Evening journal., 1910-10-12
FOOT PRINTS AS
MURDER CLUE
State Shows Roberts Shoes
Fitted in Tracks Found
Near Casey Home
MANY WITNESSES TELL
OF EXAMINING marks

When Deputy Attorney General VOL
colt opened for the State In the Reese
Roberts trial ON Monday few persons
believed the State had such chain
of circumstantlal evidence as has been
presented during the trial Roberts
is being tried ON indictment charging
the murder OF Robert Casey. Jr., and
his wife, at Claymont on August 10.
Day hy day Roberts has been placed
near the scene of the murder. Three
witnesses have testified that they saw
Roberts ON the Darby road between
3 and o'clock on the day the crime
was committed The crew of the
Darby car say they took him to Myrtle
avonue. Ciaymunt. shortly after 9
o'clock ihat night, and Mrs. Baldwin
has sworn that she saw Roberts peer
ING In her sitting room window at
/ 1000 o'clock the night OF the murder
/ Tracks to and from the wild cherry
tree from which was taken the club
/ with which the aged couple were kill
I cd, have been measured. and the
shoes Of Roberts fitted into them. ac-
cording to the States testimony
Marks ON the shoes of Roberts, the
State has also shown. have fitted ex-
actly into the ones made in the
piOwod field and the corn field near
the Casey home The tracks came
by the wild cherry tree and led to
and from the direction Of the Casey
homestead
When the third day OF the trial
opened this morning there were only
100 persons in the audience. Roberts
bore the same air of unconcern as
has characterized him since the trial
began The jury looked bright and
fresh this morning after walk.
More Footprint Testimony.
Thomas p. Gooden. who lives on
the Naaman's Creek road. Claymont.
was the first witness called to-day.
He said he remembered being along
the Delaware river near Myrtle ave.
nue. on August 80. when he saw many
4 footprints and followed them with
several other men. The prints were
old, Gooden said. and the party keep
n out of them. Goodon was shown Rob
Y ertH' right shoe which lifted th
trucks IN the corn field The she
imprint corrcspondcd I'm every va
Win one OF the marks, -fitness sal
sSha -'e'.tssiaiE, Scra iii =. sssns,,
direction We're similar. Gooden
although he did not compare the s.1, en-
In cross-examination Gooden esl
lu there were no other tracks n bae,
lg cultivated field that day from
BE- Eben n. Baldwin. the next vii with
h. said he was I'm the party that ftte
shoes into the tracks iu the fields Gov
V The cherry tree Mr.. Baldwin 'dqr-
e cribed the tracks. their peculiaritieS,
b. and the perfect a. of the shoes i'm
them. The tracks in the nearby fields
We're the same size. witness declar-
, ed. He recognized the right shoe OF
Roberts as the one that fitted per-
fectly in the tracks In the fields. The
81 tracks showed the half sole. the nails.
heel plate and the Sits I'm the side
Of the shoe.
o. In cross-examiuation by Mr. Ball,
the witness reiterated his teati-
s mony.
4 John L. Bird, OF Claymont. testified
= along the same line regarding the
tracks and the fitting of the shoe into
} the footprints i'm the fields near the
/ wild cherry tree.
b. r. T. Dickinson said he also was
] In the neighborhoOd OF Claymont on
, August 30, and saw the tracks. He
e described the pecularities Of the
4 marks as described by tho previous
- MAANfnntns nv iiuNhns MANNfnn chius
p We're in a southwesterly direction
r When William nanzenbaker was
h called Mr. Ball drew the attention Of
y the court to the fact that six witness
es had already testified regarding
r the tracks
Il The court ruled that the number OF
2 witnesses did not apply i'm this in
y stance and Mr.. Danzenbaker told OF
= having been in the field at Claymont
= on August % and of seeing the tracks
IF They were near the cherry tree ans
= in the corn field.
70 Danzenbaker said he had seen th'
>, right shoe IN evidence fitted into thi
:, tracks on August 30. Witness sale
= the marks peculiar TO the shoe eN
! hibitod We're shown plainly i'm thu
ground He looked at the footprint:
through a magnifying glass 10 sea
them palmer. The witness said he
saw the left shoe fitted into the tracks
in the fields on September 1. Il ft-
ted perfectly and showed the side