The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1908-09-08

eftS coat, penetrated number of
letters and railroad folders, but
missed the mans body.
The second bail, now lodged in the
wounded mans liver, entered the
body from such an angle that, had
he used the weapon, he would have
been obliged to pull the trigger with
his thumb or to- use both hands to
commit the act
Jacks0n Feels Relieved,
Jackson appeared greatly relieved
after he had signed the brief state
ment Of facts, Declaring that he had
heretofore stuck to the original story
as told twenty minutes after the
shooting and seconded by Roberts
and Mrs.. Williams. Jackson then
talked freely about the facts.
In this conversation he greatly am
plified the written statement, giving
connecting links which completed a
story that may be as startling as that
revealed by the Nan" Patterson
Caesar Young case in New York.
jackson said that this was the first
time he had ever made the true rev.
elations of the shooting He even de-
clared that he Had told his wife and
his father that highwayman shot
Roberts.
Within the past twenty-four hours,
jackson declared the local police de-
partment had placed him in a sweat
box to force from him the story told
last night in the signed statement.
"The police detective kept me un-
der cross fire of questions for hours
trying to force me to say that wo-
man fired that shot," declared the
negro. "But kept telling them all
the time over and over about the
frobber coming up and opening the
chair door and forcing the man and
the woman out at pistol point before
shot was fired. l would not change
that story. They told me l might go
to prison but would not tell any
other story"
Banker Roberts will recover from
his wound. The tenth day test for
perftonitis symptoms in development
has passed with this last night, and
DIR, Marshall declared positively that
his patient was beyond all danger.
With this positive declaration to the
public 1t was revealed that John M.
Roberts, a. brother of the wounded
man, who has attended him daily
since the shooting, had returned to
Baltimore. s.
Mrs. Roberts, the devoted wife, who
turned deaf ear to all the criticism
of her husband, is expected to go to
her home Sunday. She declined to
make any statement for the police.
But some important developments are
expected just as soon as the wound
ed man reaches condition that will
insure his safe removal to his own
home.
DR.. Marshall now makes a complete
statement Of his connection with the
Roberts shooting case. He made his
statement to private detective en-
ployed by mysterious outside inter
est:
~ am, employed by the Roberts
family to care for the wounded man.
l was the surgeon called in when he
was brought into the hospital. 1
have attended him continually, and
made final examination this morn
ing" said DR.. Marshall.
This fact was made known several
days ago. 1t was printed at that
time as the statement made by Rob-
| erts just before the operation OF prob
ing for the bullet, when he was told
he might never regain consciousness,
and was made in the presence OF DR..
Marshall. In the fact of the attempts
to disprove this statement, the follow
ing story, as related by the doctor,
becomes more interesting.