The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-30
Baltimore Man Accounts for
 His Whereabouts
WOl \N'S BROTHER WANTED.
Mrs. lIams, Who Was With the I That Was Shot, Is Still In l Atlantic City, and No Ar 1 rests Have Been Made.


 William S. G. Williams, the wealthy
 Baltimore man whose wife, with
 Charles B. Roberts, when the latter was
 shot on the board walk, is expected to
 arrive here early tomorrow morning.
 Detective Williams, who was sent to
 Baltimore to trace the movements of
 Williams on the night of the sh ootng
 wired to Chief Woodruff that he had
 had an interview with Williams, wh oln
 the police thus far have refused to
 eliminate from the case, and that Will
 Hams had left Baltimore astensibly for
 Atlantic City.
 The visit of Williams is not only
 unwelcome to the police but is lik ely
 to precipitate a crisis which will in-
 terfere with their investigation of ths
 mysterious shooting of the prominent
 Baltimore clubman and business man.
 In the course of the investigation by
 the police here it has developed that
 although they have proclaimed tn at
 Williams was not eliminated from the
 case, he has never been strongly sus-
 pected of any personal hand in the at-
 tempted assassination of Roberts and that suspicion was directed toward him
 in order to cover the other lines of in
 vestigation being pursued by the
 police.
 French Rule Used.
 Taking their cue from the French
 rule for solving a crime the police
 have been industriously searching for the woman In the case since the shoot ing was first reported. Never for a moment have the officers adopted the theory that a highwayman bent upon robbery shot Roberts. Mrs. Williams was with MT. Roberts at the time he was wounded, which supplied one woman in the case, but that fact did not satisfy Chief Woodruff and his de- tectives. They have been trying to find if the shot was fired by woman disguised as man. If this is not thu case, they still claim that the shot was fired by woman.
 One of the grounds for the belief that the shot which wounded Roberts was fired by woman, is the establish ment of the fact that several shots were fired at close range and that only one took effect It has also been es- tablished to the satisfaction of the police that Roberts was seated in the double roller chair in a helpless posi- LlOn when ne was SnOt.
 The large number of friends and rela- tives of Mrs. Williams here are won derfng when her brother Thomas De Ford will arrive to aid his sister in her embarrassing situation. He is re- ported to have visited Mrs. Williams here few days ago and is now said to be in the west, but on his way to 1 the east in response to his sisters ap- peal for his aid and consolation. Two Men and Woman 1 story that comes from a reliable source is to the effect that two men and a woman from Baltimore, who were sup l posed to be friends of the parties con cerned in the shooting were stopping at ! a large Beach front hotel under assumed names on Wednesday night. In trying to ! reconcile contradictory statements about | the movements of MT. Williams the police | have found that Mrs. Williams has made some misstatements or else that she is | peculiarly ignorant of the movements of | her husband. She told Chief Woodruff | that for many years her married life
 has been an unhappy one. She said that | her husband had been in a sanitarium, l whereas he had been to Europe and only | returned on Tuesday. It has been def- 1 nitely. established that MT Williams re- | turned to this country on Tuesday and | that on Wednesday morning when he To- cated ms Wl1e ne teleph0ned her and de- l manded that she return home She re- 1 fused to leave before Saturday. | It has been discovered that during Will | Hams absence in Europe his wife took | preliminary steps to have him adtudged incapable of handling his big estate and | to have herself appointed on a com mittee of his peers on his property Will l Hams is said to have learned of this step for the first time when he arrived in Baltimore Tuesday.
 Negro's Impressions. | Jesse Jackson, the negro who pushed | the roller chair, has been able to give l the police some valuable information of l occurrences up to the time the first shot | was fired. Then Jackson became bewil- | dered and he is not certain he saw a | man, or two or three men and woman | Jackson was pushing the chair along 1 the practically deserted road in the walk l with his head down, almost walking in /: his sleep when the shot alarmed him | and he took to his heels
 l Before the shooting, however. Jackson 1 says he heard the man in his vehicle i say to the woman
 l You have broken my heart" l That is all of the conversation he heard 1 or remembers
 l The police regard it as truthful and | hope to learn what Roberts meant bv | such statement at such time.