The Old Nassau County Courthouse was the focus of national attention in 1914, when Florence Conklin Carman was tried as part of a sensational murder case. Extensively detailed in newspapers across the United States, the pattern of facts surrounding the crime suggested that Carman, the wife of a doctor who was treating the victim, had acted in a jealous rage. Mrs. Carman, however, was eventually acquitted and absolved of all wrongdoing.
