The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-30
POLICE GET INFORMATION On the Atlantic City Sensation. (. B. ROBBERS MAY sUccUMB Negro Chair Pusher Makes Two Important Disclosures. The Hishwaymen Theory Has Little weisht with Police as rhsy sus- pect wiIiiams Dia the Shooting.
 

Atlantic City. N. l. Aug. 2s.--Charies B. Roberts, who wasI mysteriousiy shot on the board walk last Wednesday night. Is still alive ia the Atlantic City Hospital. and Is very weak.
 The bullet which penetrated the liver. ft is feared. caused 6 wound which may prove fatal. Firm in the belief that the solution of the mystery surround Ing the shooting wsli follow an inves- tigatton of the movements of ". s. e. Williams on Tuesday and Wednesday nights after his return 10 Baltimore from a sanitarium, where he had been for weeks. the police are at work The fact that Williams had been in a sani- tarium undergoing treatment and not abroad. was revealed to the police by 1 nis wife who was wifh Roberts In a
 rolling chair at the time of the shoot
 ing.
 I According to the police she contra
 diets a statement given out from Will liams.s law office. The police of this | city have entirely abandoned the the- | ory that the assailant of the Baltimore | man was a highwayman. They ara awaiting a report from the Baltimore | authorities who are tracing the where- abouts and actions of Mfr. Williams on the night of the shooting. Two dis closures just made by the negro who was pushing the chair in which Rob- l erts and Mrs. Williams were riding. are construed important by the police. When questioned In regard to the conversation which passed between Roberts and Mrs. Williams during the | chair ride, Jesse Jackson. the negro, said:
 T 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. I did not hear what the lady answered, :" ~
 In addition to the fact first related by him in regard to the shooting. Jack | son now says that the masked stranger l anulied an eplthet to Roberts as he 1 ordered him to get out of the chair. | The negro also insists that he heard no 1 demand for money following the first or der: Hold up your hands
 Malcolm Woodruff. Chief Of Police. | said today:
 'sThe hIehway1ian theory has had lite fle wniaf1f with us from the first. The shoofing occurred at iQ,se o'clock 1he wounded man was taken to the hqN- pftal and the woman back to tha nctes not his wife, asked Where 10 per | husbandg" I sent several messages 70 | baltimore before 12 o'clock that nignt asking the police there to let me know | at once whether Williams was m tnas city No reply came and have nov heard one word since from the baiu- more police on that feature.
 | sManv of the thingB that Mrs. Wia- Hams had told of her husband are inl- | portant as showing their reeiinBs to- wards each other. she saae ,,sa sns1 ua. .ass, | a misery to her. Three times she oe- l cIsred she had her husband put n l sanitari,,m. Last Tuesday he left the sanitarium and went to Baltimore As- | cordinK to his wife's asseruoh, ne e@lt ed her up at the Hotel Brighton ana | ss,ad har 10 come home with the chii- dren. She refused, saying she pretefre1 | to remain until Saturday.
 | "Tn the conversation Wiliiams oS came aware that Roberts vas aiso 1s tha Rrigfton. All this Mrs. Wiliiemh
 i'1 1hs Environments in the case to-day
 t.s,,,ae story which the police are irvesttratinR to the eftect that tWV men and a woman from BaisnnoEs,
 who are supposed to have been Irlenun I | of the parties concerned were ssoppinns nls H ,srge beach front hotel, under assumed names on the night or tne
 Members of both the Williams and i poharts families remained silent to- ! day standing on their statements &l- ready made that MT. Roberts was at- l tackled by hiEhwaymsn al ionrS ns.s l point on the board walk. Botn Mrs. Wuiiams and Mrs. Roberts are stay 4ng al the Hotel Brighton and were
 surrounded to-day by relatives ana l close friends.
 That the true cause of the shooting
 may be determined only by the event | of inc death of Mir. Roberts, Is believ. l cd by many. The death Of the so. | ciety man. the police say would make | Mrs. Williams a material witness ana | open the way to a public inquiry tnat l would preclude the possibility or com | cealinx any important testimony; | Prosecutor Goldenberg of Atlantic | | circumstances of the shooting as pre-
 sented by the men assigned to- 1t by l Police Chief Woodruff. The prose- | cutor declared tonight that until
 more tangible evidence than at pres
 ent Is found he would make mo at
 tempt to arrest anybody.
 4 story which may have some bear
 ing on the case Is told by Rev. Henry
 Fisher whose family occupies cot- l tage at New Hampshire avenue and 1 the board walk, the scene of the
 shooting. He says that at the time
 of the shooting he was preparing to l retire for the night when he was att ! tracted by the shots. He went to the 1 window and saw three men running 1 down the board walk. He lost sight | of them in the darkness and can give | no definite description.
 Heroic efforts were made to-day to | save the life. of, Mr. Roberts. Two
 
 | sultation with those from the local
 hospital performed an operation on
 the patient in an effort to locate and
 remove. if possible. the bullet that
 penetrated his siSe. IL was deemed
 inadvisable to remove the bullet and
 after all the arteries had been iiber-
 ated the wound was packed.
 It was stated that MT. Roberts pass
 ed through the operation we'll and
 the opinion was expressed that if he
 lives through the effect of it. he
 would recover.
 To Prove Alibi.
 Baltimore. Aug. 29--Mr. Williams
 told the detective that he slept at hts
 Long Green home from noon last wed.
 nesday and nightly until Friday morn
 ing. Ills statement was verified by his
 coloredr butler He expressed great
 willingness to give any information de.
 sired concerning his movements wed~
 nesday night and Thursday. It is un- I degstood Mir. Williams sought ahe fn. nan. an