Show H U S VB A N D L 0 M ra N who sh shot C roberts eroberts BR B 1 a sensation I 1 Is s promised atlantic aug 28 though charles charle B roberts the financier and clubman e aid who was the victim ot of emya eri 0 ug shooting on the board walk on Wednes wednesday dai night Is still in a critical condition at a local hospital strong hope is entertained by the physicians that ho he will recover he was sufficiently from unconsciousness to tell 1 0 police something of the man who abot biot him and acting upon the faint clew which is understood to have been given them they have been v biking working oi king industriously to clear up the roya mystery tery surrounding the shooting mrs williams who was in the rolling chair with roberts anil and the degro chair pusher were subjected to a sharp cross examination and their stories agree on the tha details mrs told the police that the man who halted the chair canoe came face to face with them and was walking A slowly peering through tile tho glass windows behind which mr air roberts anti and mrs williams sat the man laid his hia head on the chair and shoved one of 0 the windows aside at the same time showing a revolver thinking tho man wanted money mrs williams illiams lV J she offered him her chatelaine bag the stranger waed it aside and ordered roberts to get out As roberts roberta got up mrs airs williams says she looked hard and saw for the first time that the man was inas masked ked he shot four or five bullets one of them taking effect in roberts robert side another penetrating the back of the rolling chair and narrowly missing mrs williams NV 11 iams and ana the others going wild then declares mrs williams the man coolly walked away in the direction of the inlet which is at the upper end or of atlantic city the negro chair pusher was too frightened to act and admits lie he rat ran I 1 away until the man with the tae revolver reX olver was out of sight ile he the then n called policeman rust who assisted mr into the rolling chair to await the arrival of an ambulance mrs williams made emphatic dei adal when asked whether the man i might have been her husband she I 1 asserts that mr air roberts has long been a family friend and that her husband knew him as such she says her husband has never exhibited any signs agns gns of jealousy during all ali the years ahe lie has known mr roberts she add td t too that her husband knew of tle ibe presence ot of mr roberts in atlantis atlantic city mrs williams was ivas then asked I 1 whether the man in an who did the shooting arde the reported declaration you will take my wife out to olanner again as he fired the shots she donlea denied this as did also the negro caa pusher mrs williams was unable to say whether the man tried to kill 1111 her I 1 alan tho the bullet came uncomfortably close sho she said but if lie he wanted to RIN kli me it seems he be could easily have done clone so she further declares that she has noc the slightest suspicion as an to tho the identity of tho the assailant I 1 mrs airs roberts wife of the victim ar rived here bore last and has been at his bedside at the hospital ever since she refused to talk of the occurrence the police scoff at the theory ot of highway robbery and hint at sensational revelations upon the arrest of those whom they have under ion oil |