Evening Capital News

Following the Arrest of Mrs. Carman the Grand Jury Begins the Investigation of the Bailey Murder
Dr. Edwin Carman: his home In Freeport, L. I., arrow pointing to window through which Mrs. Louise Bailey was shot: diagram of Dr. Carman's ofice, showing how Mrs. Bailey was killed.

Freeport, N. Y., July 9.-In the court house adjoining the jail where Mrs. Florence Conklin Carman, wife of Dr. Edward Carman, is held prisoner on the charge of the murder of Mrs. Louise Bailey, wife of a Hempstead manufacturer, by firing a bullet through her heart while she was standing in the physician's office, the county grand jury today began an investigation of the affair. All of the witnesses who have appeared before the three sessions of the inquest and some others have been subpoenaed to appear as witnesses.

Mrs. Carman, at whom the finger of suspicion has been pointing, since the discovery that she had installed a telephonic instrument in her husband's office so that she might hear conversations between him and his women patients, is locked up in Nassau county jail at Mineola. There she will remain until Monday, when she will be again examined by the coroner, before whom she pleaded not guilty when arraigned yesterday after her arrest in the room where Mrs. Bailey died.

Mrs. Carman's iron nerve is shattered, for as the steel barred door of the Mineola jail closed behind her, she pulled her heavy veil from her face and broke down. Her husband and the sheriff, who took her in an automobile from her home here to the jail, assisted her to the top floor of the building.
The immediate cause of the arrest
was the testimony given by Ellwood T. Bardes, an insurance agent, whom the authorities called the single reliable eye witness of the crime. Bardes is under lock and key also. He is being detained as a material witness, for his story is of so great importance that the authorities said they feared an attempt might be made to get him out of the jurisdiction of the New York courts.

Story Told by Bardes.

Bardes' story, briefly told, is this: At 7:30 o'clock on the night of the murder, Bardes said, he determined to pay a professional visit to Dr. Carman and allow him to dress a minor injury on one of his heels. He left his home and walked to the physician's house. Arriving, he decided he could dress the injury himself and thereby save the doctor's fee.

So he walked past the house, and then turned around to begin his journey home. At that instant he heard an explosion. He thought it was caused by an automobile tire, but when he looked for the machine he could not find it. He turned his eyes toward the lawn at the side of Dr. Carman's home. A woman, tall, well built, hatless, wearing a light shirtwaist and a dark skirt, was moving away from one of the windows at the side of the physician's office toward the rear of the house. She was not running, not casually around the lawn: she was walking "in a hurry," the witness swore.

Bardes, the last witness to take the stand before the inquest was ended, was discovered only yesterday. His story might still remain untold had he not mentioned it, first to a woman, who promptly telephoned the district attorney, and then to a Catholic priest he visited for advice. The priest urged Bardes to make his story known. But before an opportunity presented itself, he was taken in custody by order of the district attorney.

Order for Arrest.

Coroner Norton, after spending
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hour studying the testimony of Bardes and other witnesses, wrote out his charge and ordered Mrs. Carman's arrest.

Word was sent to Mrs. Carman that she was about to be arrested and a few minutes later county officials entered the physician's office. Mrs. Carman, pale but retaining her self control, accompanied by her husband, attorney and others, came in a minute later.

Coroner Norton, for years an intimate friend of the family, with tears in his eyes, read his charge and the warrant of arrest he had signed. Mrs. Carman stood erect, facing him. Between them, on the floor, was a dark stain marking the spot where Mrs. Bailey died.

Mrs. Carman was allowed to go to the second floor of her home, where her mother has been ill in bed under the care of physicians since the day after the murder. Coroner Norton, relating what took place, said that upstairs Mrs. Carman kissed her mother, who told her not to worry and that everything would be all right.

With her husband and the sheriff, Mrs. Carman entered the automobile and was taken to the jail.

Although a cell had been prepared for her she was taken to the warden's apartments, on the top floor, where she was placed in the care of the matron, who gave up her own room to the prisoner. Dr. Carman and his wife's attorney remained in the jail until late last night.

While the automobile carrying Mrs. Carman was running through Hempstead, it passed a frail little girl in black. She was Madeline Bailey, 17-year-old daughter of the murdered woman.

She was not aware that a woman held as her mother's slayer was passing.