Bisbee daily review., 1918-05-18
ROBERTS PUTS ALI BLAME ON WOMAN WHO KILLED WIFE
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WAUkESHA, WIS, May 1f.-Dr. David Roberts took the witness stand today as the accuser of Grace Lusk 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 me if I loved her and I answered that I hOnored and re- spected her. he swore as he barred the story of their relations from the time they first met at the home of 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.
 "I want you to tell me that you love me more than any one else in the world, and I want you to tell Mrs. Roberts so." he testified she said to him at one of their meetings which had been sought by her.
 'T said absolutely no, and she strIch me in the face as hard as she could" he added.
 BIames Miss Lusk
 Later he told of meeting her in Chi cago and Milwaukee hotels and pro duced letters she had written to him and one written by her to Mrs. Rob erts which he had intercepted before it's delivery.
 q have begged him to go to you and tell you the situation frankly. for l have felt that you were big enough woman to desire his happiness the letter to Mrs. Roberts read.
 "If he does not care enough for me to do that. it is I who have been made the plaything, then I am afraid l shall call him to account.
 "Wculdn't it have been much sim. pier if instead of intimidating your husband, you had faced matters frank iy and squarely and given him his freedom when you lost his confidence and all?
 "It is he who has been made-not truthful, and I who have lost my one and only reputation that you might keep your throne. It really isn't quite fair is it?"
 Threatened to Shoot
 In June 1917, he testified, she de- manded that he meet her in Milwau' kee hotel and he did so only after she had threatened to tell his wife of their relations and 'to make a case for Attorney Lockney."
 At this meeting. he said, she pro duced a revolver which afterwards was identified as the one with which she later shot his wife and herself, and pointing it at his head said:
 'T will shoot you dead if you do not put your hand on that Bible and swear that you love me and will tell your wife"
 Dr. Roberts said that 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 assist ance with the book he was writing on animal diseases.
 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 had been expecting a letter from sweetheart in Milwaukee and that ! it made her mad"
 She then asked me if loved her, | he testified. When I said: Miss Lusk, I honor you and l respect you. she said: T don't care to be honored or respected. There are other things that I want l said: What do you want? and she said, I want you tc take me to Chicago for a good time. said. You would have a lot of re spect for a married man who would Continued on Page Two)