The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-29
NEW YORK BANKER
 HAS DISAPPEARED.
Head Of Closed Bank Vanishes
 With His Sister
SISTER IS PHYSICIAN
District Attorney Whiteman Is Not Alarmed About Banker As His Attorney Promises to Bring
 Him Back

New York, December 2s-Denied asylum at the private sanitarium to which he was committed as a para noiac, Joseph G. Robin. whose opera tions are alleged to have closed the Bank of Northern New York yester- day appeared for moment in Jersey City today and then vanished with his sister, pr. Louise Robinoyitch, in an automobile.
 Detectives watched his apartments and the home of his sister tonight un- til District Attorney Whitman received word from William Travers Jerome former district attorney. that Robin had retained him as counsel. Robin Is in this city," said MT. Whitman, after hearing from Mir. Jerome, and Mr. Jerome has assured me that he will produce Robin when the district at torney wants him"
 At the sanitarium, to which Robin was committed, the following state- ment was given out today:
 "In view of the fact that criminal prosecution may be instituted against Mir. Robin and because of certain statements that have been made, pr. Carlos Macdonald requested MT. Rob- in's sister, pr. Louise c. Robinovitch, to remove Mir. Robin from the santa rum. This was done"
 Dr. Mcdonald would not discuss the case further, but Dr. Max G. Schlapp, one of the three physicians on whose certificates Justice Amend committed Robin, called at the district attorneys office to make clear his con- nection with the case and that of his associates, Dr. Austin Flint and Dr Valentine Wildman.
 Called Into the Case
 we were called into the case" said pr. Schlapp, "by Dr. Louise Robin ovitch. She gave us a history of the case and coming from a reputable phy- sician there was nothing for us to do but accept her data as the facts, conclusion in which we were strength ened by our knowledge that Dr. Robin- ovitch Is herself an alienist. The his- tory that she gave us indicated par anoia, which, as you know, manifests itself in delusions of one kind and an- other. We put questions to Robin and his answers confirmed the diagnosis indicated by the history of the case"|
 Justice Amend. who signed the order of commitment at five minutes after midnight, Monday morning. knows of no way In which the present situation could have been obviated The reouire- ments were complied with in every par ticular," he said today. "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"
 When District Attorney Whitman was informed that Robin had left the sani- tarium and disappeared he showed no anxiety. If Robin should be indicted, he said, the offense with which he would be charged is extraditabIe He had no official knowledge that Robin had left the state, and in any case he did not doubt that Robin could be found again.
 Injunction Is Issued
 Upon application of the attorney gem erals office Justice Amend signed an or der this evening returnable Friday re- quiring the Title and Guarantee coni- pany of Rochester, implicated with the Aetna Indemnity company in the closing of the Bank of Northern New York, to show cause why 1t should not turn over its affairs to the state insurance depart ment. The order also acts as an injunc- tion restraining the company from trans acting any business disposing of any of it's property until the motion to show cause has been argued
 Superintendent Hotchkiss of the state insurance department will confer tomor- row with Superintendent Macdonald of the Connecticut insurance department as to whether the Aetna Indemnity company of Hartford shall be restrained from do- ing any further business in this state.
 Ousted From Colorado
 It also became known here tonight that in April, 1908. an official bulletin issued by E. E. Rittenhouse, then state super intendent of insurance In Colorado, and now president of the Prevalent Saw ings Life Assurance society, busted the Aetna Indemnity company from Colorado and warned the public against Joseph G. Robin.
 No information was to be had today at the office of the state superintendent of banks bearing on the probable amount of the alleged shortage In the Bank of Northern New York, but statement was made by one of the directors who wished his name withheld that 1t might aggre- gate SSO0,000 or more. James M. Gif- ford, attorney for the bank, and also a di- rector, who said that all depositors would be paid in full, estimated tonight that the bank had quick assets on hand sufficient to assure all depositors 66 2-3 per cent on the dollar