The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-09-01
WOMAN TALKS
 OF SHOOTING Mrs. Williams Gives Out
 Statement. STICKS TO ROBBERY THEORY She Discussed the Affair With
 Utmost Candor. Mrs. Williams Denies Any Interview She Is Alleged to Have Had with
 Chief of Police
 Woodruff.

Baltimore, Md, Aug. 31.--Seated to- day in the drawing room of her home at Long Green. Baltimore county, Mrs W. s. G. Williams described in detail the shooting of Charles B. Roberts. IT,. who was wounded on Wednesday night on the board walk at Atlantic City. N. J.. while in her company.
 Mrs. Williams discussed the affair with the utmost candor.
 Tt was an attempt at robbery. pure and simple" she declared, "and Mfr. Roberts was shot because he refused to comply with the demand of the man in the mask who had ordered him to give up his money.
 "Mr. Roberts was going along with me in the rolling chair and we got to a place where the walk was rough l and the chair bounced a good deal. suggested that we turn back. The chair was a covered one and Mir. Rob- l erfs rapped on the glass and told the | negro chairman to turn around. Just | as he did so, the chair stopped and | masked man thrust a. pistol Into the | chair and ordered us to get out. without word l got out ana | held up both hands. Mir. Roberts fol- 1 lowed me and as soon as he had em- | erRed from the chair the man told | him to give up his money. I had a | little chatelaine bag attached to my waist. but the man made no efrort to | get this.
 "when ordered tc give up his money, MT. Roberts declared that he would do nothing of the kind.
 l q was scared and begged Mr. Rob- | erts to give the man what money no | had, but Mir. Roberts instead rushed at the man who was covering nim wasn | a pistol and stood a few paces on. | As Mir. Roberts started forward, the I man fired two shots. Although struck l by one of the bullets, Mir. Roberts kept on toward the man and the vuiinn ran and escaped in the darkness
 Did either you or MT. hoDerM xen- ognize the voice of his assaiiantr ArN- Williams WAS asked. Sse reptiea tn indiEnantN negative.
 Mrs. Williams was asked regarding statement she was alleged to nave given to Chief of Police Woodruff or Atlantic City, in which she was re- ported to have said that her husband had not been to Europe at all but had been in a santtartum.
 1 T never said anything of the kind, :" declared Mrs. williams emphatlcally
 'To this very day I have never seen | Mir Woodruff. Any interview with | me that he has given out, would. of course. be a fabrication of his own imagination"
 Unfair and Cruel
 She justified her being with Roberts as entirely proper and bitterly con- demned as unfair and cruel the en- ieavor of some newspapers to show motive for the shooting at vartance with the hold up theory.
 Colonel Sherlock Swann. president Of the board of police commissioners and a brother-in-law of Mrs Williams. who was with Charles B. Roberts when he was shot on the Atlantic City board walk. today called the newapa- per men before the board and auTn- moning Police Marshal FarnRrn and Captain of Detectives Humphrey. said:
 q have sent for you in regard 10 the publication purporting to be despatch | from Atlantic City, stating that tho police of Baltimore had not co-operatgysi with the Atlantic City police in try1 ing to run down the man who khot4 Mir. Roberts. The despatch. by inuen-' do intimates that the lack of co-opsra- tion was caused by the fact that a member of the board of polics cornTnis- sioners is a family connection of cEe | of the parties whose name has Esen prominently mentioned in the case (
 Both officials then told in detail the efforts they had made to discover the identity of Mfr. Roberts assaiiant.
 Then Colonel Swann, speaking with some show of feeling said:
 T am sure that the Baltimore police have done their duty and that the IaCL that my uam0 na8 been mention ed in the case because I am person. ally acquainted with all those whose names hayo been mentioned, has noth- ing to do with the inuendo that our officials here have' not been active"
 investigation at stanastflI
 Atlantic City, N. J., Aug. 31-Detect- i've Harry Wilson. who went to Balti- more in search of evidence in connect. ion with the shooting of Charles R Roberts. Jr., on the board walk here last Wednesday night, returned to At- lantic City this afternoon and reported to Chief Of Police Woodruff that ha was not impressed with some of the statements made to him in his investi- gation of the case, although he did not attack their veraclty.
 Other matters which concerned a bachelor clubman here are said to have been included in his report, which would not be made public.
 l Pending the outcome of the heroic fight for life that Charles B. Roberts Is making in the City Hospital the in- vestigation into the bafiing circum- stances of the board walk shooting of last Wednesday night seems to be at standstill. The chances of securing a | statement from the Baltimorean seem now to be remote. He has talked with l relatives and his personal physicians but to no one else, and 1t Is believed l AlaI IT ne hAlOu4u NaAk NO thC 4ulnOEAtlt8 at all 1t would be merely to recite the circumstances of the attack. without giving any substantial clue to work l upon.
 Like all other features of the case. the reports as to MT. Roberts condl- tion are conflicting. It was stated that tn another week the danger of blood poisoning would be passed. One re- port today said the wounded man had suffered a slight turn for the worse. while another said his temperature was more nearly normal that at any time since he was shot.
 Detective Wilson, of the local police. was sent to Baltimore to Inquire into the whereabouts of ". S. c. Williams. the husband of the woman who was with Mr. Roberts on the night of the occurrence. returned here today and submitted detailed verbal report of his investigations to Chief of Police 1 KKnndrttfY and fn Caniain nf DniacAlRAn