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Show WILL ARREST WOMAN FOR BIEY1RDER Sheriff Positive He Has Sufficient Suf-ficient Evidence to Warrant War-rant Such Action. DOCTOR IS FIRED UPON Claims Man on Bicycle Tried to Kill Him While Riding in Auto. , FREF.FORT. X. Y., July 5 Vr. C.nr-n-.an, in whos office Mrs. Louise Falley was murdered hist Tuesday evening, was shot at three times tonight aa he drove In his automobile through the town of Baldwin, ne.ir here. None of the bullets ! struck him. The doctor was on his way home from Kockville Center, where he had been to attend a patient. Dr. Carman told the police that as he passed through Rockvlllo Center he saw an actor he knew whom he invited to ride home with him. When they were a sh-rt distance outride the town they heard an explosion and though. t one of the tires had given way. The doctor said he stopped the car and had started to get out when he heard a shot and looking around saw a man standing beside a bicycle pointing a revolver re-volver at him. As he Jumped back In the car. he said, that he heard another bullet sing by his head, but opened the throttle and was soon out of range. A search was Immediately begun for the rr.an with the bicycle, although the police suggested that Dr. Carman might be mistaken. Sufficient Evidence. Sufficient evidence has been discovert , to warrant the arrest of a woman for the murder of Mrs. Louise Bailey In the office , of Dr. Edwin Carman last Tuesdav night, i according to Sheriff Stephen P. Petti t of : Nassau county. The sheriff announced that the woman positively wouM be taken into custody before the end of the week. roaslMy at the close of the coroner's inquest tomorrow. tomor-row. The sheriff added that the Imports Im-ports nt evidence In h!s possession would i not he presented at the in juest. Whether this so-called new evidence is the revolver with which the murder was committed, the sher.ff would not eay. j The ends of Justice, he declared, would I te defeated should he amplify his statement. state-ment. When the inque3t is resumed Mrs. Ida Powell, fitter of Mrs. Florence Conklin Carman, w ufe of the physician, will be recalled to the stand. It is understood that she will be given , an opportunity to change that part of the testimony she gave on Friday concerning con-cerning her whereabouts Just beore the ' murder. Golder Positive. George Colder, one of Dr. Carman's patients, who was in the house when the shot was fired, testified he saw Mrs. Carman Car-man on the front porch of her home when he entered the house a half hour before the shot was fired. When it was suggested he might have mistaken Mrs. Carman for her eister, Golder was confronted with the two women and immediately Identified Mrs. Carman as the woman he had seen, not only on the porch before the murder, but in the doctor's ofice Just after It. Mrs. Carman and Mrs. Powell both . denied they were on the front porch at all last Tuesday night. Now, Coroner ' Norton says, he understands Mrs. Powell j has "refreshed her memory" and rem em -! bers she was sitting on the porch when Golder arrived, with Mrs. Piatt Conklin, her mother. Too III to Testify. Mrs. Conklin is too ill to testify at the inquest, so the coroner will visit the Carman home tomorrow with a stenographer stenogra-pher and lake down her story. Mrs. Conklin, according to District Attorney Smith who has already interviewed her, will say that fche was on the porch when Golder arrived. Detectives declared tonight that one of their number had discovered a clew which led him to believe that the murder of Mrs. Bailey was the result of a conspiracy which was hatched by three women living In a nearby village. The motive, the detective de-tective said, was revenge. The clew was discredited by the county authorities, however, when It was brought to their attention. The women, the detectives de-tectives stated, were trying, to kill the doctor and shot Mrs. Bailey by .mistake. May Be Recalled. There Is a possibility that Mrs. Carman Car-man may be also recalled to the witness stand that the district attorney may question her regarding certain points in her testimony of Friday. The heavy guard which was thrown around the Carman house last midnight was taken off during the day. But one policeman In uniform remained at the house. , ...j Tonight, however, the jguard on all sides of the house was replaced. Dr. Carman told the authorities tonight to-night he feared some persons, whom h named might secrete a .38-caliber revolver revol-ver with one exploded cartridge in It on his property. The body of Mrs. Bailey was tmrled today in the family plat in Greenfield cemetery, near her home in Hempstead. |