The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1918-05-24
Weep
As GIRL TELLS
Of LOVE CRIME

wAUklrHiiA. WA. May a.
Craze Ixssk fiaishs1 sa the W.T.
nsas ssAnA tsAay . AramaSic
sssey q her shessiag sf Mr.
Masy Rsbsrss. whsn shs rsvilsd
~ for Intimacy With Dv. Rsk
sgsa. hsI husbaaA
Ths mur1sr tstnl defenAant
W. immsdlsesfy turned ever -
Pressrusse Cssytgan isr eruss-
examtnation.
Miss Lusk.s recital OF the fatal
seen. with the VIII. OF the man ah~
loved ciandestinely for years. left
hardly dry eye in the packed court
room. AZ times. IN her history. tbs
witnes. waspsd for breath. and
rceisd In the chair.
Roberts heard her testimony from
HIS seat inside the rail. but con
trolied his emotions.
Ytrpd Test Shot
Mlaa Lusk said she could not ~
member the actual shooting Of Mr..
Roberts or herself June 81. 1917. She
remembered only one shot. a test
shot fired In her room. where she
went TO get RoVrss' hove letters TO
show the wife
The sight OF the revolver lying be
AIDE tho letters. put tho thought Of
suieid. I'm her mind
Il was tei~phonlns DIR. Roberts
when Mrs. Roberts suddenly entered
the door at the Bisnca Mills Home.
where rootned." Was the defend
ants story.
IL have come TO get an expiana-
ton Of your conduct last night. Mrs
Roberts said. 4 think u Was the
most azinlne performance ] ever
sAw.'"
wife scoevs Ciri
This referred 10 a call Mlss Lusk
made ae the Roberts home the pr~
vious night. when she ASKED the dor
tor for the last time 10 tell Arp.
Roberts Of their relations.
Miss Lusk continued:
Mr. Roberts aid: 1fs said you
are the - fool he ever INV.
lie said that you were continually
chasing him. that he did not oArv
anything about you
You don't mean that he said
that. do your I nid.
What else could you sspec,r
Mrs. Roberts replied. When you
chase q married man. what do you
think he viii say and think about
youy'
-shs sAid he told her he might a,
tsast b given credit for picking out
snmething more than . scravny old
maid" Miss Lusk resumed. Then
uhe talked about my friends and
rsdicui~d them Then she aid
would have to re, out Of town and
that she would go TO tho school
board.
MY friends will put you on; Of
town. uhsy win tar and feather
you. Mira Roberts said Then abe
told me about another affair DR.
Roberts had with . certain giri who
had died"
Mias Lusk appeared today 10 have
recovered from her ordeal on the
stand yesterday. Overcome BY the
heat and tenscness Of her emotions.
seven women tainted. Numbers
were weeping ~ Gr~cs Lusks story
Of shame was told. every word at
the cost Of an effort Two jurors
wept.
Decided 70 Die
Referring TO n meeting with DIR.
Roberts. In which she carried q pis-
toll. she said:
Il had decided that tho situation
had 70 be Strengthened out and that
II Dr. Roberts did not care for me
I would take my own life. I told him
how uinccre I had been In my affcc.
ton. How I would never have al
lowed IL TO start n he had not ~.
sured me that Mr.. Roberts did not
care for him. Things now were b..
yond my control My reputation
was gone and my life ruined. Mrs.
Roberts aieo was hopelcssly wrong
ed. II this had bern q game on his
part. and n had bsen 20 simple
a. not To have understood II. ! would
take the consequences.
Then he said he cared ten thou.
sand times moro for me. asked
him 20 tell her. He said II was i'm
possible. I again asked him II he
cared for me. He assured mo that
he did. I then took tho pistol. made
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