New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-05-05
DAYLIGHT CRIME
IS NEW CHARGE
TN CARMAN CASE
Prosecutor Contends That
Slayer's Face Was Recog-
nized Through Window.
SAYS FAMILY KEPT
KILLING FROM POLICE
Celia Coleman, Negro Maid, to
Swear To-day That Prisoner
Confessed Murder.

tFrow . star Correspondent Of ne Tr1bunsl
Mineola, Long Island. May 1.-THE
morrow brings Mrs. Florence Csrman's
most trying day.
On trial, charged =ith numbering
Mrs. Louise Bailey on June 80, 1914, she
will hear Celia Coleman, the negress,
formerly her maid, tell the jury, COM
pleted at to-dAy's session. that Mrs.
Carman confessed the killing. And. If
credence can be given 10 what leaks
from the ofFice Of District Attorney
Smith, Mrs. Carmsn will be confronted
with additional evidence that will make
the case against her much stronger
than that presented at the first trial.
Mr.. Smith will show that the murder
was committed long before the hour
admitted by the defence; that the
shooting was done in so strong a light
Of day that when the revolver bearing
hand came through the break in the
window DR.. Carman could see the face
Of the woman whose finger pressed the
trigger.
In the first trial il was but q hand
pictured TO the jury the hand Of an
unidentified woman, weirdly stretching
. through outside blackness into dimly
lighted room. Tomorrow there should
come some promise of revealing whose
face IL was that, from behind the hand,
! looked steadily into Carman's Office as
the shot that killed Mrs. Bailey was
fired.
If il was in the daylight that Mrs.
Bailey was slain, there is no eXplana-
ton in the record Of why DR.. Carpan
did not see the face OF the murderess.
II what Mr.. Smith says Is true, then
DR.. Carman's testimony at the FIRST
trial was untrue in several important
features. He testified that he looked
at his watch, which showed S:l5 p. m.
He testified that twenty minutes later
he notified the police. The District
Attorney intends 10 prove that the
murder was committed at least forty
minutes before the time Carman names,
and that the Carmans waited for more
than an hour after Mrs. Bailey was
dead before the police were notified.
n Mr.. Smith brings out what he
saws he intends to bring out the stu
alton for Mrs. Carman will be far more
perilous than before. And in saying
this sight is not lost Of the fact that
disagreement on a first trial operates
in the defendants favor on a second
trial.
Undoubtedly Mrs. Carman is more
worried now than when she faced pros
ecution last October. Her leading
counsel. George Morton Levy, has sand
that he has no new evidence Tor MS
client. In the selection of the seven
new jurors to-day five were seated on
exercised such discretion that there
seemed small probability for time
that the box would be filled to-day.
The seven men, who now complete
the panel, are as follows:
No. Jeremiah Brewer, seventy
two. farmer. Of Oceanside.
No. David d. Clarke, ffty-eight,
painter. Of Bayville.
No. S-Alfred ". Poole, forty-two,
carpenter, of Farmingdale;
No. 9 august d. Amend, forty, deco
rator, Of East Meadow.
No. 10 Arrender Abrams, forty-hve,
oyster planter. of Lynbrook.
No. ll-Walter Munson, forty, coal
and wood dealer, Of Port Washington.
No. l2-Ernest A. Streeseman, nifty
four. farmer. of Central Park.
The average age Of the jurors is
forty-six years five months. The last
Juror was selected at 3:5l p. m. JUS
tice Abel +. Biackmar declared recess
then until 4:l5, when District Attorney
Smith began his opening address. Mrs
Carman, a false brightness in her eyes,
pushed her chair closer TO the counsel
table when the prosecutor started TO
sneak. Dr. Edwin Carman, her husband,
took a seat in the line Of chairs back Of
her. giving up his place beside his wife
10 his nephew, J. II. Griffiths, young
man who resembles the physician:
Mr.. Smith consumed just eighteen
minutes in telling the jury what. he
purposed proving, playing up tho day
light feature strongly.
IL shall prove" he wound up ;hA'
a woman fred the shot that klllcd MIS-
Bailey; that it was fired with premedt
,ation and intent TO kill; that the