St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-08-15
A WOMAN WITH NERVE
Mrs Robinson, the Alleged Massachusetts,
! ,Borgia, Still Asserts Her En- ~
= 2: ''ir tire Innocence. 8
The Death Of at Least Nine Persons Now
-. Thought to Lie at Her
SO Door.
But the Police Fail to Discover That
She Has Ever Used
''S NJ Poison.
A Remarkable Case Which is Puz-
zing the Doctors and
Authorities.
powned But Not Daunred,

DOWned But Not Daunteds
Special to the Globe
Boston. Mass, Aug. 14.-The funeral
of William j. Robinson, the last of the
series of the victims of poison IN Somer-
vile. took place this afternoon. Gen.
Precott Colony 81. United Order OF Pill
grim Fathers, appointed committee to
attend the burial. Last evening Mr.. Fred
Hayes, representing the Colony, visited
Mrs. Robinson at the Cambridge Jail. and
asked her if she had any money which she
cared to devote toward paying the funeral
expenses. She looked him quietly in
the eye and asked: lis Willie dead?"
Mr.. 80 Hayes replied that he
was, ~ and this, it seems, was
the first intimation the woman had Of the
fact, Mr.. Hayes said she did not move a
muscle 81 haven't cent" she replied,
perhaps Mr.. Smith may help you," mean-
ing Mr.. T. r. Smith, whc is under arrest
as an accessory to the crime. Hayes left
the woman, and later in the evening
A MEETING OF THE COMMITTEE
was held. and it was decided that the
members would defray the expenses. The
furniture of the house, which is mortgaged
to half dozen different parties, was not
and now it will be taken
possession of by them: Medical Examiner
Durell is confident that the poison admin
istered to William Robinson was rough
on rats" which is simply crude arsenic.
Several grains of undissolved white arsenic
We're found in his stomach. Mrs. Robin
sons cunning was never better illustrated
than in her action in securing DR.. White of
Somerville, the supreme medical examiner
of the order of the Pilgrim Fathers. to at
| tend to the case of her son, Willie. But
the suspicious death Of Lizzie had induced
the lodge to caution DR.. White to look into
| the last case and he didso. The doctor ad-
mtted that Mrs. Robinson was the most
skillfnl handler of arsenic he ever knew Of,
and he classes her among
| THE GREATEST CRIMINALS OF THE AGE.
Dr. A. 7. Dawson of South Boston.
who attended the Freeman family during
| their sickness, was seen this morning. He
said:
when Mr.. freeman was taken i'll he was
attended by Nichols of Cambridge, but the
sick man insisted that should be summoned.
l went over to see him with DR.. Nichols.
found that the man was not very SICK from
any special disease. He WAS vomiting.
felt uneasy about the symptoms. The
vomiting especially attracted my pro
tessional attention, and remember
distinctly how closely piled him with Ques-
| Tons about where and now he worked, his
surroundings while at work, the nature or his
iabors, anu all the details i'll Connection with
MN; Gut dis II appeared that he iaDoreu IN tue
chemical room o. the Boston Macuine COM
p4ny al South Boston, where ne used cnemi-
| culs 10 u great eXtent,I very naturally settled
in ~ tae conviction tuat mis- vomiting was a
result OF poison inhaled or absorbed i'll some
way in the course OF his work. Itelt satisfied
That as ne was not very sick, and Us DR..
Nichols was pursuing the proper method o.
treatment, there was
NOTHING EoR ME- TO DO