Gainesville daily sun., 1908-09-01
POLICE ARE PROBING
MysteriOuS Shooting Of Charles
Roberts at Atlantic City.
VICTIM MAY LOSE HIS LIFE
Shooting Of the Wealthy BaItlmOre
clubman on the Boardwalk at A.,
lantIc City Has Created a Sensation
on Account Of Mystery Attached.

lantic City Has Created Sensation
on Account Of Mystery Attached.
Atlantic City, N. j.. Aug. Sl.-C.
b Roberts, who was mysteriously
shot On the boardwalk last Wednesday
night, is still in the Atlantic City
hospital. and Is very weak. The bull
let. which penetrated the liver, It Is
feared. caused wound which may
prove fatal
Firm In the belief that the solution
Of the mystery surrounding the shoot
ing will follow an Investigation OF
the movements of w. s. @. Williams
on Tuesday and Wednesday nights at.
ter his return to Baltimore from san.
itarIum, where he had been for weeks.
Is thread upon which the police are
at work.
The fact that Williams had been In
a sanitarium undergoing treatment
and not abroad, was revealed TO the
police by his wife, who was with
Roberts In a rolling chair az the time
OF the shooting
According 10 the police she contra.
diets statement given out from VIII
liams' law ONCE. The police Of this
city have, entirely abandoned the the
ory that the assailant Of the Baltimore
man was a hIghwayman, They are
awaiting reports from baltimore au.
thorities who are tracing the where.
abOuts and actions of ar Williams
on the night u the shooting
Disclosures by Negro.
The disclosures just made by the
negro who was pushing tho chair In
which Roberts and Mrs Williams
were riding, arc construed important
by the police.
When questioned IN regard 10 the
conversation which passed between
Roberts and Mrs. Williams during the
chair ride, Jesse Jackson, the negro.
said;
II did not hear anything except one
remark of the gentleman I heard him
say just before the man with . mask
came np To ua. You have broken
my heart I did not hear what the
lady answered."
Ia addition TO ,he fact hrSt related
by him IN regard 70 the shooting, Jack
sou nov says iaai ihe matked suan'
Fsr applied IN epithet % Roberts a.
b. ordered Aim 20 set oct of tho chair
The negro also insists that be heard
no demand for mensy foll1vin9 the
arnt order -H0h up your haadsi"
Nlohwayman Theoyy secuted.
Malcolm woodrua. chief Of p3lscs.
aaid.
"The hiKhmayman theory has had
little weight with us from tha 6rsi
The shooting occurred ai 1880
O'Clock The sounded msn vas tah
en- 10 the hospital and the womAs
back 70 the hotel A soon aa 4
learned that she waa nos hia wfia. i
aSkea where waa her huaaaNt q
sent several messages n nsiilmgru
before ~ o'cfck thai Eighi asAinE taa
poilcs thsfe "a ieg me krow AZ oncs
whethsr wiiliama vas ia that citY
No rspIy cane. aHd ! have net hearaI
one w1rf unre from ne halalMtggl
police oa t1ag feafure
SAID narrse Life was urhappy.
eMary fainnf that Mp Williams
has tol1 ns of hrf hBabasi $40 imp0g
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