New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-04-10
w. e.. ROBBINS A SUICIDE.
lie SHOOTS HIMSELF THROUGH THE HEAD.
wELI.-KNowN IN BROOKLYN AND HEIR TO
LARGE FORTUNE.

wELI-KNOw IN BROOKLYN AND HEIR TO A
LARGE FORTUNE.
William C. Robbins, one of Brooklyn's we'll
known men about town, blew his brains out in
the Clarendon Hotel yesterday morning at II 20
o'clock. lie went 10 the hotel between 3 and 4
o'clock Saturday afternoon, and engaged room
No. ia. on the top floor, and Immediately re-
tired. Nothing further WAS heard or seen OF him
until II 30 yesterday morning, when the hall
boy heard the report of a pistol and told the
clerk of IT, On opening the door Of the room
Robbins was found lying dead on the floor before
the dressing casc, with hole through both temples
and 3s-calibrc revolver in his right hand. Evi-
IDENTIFY he rose from the bed where he had spent
the night and walked over to the dressing case
and took his life.
On the table an envelope bearing the
stamp of the Clarendon Hotel. and OF it was
written in Robbinss handwriting: Notify +. r.
stinson, Of No. 200 Sterling. Place, and DR..
Palmer Of No. 50 ClintOn.st." On his clothing
found sample Endorsement bond of the
National Life Insurance Society of Vermont. and
ut the bottom of it was stamped WIN. c. Rob
bins general manager, No. l55 Broadway, n. "
A ccrtifcat" of ten shares of the Postal Supply
Co. was found in his pockets but no money. He
in Wall Street. short time ago he caused a
sensation in the Brooklyn Library by beng taken
with delirum trcmens and rushing into the fire
room, and it took considerable force to control
him. Last January, while in FIatbush-ave.
strcct-car, he was again seized with the delirillm
tr,fncns and ran down the street shouting
"Thcyre after me-,
He was forty four years old and was bachelor.
lie lived with his widowed sister. Mrs Catherine
I.angford in Linden Road, Flatbush who Is re-
lated by marriage to Colonel Edward l.. Langford,
Of the Brooklyn and BRIGHTON Beach Railroad. Rob-
bins was also connected with MIR. Robbins, or
McKe,son & Robbins, wholesale drug dealers at
No. 81 Fulton-st., this city.
william G. Robbins and his sistcr, Mrs. Lang
ford are heirs to $4,000, 900, which Is now held
by their aunts who live in Brooklyn. Robbins
wns a member of the Wildwood Club.
His Eody WIS removed to Spotford's undertaking
establishments at Court and Joralemon sts, by
Ambulance Surgeon Hunt. and was viewed by
Coroner kcuc at o'clock. In the evening DR..
Palmer said 20 a reporter that he had known Rob
bins for thirty years. hut knew of no special rea-
son for his act, Mr. StinsOn viewed the body last
night, and identified il. Mrs. Lancford was pros
trated with grief when the news Of the death of
her brother reached her, and would say nothing
except that hc had not hccn home for Il week, and
that he sometime, stayed at the Clarendon. Rob-
bins is said to have drawn a salary of $1,000 Il
year from the National Life Insurance Company.
He was last seen in public ut lecture given
at the Wildwood Clnb house Two weeks ago. and
seldom missed attending any of the affair, at the
clubhouse.
Early on Sunday morning about three weeks
ago il was rumored IN Flatbush that Robbins had
been sandbagscI and robbed, but the rumOr could
not be verified. lie was seen staggering to his
home bis face covered with blood, which was
flowing from an ugly aash on his forehead He
was a familiar fgurc at az of the liquor stores
and resorts near where he lived, and known
to carry largo sums of money with him. AT Il
late hour last .light his friends were arranging
for the removal of his body to his home in Flat
BUSH