The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-12-28
Northern and Nine Branches
Shut Down--Deposits
$1,000, 900.
KITE FLYING INSURANCE
Threat of Suicide When Dls.
trict Attorney Was Told
Grand Jury to Act

| described banker. WAS committed
To a madhouse on Monday between hisi-
ness DAYS AT the instance of his friends.
Will" two State departments were going
through his bank ing and Insurance. per-
formances on holiday. and inv ok ing the
offices Of the District Attorney. His
bank. the Northern. at ,i5 West i2sth
street. deposits 100000. was closed
by the Ranking Department before
business could open yesterday. with
no definite statement as to the condition
Of its affairs. II has nine branches.
which were closed simultaneously. The
best information TO be had yesterday
was that the depositors would get thsir
money. hut that the stockholders we're
not likely To fare well.
The Insurance Department set things
going against Robin through an inquiry
into the financing Of the .Etna Indemnity
Company Of Hartford by Robin. who. ths
department saws. treated tho assets OF
companies he controlled as his own per-
sonal property
District Attorney Whitman was In con-
ference at his house nearly all day Mon
day with Orion II. Cheney. Superintendent
Of Banks. and William H. Hot chkiss.
Superintendent Of Insurance. over Robins
transactions Late on Monday night he
was informed that Robin had Just be~n
committed by supreme Court Justice
Amend. sitting at his home. 10 DR.. Carlos
+. MacDonalds private sanitarium at
Central Valley a. an insane porson. IL
was reported 20 Supt Hotchkiss that
Robin had been carrying cyanide Of po-
tassium about him. threatening TO use IL IL
criminal proceedings were begun against
him. and had attempted 10 jump from q
window at the Cafe Beaux Arts, where ha
was living.
The case will 60 to the Grand Jury
Just the same and Robin will not be tbs
only man presented. Frederick X Nor
ris. described bv Supt Hotchkiss as
Robins confidential man. is said 20 have
suffered n stroke of apoplexy on Monday
at his home. M Central Park West At
his house yesterday it was said that he
was seriously i'll. although Theodore
Werner offiC. manager Of the Fidelity
Development Company Iowners of ths
old Morris Park racetrack) }. and the Bank
err Realty and Security Company. two
concerns in which Robin was q stoca-
holder said that Mr. Morris was expected
at the offices Of the two companies in the
Tunes Building to-day
THE MIDNIGHT COMMITMENT
Justice Amend said YESTERDAY thit
DR. II Valentine WiIdman and DIR Max
q SChlapp came TO his house at rs west
Sey.nty-fourth street near midnig ht on
Monday night and told him that they
had ca-e Of life or death They had
"A formal commitment already prepared.
to which they had attached afYids vit,
concerning their examination OF Robin
They told me that Robin mad attempted
Ia commit suicide IN the afternoon
ana was barely prevented in time sail
JUstic" Amend 1 was informed thu:
an Immediai. commitment was neces.
-ary and that n only the urgency
of IN" case that led them do call upon
me ~ that hour The papers were Ia
regular form and I should have signed
them ~ once had they been presented
to mc IN court 40 II appeared to me that
Their. was all the more reason for signing
the application because OF the statements
that Robin was trying 10 get a chance
to commit suicide
r.. commitment 10 DR.. MacDonaId's
sanItsrium merely authorizes the detsn-
ton Of Robin until he 10 either freed or
il sent to some other institution. The
original commitment il kept At the aAni-
tariun and a copy is sent TO the State
in I.unacy at Albany. Il
is not necessary tina. such commitmsns
should b. applied for by relative OF the
person to be committed Robin was
taken TO the sanitarium by his sister,
DR. Louise @ Robinovitcb, OF - West
10Th street
DR.. Macdonald was not At his sani-
tarium when Robin arrived but he re-
turned yesterday afternoon. Not untii
evening did he have An opportunity TO
talk with Robin. and he would not diacssas
The result OF his examination Il was
said at the -anitarium that the Affidavits
4 Drs Schlapp and Widman made out
4 prima facie case Of insanity.
PARaNoIa. SAYS BANKS ATTORNEY.
James N. Clifford OF Nassau street,
Who il the attorney for the Northern
bank ~ we'll as one 81 its directors. said
yesterday that after the discovery that
here were irregularities IN the dealings
4 Robin. who was chairman Of the exec.t-
Nv. committee. with the hank. he. Mr..
iifrord. and another director called on
Robin in the latter's apartments at tho
sean1 Arts On Friday night TO make .
demand tina, Robin put mp collateral for
oans made by the bank on Robins paper.
We found Mr.. Robin said Mr.. Clifford.
suffering from kidney trouble and In
he greatest agony. We could not gss
connected statement from him. He
did not realize the importance
u Our mission. Not having succeeded.
se returned on Monday night. SIR
Robins mental disorder was awful.