Evening journal., 1908-08-28
MAN SHOT DOWN
ON BOARDWALK
FinanCieT and Social Leader
Of Baltimore Wounded
by a Stranger
MYSTERIOUS ASSASSINATION

BY United Press Leased Special Wire.
ATLANTIC CITY, Aug. 2S.-shot
down in the glare of electric lights
on the boardwalk last night by a sup
posed masked stranger. Charles H. Rob
erts, a iinancier and social leader of
Baltimore is dying at the City Hospi-
tai while his mysterious assaitant
who fled Immediately after the shoot
ing is still at large The bullet pierced
Roberts side and lodged I'm the region
Of the liver. His condition will not
permit an operations at the present
time.
At the time OF the shooting 30
o'clock. an early hour for Atlantic city
promenaders-R Roberts was in "a rolling
chair, accompanied by Mrs w. r. c.
Williams. a handsome society matron,
also Of Baltimore. Both were stopping
at the Hotel Brighton and are said TO
have been out on frequent jaunts with
each other. They disclaim all l1nowl-
edge of the identity of the assailtant.
and both stick TO the story that a
masked man fired the fatal shot
Mrs. Williams Declines to Talk
I Mrs. Williams remains in the Sc
clusion of her room at the Hotel Brigh-
ton whore Roberts was also stopping
declines to talk Not the slightest clue
is in evidence as TO the whereabouts
OF the man who fired the shot. Basing
the theory on the fact that William
/ Williams believed that his Wife was IN
New Hampshire with her children al
the hour that she was figuring i'm a
tragedy. Roberts story is not believed
/ Although Jackson, the negro. has testi-
fed that Roberts assailant was masked
he has weakened on this point. and the
police hope TO get an admission from
him before the day is over that the
man who fired the shots was unmasS-
ed, but that he was well dressed
business-lilSe appearing man.
The police today are searching foI
a Maryland automobile, for which a
New Jersey license was said to have
been issued the day before the shoot
ing They expect a trail, thereupor
to lead them TO Baltimore.
Witnesses have been found who say
that an automobile stopped shor
distance from the spot on the board.
walk where the shooting took place.
few minutes before the tragedy. a few
minutes later the chauffeur who ha,
sat waiting in the binding rain. tool
] on a passenger and drove away at to
/, speed.
Detectives in Baltimore are toda
seeking the whereabouts Of a ma
q whose relations with Roberts have SAT-
I to have been strained for some time
They refused to give out any informa
tion as TO whether these strained rela
tions were social or business, but th
result of their inquiry is eagerl.
awaited
Sensation Promised.
on an sides the belief is expresse,
that the outcome Of the mysteriou
shooting will be one Of tho creates
sensations Maryland has ever known
Mrs Williams. who is about thirtl
years old has long been rosarded az
one Of Baltlmore's most beautiful
women and is a social leader.
The evident determination of Roberts
to throw a voil OF mystery about IN,
affair has increased the suspicion o.
; the police that there is nothing in thi
r theory first advanced by the victim tha
5 he was shot by a would-be highway.
: man. Though the shooting occurre,
: Wednesday night while the couple werl
riding alone in a mlosed chair on thu
, boardwalk. nothing was learned of It bl
I the police until yesterday afternoon
I when a negro chairman became talka
tive and told how the assailant ha,
, stopped the chair. ordered Roberts on
, and then shot twice. after which n
dashed off into the darkness.