Arizona republican., 1918-05-17
DRAMATIC RECITAL
 OPENS LUSK CASE;
 THE OLD TRIANGLE
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WAUKESHA, Wis. May 16.-Dr. l David Roberts. present only as a wit ness while Grace Lusk faces the jury | charged with the murder of Mrs. Mary 1 Newman Roberts. sat with bowed head today as he heard himself assailcd by witnesses and counsed as the alleged deceiver of two women-one his dead wife and the other on trial as her Nlsyer. While Miss Lusk shielded her tear dimmed eyes. Henry Lockney, in his opening address to the jury for the de- fsnse, told the story of her life, of her Eirlhood passed in the little village of Stoughton, of her ambition to become e teacher, of her struggle 10 win a degree from the University of Wiscon- sin which resulted in a nervous break down just before she met Dr. Roberts 'n 1914.
 Represented Himself as Lonely
 She was a girl. clean and pure, and with an untarnished reputation" he declared. Dr. Roberts was one of the wealthlest men in Waukesha, man of standing and Il church member, He represented himself to her as u deso- late, lonely married man and so won her affection. She asked him if he cared more for her than he did for his wife and he replied:
 "I care ten thousand times more. Dr. E. D. Davies, the star witness for the state, testified that he was called to the home of Blanca Mills where Miss Luslt was rooming, on the afternoon of June 21. 1917, by a tele phone message from pr. Roberts. There he found Mrs. Roberts dead in the parlor with two bullet wounds in her body, Going to n rear stairway he started to ascend but was halted by a voice declaring sharply:
 Stop! You must not come up here" Looking up, he testified, he saw Miss Lusk standing at the head of the stairs with a pistol In her right hand and her left hand covering widening stain on her white waist from a wound near her heart. Refusing to allow him to come up to treat her, she dictated the following statement:
 Declares Love for Doctor
 Doctor Roberts told me again and again that he loved me and only me, He said that he and his wife never cared for each other. He swore that he would tell her before the 18th of June and swore on Bible. l told him that if he did not care for me, we would end 1t all. Last night he told me again that he loved me. I told him that he must tell her as it was the only honorable way This morning called him on the telephone and he told me he had told his wife that l had been chasing him and that I was the darndest fool that ever lived. She called me every name every name. l loved him so dearly"
 Later, Dr. Davies said she asked him If the wound she had inflicted on herself was through the heart. He re- piled that 1t was not and she then felt for the beating of her heart with hel left hand, and, raising the pistol, fired again, When Dr. Davies reached hel side, he asked her why she had sho' Mrs. Roberts and believing she was dying she replied:
 "She drove me to 1t. She called mt such awful names"
 And then after brief pause sh, murmured: The strangest thing il That love him still"
 Attempt to Postpone Visit
 l.. D. Blott, business associate O pr. Roberts, testified that on the da. of the tragedy, Mrs. Roberts called at her husbands office and that thu doctor attempted to get her to post pone a proposed visit to Miss Lusli He quoted Mrs. Roberts as saying tha she had heard of the doctors carry ings-on with the school teacher ant wanted to settle the matter at once"
 Walter D. Corrigan in his opening statement to the jury for the state drew another picture of the traged when he depicted Miss Lusk as a wom an who was planning to separate Dl Roberts from his wife, that she migh marry him himself and declared tha the prosecution would prove that tn shooting was done with malice an reconciliation.
 Jurors Visit Tragedy Scenes
 MT. Corrigan also declared that "Mis Lusk had been living on terms of in tlmacy with pr. Roberts for about tw years and they were together at sever; distant points, including Chicago"
 Miss Lusk, Judge Lueck and tf jurors visited the scene of the traged little brown house just a few blocl from the court house today. It wa the first time Miss Lusk had seen h, former home since the shooting ar she roamed through the garden whi the jurors inspected the inside of u house. After picking a bouquet cherry blossoms and dandeuons, sl looked sadly toward a little bird hou in one of the trees, remarking:
 Il wonder where Jenny Wren now7"
 Beside pr. Roberts in the court TOOL which was crowded to overflowing. S Mrs, Gretha Newman, tho mother Mrs, Roberts, Just across the roo A. ?. Lusk. the aged father of the d fendant, remained at his daughter side throughout the day.