Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-08-29
Husband of Woman Who Was
With Roberts When Shot
Satisfies Police.
MYSTERY OF CASE INCREASES
Theory That AssaiIant Was a
HighWayman Has Been
Abandoned.
Families Interested Said to Want TO
Have IL Acceptcd-Baltimore So
cicty is Much Interested

II Baltimore, Aug. 29.--Wnliam 5. G.
II Williams, whose wife was with Charles
II " Roberts when, the latter was shot
et Atlantic City last Wednesday, was
Interviewed by police detectives to-
Il day Williams, it was learned, seen,-
iugly satisfied the officers that he was
L not in Atlantic city ON the day and
night in question. The detectives, it
Il was said, will visit Mr.. Williams homo
Mt Long Green tonight to verify state
ments made by Williams.
ROBERTS VERY WEAK.
Atlantic City, ", j., Aug. 29.-Charles
4 b Roberts, who was mysteriously shot
on the board walk last Wednesday
night. is still in the Atlantic city hos
pital and is very weak. The bullet
which penetrated the liver. it is feared,
caused a wound which may prove fatal.
Tho police are firm in the belief in
the solution of the mystery surround
ing the shooting will follow an in
vestgation of the movements of w.
& c. Williams on the day of the shoot
ing The allegations that Williams
4 had been in a sanitarium undergoing
treatment and not abroad, was made
to the police by his wife, who was wita
Roberts in rolling chair at the time
Of the shooting. According to the
police she contradlcts statement given
out from Williams law office. The
police of this city have entirely aban
doned the theory that the assailant Of
the Baltimore man was a highway
man. They are awaiting a report
from the Baltimore authorities who aro
tracing the whereabouts and actions
of Mr. Williams on the night of the
shooting
Two disclosures just made by the
negro who was pushing the chair in
which Roberts and Mrs. Williams were
riding are considered important by
the police When questioned in regard
to the conversation which passed be-
tween Roberts and Mrs. Williams dur
ing the chair ride, Jesse Jackson, the
negro, said:
4 did not hear anything except one
remark OF the gentleman. / heard him
say just before the man who wore
the mask came up to us. You have
broken my heart | did not hear what
the lady answered"
In addition to the fact first related
by him in regard to the shooting Jack
son now says the masked stranger APP
piled an epithet To Roberts as he
ordered him 10 get out of the chair.
The negro also insists that he heard
no demand for money following the
first order, Hold up your hands"
WIFES STORY.
Malcolm Woodruff. chief of police.
said today:
MANY things that Mrs. Williams has
told us of her husband are important
as showing their feeling toward each
other She said that her is years of
married life have been misery to her,
Three times she declared she as had
her husband put in a sanalarium. Last
Tuesday he left the sanitarium and |
went to Baltimore According TO his |
wife's assertion he called her up at the |
Hotel Brighton and asked her to come |
home with the children. She refused, |
saying she preferred to remain until |
Saturday.
In the conversation Williams be-
came aware that Roberts was also at |
the Brighton All this Mrs. Williams
has told as | believe that il is the |
truth. but | also believe that If her |
husband came to Atlantic City from
| Baltimore that day she was not aware
OF IT,"
Further evidence OF the desire of the
families of those IN the case to support
the highwayman theory was given to-
day by County Prosecutor Goldenberg
Of Atlantic county, one of the most
prominent lawyers of Philadelphia.
A friend of both families called on
me Yesterday" said Mr.. Goldenberg,
He urged me to accept the robbery
theory ! listened to all he had to say
but replied that l should have to sift
the affair TO the bottom before / ne
oepted any theory"
Slence Is now maintained by the
mombers of the Williams family group
NJ me Hotel Brighton concerning the
shooting
BALTIMORE SOCIETY EXCITED,
Baltimore, Aug 29.--Not in years
mas Baltimore society been so stirred
as II Is now over the mysterious shoot
ing OF Charles b. Roberts, II wealthy
business and club man OF this city, on
ne board walk at Atlantic city last
wednesday night while In a rolling
chair with Alrs. w. s. q. Williams.
ron
The affair furnished almost the
exclusive topic Of conversation not
only IN the fashionable clubs, hotels
NNo cares hut in business circles ms
Wen and an sorts of theories aud
,nhleeturcs as TO the motive for
me attack arc offered close friends
Oh the principals in the case--and
n"5e are many are emphatic IN
lhoir expressions of disbelief of any
connection with the shooting Of W S,
q Williams, husband of Mr. Roberts
'onpanlon la the wheel chair Inter
th' Today naturally centcrod in me
Investigations now being carried ON
lrrc Boy Detective Wilson of Atlantic
Ivy aided by members of the local