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Show ACCUSED III DEIS FIRING THE FATAL SHOT Mrs. Florence Conklin Carman Car-man Takes Witness Stand to Clear Herself of Murder Mur-der Charge. ADMITS SLAPPING A TRAINED NURSE Insists She Was Not Jealous When She Installed Die- j tagraph ; Says Celia Coleman Cole-man Invented Story. j i MIXEOLA. N. Y., Oct. 2:. Mrs. Florence Flor-ence Conklin Carman took the witness ;tand in her own defense in the supreme ! 'ourt here late today to enter a eweep-ng eweep-ng denial of the charge that she rcur-lered rcur-lered Mrs. Louise Bailey. Item by item she went over the story )f Celia Coleman, the negress in her :np!oy at the time of the tragedy in the arrnan home in F report last June, and leolared eatse every accusation made .gainst h'r by the former maid. A fabrication from beginning to end vas. in the essence, her characterization f the maid s narrative ot" the events of lie night Mrs. Bailey was shot and :illed :n the office -j( Dr. Edwin Carman, n the office of the defendant and the ubsequent happenings in the Carman icme. The story told by the girl was offered ry the prosecution as tending directly to onnect Mrs. Carman with the shooting ; nd the efforts of Mrs. Carman's counsel ' oday in questioning his client were designed de-signed chiefly to discredit the servant's estimony. Answered Frankly. : Mrs. Carman responded with alacrity ;nd seemingly with entire frankness to he questions of her attorney. Her de-"Jieanur de-"Jieanur was that of a woman in complete j 'omniand of herself. On occasion she : miled. Again her face wore an expression expres-sion of sadness, as when she mentioned ::er isit to the morgue to view the body, A the woman the state claims she killed, r. She looked into the faces of the jurors vith steady eyes when she desired to 1m-"ress 1m-"ress them with some particular point "nd she seemed ' resentful when certain -A;rus in the story of the negress were, :jnrier discussion. Mrs. Carman was on the witness stand -early an hour under direct examination, --ne will undergo cross-examination to- -lurrow. i surprise Sprung. The defense sprang a surprise when -George M. Levy, her attorney, called her fame and asked her i take the tand. ji'he court has been adjourning every day ,it 4:o0 o'clock. The crowd in the court -iwom had been listening with little appar-, appar-, nt iniei est in stories told by witnesses ...ailed in an effort to break down the testimony offered by Frank Farrell, the ;owery character, who is another of the people's Important witnesses. Many of huse who had been In attendance :-,l:ru'.ighoui the day had left when the defendant de-fendant was called, nearly fifteen min-'.'tei min-'.'tei after the regular cloning time. ' The-, wife of the Freeport physician ad-"i ad-"i lit' 'd that she had installed a telephonic mi ai men t in her husband's office, but 'ie natiy denied that she was "insanely vValous." She said she had heard people V:k her husband "how all his girls were." I ometimes he had stayed out all night, ecausa of her daughter, she said, she - id not want to obtain a divorce. But j' her husband was as bad as he had been ; tainted to her she wanted to know it. -VOore Out Device. If she found out what she had heard ' as true, she said, she had determined )a t she would continue to live in the inte house with him as if nothing had 'er happened, but that she would never n-ak to him again. Then, on the morn-Cj)g morn-Cj)g a fter the murder, she declared, she ""re out the device that the district at-i at-i rney had termed a "mechanical eaves- fopper," because she thought her hns-and hns-and already had enough to bother him. Jie explained her every action. Mrs. Carman corroborated Home of the : ate's witnesses bv admitting that on '. ie evening of the murder sho had called :? her daughter Elizabeth to stop play-n-'ff the piano. But she did this, she vore- beeau.se she had a headache and ot. as the prosecution has intimated, icause she wanted to listen over the echantcal eavesdropper to what her hus- : ind was saying to a woman in his of-: of-: ' ce- admitted, too. that on one oc- ;. is Ion she looked in the same window -. ' tnat through which the assassin of ;rs- Bai)f'y fired. But this, she said, was ; ; -cause she knew a trained nurse ho ap-yiared ap-yiared to be fond of was in his office. :' hieing questioned about what occurred fnen she saw the trained nurse in the r dec, Mrs. Carman said : I saw the doctor and Mrs. Varrance 'ttinjr in the office. Thev were facing ich other and talking. Then I saw the -. . (Continued on Pago Four.) ACCUSED III 1 THE WITNESS STID (Continued from Page One.) doctor throw his hands up and shake his head. They continued talking for a few minutes and then I saw the doctor put his hand in his pocket and withdraw a roll of bills. He placed them on his leg and smoothed them out. Then he extracted ex-tracted S15 from the roll and handed it to Mrs. A'arrance. She. placed it in her purse and smiled. As they stood up they still faced each other, and then she leaned forward and kissed him on the cheek. When I saw this I knocked at the window and then ran around to the door of the office and knocked. I said, 'Doctor, doctor, open the door at once.' The doctor let nie in then. T said to j them, 'This is a fine piece of business for ! old married people with i;rown-up chil- 1 Uren like you to be doing." Slapped the Nurse. "Then T1 raised my hand like this and slapped Mrs. Variance on the cheek. I said. "This is the way our money oes, does it?" We had several talks about money. Although the doctor was making plenty of money a nd col lectins It we could not seem to be able to save any.,, Tie sai-i. 'T am not giving It to her. 1 am loaning it.' I aked her if this whs correct cor-rect and she said. "Yrs, he is lending it to me.' I demanded the money hack and she returned it. I told her to pet out of the house and never to return. She asked the doctor If she could not come nnv more, and he said. 'The house be- ; lonscB to her: she 1ms all the say.' After j she had cone the doctor was vry ani;ry anil he save me the mom a W'ul call I ng down I have ever had in my lite. He said that if T ever did mndi thlny agiiin lie would not live with me any more." Denial in Toto. In denying (Vila's storv he made no qualifications. She denied every accusation accusa-tion without reservation. Cell as testimony, testi-mony, according to Mrs. Carman, was a pur" fahrh.ation from besr'.nniiiE to end. When Mrs. Carman stepped down from the stand he was apparently as fresh an when she went on. She walkd around the rear of the jury box, crabbed Utile Klizabeth up in her arms and kis.-cd her AS ft m and aealn. "Oh." she e-aid. furring to her nio!hr. M-n. Piatt Conklin. "I do sn hor ihr-v ! will believe mr I tnM vrvt htng T knew. I told the truth and that surely I should be enough." j Some Inconsistencies. ' I Who! no- hr storv v. as ';! v!nMT: a; nr not remains to b iecri. ; t tiiere iati h no I'mjhr atviii t v-nnan hrs-lf. Sh nrr ':r-rh'v. T thr or frvir in':oristfn',ie- in !""r tory aloli:tf i 'a is ff b imps n na ' ur -d ' '1 nt app.i (" unMi ih" ot.iii id lefr t'r.t taud and t i t o r- Tbo h-id hf.rd hr hdd tWu?M it a 11 c-ver out In f r -p"!! a ,r Ker -ri'cn wa s snt'i . 1 1 ' u' 1 - mod u -!;tti ?rd lw. Fo )w did It dr"p c-"'-i-:ona I!v f 1 t ti' x r t -rr. .. ald ur "n V' to' vpk a tr"" tu'ir n f'nt a'l nii?h h--r b-. 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