Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1910-12-30
His Financial Transactions
Alleged to Be Responsible for
the Failure of Northern Bank
of New York
FLED WITH HIS SISTER
IN AN AUTO WEDNESDAY
But No Warrant Was Issued
for Him, as His Attorney,
William T. Jerome, Declared
He Would Be Produced

NEW YORK Dec. 29.-The grand
Jury this afternoon handed down an
Indictment against Joseph G. Robin
whose financial transactions are aIleg-
ed TO be responsible for the closing or
the Northern Bank of New York on
Tuesday last. The indictment specih-
cally charges Robin with the larceny
of $4,000 from the Northern bank.
Following the closing of the North
ern Bank of New York and it's nine
branches on Tuesday, the state bank
ing department today assumed tenn
oorary charge OF the Washington Saw
inxs bank, pending investigation into
it's condition.
Denied asylum at the private sani-
tarium to which he was committed as
a paranoiac, Joseph G. Robin, whose
.onerations are alleged to have closed
the bank appeared for a moment In
Jersey City Wednesday. and then van
ished with his sister, DR.. Louise hobi-
novitch, in a hlgh-powered automo-
bile.
No warrant is out for his arrest.
but detectives from the district at
orney's ONCE watched his apartments
and the home of his sister Wednesday
night until District Attorney Whitman
received word from William Travers
Jerome, former district attorney, that
Robin had retained him as counsel
Robin is in the city" said Mr.. Whit
man, after hearing from Mr.. Jerome,
land Mr. Jerome has assured me that
he will produce Robin when the dis
trict attorney wants him..
At the sanitarium to which Robin
was committed the following statement
was given out Wednesday:
I'm view OF the fact that criminal
f0.nk
Mr.. Robin and because of certain state
ments that have been made, DR.. Carlos
Macdonald requested Mr.. Robins sis
ter, DIR. Louise @. Roblnovitch, to re-
move Mr.. Robin from the sanitarium
This was done"
DR.. Macdonald would not discuss the
case further, but Max q. Schlapp, one
of-the three physicians on whose. Ger
tIfcate Justice Amend COMMITTED HobZ
in, called at the district attorneys Of
fee to make clear his connection with
the case and that of his associates,
DR.. Austin Flint and DR.. Valentine
Wildman
I'VE were called into the case" said
DR.. Schlapp. by DR.. Louise Robino-
witch. She gave us a history of the
case, and coming from a reputable
physician there was nothing for us
to do but accept her data as the facts
conclusion in which we were
strengthened by our knowledge that
DIR. Robinovitch is herself an alienist.
The history that she gave us indicated
paranoia. which, as you know, mani
tests itself in commissions of one kind
and another. We put questions to Rob-
In and his answers confirmed the dag
nosis indicated by the history of the
case"
T,,etgoa Armand who sfgnad the or
der OF commitment at five minutes
after midnight Monday morning, knows
of no way in which the present situa-
ton could have been obviated
1.-THE requirements of the statute
were complied with in every particu-
lar" he said. "A prima facie case
was made out clearly. There was
nothing for me TO do under the statute
but sign the commitment and l did,