The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-12-31
roseph Robin Swallows Hyoscine
Five Minutes Before Time
for Arrangement.
HAS CHANCE TO RECOVER
financial Manipulator's Life
Saved by Prompt and Vigor-
Gus Use of Stomach Pump.

NEW YORK. Dec. 3o.-With head
-, shoulders squared, and eyes lev
ia al the battery OF cameras trained
J - him. Joseph C. Robin. the Indicted
y" sotor stepped from his sisters home
.sIs morning TO face arraicnment, calm
:" Tho knowledge that he lad swallowed
y sose of hyoscine. the deadly alkaloid
.,,h which Dr.. Crippen killed his wife,
BOle Elmore, He collapsed before he
roud be taken into court. with the ex-
camation
Il am deac Hidn- We 'aheh potsoi'
AT Ths case was postponed amid the great
,si settlement a stomach pump was hur-
.ss Gsdv rS'ht brought into play and the sick
ren was carried first to the prison hos
nii niial and later to Bellevue. where he
lies tonight In the, prison ward. No
.ralns, him. and II is thought he will
recover. although the action OF hyoscine
Is slow, and much will depend on his
vitality. - ,., 49,.
srng Is approximately fixed by the tes-
rIrnony OF Dr. Austin Flint, retained for
Robin by William Travers Jerome, his
counsel: DR.. Louise Robinovitch. his Sis
,sr and the two detectives who rode with
him from his sisters house to the crimi-
nal court building. DR.. Flint told the
court that as nearly as he could judge,
The poison mad peen IN ROBIN system
about three"quarters OF an hour when
he collapsed The two detectives were
nosItIve that their prisoner swallowed
nethlng on the way TO court
Afflicted With Gallstones.
DR.. Robinovtch said her brother was
In the habit OF taking hyoscine in small
doses TO counteract the effects OF NOR
mime which he used 10 deaden the stab
: bing pains by which gallstones make
/! themselves known. She kept the drug In
her house and she thought her brother
| swallowed twelve tablets.
| Al Bellevue tonight the examining sur
zeons estimated that Robin had taken
/ abou, one-tenth OF a grain.
Robin seemed in good health this
morning-better than at any time since
Ms troubles began-and he made no ef-
for, 10 screen his face from the cam
srss. as hitherto, The first sign OF Ill
| ues5 was when he staggered. stepping
rom his automobile to the criminal court
1 building. In the elevator he weakened so
npidly that the detectives had TO lift
\ him 10 couch There he sank into un-
oonscousness and was not revived until
the stomach pump had been worked Wig
opusly It's prompt use saved his life.
Outside the corridors Of the criminal
courts building fairly hummed with ex-
n alement but in the court OF general
sessions itself, Judge Grain was transact
lsg business as usual when Attorney Je-
rome stepped rapidly down the aisle.
Your honor he began hurredly, 81
an here In the Robin case. II appears
That the defendant has taken a drug
He cannot be stimulated. An ambulance
A has beer summoned and surgeons are
Low pumping his stomach. The delay is
Unavoidable
Mental Question Still Open.
MI Dr, Austin Flint. retained by Mr. Jc-
Tonc was called. The assistant district
Attorney asked him what Robin had said.
he said, answered Dr.. Flint. - 4 am
desd man! I've taken poison tablets
igund his face flushed the pupils OF
,s eyes dilated. his pulse $50 and feeble
he told me he had swallowed the poison
nlees1uarlers of an hour previously"
,ibe case was postponed until the re-
@ipl oil further advices as TO Robin s
i ondlton.
Kooin's frustrated attempt on his life
loney learca the question OF his sanity
WY open: Or. William Maybie. for the
sn,e. and DIR. Austin Flint. for Robins
,ounsei examined him last night and
ouhc MN physically able TO appear IN
%an today. but they did not pass upor
~ mental condition. In the affidavit
sgomilted by his sister. when she ap-
ySsl lor his commitment TO an asylum
~ wore that he attempted suicide last
insanity
Ioere were no further DEVELOPMENTS to.
IN connection with either the Bank
a. "Sorlhern New York or the Washing
NJ savings bank. both OF which are ir
,a nv names OF the state banking depart
.nt. Dut the state department OF in
suance took over the affairs of the Titl,
Y Guarantee company of Rochester, y
so,T w aree force OF accountants Is a
81, ~ ON the ledgers of the many Inter.
II 7'''h companies which Robin promoted