The evening world. Newspaper, October 20, 1914, Page 1

ne RA ee A ee. NURSE SLAPPED BY MRS. CARMAN TELLS ON STAND OF JEALOUS RAGE ‘NAL ——_— — [ “Cireulation Rooks Open to eg WEATHER—Falr to-night end Wednesday) warmer » FANAL Copyright, 1914, by PRICE ONE CENT. Prees Co. (The New York World). The NEW YORK, ‘TUESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1914, 18 PAGES ——— PRIOE ONE ee MRS: CARMAN AMUSED AS- WOMAN DESCRIBES HER JEALOUS FRENZY Nurse Doctor’s Wife Slapped in His Office Takes Stand—Another Witness Gives New De- tails of Tragedy. (Special from Staff Correspondent of The Evening World.) MINEOLA, L. 1, Oct. 20.—District-Attorney Smith, in opening the taking of testimony in his effort to convict Mrs. Florence Carman of the murder of Mrs. Lulu Bailey, got before the jury at to-day’s ses- sion an entirely new portrayal of Dr. Edwin Carman, the defendant’! husband, and of his conduct in the tragicymoments just after Mrs. Bailey had been shot and killed in his presence in his office. Mrs. Varance, the nurse who was slapped by Mrs, Carman in the doctor's office, told of Mrs. Carman’s jealous rage. to the testimony with an expression of amusement. George Golder, a tanned, frowsy haired man of all work, dressed in his gardening clothes, with no collar attache’ to his rumpled blue shirt, was the witness used by Mr. Smith, waiting room when the shot was fired in the consultation room. Passed the office door as Dr. Carman opened it and called “come in,” went out to the yard and immediately returned and went into the office. The witness was there ten minutes. “Did you get any medicine aftr — you had helped put the woman's body|‘hese were the first sworn state- on the couch?” Mr. Smith asked, ied Site i : “em” sald the witness, “Dr. Car-1ais4 snowed that she had ‘yaseeans man gave me some medicine in an! some sort of an examination, but both envelope.” the medical men insisted that there @. How long were you in the room! Was no evidence of an Instrumental after the shooting? A. I should say operation, MRS, about ten minutes. CARMAN STIRRED BY Q. Dr. Carman opened the door GOLDER'S STORY. right after the shot; you had startel| The demeanor of Mrs. Carman out; you did not go in, but went out| throughout the forenoon session was to the porch and down the steps. one of amazing placidity. She did, How long did that take? A. About| however, take more interest in the three jumps going down. proceedings than she took yesterday, Q. Then you went right back to the particularly while Golder was testi- “ How long did that take? A.|f¥ing. Thon she leaned forward, her waned two jumps getting buek, 1/¢hin cupped in her hand, drinking in should Judge. every word, her eyes never leaving Q. Where was Dr. Carman? Near the face of the witness. the telephone? A. No, Mrs. Carman listened He Dr, Carman, his head thrown back @. Did he telephone to anybody?| #8 be lounged in his chair, showed Call for help? Notify anybody in aill| bit more concern than heretofore. Petia tc wae tere There were times when he scemed nervous. | egg ead eaangerdiar tiers this morning by Surrogate Graham, Mrs. Carman’s chief counsel, from a DR. CARMAN TOOK, TIME IN| Oct who aid he was i. Sox of No 1328 Huntington Park avenue, Phila- Q. Did you hear any one send a tel-| deipnia. silcox said that he knew ephone message from the room in : Mabel Hodge, known also as Mary which you wero with Dr. Carman Con ao killed Nersslt a Was continuously from immediately after | O20: who Killed herself in Buffalo last August after making a confes- t {nutes later? the shooting until ten minutes later?! 10) “oi? rae - Bailey. He told Mr. Graham that the Thus it was established that for the reasons or impulses which he is | ¥°m@n had sent him poisoned candy at liberty to explain on the stand Inter | {0M Elmira and that he had her ar- Dr. Carman took his own comfort-| "sted. She pleaded guilty, he said, able time and even prescribed for a| 424 Was sent to jail for three months. patient before sounding an alarm. ois te ae she bad moot hin 8 The salient points of Golder's tes- letter from Freeport. tfmony were that the “woman in|4USBAND AND DAUJHTER OF white” he saw from his seat in Dr. VICTIM PRESENT. Carman's waiting room go to tne| “ few minutes before court opened rear of the house and then come back | Mrs Ida Powell, Mrs, Carman's sis- Just before the shooting wus the| ‘ef aFrived and took a seat directly tame woman who had gone to the|Deind the accused woman. Mra. door to admit patients, and that he| Purves and Madeline Bailey, with did not know Mrs. Carmun from her reese "bad seats in the rear . Ida Powell. . Dede tafeeestea of two of the| District-Attorney Smith began his Coroner’s physicians, Drs. Phipps and ie el my reading a sum- Grimm, who performed the autopsy, feats © for al charges of the the District-Attorney got before the “a acuta anf lop tor my rs, ad ,| 1 intend to produce here," he sald. Thie condition had been hinted at many times-since =the- murder, -but' (Conyaued on Twupth Peeed» inthis i a ant anche Hei GETS $5,000 J0B WORKING FOR CITY | wc BY READING ‘AD’ George G. Thomson Made Third Deputy Commis- sioner of Charities, NO POLITICAL PULL. “IT Don't Even Know 'W His Party Is,” Says Com- missioner Kingsbury. at If you are looking for a $5,000 a year city Job, don't get your political leader busy. Instead, keep your eyes Siued to the newspaper advertising columns. George G. Thomson of No. 129 Wadsworth avenue, Manhattan, did Commissioner of Charities, having | to-day been appointed by Charities Commissioner Kingsbury as succes sor to Gordon Ireland, who has rv signed to devote his time to the prac- | tice of law. When Mr. Thomson waa finally de- :elded upon for the Deputyship, Char Golder was in the physician’ | itles Commissioner Kingsbury swears | he did not even ask the man whether he was a Rull Moosite. He is not yet awore of the politics of the new appointee, When Mr, Ireland resigned Com- missioner Kingsbury decided to ad- vertise in the papers for a successor. He consulted Mayor Mitchel. "Go ahend and advertise,” Mayor, tration.” - This is the way the advertisement for the $5,000 deputyship read: WANTED Business manager, 96 to 40 years of age; able jpermtend large forces of employers, direct extensive construction work, organise and direct purchasing and distribution af enormous quantities of supplies; only mon of marked exec. utive ability and good experience need apply; sal- ery $5,000 4 year; highest references required. OTevars) werd’ (ree nupared aacware immediately. The work of examining them was the hardest task of Com- missioner Kingsbury's saieer, applica worth $10 a week, acc erin : ia ‘ie who looked them over. With them camo an army of Bull Mereers, “one At the elbows and low at But Commissioner Biegetaty uae “ refuse them. Mr. Thomson was manager of pur- chases and supplies for the United States Express Company. He began his career with Marshall Field & Co. of Chicago, Entering *» Post Office in 1896 he was promoted until he be- came an Assistant Chief Clerk under Postmaster Cortelyou. Later he was appointed Chief Clerk by Postmaster- General Hitchcock, which position he held until his connection with the express company. Mr, Thomson was one of the com- mittee of five which devised the postal savings system in this country, said the “this is @ business adminis- “I don't know just what party |% ‘Thomson Is affiliated with,” said Com- missioner Kingsbury, “but I think he's Republican or a Progres- ‘Then he added with a smile: “I'm certain he’s not a Democrat.” — JAPANESE SEIZE MORE ISLANDS USED BY ENEMY AS BASE OF OPERATIONS. TOKIO, Oct. 2 nounced that for ‘Kic reasons” | the Japanese naval detachments have selzed the principal islands in the German groups of the Marshall, La- gr st and West Caroline archi- “These islandse have been used by the Germans as buses for their war- abipe operating in the Pasian that, and new he te Third Deputy} Bate | Mother, Husband and Daughter of Mrs. Bailey; Witness Who Gave New Details on Stand To-Day KILLED, WOUNDED, | MISSING IN WAR SO FAR ARE 1,272,000 Estimates ry on British Losses Show a Startling Total of Casualties. Estimating the casualities among the eight hostile nations on the pro- portionate basis of British losses, the total number of killed, wounded and captured during the first ten weeks of the war is nearly 1,300,000, The following table as possible, the n nearly of men actu- ish losses are th ones that have an olicial basis, 16 per cent, of casualities among British, therefore, may be sald to represent an offlelal estimate, If this prevails among all the the following Is the distrivut iithes 460.000 Molgtana | neler | threes woun apne [Basie the casu Killed 99.858 Wounded» | Captu: 908,570 Total 1 above Aguren ure nished by @ war expert of the United Press.) ARMY-NAVY GAME ON AGAIN FOR NOV. 28 Annual Foothall Game in Philadel- phia—New York Gets Attrac- tion Next Year The annual football gaao between the Army und Navy will be played after all. John R. Young, of the Merchants’ Avsoclation, acting for both branches of the service, an- nounced early this afternoon that representatives of the athletic asso- ciations of Annapolis and West Point onferred this morning and finally to play the Kame at Franklin *hiladelphia, on Ne The agree Field, gume next 5 will be played in New York, There will be a meeting to-morrow in Philadelphia to arrange the detalis The meeting was called shortly | after word came from Washington that everything would be off unless the assuciations could reach an agreement to-day, This brought the representatives of Army and Navy to New York in a hurry and the mattor was settled In quick thine Hride a Niece ° var Charles J. Hons, raw at Wedding, PARK, Nod, Get. 20. John J. Metiraw of the "Ginnts' wa urried 4 t noon to Heit Ke nice of M Hy to Mise and Mr Hit to Branch bed the Glants at Ue VILLA, WITH ARMY OF 18 000, FES Germans in Announcing the Sinking PEACE DELEGATES? General Reported to Have Marched Into City and Jailed Convention Members. LAREDO, Tex., Mexican Oct. 2.-A favorable to local paper, Car- ranza, announced to-day that it had received advices that Gen. Villa en- tered Aguascalientes at the head of 18,000 troops and made prisoners of the delegates attending the peace con- vention, Gen, Antonio Villeroal, mentioned as Villa's choice for Pro- visional President, was said to have heen the only delegate to escape, he going to Mexico City, Carranza leaders asserted that they had received the same Information in private telegrams. Tho report was irmed from Villa sources Villa's act is said to be due to the fact that the peace delogates opponed his wixhes In the convention, SAN ANTONIO, Tex., Oct. 20.—The Mexican Consulate here to-day re- ceived a report from Mexico City, stating that Gen. Francisco Villa created a panic among the delegates to the convention of military chiefe in Aguancaliontes to-day by moving an army of 18,000 men Into position where he can envelop the city and imprison the entire conference Villa's army ts reported to be with- in an hour's march of Aguasoa- lentes, To oppose him there are Carranza troops at Monterey and Saltillo but it would take from four to twelve hours to get them to Aguascaltentes. According to the message from Mexico City to the Consulate, the | delegates at Aguascalientes, who |include many chiefs of the Conati- tutionalist army, have made an ap- their during the convention, which ay, They declare that Villa's soldiers, who are in Aguas- allentes ax escorts to the chiefs of army, rob them and insult nin the streets, ‘They ask that wseallentes and surrounding ter- jared neutral during the Jconvention or that the convention be 1 to Mexteo City, Ox, peal to Carranza to guarantee Villa’ the Ag | ritory be « | remove BA family of Oct. 20.—The | ino Carranza, Con- 1 Chief, reached the day. It was an ed that they would make their Meodras Ax, opponite he Mexican of the Rio Grande. The reported to be for th f Carrangn’s family in case of developments untevorable to bim, stitutionalist & an border te >on the move ment was |the enemy, the Belgian army has held its position on the ALLIES LOSE HEAVILY IN BATTLE AT LILLE, REPORT FROM BERLIN German War Office Admits Meeting Strong Resistance on the River Yser, While Paris Asserts Belgian ArmyHolds Position at That Point KAISER'S FLEET COALS UP; MAY MOVE OUT FOR BATTLE. of a British Submarine on Sunday Admit Loss of the Four Destroy- ers in Battle on Saturday. BERLIN, Oct. 20 (via wireless through Sayville, L. 1., to the United Press).—It was officially announced here to-day that the new British submarine E-3 was sunk by German warships in the North Sea on Sunday. [This {s the first report that has reached here of the loss of a British submarine, The E—3 went into commission in November, 1913. She was 176 feet long, 22.6 feet beam and her displacement wad’810 tons, She had a wpeed of fifteen knots, was equipped with four torpedo tubes and carried a crew of sixteen men. [This is the first loss sustained by the British submarine service since the outbreak of the present war.) In admitting the loss on last Saturday of the destroyers S-115, S118, S-117 and S-119, the Admiralty states that the worst feature of the loss was the death of the majority of the members of the crews, all especially trained men. The destroyers themselves, it is stated, were comparatively old. LONDON, Oct. 20 [Associated Press].--In a despatch from Rotterdam the correspondent of the Evening News declares that the German marines are leaving Antwerp to rejoin the German fleet, and the German ships at Kiel are being extensively provisioned. Bi AMSTERDAM (via London) [Associated Press].—The following official communication from Berlin, dated Oct. 20, has been received in Amsterdam: “The Germans advancing along the coast from Ostend met hostile forces at the Yser River, near Nieuport, where fighting has been going on since last Sunday. “Yesterday the attacks of the enemy west of Lille were repulsed, the enemy suffering heavy losses." OFFICIAL FRENCH REPORT Germans Unable to Check Offensive on Meuse, Says Paris PARIS, Oct. 20 [Associated Press].—The French War Office gave out an official statement this afternoon as fol- low: In Belgium, in spite of violent attacks on the part of line of the River Yser. “There have been other actions In the region of Ypres | between the allied forces operating inthis territory and the \forces of the enemy. “On our left wing the Germans continue to hold strongly their advance posts around ‘Lille in the direction of Armene tieres, Fournes and La Bassee. (a “On the Meuse the enemy has endeavored in vain to |, drive back the advance posts of our troops who have moved \ out along the right bank of this stream in the peninsula { of the Camp des Romans, To sum up, during the day-of Oct. 19-we-haveomade - i