The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-08-29
HUSBAND SUSPECTED.
Police Refuse to Accept Robbery
Theory of Roberts Shooting.

Atlantic City, N. J., Aug. 29.-Chas
p. Roberts, who was mysteriously shot
on the board walk last Monday night
is still in the hospital and is very
weak. The bullet which penetrated
the liver. It is feared, caused wound
which may prove fatal. The police are
firm in the belief that the solution of
the mystery surrounding the shooting
will follow an investigator OIL the
movements of W. S. G. Williams on
the day of the shooting. Tne auega-
ton that williams had been in SAM
tarium undergoing treatment and not
abroad, was made to the police by ms
wife VINO was with Roberts in roll
ing chair at the time of the Shooung.
according to the police she contradicts
a statement given out from Will1ams's
law office. The police of this city
have entirely abandoned the theory
that the assailant of the Baltimore
awaiting a report from the Baltimore
authorities who are tracing the
whereabouts and actions of Mr.. Will
liams on the night of the shooting.
Two disclosures made by the negro
who vas pushing the chair in which
Robe.ts and Mrs. Williams were riding
are considered important by the po-
lice. When questioned in regard to
the conversation which passed between
Roberts and Mrs. Williams during the
chair ride Jesse Jackson, the negro,
said:
Il did not hear anything except one
remark of the gentleman. heard
him say just before the man with
mask came up to us, You have broken
my heart 1 did not hear what the
lady answered"
In addition to the facts related by
him In regard to the shooting, Jack
son now says that the masked stranger
applied an epithet to Roberts as he
ordered him to get out the chair. The
negro also insists that he heard no &c
mand for money following the first
order: Hold up your hands,
Police Chiefs Theory.
Malcolm Woodruff. chief of police.
said today:
THE highwayman theory has had
little weight with US from the first.
The shooting occurred at 1920
O'Clock. The wounded man was taken
to the hospital and the woman back
TO her hotel. As soon as learned
that she was not his wife 1 asked,
Where is her husband?' I sent sew
eral messages to Baltimore before y
o'clock that night asking the police
there to let me know at once whether
Williams was in that city. I believed
that a quick answer to the question
would go far toward solving the mys-
terry. 1 anXiously awaited a reply.
None came and I have not heard one
word since from the Baltimore police
on that feature.
Harry Wilson, one OF the detec-
tives, is now working on it. Many
things that Mrs. Williams has told us
of her husband are important as
showing their feelings toward each
other. She said that her eight years
Of married life have been misery to
her. Three times she declared she
has had her husband put in a sani-
tarium. Last Tuesday he left the
sanitarium and went to Baltimore.
According to his wifes assertion he
called her up at the hotel Brighton
and asked her to come home with
the children. She refused, saying she
preferred to remain until Saturday
I'm the conversation Williams be-
came aware that Roberts was also at
the Brighton. All this Mrs Williams
has told us. 1 believe that it is the
truth, but I also believe that if her
husband came to Atlantic CITY from
Baltimore that day she was not aware
of it,"
Stick to Highwayman Story.
Further evidence of the desire of
the families of the principals in the
affair to support the "highwaynan'