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Show ADMITS SHE KEPT AFFAIR ASECRET Grace Lusk Explains Letter in Court Did Not Mean "Eliminate" "Elim-inate" Mrs. Roberts. Waukesha, wis. Mav 21 ,rae LUBk, after testifying that she could remember nothing regarding the kill me bl Mrs Marj Newman Roberts, for which she is now on trial, was forced to admit on cross-examination todav that she had sought to keep her relations with Dr. David Robet Is i cret for more than two vcars. During this period she admitted that she had warned the veterinarian to be careful in talking with her on the telephone; tele-phone; that she had sent him letters in care or his secretary; that she bad on one occasion urged him to register undT a fictitious name with her at a Chicago hotel, and that they had H mutual mu-tual agreement ihat their letters I should be unsigned and should be destroyed de-stroyed as soon as they were read. Miss Lusk also admitted that she had not confined herself to facts in sev-1 eral statements made in uhmailed letters let-ters to Mrs. Roberts regarding her Jn-ttinat Jn-ttinat with Dr Robert s. Although shp could remember nothing noth-ing regarding the actual shooting of Mrs Roberts and declared that she ' never, never never intended to do It. I she admitted that she had a clear rec- I olleclion of events immedlatly hefore ! and after the tragedy. She declared' that Mrs. Roberts had threatened to have her driven out of town and had likened her to a dog and a woman of the streets. intended to Kill Herself After the tragedy, Miss Lusk told of! going to her room and firing her pistol i out of the window to see whether it had jammed." with the intention later, of using it to take her own life. Shp had no recollection of firing the first shot into her body, but fired the second sec-ond because she no longer cared to live after being tpld that Mrs. Roberts' Rob-erts' was dead Miss Lusk testified on cross-examination that the first time she had urged that Mr. Roberts be told the truth was on May IS. H17 a little more than a month before the tragedy. n the cross-examination, which V.n rnnHnrtr.il h- V-iltr- H i-.rimm I of Milwaukee, a letter addressed to' Mrs. Roberts which never had been j mailed was read after Miss Lusk had j I admitted writing it This was the letter let-ter introduced earlier in the trial by the state over the protest of the defense de-fense that their client could .not be forced to give evident which mlgh' tend to incriminate herself Wanted Affair Disclosed. "You wanted the affair disclosed to Mrs Roberts In the expectation that she would step aside''" she was asked I "I did not know." she answered. "Did you think she ought to have done so?" "If she did not care for him and he did not care for her, that would be the logical thing." Mr fiorrigan then read a section of a letter from Miss Lusk to Mrs. Roberts, Rob-erts, which Dr. Roberts intercepted, as follows "I have lost my reputation while you have kept your throne;' it really isn't quite fair, ls.it?" "You thought it fair thai $ho give up the doctor?" he asked "Yes. if she understood the situa- tion." Miss Lusk repllft! Reads Portion of Letter. .Mr. CorrlKan th n read a portion of an nnmailed letter addressed to .Mrs. Roberts found In Miss Lusk's desk after I ho tra'dy, as follows In order to keep your reputation, you lb-Called cood moral women make Ibe other persons do the sinnlnu so thai you an coniiinue to live your parisitic lives." "What did oti m;i,i tlie word parasitic?" he asked. Women who live li' ol ease and do nothing for society." she replied. Another part of the letter was then read, which declared t hat Miss Lusk had not taken Ur. Roberts's pursuit seriously unttll she was slighted by Mrs. Roberts at a church affair and oweil to t;ei even." In answer to qiteatlonflj she siid that she had not meant this nnd had ilnn" nothine to "Kel even." She also admitted several statements made in the letter regarding her intimacies in-timacies with Dr. Roberts were noi trui "In the temal trianple." the letter read, "the only solution is the elimination elim-ination or one of tiie members, tbe two remaining belni: those whose ;itteetin la mutual." "Did you mean the elimination of Mr- Moberts?" she was asked "No; I meant at that time to kill mysell," she I e)ll. il Miss Lusk will take the stand for the continuation of ber cross examination examina-tion tomorrow. nn |