The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-08-31
Atlantic City Police Still Look
to Maryland Metropolis
For Solution to the Mysterious
Attack on Roberts.
VICTIM STILL LIVES.
Woman Who Was With Him
Has Gone Home.
Society Is Still Greatly Agitated
Over the Affair.

Atlantic City, Aug. 31.-Reports tn
the effect that Charles B. Roberts ir.
OF Baltimore. who was shot on the
board walk last Wednesday night. had
sinking spell last night were TODAY
declared to be exaggerated. Mr.. Rob
erts passed a comfortable night and
is resting easy today
Still baffled by elements in the case
that are stranger and stronger than
any they have yet encountered. the
Atlantic City police today continued
their investigation of the mystery sur
rounding the shooting of Charles r.
Roberts, jr., of Baltimore. Mrs. w. S.
G. Williams, also of Baltimore, who
was In the rolling chair with Mr.. Rob-
ertS When the attack occurred return
ed to her home yesterday
Probably no occurrence of recent
years has so stirred the higher circles
| OF Baltimore society as the shooting
of Mr.. Roberts, when in company with
Mrs. Williams, whose beauty and tai
ents as well as her family connections
! have made her a prominent figure in
| all of the smart affairs of the Mary
land metropolis. The Baltimore police
| early were appealed to by the local
authorities and a detective was sent
| from here to investigate the where
| aboutS of Mr.. Williams on the evening
of the attack. That detective is still
|
woodruff announces that he has re-
| ceived no such report from the officer
| in the case would cause him to
| abandon the original line of inquiry
set in motion the day of the shooting.
He will, the chief says, continue to
| devote attention to the Baltimore end
of the affair as offering the earliest
solution if there is a solution at all.
Still on the Job.
Baltimore, Aug. 31-Detective Will
| son of Atlantic City, who has been in
| Baltimore since last Friday making
| shooting of Charles B. Roberts. left
today for Atlantic City. Wilson as
sured Detective Captain Pumphrey
and Police Marshal Farnum that he
was perfectly satisfied with his treat
| ment by the local police of this city.
| whom he said, had freely rendered
| him all the assistance in their power.
Captain Pumphrey said that the de-
| parture OF Wilson did not necessarily
| mean the abandonment of this end
| of the case. His men. he said. were
still at work
New Story Out
Pittsburg, Pa, According to reports
here which can not be confirmed, Tall
bot G. Williams, of Roland park, Bal
timore, a cousin of w. S. G. Williams,
whose wife was with Charles B. Rob-
erts in a rolling chair at Atlantic City
| when the latter was shot. drove to
! the pubic SaIeIy DulIQ1nR late SdLuT-
day night and is alleged to have made
a statement to the effect that he had
! spoken to his cousin at Atlantic City
| last Wednesday night. Williams Is
said to have stated that because he
was at Cambridge Springs, Pa, and
had denied himself to newspaper men
| he was not acquainted with the de-
/ tails of the case until his arrival In
this city Saturday night when he read
of the entire case in the local news
papers.
Presenting himself at the central
police station Williams said he was an
| oyster merchant with a place of busi-
ness at 345 North Calvert, Baltimore.
He said he was about to leave Atlantic
| City last Wednesday for Camden
| Springs, Pa. when he met his cousin.
\ w. S. G. Williams on side street that
led to the Pennsylvania station. VIII
liams is alleged to have told the po-
| lice that he hailed his cousin jovially
and asked him If he was leaving the
| seaside because they threatened to
close the saloons. Williams is claimed
to have told the authorities here that
his cousin. instead of answering him
| as relative should. cursed him. say
| ing he did not know him.
Talbot Williams is said to have
stated to the police that he attributed
his cousins anger to a dispute in the
| family about the settling of a coun-
| try estate at Ruxton. a suburb of
Baltimore.
BEFORE leaving LnlS ClIy, 1aiDOL VIII
| liams said he would go to Baltimore
! and make statement to Superin-
tendent of Police Farnum with whom
he was personally acquainted.
Efforts made today to verify the
above statements were futile because
of the inability to find police officials
who would discuss the case.
Can't Locate Him.
Baltimore, Aug. 31.-It is impossi-
| BILE to locate here the Talbot c. Will
| liams referred to in a Pittsburg dis
patch as cousin of w. S. G. Williams
whom the former is said to have seen
| in Atlantic City on the night of the
shooting of Charles B. Roberts of this
| city, while Roberts was riding in a
wheel chair on the board walk with
Mrs. Williams last week.
| RoberGs's Condition Unchanged.
Atlantic City, Aug. 31.-It stated
/ at the hospital at noon today that Mr..
Roberts's condition as unchanged. The
doctors declared that the wounded man
| was "holding his own but the inn
| preston has gained ground tnaI the
| patient was not so well as yesterday.
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