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kirby’s wonderful museum.
on the harrowed part. I then traced them to the water pit,
in the harrowed field ; the woman’s I suddenly lost sight of,
but I saw those of the man to the very edge of the path.
On the opposite side of the pit, I saw footsteps on the har-
rowed ground, in a contrary direction to those 1 have de-
scribed; they extended more than three parts across the field,
they took a turn to the left, crossed the foot-path near the
middle of the field, and continued/ up to the gate at the far
corner of the piece. These footsteps appeared to be the
footsteps of a man running. There were no impressions of
a woman’s shoe to be seen in this last tracing. The field
into w Inch the gate leads is a clover field, leading towards
Pipe-hall. A person at the spot where the tracks ceased,
wanting to go to Castle-Bromwich, might, by going through
this piece, and others, upon trespass, go a much nearer way
than by the regular turnpike-road. The nearest regular road
to Castle-Bromwich, from Penn’s Mill, is up the foot-path
towards Erdington and through Bell-lane. I afterwards
went to the field with Joseph Bird, with a pair of the pri-
soner’s shoes. They were what are called rights and lefts.
We compared them particularly with a dozen of the tracks;
they fitted exactly ; and I have not the least doubt the other
impressions of a man’s foot I had tracked in different parts
of the field were made by the same shoes. We compared
the shoes with the tracks on the foot-path, with the footsteps
which first went off the foot-road, with those where the
doubling was, with those which appeared to be made by a
person running, with those leading to the gate, and with those
near the pit, and they all exactly corresponded. I covered
some of the man’s tracks with boards, that they might not
be disturbed, either by the weather, or by persons walking
about. Among those that were covered, there were two that
were very plain ; they evidently were made by a man’s shoe
that had had two square-headed nails in a particular direc-
tion ; on examining the prisoner’s shoe, there were two nails
projecting out of the shoe, which corresponded with the
impression an the ground with the greatest exactness. These
kirby’s wonderful museum.
on the harrowed part. I then traced them to the water pit,
in the harrowed field ; the woman’s I suddenly lost sight of,
but I saw those of the man to the very edge of the path.
On the opposite side of the pit, I saw footsteps on the har-
rowed ground, in a contrary direction to those 1 have de-
scribed; they extended more than three parts across the field,
they took a turn to the left, crossed the foot-path near the
middle of the field, and continued/ up to the gate at the far
corner of the piece. These footsteps appeared to be the
footsteps of a man running. There were no impressions of
a woman’s shoe to be seen in this last tracing. The field
into w Inch the gate leads is a clover field, leading towards
Pipe-hall. A person at the spot where the tracks ceased,
wanting to go to Castle-Bromwich, might, by going through
this piece, and others, upon trespass, go a much nearer way
than by the regular turnpike-road. The nearest regular road
to Castle-Bromwich, from Penn’s Mill, is up the foot-path
towards Erdington and through Bell-lane. I afterwards
went to the field with Joseph Bird, with a pair of the pri-
soner’s shoes. They were what are called rights and lefts.
We compared them particularly with a dozen of the tracks;
they fitted exactly ; and I have not the least doubt the other
impressions of a man’s foot I had tracked in different parts
of the field were made by the same shoes. We compared
the shoes with the tracks on the foot-path, with the footsteps
which first went off the foot-road, with those where the
doubling was, with those which appeared to be made by a
person running, with those leading to the gate, and with those
near the pit, and they all exactly corresponded. I covered
some of the man’s tracks with boards, that they might not
be disturbed, either by the weather, or by persons walking
about. Among those that were covered, there were two that
were very plain ; they evidently were made by a man’s shoe
that had had two square-headed nails in a particular direc-
tion ; on examining the prisoner’s shoe, there were two nails
projecting out of the shoe, which corresponded with the
impression an the ground with the greatest exactness. These