Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-01-09
foundAgainst Fa||enbank :
or Joseph G. Robin. .
New Phase Added in Transfer
Of Property 10 Sister.
Aged Couple Who Claim Parentage
Offer Further Proof. :

New York, Jan. Slight new in
dictments, one of them superscding
the original Indictment. were found
Friday against Joseph q. Robin. the
fallen banker and promoter. Two
more of his companies fell foul OF
;hc law, this time represented by
the Public Service Commission. which
will order an inquiry into their books.
Dwellers iii the Bronx who are pay
ing on the installment plan for lots
bought from the Bankers Realty and
security CO.. organized by Robin,
formed committee to contest the
Jalidity of mortgages executed by the
company in favor of the Washington
savings Bank. of which Robin was
president.
1t was proved that title to Drift
wood tarm. his handsome country
,lace on Long Island, Had passed to
sister, Dr. Louise Robinovitch. Near
lgo, but had not been recorded until
asst week, after the Northern Bank
y New York had suspended. Ana
nllly. the district attorney pushed
win renewed energy his inquiry IN
o Robins parentagc.
The eight new indictments all charge
he theft of funds agSregatlnS S-o'.-
90 from the Washington Savings
sank. M result of the inquiry now
progress into the affairs OF the
IcrtheIn Bank has yet been given
out. The Public Service Commission
announced Friday that it wishes Il
know why the last annual report o.
the South Shore Traction Co. shows
an entry Of S4l0h00 for right OF way
,ouclt. when the route authorized 10y
the company's franchise Is ehlch
through the public streets OF Queen
Borough, l.. I. II is simply puHzie'
nv an entry of 100000 expended foi
construction work. as shown III tn
reitolt OF the Railroad Traction 'ou
struction Co. IL corporation tar"uP
which Robin controlled the s'ut!
shore Traction Co. when. 50 lar rs
known to the commission, the con-
pany has done no construction ""fh
of Importance at all.
After a long wrangle with District Al
torney Whitman, VIM. 7. Jerome couh'
sci for Robin. delivered the books OF th'
company, when ne had pie
yiously refused TO surrender on tue
ground that the production might ihefih-'
nate his client and embarrass the COM
,any. They were locked up under seal
n the district attorneys office, to be pro-
,uced in court later
A batch of letters signed Your Loving
Louise" and Your Son, Joseph were
turned over to the District Attorney FIJI
Law afternoon by relatives of Mr.. ana
drs. Herman Robinovitch, repudiated b!
Robin and his sister Thursday, after they
lad positively. identified them as theil
hildren. All the letters were addressed
n endearing terms and most of them
asked for money.
One as translated from the Russian
uns in part as follows:
New York, Aug. 81, 1892.
My Dear Parents: Please answer me
at once if | can have anything of you OF
something of you or nothing. Remember
this is the first and last time in my life
that / beg of you anything. Without
these $l5 it is left to me to be without
income for two or three months. Don't
wait for a minute and send me the money
Or write me one word, Not Remember
This only, that if you refuse me | will
nave nothing in common with you.
(SigneD "Yonr son, Joseph.
Robin is still in the Tombs. unable to
obtain bail, and the report of the alien
lists on mis- mental condition has not been
given out.