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TWO CENTSWoman In Plot In Bailey Murder CaseGRAND JURY WIL1. SIFT MYSTERY AND RETURN AN* INDICTMENT.Clwndiitf Murder Again** (Woman District Attorney Relieves to Be Guilty.Freeport, N. Y.. July 8.—The grand jury will begin its investigation of the murder of Mrs. Louisv Bailey on Thursday at Mineola, the county seat. District Attorney Smith announced yesterday. He added be would demand an indictment charging murder be returned against t* woman who, he said, he was positive was the person who a week ago broke a window pane ' the office of Dr. Edwin Carman and fired a bullet into the heart of Mrs. Bailey.Upon what evidence the demand for the indictment will be based tat, district attorney would not say. He admitted, however, there was a possibility the grand jury might not heed his demand because of a lack of sufficient evidence.The story told by the witness who was examined in secret during the recess between the morning and afternoon sessions was revealed ye*, herd ay.A half hour before the momiue proceedings opened a mau whose name the officials say will remain a secret until Thursday, walked up to Car! Darenberg. a captain of the local police department, and boldly informed him he knew who killed Mrs. Bailey. He then told the captain the story he later repeated to the district attorney, his assistants and several private detectives. Drier-ly it is as follows:“ast Thursday morning the woman suspect met him (the new witness) and a man whose name he gave and who. he said, is now in Kansas City, in New York. The woman agreed to give them *50 each if one would bring a revolver and deliver It to her on the lawn at the side of Dr. Carman's home. The new witness and the man he declared ha* since fled, came to Freeport from New York on the same train with the woman. The man now missing had the revolver in his pocket.At 7:30 o'clock that night he went to the Carman home and there met the woman, who said she wanted to ’scare* some one inside. Alter a short talk the woman took the revolver, the mau popped up the screen and broke tibe window and then stood on one side while the woman thrust the weapon through the opening that had been made and fired. Then, according to the ptory, she handed the revolver back to her accomplice, who leaped over the low fence at the side of the bouse and escaped, while the woman disappeared' In another direction.According to the story, the man who told it- decided to Inform the authorities when his companion failed to turn over the money collected for bringing the reviver from New York and carrying It away. It was at first decided to hold the man who told the story as a material witness. After detectives had mken him to several places in an attempt to vet* fy his assertions, however, and he-had assured . the district attorney-that he would not go away, be was allowed to return to his home.“I do not know whether to believe-his story or not/'sald District Attorney Smith. According to the story he told us fclie first name of the man who carried the revolver was Gdorge and he Ip known in New York as a ■gunman.’
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Marshall News Statesman
Marshall, Michigan, US
Wed, Jul 08, 1914
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