The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1908-09-01
SEARCH o MAN
NHOShOT ROBERTS
THINK HUSBAND MAY
HAVE kNoML EDGE or 1T.
PORTER IS HELD
Mrs. Williams, Who Was With Roberts
Il the Time Of the Shooting, Insists
That the Man Who Fired the Shot
Were 1 Mask and Was 4 Robber.

That the Man Who Fired the Shot
Were 4 Mask and Was 4 Robber.
From Saturdays Daily.
Baltimore. Aug. Developments
il the case of Charles B. Roberts on
whose life an attempt was made
at Atlantic City Wednesday night
while he was riding in q wheel chair
with Mrs. w. S. G. Williams, also OF
this city, have created a sensation
in the circles in which they were
known. Many have been ready to
accept the theory that Roberts was
the victim Of a highwayman, but the
Atlantic City police assert that w. s.
Ia. Williams, will be called as a wit.
ness.
Mrs. Williams did not return to this
city this afternoon, although her child
rem, who were with her at the Sea
side, reached here at 400 p. m, and
are now at the country residence OF
the family. w. s. G. Williams mas
been in the city today, according to
reports.
Not accepting the story that Rob
erts, the wealthy clubman OF Balti-
more, was shot by a highwayman
while in a rolling chair on the board
walk with Mrs. W. S. G. Williams, al
SO of Baltimore, on Wednesday night,
the police of this city tonight are
still working upon the theory that the
Baltimore man was the victim of an
ENLARGEMENT. While they will not
say that they believe Mrs. WAliam's
husband knows something about the
shooting, they admit that he will not
be eliminated from the case until he
has proved that he not only was not
in Atlantic City, but that he was en-.
tirely ignorant OF the shooting.
The wounded man is still in a ser
ious condition at the city hospital.
! The physicians will not probe for the
bullet in his liver until his condition
improves. They feel that to operate
on him might prove fatal.
Mrs. Williams is still at the Hotel
Brighton.
Strong hope is entertained by the
physicians that Roberts will recover.
He was sufficiently revived from un.
consciousness to tell the police some
thing of the man who shot him and
acting upon the faint clew which is
understood to have been given them,
they have been working industriously
to clear up the mystery surrounding
the shooting. Mrs. Williams, VINO was
in the rolling chair with Roberts, and
the negro chair pusher were subject
ed to a sharp cross examination and
their stories agree on the details.
Mrs. Williams told the police that
the man who halted the chair came
face to face with them and was walk
ing along by glass windows behind
which Mr.. Roberts and Mrs. Williams
sat, the man laid his hand or the
chair and showed one of the windows
aside, at the same time showing
revolse r.
Thinking the man wanted money
Mrs. Williams declared she offered
E.n. her %chnte;sine bag. The stranger
waved it aside and ordered Roberts
t. get out" AS Roberts got up, Mrs
Williams says she looked hard and
saw for the first time that the mar
was masked. He shot four or five
bullets, one of them taking effect II
Roberts side, another penetrating
the back of the rolling chair and mar
rowly missing Mrs. Williams, and the
others going wild. Then, declared
Mrs. Williams, the man cody walked
away in the direction of the inlet
which is at the upper end OF At
lantic City.
The negro chair pusher was tot
frightened to act and admits he raj
away until the man with the revolve,
was out of sight. He then ca4led Pc
liceman Rust, who assisted Mr.. Rob
erts into the rolling chair to avail
the arrival of an ambulance.
Mrs. Williams made emphatic de
NAL when asked whether the mai
might have been her husband. Sh'
asserts that Mr.. Roberts has long 'beel
a family friend and that her husband
knew him as such. She says he
husband has never exhibited any
signs of jealousy during all the year
she has known Mr.. Roberts.
The colored man who was pushinl
the chair in which Roberts and Mrs
! Williams were riding at the time o
t the shooting is still held as q witness
! New York, Aug. 2s.-Dispatche
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