The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-29
ATLANTIC CITY
 HAS 4 MYSTERY Shooting of Prominent Man Is
 Not Cleared Up WOMAN FIGURES IN CASE Baltimore Man Is Shot on the Board Walk and at First Thought to Be
 an Attempt at Robbery,
 But Is Not Proven.
WOMAN FIGURES IN CASE

Atlantic City, N J., August 2S.-Re- fusing to accept the stories to the effect that Charles B. Roberts, the wealthy clubman of Baltimore, was shot by highwayman while in a rolling chair on the board walk with Mrs. w. S. G. Williams, also of Baltimore, on Wednes- day night, the police of this city to- night are still working upon the theory that the Baltimorean was the victim of vengeful man. While they will not say that they believe Mrs. Williams husband knows something about the sh ooting, they admit that he will not be eliminated from the case until he has proved conclusively and to their satisfaction that he was not only not in Atlantic City but that he was entirely out of the sh ooting and the circum- stances which led up to 1t.
 So far as clearing up the mystery is concerned, little definite progress has been made.
 Mrs. Roberts. the wife of the injured man, arrived here today. She is 'n close attendance upon her husband and refuses to be seen or have anything to say. Several Sof Mrs. Williams rela- tiyes also arrived here today and joined her at the Brighton.
 Though Charles B. Roberts is still in critical condition at local hospital, strong hope Is entertained by the phys icians that he will recover. He was sufficiently revived from unconscious ness to tell the police something of the man who shot him, and acting on the faint clue which Is understood to have been given them, they have been work . ing fndustriously to clear up the mys- tery surrounding the shooting. Mrs Williams, who was in the wheel chair with Roberts, and the negro chair push CT were put to a sharp 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 walking slowly Peeping throusA he glass windows be- hind which MT Roberts and Mrs. Will liams sat, the man laid his hand on the chair and showed one of the windows aside, at the same time showing a re- volver Thinking the man wanted money Mrs. Williams declared she offered her chatelaine bag. The stranger waved 1t aside and ordered Roberts "to get out" As Roberts got up, Mrs. Williams says she saw for the first time that the man was masked. He shot four or five bull lets one of them taking effect in Rob- erts side, another penetrating the back Of the rolling chair and narrowly missing Mrs. Williams and the others going wild Then, declares Mrs. Williams, the man coolly walked away in the direction of the Inlet which is at the upper end of Atlantic City The negro chair-pusher was too frightened to act and admits he ran away until the man with the revolver was out of sight. He then called Police- man Rust, who assisted MT Roberts into the rolling chair to await the arrival of an ambulance.
 Mrs. Williams made emphatic denial when asked whether the man might have been her husband. She asserts that MT. Roberts has long been a family friend and that her husband knew him as well as she. She says her husband had never exhibited any signs of jealousy during all the years she has known MT. Rob- erts. She added, too, that her husband knew of the presence of MT. Roberts in Atlantic City.