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Show MISS LUSK'S HATE LETTER TO HER VICTIM REVEALED Slayer Will Take Stand and Tell Story of Her Love Tragedy. WAUKESHA, "Wis., May 21. Grace Lusk will lake the witness stand lo reveal every detail of iier relations with Dr. Dnvid Roberts at her trial for slaying his wife .tomorrow. Before the prosecution rested, it introduced intro-duced a letter written by Miss Lusk and found in her desk, after the tragedy. It was addressed to Mrs. Roberts and was only presented as evidence after the attorneys at-torneys for the defense had registered an emphaiic. protest In which they declared that Miss Lusk could not be used as a witness against herself. "When your husbaud first came to me, it was for business," the letter read; "at , least that was hia excuse. He did all of the pursuing. I thought it was all' quite a good joke and In fact it would never have occurred to me to take the situation situa-tion seriously if, one night at the Baptist church affair, you had not come yp to us when we were talking in the most innocent inno-cent fashion imaginable and rushed him away. You did not do it in a courteous manner well, not rather. I vowed thereupon there-upon to get even with you for your dls- courtesy, and I have. Only I have hurt myself in doing so." Tells Relations. The letter then frankly related her re-btipns re-btipns with the veterinarian, of how he spent his evening with her while hi3 wife was 111 at the time, or his jealousy and of liis statement to her that he felt that he "had been cheated in the marriage game." "It seems to me," the letter added, "that if you loved your husband unselfishly, unself-ishly, you would want him to be happy honorably, even if it were a sacrifice to you in some respects. It is not an unheard un-heard of thing for a husband or a wife to give up voluntarily the mate whose love has been lost. Did you ever hear I the story of Ruskin, or more recently, of James K. Barrie'.' In Uie eternal tri angle the only solution of the problem is the elimination of one character, the two who should remain are those whose affections af-fections are mutual.'' Several oilier letters found in the little desk, some of them covered with brownish brown-ish stains, indicating that Miss Laisk: bad handled them after she had killed jUrs. Roberts and shot herself, also were read. One headed "explanation," dei-Iared: "Oh, I am sorry, sorry that all this has happened. Yet I had rather have had this VxperieiK-e, painful as it lias been, than 10 have' gone through life without knowing wiiat love can mean. can't honestly believe be-lieve I have been sinful. The only treason trea-son has been in not telling Mrs. R. I always wanted to, but he was afraid. Oil, well, It soon will be over." Funeral Directions. Another letter whh-h was marked, "Open In case of accident only," gave directions di-rections for her funeral, which she desired de-sired to be without "much fuss." She also directed that she be dressed "in tire little new gray frock." which, she wrote, would "be ready for my last party." Dr. Roberts was recalled to the witness stand for cross-examination by the defense de-fense early in the morning session to answer an-swer a series of questions regarding the defendant's mental condition. He testified that she appeared normal except when she was angry, when she occasionally lost control of herself. Later in the afternoon the defense introduced in-troduced several character witnesses, who testified to the high regard in which Miss Lusk was held. Miss Lusk appeareil on the verge of collapse several limes during the session. ses-sion. The letter from Miss Lusk to Mrs. Roberts Rob-erts read as follows: My Dear Mrs. Roberts: It has been a desire with me for a long time lo (Continued on Page Two.) II LUSK TO TELL RELATIONS MJWSICI Letter of Woman to Victirr Is Introduced Over Bitter Bit-ter Protest of the Defense. (Continued from Page One.) tell you frankly about the state of affairs between Dr. Roberts and myself. my-self. I have asked him repeatedly to fell you the whole atory. But you saem to have him terrorized to a pitiful piti-ful degree. If I were to blame you for any one thing it would be that. Confidence Lacking. You must have known for many years that there did not exist between your husband and yourself a bond of honest confidence that is essential if the higher standards of marriage be upheld. You must have known for a long time that your husband's affection affec-tion had passed from you; that he cared for someone else supremely. That is sufficient annulment of any marriage vow that was ever given. Had you gone to him and said frankly, 'If you do not care for me alone, take your freedom, live your life In the way that will give you most happiness and let me go my way." If, I repeat, you had given him this opportunity of choice and he had said that he wanted you alone, then you would have given him the chance to play the part of an honest man. But you have not been fair. You have threatened him until rather than face certain results that he feared, he has lied, and lied, played the hypocrite and coward until he has no moral fiber left. That is the way you so-called "good, moral women" do things. In order to keep your reputations, to live lives of ease, parasitic, we term them now, in order to do this, you make the other fellow do the sinning. sin-ning. If there really is an omnipotent omnipo-tent judge somewhere I wonder how mimh r,f tho hlamo Vio will fflRtPn fill you. When yoir husband first came to me it was for business; that, at least, was his excuse. He did all the pursuing. I thought It was all quite a good joke; in fact, it could never have occurred to me to take the situation sit-uation seriously, if, one night, at the Baptist church home supper or affair, af-fair, you had not come up to us when we were talking in the most innocent in-nocent fashion imaginable and rushed him away. Vowed Vengeance. You did not do it In a courteous manner; well, not rather. I vowed thereupon to get even with you for your discourtesy. And I have. Only I have hurt myself in doing so. Your husband assured me the first time that I ever talked with him that his home life was most unsatisfactory; unsatisfac-tory; that between you two after the first few months of married life there had been , the most unsatisfactory unsatis-factory relations as far as he was concerned; that there was not one vestige of love between you, that he felt he had been cheated, that you w-ere a good housekeeper, but that he wanted something more. Later, when we got to know one another better, he told me he felt that he had been cheated in the marriage mar-riage game tied to a passionless woman, "me of all men." I asked him then why he did not ask for his freedom, that if you had any pride you would "not wish to hold him under un-der those circumstances. He said that you were so madly jealous that you would not do so, that you threatened threat-ened to commit suicide at the slightest slight-est pretext. Rather than have things disagreeable, he would lie. "Better to lie a little than to be unhappy much." He and T have always disagreed about the fundamental thing. I believe be-lieve that we have' done nothing wrong, because we both have cared for one another more than anyone else in the world. When a man and a woman care for one another like that there can be no bond stronger in heaven or on earth! I have begged him again and again to tell you honestly how matters stood and always he is afraid. It is never the nature of the thing which is done that he minds. It is being discovered by you with me. I have felt that our only sin was the underhandedness of it all. Subterfuge Galling. Never in my life before have I done anything which even bordered on being unconventional, and this episode has almost killed me. You must understand if I had not cared supremely for the man and had been sure that he cared for me only I should never have done this thing. Every moment of the subterfuge has been galling. I hate to tell you how . much your husband has cared for me. That seems mos,t ungenerous, but I want you to realize that it has been a genuine case. That he has given me presents indicates in-dicates nothing, but there has not been a day for three vears when if we were not angry he has not called me up by phone. Everv Sunday morning at 10:30 he has talked to me until he must have been chronically late at church. You have never gone out in the evening hut what he has rushed over to his machine to be out with me. Every night for instance. last winter, when you went into the concerts con-certs at the auditorium we were together. to-gether. We have been to Chicago together to-gether at least once a montlC for three years. He came down to Peoria to sec inc last summer. When you were in the wesl be wrote me called as a witness by the state, testified that he saw Miss Lusk at the hospital shortly after the tragedy and asked her why she shot Mrs. Roberts. "Because she called me such awful names," 'the witness said she told him and that then she added: "I can see. why I shot Mrs. Roberts, but 1 cannot sec why I did it so deliberately." Several letters introduced by the state, which were found in Miss Lusk's room after the tragedy, were covered with red stains, indicating that she had handled them Immediately after she had shot Mrs. Roberts and herself. One headed "Explanation,"- read in part as follows: "I should have known better than to play with fire. 1 should have known that men have one code of honor for the women they love and another for the women to whom they are married I cannot honestly feel that I have been sinful. sin-ful. The only treason has been in not telling Mrs. Roberts. I have always wanted to tell her, but he was afraid. Ah. well, It will soon he Over." Another letter which had not been mailed and was addressed to Mrs. Roberts, Rob-erts, read in part: "Why did you not keep the appointment appoint-ment 1 made at your urgent request? Is it because you do not care to know the truth?" Another note which carried no address, read in part: "This Is the work of the man who said he loved me. God forgive me," axe dear to me. I have wondered often if you have really cared. It seemed to me that if you loved vour husband unselfishly you would want him to be happy honorably, even if it were a sacrifice to you in some respects. It Is not an unheard-of unheard-of thing for a husband or a wife to give up voluntarilv the mate whose love bad been lost. Did you ever hear the store of Ruskln more i'e-centlv i'e-centlv of James K. Banie? That seems to me an Infinitely more dignified dig-nified course than the one which you have pursued. Besides, vou are an active member of a religious cult whose leader said, "Greater love has no man than this that a man lay down his life for a friend." You teach in Sunday Sun-day school the beauty of a life that Is ' unselfish. Yours is supremely selfish. You teach that It is a sin to make a fellow man to fall. You have kept your husband in bondage w'here he has lied, committed adultery, ruined the lives of innocent women, been a hypocrite. When 1 started this I did not moan to blame you. but I cannot help feeling rather bitter for the way In whicVf your sanctimonious life, your selfishness, has brought to me. Perhaps Per-haps I can torsive' you some time. Will you some time read Ellen Keyes' book. "Love and Marriage"? Then you will understand the modern mod-ern woman's attitude on morals. It is far removed from the stand that marriages are made In heaven. If some of them are made there it is because the angel who supplies common com-mon sense has moved out. Shall I sign my name? It is fno signature). signa-ture). Physician Recalled. Dr. David Roberts was recalled to the witness stand for probably the last time. Asked as to his view of Miss Lusk's mental condition, he replied that he had not observed anything unusual about it. He said be considered her normal, although al-though when angry she lost control of herself. Morris S. Tullar, district attorney, milium c -i j ucl, flim w do nitta O be "home." so he said. Last winter, when you insisted on accompanying him to the stock show, he tried to get you to go home by Friday. You threatened to kill yourself your-self then, did you not? In spite of tha t, he had me come down FYlday and stayed with mc until midnight, while nephew took you to the show. He was over to me the next morning morn-ing before nine and he stayed until you almost missed the train. TVhIe you were sick last winter he watf over with me everv night. . lie made no secret of the fart that if you had been called to angel land it would be a happy solution of the difficulty. In the eternul triangle the onlv solution so-lution of the problem ts the elimination elimina-tion of one character. The two who should remain are those whose affections af-fections are mutual. However, this one thing may console con-sole you. If you have suffered from the pangs of that green-evpd monster, jealousy, your husband has had his turn. He Is cra7.y when T am out of town for more than two hours. Usually stays down at Five. Points and wa tches for my car to come in. Me very effectually broke off toy masculine friendships" that T had out here. He was even so jealous jeal-ous at my being at the Bophs that be would hardly speak if I went there to a meal. There is no use of my telling the details of our "case." T am sorry that it ever started. It has wrecked my life, brought sorrow to those who I |