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Show JURORSWEEPAS MISS LUSK GIVES Woman Sways With Emotion Emo-tion During Recital and Draws Tears From Spectators. DENIES THE STORY TOLD BY ROBERTS Describes Many Meetings in Chicago and Tells of Conference Con-ference Which Led Up to the Tragedy. WAUKESHA, Wis., May 23. With two jurors and many spectators in tears, Grace Lusk brought to a dramatic conclusion con-clusion late today her own story of her life almost up to the slaying of Mrs. Mary Newman Roberts, for which she is now on trial. Swaying in the witness chair at times, as if on the verge of collapse, often lowering low-ering her voice until it was almost inaudible, in-audible, she denied that she had ever pursued Dr. David Roberts, and charged that he, first appealing for her help in the preparation of a book, finally won Iter sympathy by telling of his unhappy home life. After describing many meetings meet-ings in Chicago and other places during two years, Miss Lusk told of arranging a conference with Dr. Roberts in a Milwaukee Mil-waukee hotel in May, 1017, about a month before, the tragedy. It was to this meeting which she carried the pistol with which she later shot Mrs. Roberts. Reputation Gone. " I had decided that the situation had to be straightened out," she testified, "and that if Dr. Roberts did not care for me, I woitld take my own life. 1 told him how sincere I had been in my affection. How I would never have allowed al-lowed it to start if he had not assured me that Mrs. Roberts did not care for him. Things now were beyond my control. con-trol. My reputation was gone and my life ruined. Mrs. Roberts also was hopelessly wronged. If this had been a game on his part, and if J had been so simple as not to have understood it, 1 would take the consequences. "Then he said he cared ten thousand times more for mc. 1 asked him to tell her. He said it was impossible. I again asked him if ho cared for me. He assured as-sured me that he did. I then took the pistol, made him put his right hand on a Bible and asked him to swear that he would go home and tell the truth. He said that it was impossible at that time. I said that I would give him until the loth of June, and he then swore that he would tell Mrs. Roberts that we eared for each other. T told him to ask for his freedom, and he said, ' Do you think that will be necessary if I tell the truth?' Then 1 put down the gun and told him that he need not tell her if he did not want to. He said that he would tell her; that it was better to be honest." Jurors in Tears. At this point Miss Lusk paused and hid her eyes under tho brim of her hat, her shoulders shaking witli sobs. Two jurymen openly wiped the tears from their eyes, while scores of women were weeping in the hushed courtroom. Although Al-though it was ten minutei before the usual time, Judge Lueck ordered an immediate im-mediate adjournment, and the defendant defend-ant staggered to hci feet, only to almost fall into her father's arms. Tomorrow she will continue her story, and later in the day will face a severe cross-examination. Friends fear that she will break down under the strain. Miss Lusk began her testimony this nioruing by telling of her first meeting with Dr. Roberts, of how he had telephoned tele-phoned to ask her to come to his office to help him with some manuscript, and of how, instead, she had invited him to meet her at her offices at the V. M. C. A. Kissed by the Doctor. At a later meeting in her offices she said that he leaned over her desk and kissed her, and when she reproved him, kissed her again and asked if she eared for him. She said that she replied that he was married, and that he said: "There is no happiness or love in the heart of either myself or wife. 1 should like to bo free, but that is impossible, as, in the eyes of the law. Mrs. Roberts is a model wife. ' ' She told of their growing intimaev, and of how ho confided his business and family troubles to her while thev worked together on the manuscript of his book. Later she described visits to (Continued on Page Thirteen.) s JURORS WEEP WHEN GIRL TELLS STORY (Continued from Page One.) Chicago, where, she said, they registered several times as man and wife, Dr. Rob-, erts at least in three instances buying her railway ticket from Milwaukee to: Chicago and paying the hotel bills. She then related instances of his jeal-l ousy, of how once he had forced her to' obtain a receipt from a Chicago hotel to prove the story she told him ot he, visit there. She denied that there was ever any reason for this jealousy. At many points she flatly contradicted I ho story Dr. Roberts told. Regarding a meeting at which Dr. Roberts had testified that she struck him in the face when he refused to swear that he cared more for her thau aaypne else in the world, she said; 'The situation had become unbearable; unbear-able; I was. unhappv. Mrs. Roberts waa unhappy. I told him that if he did not care that would end it all. He said that he cared as much as ever. I saidMluit then he must go home and tell Mrs. Roberts, He said this was impossible, and, when he became evasive, I .struck him. , |