<P> In Warwick 1816 , a farm laborer was tried and convicted of the murder of a young maidservant . She had been drowned in a shallow pool and bore the marks of violent assault . The police found footprints and an impression from corduroy cloth with a sewn patch in the damp earth near the pool . There were also scattered grains of wheat and chaff . The breeches of a farm labourer who had been threshing wheat nearby were examined and corresponded exactly to the impression in the earth near the pool . </P>
<P> In Warwick 1816 , a farm laborer was tried and convicted of the murder of a young maidservant . She had been drowned in a shallow pool and bore the marks of violent assault . The police found footprints and an impression from corduroy cloth with a sewn patch in the damp earth near the pool . There were also scattered grains of wheat and chaff . The breeches of a farm labourer who had been threshing wheat nearby were examined and corresponded exactly to the impression in the earth near the pool . </P>
when were footprints first used in forensic science
when were footprints first used in forensic science
1816
1816