Evening journal., 1910-08-22
GOVERNOR OFFERS
$500 REWARD FOR
The MURDERERS
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to retire and was looking at the win
dow thinking at the time, somebody
would peer in at her At that mo-
ment face did appear and at first
she thought it was a delusion but the
head moved and the man asked if he
could stay for the night. She ordered
him away from the window and quick
ly turning out the lights went up
stairs. Mrs. Baldwin feared to call
her husband by telephone at the sta
tion, which is about 200 yards from
the house as he is quick tempered and
she thought there might be trouble.
Miss Baldwin said she and her mother
saw the man go away but not until
sometime afterward. Mrs. Baldwin
was badly frightened. She and her
daughter say the man was colored
and carried a bundle under his arm
and they are confident that the old
coat, table cloth and woman's under
shirt, found in the tunnel which
crosses the railroa dtracks at Clay
mont, on Saturday morning, were the
same that the stranger carried.
Today the old store on the Whining
ton and Philadelphia turnpike conduc-
ted by the Caseys and a landmark for
many years, was surrounded by quiet
ness which was so intense that it hurt.
On the spacious front porch of the
store were several fishing poles which
the aged grocer never took in at night
and a number of empty. boxes on
which his neighbors sat in the even
ings and chatted. One of the shut
ters on the window of the room in
which the aged couple were beaten to
death was open. Somebody had clos
ed the window, however. In the rear
of the building the window through
which the murderers are supposed to
have entered the house was a subject
for study and one wondered how
there could be such brutes in the
world who by sneakingly, in the dead
of the night,r enter a house occupied
by people too old to protect them
selves rud deliberately murder them
for a few dollars.
Yesterday the scene presented a far
different appearance. Fully a thousand
people visited the place many of them
coming from Chester and the trolley
cars did rushing business both from
this city and the other end of the line.
Many persons drove up to the store
in carriages. The ground around the
building was beaten track
where the curiosity seekers walk
ed about in never ending line
At the Episcopal Church, Claymont,
which Mrs. Casey, the murdered wO-
man, attended, the congregation yes
terday bowed in prayer. thought of
the beloved woman who had been one
of them and tears trickled down the
faces OF some. The pastor. the Rev.
Harry Chesley, referred to the terrible
crime in his prayer. While he did not
touch upon the murder in his sermon,
those who heard him could take a
meaning from his words.
1t was learned to-day that the muir
dered couple have a granddaughter
Miss Amy Casey. living In South Ches.
ter She was the daughter of a son
the latter having died seven or eighf
years ago. His wife died severa
years before he did In the even
that there is not a will the estate viii
go to this grandchild. Mr. CASEY
had two sisters, one of whom lives
at Elan. Pa, and the other in New
Jersey. His five brothers, all O
whom live in Brandywine hundred
are half brothers.
Joseph W. p. Casey, a half brother
said to-day that he did not know how
wealthy his brother was, but. h,
! imagined that he was worth $4,000.
The persons who robbed the saf,
left two one dollar bills in gooC
money behind them, and in addition
to number of counterfeit coins, som,
trade dollars, and twenty-five Of
thirty nickels. Why they left tn,
! silver coins can be imagined, as thel
are too heavy to carry away, anC
some of the old ones might prove tell
tales. They must have overlooked
the one dollar bills in their hurry.
In the hall upstairs was found
lantern, but it is not thought that tn,
murderers used this, Mr.. Casey bein,
accustomed to taking a lantern to bee
with him at night and turning it ou
after disrobing. The moon was shin
ing late Friday night and its rays mus
have shone through the bedroom o
the couple and illuminated their be,
so that the murderers had sufficien
light to locate the couple and commi
the terrible crime.
There were three lamps in the hous
and all three were found upon tn
shelf In the kitchen. The thieve
must have used a light Of some kin,
In breaking into the safe on tn,
first floor yet they left no trace. Di,
they use one of the lamps in tn
kitchen and then return it. This 4
very much unlike a burglar He gen
orally leaves his tools where he ha
been working in his hurry to max
his escape after the job is done.