The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-08-31
ROBERTS
HAS GIVEN POLICE
GLUE TO. SHOOTER
Atlantic City SIeuths State Will.
Jams Has Not Yet Estab.
lished Alibi.
WIFE HAS RETURNED
TO HUSBANDS HOME
Cousin Declares He Thinks He
Saw Clubman in the Board
walk City.
Especial to the Evening star.l

Especial to the Evening Stsr1
ATLANTIC CITY. Aug. S1.-Follow-
ing statement which Charles B.
Roberts, the Baltimore millionaire club
man who was shot while riding in a
roller-chair with Mrs. w. S. G. Will
Jams, is said to have made to the
police, important developments were
expected today along the line Of placing
the identity of his assailant.
If Roberts has made a statement 1t
Is the first since a few minutes after
he was shot, when he declared that the
man who shot him was a highwayman.
Chief Woodruff has persisted that
Roberts knew the man who shot him,
and also that Mrs Williams knew the
assailant.
Not until Mrs. Williams quietly dis
appeared from Atlantic City on Satur-
day did 1t become known that the
police had held her here as a witness.
The chief posted bulletin to the effect
that she had returned to Baltimore
with his permission, and that she
would appear when wanted. Some
went so far as to declare that she had
appearance.
A report spread today that Roberts
had had a sinking spell and that the
surgeons called the police to take his
ante-mortem statement. The doctors
said, however, that Mr.. Roberts had
passed a comfortable night and was
resting easily today.
Mrs. Williams at Husbands Home.
When it was announced that Mrs.
Williams had returned to her husbands
country home in Long Green Valley,
near Baltimore, Chief Woodruff was
perturbed and said he had information
that her husbands alibi was defective
and that w. S. G. Williams was by no
means out of the case.
The chief said:
1.-THE robbery theory never did
amount to much in our minds. We
felt certain from the first that the
shooting was the result of deeper
motive. We suspected that the per-
sons concerned in it knew far more
than they were telling, but we could
not make them talk. Detective Will
son, who has been working in Balti-
more, has proof that Williams's alibi is
not as strong as 1t appears"
said Roberts Has Blood Poisoning.
1t is now confidently believed that
Roberts's ante-mortem statement-if he
is called upon to make one-will go far
toward solving the identity of his mys-
terious masked assailant.
The bullet has not yet been extracted
and there is danger that blood poison
ing will result.
PITTSBURG, Aug. 31.-That w. S.
c. Williams was in Atlantic City on
Wednesday night, when Charles b.
Roberts was shot, is the impression
given ~ Talbot c. Williams, of Bati-
more, an oyster merchant.
Talbot Williams says as he was hur-
rying to the railroad station In Allan
tic City on the night of the shooting
he saw a man passing on the opposite
side of the street who looked like his
cousin. He hailed him, but says the
only reply was an oath, as the man de-
clared he did not know him.
Repeats, at Was a Robber.'
BALTIMORE, Md, Aug. 31-Mrs. w.
S. G. Williams has arrived at her coun-
try home, in Long Green Valley, Balti-
more county, having come direct from
Atlantic City.
TT is utterly ridiculous to say that
any one but a robber shot Mr.. Roberts,"
she is quoted as saying. "and l am sur
prised that the police are continuing to
follow up the case on any other theory.
The man who shot Mr.. Roberts could