Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-01-11
AMY ROBERTS TELLS
 STORY IN TUCKER CASE,
She Says That the Accused Man Had Met Mabel Page Handwriting Experts Finish Testimony - Great Throne. at The Trial To-Day. A Number Not Being Able to Get in the Court Room.

Cambridge, Mass, Jan. 11.-Amy Roberts, whose testimony has been eagerly awaited by the hundreds of spectators who have thronged the courtroom each day since the trial of Charles L. Tucker for the alleged murder of Mabel Page commenced. was expected to take the stand today. Miss Roberts is the housekeeper at the Page home in Boston. The last of the governments handwriting experts was called yesterday and the rest of the day was given up to minor witnesses. who related evidence regarding the appearance of the vicinity of the Page house at about noon on the day of the murder.
 Tucker was brought in shortly he, fore 9:3O. Hundreds were turned away from the court room, which was packed before the opening hour.
 George Smith. who first took the stand. briefly testified that he passed the Page house twice on the afternoon. ot the day on which Mabel Page wass murdered and saw nothing out of the ordinary. .-..s .,- .-'
 Amy Roberts, housekeeper for the Page family, was then called. The wo' man was very nervous. She admitted before the opening of court to-day that she felt the strain of long waiting 10 tell her story. She was expected to prove one of the prosecutions most imnortant witnesses.
 Tho int nb f,.; ney Sanderson brought out was the fact that the defendant had met Mabel Page. The witness said, as other wit. nesses had. that Tucker came to the Page house to see Harold Page about buying q dog. Witness said that Tucker talked with Mabel Page while witness went to the barn to find liar, old. Tucker was with Miss Page about ten minutes in the living room.
 Miss Roberts then described condi- lions and events at the Page house Oh it's ill tated day last spring. As the witness proceeded Tucker leaned for ward. apparently straining every nerve 10 hear her low toned words. ~
 The Roberts woman then told Of the action of Mabel Page in taking money from q purse in her room and placing it ip one keDt in the room formerly Oc- cupied by her mother. She also told of money kept in q drawer in the liv. ing room.
 She knew that there was q S10 bill and bills of other denomina tions in q purse which was kept in the drawet ~f-a table in the living room. for Miss Page had taken S1 from 1t to pay wit ness before she started from the house for | days absence. ... ...
 That evening. witness said, the purse in the table drawer was examined. IL was found to be unfastened and it contained only 36 cents.
 The evidence thus far was almost wholly corroborative of that given by Edward Page and Harold Page. father aid brother respectively of the mur. dered woman. Following thls the dis. trict attorney began asking questions about stick pins. Witness said tha! two such pins were missing from tho house after the murder. They had been in cushion in Mabel's room. The district attorney brought forward two pins and witness identified both. One os them. alleged to have been found in the pocket of Fuckers overcoat on the night of his arrest. She recognized It because of it's length and T certain peculiar bend in the shaft.
 Tucker again leaned forward as Miss Roberts identified the pin. He showed no emotion and quickly settled back in his seat.
 Tbis concluded the direct examina. ton of the witness.