The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-09-02
Footprints Show Murderer Worked In Stocking Feet
 -Lantern Globe Helps
TWO SUSPECTS NOW
 WATCHED BY POLICE
,Coroner's Inquiry Thursday With Host of Witnesses
 Body Still Unburied

With the finding of small sums of
 money hidden throughout the shop of | the murdered Newtown cobler, Will
 liannb Corr, and the dusty globe of a lantern which fails to fit any recepta- cle in the building and cannot be pur- chased in the town, State Policemen
 Vire1H and Hurley in conjunction with Deputy Sheriff A. B. B1akeman, are
 today busily engaged in running down the clues which have been suddenly opened to them
 | Several suspects are known to be
 under surveillance in Newtown and vicinity and with the holding of Ed ward Collins in the Bridgeport jail
 until he finally shows where his move
 ments between dusk and o'clock on
 Saturday evening took him, it is be- lieved that marked progress in clear ing up the mystery will be shown within the, next few days.
 The body of the murdered man is where it will remain until a certfd- cate for burial Is issued by the cor oner It is believed that though Theodore Corr. a brother, is still in Newborn. attempting to make pro- visions for the burial the body will be buried in the town lot. Another brotherS in New York city, has not yet been heard from.
 The. lantern globe, which was first noticed this morning by the officials engaged in the inquiry is of the type used on the N. Y, N E. Railroad and bears those initials etched in the glass Though covered with dust when found it is thought to have played an irn- portant part in the killing and is be- ing closely guarded by the detectives who today refuse to state just what Significance they place upon the find. It is asserted, however, that two Of the suspects under surveillance were in a position to secure such 8 globe and they will probably be questioned as to it's appearance in the cobbler's shop.
 A new witness secured by Sherifr Blakeman and Medical Examiner Kier-4 nan, who are both engaged on the case today is said to have asserted that he saw the murdered man standing in his doorway as late as T o'clock Sat- urday evening, but in view of the fact that copy of the Bridgeport Evening Farmer, which he always read daily as soon as 1t arrived, was later fouIid outside the doorway of the shop. if is the prevailing opinion the witness erred in his belief that he saw Corr at that hour.
 The plaster casts of the footstena distinctly visible in the garden in the
 rear of the shop and which the police believe were made by the departing
 murderer after the rainstornn of Sat1r-
 day night show marked peculiaEities
 in that. both shoes seem to be rigflts one of which was worn on the left
 foot This would indicate that the
 murderer may have worked in his bare-feet and in an endeaHor to escape with dash have put on the wrong
 shoe, leaving his own behind The 1 ownership of every pair of shoes left
 in the shop is now being traced. It is also probable that the mur-
 derer committed the deed in the after
 noon but rifled the store under cover H. | until after a cessation, which occurred
 between midnight and 1 o'clock Sun day morning, That he stayed with his victim and did not get all the money
 that was hidden in the building is a
 baffling mystery to the officers, who
 though still Adhering to the robbery
 motive find many points that indicate a deeper desire to secure something more important than money. Coroner Phelan is due to arrive in Newtown at 10 o'clock Thursday morning and a. host of with esses await his coming to testify as to the happen ings prior and subsequent to the dis covery of the deed
 It has been definitely established that the blood Collins clothing came from the reopenfng of an old wound in the Newtown Inn where he reIs.
 B. H. Cannon. grand juror. a. resi-
 dent of Newtown living directly oppo- site the cobbler-shop stated today that he slept on the front porch of his home from II o'clock on the night of the murder and that his dog which
 keenIy scents the approach of strang-
 CTS did not utter one bark during the
 night This is considered strange
 coincidence if the plaster-cast theory is to be followed.
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