| Show JURORS WEEP AS TEACHER RELATES HER LIFES LIFE'S SHAME Grace Lusk Brings to Dramatic Dramatic Dramatic Dra Dra- matic Conclusion T Testimony esti- esti many mony on Slaying CONTRADICTS STORY OF HER BETRAYER Friends Believe She Will Collapse During Diring D ring the Cross- Cross Examination Today By Dy Associated Press Prest WAUKESHA Wis Vis May Ia 23 With With two Jurors and many spectators In tears Grace Graco Lusk brought to a dramatic dramatic dramatic dra dra- matic conclusion late lato today her own story of oC her life liCe almost up to the slaying slay slay- In fag ing of or Mrs lar 1 Mary Newman Roberts for for- which she sho Is now on trial Sva Swaying ing In the witness chair at al times s as If on tho the verge erge of collapse often low lowering her voice olce until It was almost inaudible sho she denied that she had ever pursued pursue Dr David Roberts Robarts arid and charged that he first appealing for her help ii in- in inthe the prep preparation of ot a book finally won her sympathy by telling of his unhappy home life liCe After describing many meetings in Chicago and other places during two to years Miss 1158 Lusk told of arranging a a. conference conference conference confer confer- ence with Dr Roberts In a Milwaukee hotel In May 1917 about a month be before before he- he fore the tragedy It w was ws s to this meeting meet meet- big ing which she carried the pistol with which she later shot Mrs Roberts I had decided that the situation had to be straightened out she testified and that if IC Dr Roberts did not care for COt me me 1 lW take uld take tl m my own life I I told him how sincere L I had been in my affection How I 1 would never have all sved ed it to start if It he had not assured me that Mrs Irs Roberts did dill not care for him Things now were ero beyond my control My ly reputation was gone and anti my life liCe ruined Mrs Roberts also was hopelessly hopeless wronged If It this timis had been beena a game gamo on his tart part and it If I 1 had been so simple as not to have o understood I Ia It I would take tho the consequences Then he said he cared ten thousand times more for tor me mc I asked aske him to tell her He said It was impossible I again asked him If he cared for tor me He assured me inc that he did I then took tho the pistol made him put his right hand on a Bible and asked him to swear that he would go home homeland and tell teU the truth He said that It was impossible Impossible Impossible im Im- Im- Im possible at that time I said that I would give ghe him until the fifteenth of June and he then swore that he ho would tell teU Mrs Roberts that wo we cared for tor each elch other I told him to ask for tor his freedom and anel he sal said Do you think that will be necessary 1 If it I tell the truth Then I put down tho the gun and told him that he nee need not hot tell her if it ithe he did not want to He said that he would tell her that It was better to bo be honest At this point Miss Lusk paused and hl hid her eyes under the tho brim of her hat her shoulders shaking with sobs Two jurymen openly wiped Jpe the tears from their eyes ees while scores cores of or women were weeping in tho the hushed courtroom Although It was ten minutes before the tho usual time Judge Lueck ordered an immediate adjournment and th the defendant defendant de defendant de- de staggered to her feet teet only to almost fall Call Into her fathers father's arms Tomorrow she will continue her hersto sto story and later in the day will face facea a severe Ere cross examination friends I ft fear ar that she will break down under tinder I tho the strain L Miss Lusk began her testimony tams mis I morning b by telling of her first meeting with Dr Roberts of oC how lie ho had telephoned telephoned tele tele- phoned to ask her to come to his office to help him with some manuscript and of oC how Instead she had invited Q him to meet her at her hr offices at the Y M M. C C. A. A At a later Inter meeting In her offices she said that he lie leaned over her desk an and kissed d her an and when she Iho reproved him bun kissed her again and asked If she he cared for him Sho Raid that she replied that he lie was waR married and that he sal said There Is 18 no happiness or love lovo In the heart of ot either myself or wife 1 I should like lIko to be free tree but that is Impossible as in the eyes oyes of ot tho the law Mrs Irs Roberts Is a model wife wICe- She told of their growing intimacy and how he lie confided his business and family troubles to her while the they worked on tho the manuscript of ot his book Later she described visits to Chicago o where she sal said that they registered I several times lines as 13 man and amI wife Dr Roberts in at least t three instances bu buying her railway ticket from Milwaukee Milwaukee Mil Mil- I waukee to Chicago and paying the hotel bills |
