The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-09-01
MRS. W|LL|AMS'S
ROBBERY STORY IS
BOSH, SAYS CHIEF
Head of Atlantic City Force De-
clares He Has Facts That
VIII Interest Roberts.
THINKS VICTIM WILL
NAME HIS ASSAILANT
Baltimore Police Officials Said
to Have Blocked Solution
of Mystery.
Especial to the Evening star.l

ATLANTIC CITY, Sept. AFTER an
hours interview'with Detective Wilson.
who had spent several days in Balti-
more, Chief of Detectives Whalen today
declared that as soon as the surgeons
would permit Charles B. Roberts to
make a statement he would give the
wounded man information that would
enable him to identify the man who
shot him while he was in a roller chair
on the boardwalk with Mrs. w. s. q.
Williams.
Mrs. Williams is a sister-in-law of
the Baltimore police commissioner and
Detective Wilson has reported that this
fact had much to do with his inability
to get at the facts in the mystery.
mo, | am not satisfied with the alibi
furnished by Mrs. Williams's husband"
said Chief Whalen today, land the story
OF Mrs. Williams that the assailant was
O robber is all bosh. Why, he spurned
her 81, $40 gold purse that was sparkling
with diamonds, She tried to force 1t on
him and he would not take it. Does
that look like he was a robber?
The surgeons tell me that Roberts
condition is satisfactory today, but tney
say that it will be several days before
/ can interview him. When they let me
~taln'Nto Roberts l will be able to lay
certain facts before him, and in such a
light that am satisfied he will not only
he able to reveal the identity of his as
sailant, nut that he will be glad to do
so.'
1t is now declared the man who is
suspected of shooting Roberts is still
in Atlantic City, and the police expect
10 prove that lie was prompted In his
attempt to murder by jealousy. The
story told the police late last night was
thai this man was an ardent admirer
OF Mrs. Williams and insanely jealous
of Roberts.
Detective Wilson told of the man who
made no secret of his admiration for
the beautiful matron. The police and
detectives then learned that this man
was here en- the night Roberts was
shot.
Leaving police headquarters, Whalen
and his men took a trail which led
them to Rhode Island avenue and the
boardwalk and then into the Palace
Hotel, at the foot Of h boardwalk,
At this point they took an automobile
and were off.
This is the route taken by the Balti-
more man under suspicion on tina night
of the shooting, according to the infor-
nation of the police. The real identity
of the a~ssailant> is known to both Rob-
erts and Mrs. Williams, according to
the man who informed h police. h
new suspect is well known, not only In
Baltimore, but in New York.
Through a family servant, who has
been in lie employ of Mr.. and Mrs
Williams for years, the police first got
trace of the suspect. The servant told
of the domestic relations in the Will
Jams household for the past three
wears. The servant told of the family
lars that started two years ago, Mrs
Williams leaving soon afterward foi
Europe.
II has now been learned by the police
that the man suspected of the shoot
ing-the same man who is known to
have been infatuated with Mrs. VIII
iams-was seen to follow the chaiI
when Roberts and Mrs. Williams were
rolled away from the Brighton on the
night of the shooting. He was seer
at Illinois avenue, but at that time wal
not masked, but he Is believed to have
slipped a piece of felt over his face
before he steppd up to the chair and
drew his revolver.