The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-08-30
SHOOTING Of
MILLIONAIRE
BEING PRObED
Wounded Mans Theory of
Highway Man Gives Way
Before Police Investiga-
ton - Where Was the
Wonan's Husband on the
Night of Shooting?
Special to The Journal

Atlantic City, n J., Aug. 29,-Chas.
B. Roberts, the Baltimore millionaire
who was mysteriOusIy shot on the
board walk last Wednesday night, Is
still in the Atlantic City hospital. and
is very weak The bullet, which
penetrated the liver, caused a wound,
which it is feared, 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. G.. Williams on
Tuesday and Wednesday nights after
his return to Baltimore from a sani-
forum where he had been for weeks,
the police are at work. The fact that
Williams had been in a sanitaTium I'M
dergOing treatment and not abroad
was revealed to the police by his wife
who was with Roberts in a rolling
chair at the time of the shooting
According to the police she contra
diets a statement given out from Wiz
Hams' law Office. The police of this
city have entirely abandoned the
idea that the aSsailant Of the BaIti-
more man was a highwayman. They
are awaiting a report from the Balti-
more authorities who are tracing the
whereabouts and actions of Mr. Vii
liams 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 construed as import
ant by the police. When questioned
by the police in regard to the CONVEX
sation that passed between Roberts
and Mrs. Williams during the chair
ride. Jesse jackson. the negro. said
You Have Broken My Heart"
Il did not hear anything except one
remark of the gentleman | heard
him say just before the man with a
mask came up TO us: You have
broken my heart l did not hear
what the lady answered"
In addition to the fact first related |
by him in regard to the shooting, |
Jackson now says that the masked |
stranger applied an epithet to Roberts |
as he ordered him to get out of the |
chair The negro also insists that he /
the first order: Hold up your 1
hands"
Malcolm Woodruff, chief of police, /
said today:
The highwayman theory has had /
little weight with us from the first. /
The shooting occurred at 1880 |
o'clock. The wounded man was
-aken to the hospital and the woman
back to the hotel As soon as learn
I'd that she was not his wife | asked
where is her husband / sent sew
eral messages to Baltimore before II |
o'clock that night asking the police
here TO let me know at once whether
Williams was in that city. No reply
,ame and | have not heard one word |
since from the Baltimore police on
hat feature.
Many things that Mrs Williams
las told us of her husband are import
INT as showing their feelings towards
'ach other She said that her eighteen
ears of married life had been misery
o her. Three she declared, she had
lad her husband put in san1tariUm-
asst Tuesday he left the sanitarfum
md went to Baltimore. According 10
us wife's assertion. he called her up
It the Hotel Brighton and asked her
o come home with the children. She !
saying that she preferred TO
emain until Saturday
In the conversation Williams be-
anne aware that Roberts was also "a
he Brighton All this Mrs. Williams
as told US"