning Mrs. Car
man came into my room. | hadn't
slept all night. Mrs. Carman was in a
nightgown. She said, oh, Celia, what
did ! kill that woman FOR! l nope
God will forgive me-
81 said to her, God will forgive
everything but self-murder. Then
Mrs. Carman said she didn't even know
the woman. She told me not TO say
anything to anybody about what she
had told me, and that she would take
care of my little boy il anything hap
pened TO me.
Maid Sworn TO Silence.
AT 7 o'clock that morning, while
Mrs. Csrman was at breakfast, she
again told me not TO tell any one. This
she repeated later the same morning
Mrs. Carman gave engrossed atten-
ton TO every word uttered by the col
ored girl. The courtroom was very
quiet through il all. All the juror:
with one exception looked steadily a.
the witness as she talked, and her ties
timony seemed to weigh heavily with
them.
At no point did Mr.. Levy, in his
cross-eNamination, make any impress
sion on Cela's story. There was no
hesitation in her admissions that ir
her testimony before the coroner and
in her statement taken by Mr.. Levy
two days after the murder she had lied
At that time she was in Mrs. Carman'.
employ, and Mrs. Carman. according
to her testimony, had told her not to
reveal what she knew OF the killing