The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-08-28
Wife of Rich B%altimOrear Dam
gerously Wounded with Him
in Jersey Hospital.
MAN WITH WHOSE WIFE
HE WAS NOT AT SHORE
Beautiful Daughter of Leather
King Was with Millionaire
When Bullets Were Fired.
Especial to the Evening star.l

Especial to the Evening start
ATLANTIC CITY, Aug. 2S.-Charles
b. Roberts, the Baltimore millionaire
clubman, is said to be quite GER
tain of the identity of the masked
would-be assassin. who shot him on
the boardwalk while he was in a roll
ing chair with the pretty young wife
of his best friend, William S. G.. Will
Jams, equally prominent in the social
and financial affairs of Baltimore.
liver. denies this. His wife, who was
in their summer home in New Hamp-
shire. with her four children, at the
time of the shooting, has hurried here
and is now with him. The doctors,
who first believed that Roberts would
die. said today that he a a chance
10 ecove
John NJ. Roberts, d brother of Charles
Roberts, today insisted there could be
no explanation other than attempted
robbery.
Fl. C%avendish Darrell. associated with
Williams in the practise or law, said
today:
Mr.. Williams has been very much
annoyed by the reports that he was IN
Atlantic City Wednesday night. He was
nowhere near the place He returned
from Europe on the Kronprinzess in
Cecilie Tuesday.
mr.. Williams did not know mat MS
wife was at Atlantic City until he re-
| turned to Baltimore on Tuesday. she
| had sent him a wireless message, put
directed it, by mistake, to another snip
that was due to arrive about the same
time as the Kron Princess in Cecilie.
when Mr.. Williams got to Baltimore
we talked over the telephone to Mrs.
Williams at the Brighton at Atlantic
City. We also talked to her again
Wednesday and yesterday. She told us
tina she would be home this evening
1t was learned today that Mrs. Will
Jams a been motoring in h BerK-
shire Hills with her brother and sister
in-law. Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Deford,
IT., and Il few days went to At
lantic City, where her three children
with their maids had been for two
weeks.
Mrs. Williams, whose husband be-
lieyed she was in Boston, is secluded in
her room in the Brighton Hotel, where
Roberts was also a guest, and VIII see
no one. Chief of Police Woodruff said
today that Roberts most certainly
knows Who the man was who shot him,
and that Roberts's assailant was not q
h~ighwayman. Chief Woodruff declared
that the case. when the details become
known, will develop into a most as
founding society scandal, rivaling even
the famous Burdick case in Buffalo a
few years ago.
+ Soon after Roberts was shot he de-
clared that his masked assailant was
unknown to him, but the police call
this statement untrue and say that
they will try to get the identity of the
man from him.
Assai1ant Hides Ina Doorway.
Roberts and Mrs. Williams had had
dinner together in the cafe of the
Hotel Shelburn, and were being pushed
down h boardwalk at 1890 p. m. in
a rolling chair by Jesse Jackson, a
negro attendant. The walk had been
cleared by the rain and no other per-
sons were in sight. They had h rub
Der curtain down over the ront of the
rooted chair 90 that they could not see
without except through the small glass
panes in the curtain. The mysterious
assailant Is believed to have fol-
lowed them from the Shelburn and
then gone ahead of them, by taking to
! the beach. Then, waiting for the chair
to approach him, the man., with the
ask over his face, stepped from the
shadow of a doorway and came face
to face with them. Looking through
| these windows the man saw Roberts
and Mrs. Williams and quickly jerked
the curtain off and, fourishing a
pistol, commanded Roberts TO get out
/ of the chair.
Just as Roberts was stepping out the
maj fired two shots at him. Only one
took effect, This entered Roberts's
body between the lower ribs and pene-
trated his liver.
When the man thrust the curtain
aside and Mrs. Williams saw a mask
over his face she told the police she was
assured he was a footpad n she ex-
tended her bag to him, which ne did
not take.
The would-be assassin did examine
| Roberts's pockets, and Roberts told the
police the man was searching for a
| wallet, but the police say the mystic
rious shooter was seeking letters and
not money, but that Roberts had on
evening clothes and had no papers
with him,
The range escaped Immediately
after feeling in Roberts's pockets and
finding nothing. He had a motor cal
waiting for him in a side street, the
police have discovered, and a chauffeur
hurried him away from the scene.