New-York tribune., 1910-12-31
ROBIN NOW IN NO !
DANGER OF DYING
Accused Banker Getting Well IN
Bellevue After Attempt
at Suicide.
POISON NOT ENOUGH TO KILL
Drug Taken at Sisters Home
Overcomes Prisoner Ia Court
Building While Waiting j.
To Be Arraigned.

yesterday in the Criminal Courts on the
charge of misappropriating $4,000 of
the funds of the Washington Savings
Bank Joseph G.. Robin nearly put an
end to his involved career by attempting
to commit suicide. Robin could not have
planned his act with incidents more
dramatic or announced his supposed fate
with calmer deIiberation.
II am a doomed man. 7 have taken
twelve tablets of that hyOscyamin, and
am dying now" he told DIR. Austin Flint
as he sat in a half stupor in the de-
tective bureau of the District Attorneys
office awaiting the convenience of the
court to appear in Part I of General
Sessions and plead before Judge Grain.
Upon further inquiry Robin told the
physician that he had swallowed the
slow acting poison three-quarters of an
hour before. Just prior to his leaving the
home of his sister. Dr. Louise Robino-
witch, at No. 2S West 126th street. in an
accompanied by detectives
from the District Attorneys office. to
come to court
He said that he found the tablets in a
drawer in his sisters room. where they
had been kept and administered to him
to counteract the effects of
morphine which he had taken to relieve
the pain he suffered from kidney trouble
He took all there was left in the box he
said
DR.. Robinowitch sat beside her brother,
supporting his head on her shoulder. and
hot he hod tOld VDr Flint
She said that he told her he had hur-
riedly swallowed the tablets when the
trained nurse stepped out of the room
for a moment before they left the house
She knew nothing about it, she said.
until he swooned in the District At
torney's office and bade her good5y, say
ing that he was dying
Sure Robin Took Poison
There was no question among the
physicians who were hastily summoned
to attend Robin but that he had taken
the poison as he stated. Every symp-
tom indicated it. they said. He prob
ably owes his life TO the fact that there
was not larger quantity of the poison
Gus drug in the box. coupled with the
quick action of the ambulance surgeons
called from the Hudson Street Hospital
in applying the stomach pump
Robin was later taken to the sick
ward in the Tombs. and soon afterward
he was removed in an ambulance to the
prison ward Of Bellevue Hospital. where.
it was said last night, he was resting
comfortably as could be expected under
&, ,-to iS "a
ery is expected within two or three
days.
Dr. William B. Mabor. superintendent
of the Manhattan State Hospital. and
DIR. Austin Flint examined Robin al his
sisters home on Thursday. and reported
to the District Attorneys Office yester-
day morning that he was physically able
to appear in court. Robin was taken to
his sisters house with the consent of Dis
trict Attorney Whitman. guarded by de-
tectives. after he was indicted The de-
tectives spent theT;silt- there while the
prisoner lay in his bed in charge Of a
trained nurse.
Shortly after 1 o'clock yesterday af-
ternoon Robins big white touring car
drew up in front of the house and Robin
came out, accompanied by his sister and
Detectives Flood and Leigh. of the Dis
trict Attorneys office. Robin descended
unaided. He sat between his sister and
Detective Flood in the tonneau- \ curl
GUS crowd had gathered in front of the
house to see the party off, and Dr.
Robinowitch shielded her brothers face
from the Gamer brigade with her muf
while waiting for the automobile to
start
Nearly Falls in Detectives Room
Detective Flood said later that Robin
seemed to faint several times nsthe trip
downtown. but would reassure them
after each attack and say that he felt
all right. His condition had changed
noticeably. however. when they reached
the Criminal Courts Building He was
strongly supported on either side by this
two detectives as he entered and left the
elevator I'm the building, and he tottered
and almost fell as he was led to chair
in the detectives room on the third
floor
"A crowd ndu SdlIltictl III eRAI ~ 81
n look at the man whose fanctful imam
cierins had been broadly aired in the
public prints since the Northern Bank
closed it's doors last Tuesday and the
Robin bubble burst. 1t was sentencing
dav before Judge Grain. and a long line
of prisoners from the Tombs awaited
their turn against the wall They were
the only persons present who appeared
not to be interested in the expected ap-
pearance of Robin. In the absence or
District Attorney Whitman. Assistant
District Attorney Mott came into court
and told Judge Grain that Robin had ar
rived upstairs. and while he appeared 10
he a little faint they thought he would
he able TO appear in court in a few min
utes.
While Mr. Mott was in court Robin
collapsed entirely as the detectives were
taking his pedigree. and became uncon-
scious. Hurried calls were sent for Dr.
Frank Mcclure, the Tombs physician.
and DIR. Weston. of the Coroners' essfce.
and for AN ambulance from Hudson
street Hospital Soon the three physi-
clans were working over the man There
was great excitement throughout the