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Show BLAMES MAN WHOSE WIFE SHE KILLED S!n)or Realizes Madness of Infatuation Infatua-tion Which Drove Her to Crime. Waukesha, Wis., Juno 22. Miss Oraco Lusk, high school teacher, who yesterday shot and killed Mrs. David Roberts, wlfo of a former state official offi-cial with whom she professed to bo in love, was served today with & warrant war-rant charging her with murder in tho first degree. The warrant was read to her. Inthe hospital, where her life still .hangs t in the balanced rom a bullet wo'und she 'inflicted on herself after standlng'off the police for half an hour. Desplto protestations of lasting love for Dr. Roberts, Miss Lusk Indicated In-dicated bitterness when she was placed unilcr formal arrest. "Oh, God," she called, 'aro they going to tako me and let him go free?" Tonight Miss Lusk's condition took a turn for the worse and the physicians physi-cians who were constantly watching her feared that an Infection might dovelop In tho wound which would prove fatal. She had lost strength after the nervous excitement following follow-ing the serving of the warrant. Miss Lusk further commented bitterly bit-terly on Dr. Roberts when one of the unsigned masculine notes found among her effects was called to her attention. "It is spring now," ono of tho notes read, "and I feel that I want ' to walk with you In green pastures." "Oh, he was the maudllln and common com-mon sentiment that characterizes' only tho horse doctor," slio said, when reminded of the note. "I thought his mentality matched mine, that his conception of Ideals was pure nnd his Intellectuality a rock of ages, but he Is a charlatan. He has sacrificed sacri-ficed his wlfo and me on the altar of desire." Tho wounded school teacher expressed ex-pressed no Joy when told by physicians physi-cians that her chance of recovery was still good. "That's too bad," sho said. "I want to die. Thero can bo no mental nor splritunl recovery, so why tho physical?" Miss Lusk's father and brother today to-day engaged Francis E. McOovern, former governor of Wisconsin, to conduct con-duct her defense. Tho coroner's Inquest In-quest has been indefinitely post-postponed. post-postponed. A letter evidently written by. Miss Lusk to Mrs. Roberts was mado public. pub-lic. I read In part: "You muBt hnvo known for a long tlmo thnt your husband's affection) had passed from you: that ho cared for.someono else. That Is sufficient suffici-ent annulment of any marrlago vow thut over was given. "In tho eternal trtanglo our souls require for their solution the elimination elimin-ation of ono character. Tho two who should remain are the two whose affection la mutual." A papthetlc Incident occurred when Dr. A. P. Lusk, father of tho accused ac-cused slayer, visited her In the hospital hos-pital this afternoon. It was a short meeting nnd both were sobbing. In a broken voice, Dr. Lusk asked: "You poor girl; why did you do It?" "If you only know, father, tho life I havo lived. It was terrible and I know God will forglvo mo," sho re-Piled. A letter that Miss Lusk dictated to Dr. R. E. Davis while bIio hold him nnd others at bay at tho foot' of tho stairway In tho Mills homo I was mado public today. ' It waB addressed to Miss Winifred Frye, Santa Rarbara, Cat., and roads: "I called him Just betoro Mrs. Roberts came here. Ho said ho had ' told her that ho loved mo. When Mrs. Roberts arrived sho told mo he said I was chaffing him. "The night before I was on my way to tho Roberts homo and ho headed me off and brought mo back through tho park. He then told mo over and over he loved me and cared for mo only." |
