Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-09-07
JACKSON MADE TO LIE
Chair PuSher Abducted and
IStatementforced, He Says.
ARREST EXPECTED SOON
Mayor Stoy Takes Hand in Board
walk Mystery.
ROBERTS MAKING PROGRESS
Condition Favors Recovery-Negro's
Startling Tale-Newspaper Men
Enticed Him Away.
ARREST EXPECTED so0|
ROBERTS MAKING PROGRESS

ATLANTIC CITY. n. j.. September =
| That the authorities know more than they
have been telling about the mysterious
shooting of Charles B. Roberts. jr.. OF
Baltimore on the Boardwalk ten days ago
was indicated last night by Mayor Stoy.
who said:
Il think I will have the person who
shot Roberts in short time.
He declined to make any more definite
statement.
1t was stated at the hospital that
Roberts is resting easily and that his
condition is favorable.
Jesse Jackson. who was pushing the
rolling chair in which Roberts was riding
with Mrs w. S. C. Williams of Baltimore
when shot. was taken before Chief Of
Police Woodruff last night. when t1e re-
iterated his statement that the shooting
of Roberts was the result of a hod-up.
Jackson admitted having made state
ment published over his signature in
which he said the bullet which struck
Roberts had been fired from inside the
chair, but declared that statement to be
false. He said he had been induced to
make it under promise of reward.
Forced to Make Statement.
Jackson. who has been reported in a
New York newspaper as making signed
statement in which he declared that the
first shot fired at Roberts was fired while
he was still in the rolling chair; that
Roberts had been wounded in the hand
by the shot, and that he tJackson) had
been told to say it was a highwayman
who had done the shooting. was brought
to police headquarters and subjected to
lengthy Interrogation by the authorities.
He denied. in its entirety, the statement
attributed to him, and which contained
the strong intimation that Mrs. Williams
herself had fired the shots. and he told
an extraordinary story of being taken
to Philadelphia by New York newspaper
men and there forced to make the state
ment.
He said that the men had threatened to
put bullet through him if he ever told,
and he has been given police guard
here to prevent him from being again alb
Quoted. This is part Of the statement
made by Jackson to the police.
Abducted After Midnight.
These men came and got me out of my
house two hours after midnight Friday
night. l had been with them earlier in
the evening, and when they asked me to
get in a bus / thought 1t was all right.
We drove around town. and then across
the meadows of Pleasantville. We could
not get anything TO eat there, SO drove to
ham and eggs. Those fellows then get
me on a train. but instead Of going to
Atlantic City we went to Camden.
This was on Saturday morning. and we
got over into Philadelphia about noon.
They took me to a big hotel, and told
me that Mrs. Williams had told them
that she shot Mr.. Roberts and that she
was to give them $4,000 to keep 1t quiet.
They then brought out the statement
which they said had been made by Mrs.
Williams. and asked me to sign it to help
her out. They told me it would help her
to keep the police from finding out just
what took place when the shooting was
done. and they promised me share Of
the money.
Escaped From Automobile.
Jackson says he signed the statement
and was then kept in Philadelphia all day
on one protext or another. At night he
was brought back to Pleasantville, where
which the chair pusher entered after some
protest.
They arrived, according to the negros
story, near Egg Harbor after midnight,
and there making an excuse to get out OF
the machine. he took to his heels and
made his escape.
Continuing his statement. jackson said:
When l struck a farmhouse l went
into an empty chicken coop and slept
there the rest of the night. In the morn
ing l took a train for Atlantic City
Jackson declared emphatically that the
men told him Mrs Williams han confessed
to shooting Roberts, and the police of
this city are contemplating taking some
sort of action against the men who are
alleged TO have taken Jackson to Phila-
delphia.