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Show MURDERS WIFE OF THE M1SIE LOVED Miss Grace Lusk of Waukesha, Wauke-sha, Wis., Then Makes Attempt at Suicide. i By International News Service. WAUKESHA, Wis., June 21. Two women and a man and jealousy brought the inevitable tragedy in Waukesha society so-ciety today. Murder followed on the heels of the infatuation of Miss Grace Lu.sk, a pretty school teacher and prominent promi-nent In the younger society here, for Dr. David Roberts, former state veterinarian and president of the Dr. Roberts Medical Medi-cal company of this city. Mrs. Roberta, wife of the doctor, was the victim, and Miss Lusk, after shooting shoot-ing and killing Mrs. Roberts, turned her revolver on herself and fired twice, inflicting wounds which should prove fatal in hut a few hours at most. Miss Lusk's self-inflicted wounds were t lie climax of a dramatic stand she made at the head of the stairs in the house I where she had murdered Mrs. Roberts and with a revolver held at bay Dr. Roberts Rob-erts and Chief of Police Dor. McKay. Leveling the revolver at the two men, who were pleading from the bottom of the stairs for her to he calm. Miss Lusk cried out repeatedly her love for Dr. Roberts. "I love him ; T want him; I want him now," she screamed auain and again hysterically, the while she flourished the weapon with which she had just committed com-mitted a murder and dared the two thwarted men to approach her. Suddenly she turned the revolver on herself and fell with two bullets in her body. Rounding up the stairs and leaping over the body of Miss Lusk, Dr. Roberts found his murdered wife in one of the rooms on the second floor of the house. The shooting of Mrs. Koherra and the attempted suit. of Miss Lusk took place in the home of Miss P-lnnca Mills, 41i West Park avenue, where Miss Lusk roomed. There were no witnesses to Mrs. Roberts's murder and no reason Is known for her being in tiie house w here she was killed. Dr. Roberts arrived at the Mills home shortly after his wife was murdered. No explanation is given for his visit there. Dr. Roberts has refused to make an |