Evening journal., 1910-10-10
STATE OUTLINES
ROBERTS CASE
Deputy Attorney General Tells
Jury Of Circumstances on
Which Conviction is Hoped
PHOTOGRAPHS OF MURDER
SCENE ARE IN EVIDENCE

In opening the Roberts murder
case IN the Court OF Oyer and TIE mi
ner this afternoon Deputy Attorney
General Wolcott said the prisoner is
on trial for the murder of Robert
Casey, Jr. Mr. Wolcott defined the
crime OF murder I'm the first degree.
The state will contend that whoever
killed Robert Casey did so with malice
aforethought.
Mr.. Wolcott said &c viii be shown
that Casey aud his wife We're found
I'm bed murdered on the morning of
August 20 MIR. Wolcott described the
condition OF the room where the pair
We're murdered. Downstairs the safe
was found open but What was taken
other than a black wallet the state
said II could not show. In the safe
beneath the ledgers, Mr.. Wolcott said,
was a special box containing S47 in
ten cent pieces On the floor was a
check dropped by the burglar and
murderer, after killing the couple
with club from wild cherry tree.
A ladder was up against the building.
The State VIII argue that II was
through an upstairs window the
murderer entered.
Mr.. WOlcott added that Mr.. aud Mrs.
Casey ate supper at s o'clock and the
State chemist viii show that undi-
gester food remained in their stom-
achs.
The prisoner was interviewed by
Detective ellis and James p. Rat
ledge In Chester He signed a state
ment that he was not in the vicinity
OF Claymont on August 10. Despite this
Mr. Wolcott said the testimony of
Mrs. Mary H. Lloyd. Madeline Lloyd,
and William l.. Hubbard would be
that he was seen there at . o'clock on
the day before the couple were found
dead Mir Wolcott said the crew of
trolley car viii also testify that they
put Roberts off al the barley road,
half a mile from the Casey home at
9.15 o'clock that night The state said
that Mrs Baldwin viii also swear that
at IL o'clock on the night Of the muir
der she saw Roberts go down Myrtle
avenue towards the river. On Septem-
Der 10 Roberts read over statement
that he was in Chester with two other
men in n saloon. These men Will be
produced to contradict Roberts.
Mr. Wolcott said the club with
which The Caseys had been beaten TO
death was taken from wild sherry
tree on the banks Of the Delaware
river. Perpendicular with that tree is
the Casey house. The club fits per-
fectly on the tree. On the same barley
road near Roberts brothers house is
a corn field that Immediately faces the
cherry tree. The state will show the
tracks of a man going TO the cherry
tree and from there IN the direction
/ OF the Casey home. Then the tracks re-
( trace TO Myrtle avenue.
"The man who made those tracks
got that club. and the man who gol
that club killed Robert Casey, and the
tracks were made by Reese Roberts,
/ Mr. Wolcott declared.
The state will show that his shoe
/ fitted into the tracks and that wher-
ever this shoe was put down Il left
the marks OF this Identical shoe, Mr..
Wolcott added,
Harrie A. Bell was the first wit
ness called by the state He pro-
duced photographs Of the room where
Mr.. and Mrs Casey were murdered.
They were admitted in evidence.
Photographs of the store inside and
outside were also admitted.
Engineer James l.. Ferrebee pro-
ducod plot showing the neighbor-
hood of the Casey home down to the
Delaware Aver IL showed the house
OF Frank Roberts. A signboard. the
cherry tree and the Casey home. From
the cherry tree to the Casey home is
1850 feet. little over half mile.
AT / o'clock court took a recess
until 2.3O o'clock.