Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-05-18
Dr. David Roberts, Who Ac-
CuseS Grace LuSk of Muir
dering His Wife, Tries to
Put All Blame on Defendant
STORY OF RELATIONS
WITH WOMAN Barred
Admits Meeting Her in Chicago
and Milwaukee Hotels Com
PEELED Him at Point Of Gun
to Say He Loved Her,
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Waukesha. Wis, May l7.---Dr.
David Roberts took the witness stand
today as the accuser Of Grace IaIsk.
on trial charged with the murder OF
his wife.
She tempted me. was the burden
| of all his testimony. "Oh, that is not
true the defendant cried as she
struggled from her seat.
She asked If | loved her and
said that l honored and respected
| her
He swore as he barred the story of
their relations from the time they
first met at the home of a mutual
friend in July, 1914 until he found
his wife dying with two bullets in her
body in the little brown house Miss
Lusk made her home three years
later.
81 want you to tell me that you
love me more than anyone else in the
world, and | want you to tell Mrs.
Roberts So he testified she said to
him at one of their meetings which
had been sought by her.
II said absolutely no, and she struck
me in the face as hard as she could"
he added.
Meetings in Hotels.
| Later he told of meeting her In
Chicago and Milwaukee hotels and
produced letters she had written to
him and one written by her to Mya
Roberts which he had intercepted be-
fore its delivery.
Il have begged him to 20 to you
and tell you the situation frankly. for
| | have felt that you were big enough
woman to destroy his happiness" the
letter To Mrs H0bpftS read
III he does not care enough for ns
to do that, it Is | who have been mads
the plaything. then l am afraid I shah
call him to account.
Wouldn't it have been much sim
pier If instead of intimidatng your
husband, you had faced matters
frankly and squarely and given him
his freedom when you lost his conf
dence and all
1T is he who has been made-.not
truthful. and | who have lost my one
and only reputation that you might
keep your throne. II really isn't quito
fair Is it?"
In 1917, he testified she demanded
that he meet her ina Milwaukee hotel
and he did so only after she had
threatened to tell his wife OF their
relations and ''to make case for At
torney Lockney."
~ viii Shoot You Dead"
Y At this meeting, he said, she pro-
duced revolver which afterwards
was Identified as the one with which
she shot his wife and herself, and
pointing it at his head. said:
IL will shoot you dead II you do not
put your hand on that Bible ana
swear that you love me and viii tell
your wife.
Dr.. Roberts said he complied. The
book upon which he took the oath
was one of the Gideon Bibles supplied
TO hotel rooms.
After his first meeting with Miss
Lusk, DR.. Roberts said he met her
several times at church suppers. In
March, 1915, he said, he called her on
the telephone to ask her assistance
with book he was writing on animal
disease.
The same day. he said, at her re-
quest he went to her office to discuss
the subject. AS he was leaving he
declared that she told him that she
should be expecting a letter from :er
sweetheart in Milwaukee and that IL
made her mad"
Didn't Want Honor.
She then asked me II loved her. ne
testified when I said: Miss Lusk,
honor you and | respect you,' she SAID
4 don't care TO be honored or respect
ed. There are other things that
want" said: What do you want?
and she said. II want you to take me
TO Chicago for good time" l said
you would have lot OF respect for a
married man who would take you TO
Chicago for a good time" She SAID:
"Other people do those things ana
/ / don't sec Why we can't
II was at this point that Miss Lusk
leaped to her feet with the frantic oe-
Mai which electrified the court rooni-
After staring straight at the witness
for n moment with tear-filled eyes
sbe turned and sank sobbing into her
fathers arms.
Later on cross examination, DR..
Roberts in again describing the incl
dent said that he also told her: u
am a stranger to you and you are a
stranger to me. If you wait q year
YOU won't want to go TO Chicago with
me" , ,,,r,oa,ota,v
preceding the tragedy, DR.. RopeFts
told of visit made to MS nome on
the eve of the shooting. He said MISS
Lusk asked him il ne had told MS
wife as he had sworn to do, and ne
said that he had not but that ne
would at once.
Roberts Tells His Wife.
After walking back through the
park with her when he succeeded In
inducing her to return TO her homc'
the witness said that he went TO his
wife and told her that Miss Lusk mas
asked me to tell you that she is IN.
fatuated with me-" As a result Mrs.
Roberts decided that she would see
Miss Lrsk alone. he said. despite his
efforts to arrange meeting through
another woman who was a friend OF
the two. and the next day went to the