The evening world., 1912-11-27


- they tired 70 convince me I suf-
ssrsl from such delusions.
MORGAN MIGHT HAVE HAD HIM
shApoWEp.
q. Have you any reason to believe Mr..
Morgan or Mr.. Belmont would put de-
tectaves on your trail to XIII your A.
Not 70 kill me, but II 10 customary In
budnsss to have a rival followed and
Swallowed by detectives 70 zee whom
they met what Offices they visited and
TO try to get something on them. My
brother did tell me suspicious persons
were following me. and they might have
BEEN Get 70 watch me by Morgan and
Belmont
Q. DO you believe you hsve any Di.
vine commission 20 perform In this
worid7 A. Perhaps every person has
something In view In this world. hut l
have no fault to find with Providence.
Q. DO you hear mysterious voices
which the alienists have told Of. and
which no one else hearst A. No.
Robin. rambling on, said he believed
he had incurred tho enmity Of J. Pier
pont Morgan by financing q company
90 harness Niagara Fails for electricity.
81 also hit Belmont a severe blow
van my South Shore Traction Com
paay." Robin continued. "snd ] know
he We my business rival"
Robin then related In detail his var
iouo Appearances In court since MS ar
rest In an effort to prove himself sane.
He also told of his own work In his
bankruptcy proceedings. 70 show. he
sald. that he was sane.
DoAsTs or HIS WORK FOR DIS
rRlcT ATTORNEY.
Robin declared boastfuily that ne had
furnished the District-Attorney all the
evidence upon which William J. Cum
mins and Joseph b. Reichmann OF the
Carnegie Trust Company. were con-
v1cted.
no insane man could have Done that"
- added.
q. 14r. 1obin, how much money
aAa yeu have when you started IN
NE n thAs oitys 4. hsA less
than esoo.
q. A.a yeu built that mp into =
feesunss 4. Yss. into Q fortune
Of es.ooo. 600.
Robin said II was true he Wa: per-
sonal1y indebted to the Carnegie Trust
Company the sum of S23o.0O at the
time he declared he was forced by
Hyde to loan SlSo. 1000 Of the money Of
the Northern Bank 20 the Carnegie
Trust Company.
Q. Why did you not repay this loan
and thus make up the trust company's
shortage. instead OF lending si3o.ooo of
the funds OF the Northern Bankf A. I
offered to do 90 II Messrs. Cummins
Northern Bank the money they owed
my institution.
RoDIN UNDER FIRE OF CROSS.
EXAMINATION. 4
Then Robin basr turned over to MAJ
d. steuer for tur4ss-examinaton a. To
his sanity. He declared that no had
not personally sseAinea william Tuv-
ere Jerome. Aofrlef blHrict-AttoI ney.
to represent him imms diately after his
arrest. nor did he authorize Mr.. Js-
rome to interposs the plea Of insanity.
Q. Were you then In full possession Of
your faeuitiesf n. was no more In
possession Of my faculties than any
other msa who wss under the influence
Of drugs and whose mind was suffer,
Ing from the great financial calamity
that had Just como upon me-
1ehln saAA ~ had auarrslsd
wttA Jerome about the inssnaty
plea
~1uA" b saaA. sssrome told me
70 get ~ ana yell about IL 20
weuia a4psae insane"
L. Did Mr.. Jerome instigate you to
Q. Did Mr. jerome instigate you to say
Russia7 A. No.
q. Did he instigate you to all the de-
lusIons you mentioned to the allenistsf
A. No. sir; ne did not.
@. Did he ihstisate you TO say Nicola
Tesla, the electrician. got $4,000 year
from ]. Pierpont Morgan to try to kill
you by electricity A. ! do not recall
that Mr.. Tesla was ever retained for
thst duty.
Robin admitted that at the time Of
his illness he may have told the alien
ists he heard n "voice that came OBJ
iiQuely from the right. and that d.
rected him In all his movements"
But" said Robin. II ceased hearing
that "voics" within five weeks after
my illness"
Mr. steuer had caught the bank
wrecker with his guard down.
CALL IT A LIE, IF you PLEASE"
SAID ROBIN.
q. Then ~, months and months later.
during your bankruptcy proceedings.
YOU still said you heard that mysteri-
Gus "voice." your statement was an alb
solute fabrication! "A. Yes, II was an
ABSOLUTE fabrication--call II = lie II
sou SO please.
Mr.. Steuer proceeded to read to the
Witness statements he had made
frynths after his ''illuess." under oath,
" which he said he still was under the
control OF the mysterious "voice."
Robin, fdgeting In HIS chair. said he
could not recall his previous testimony
about the "voice." Mr.. Steuer read
question after question from the pre-
vious records. quoting Robins wild
rawlings about the voice" and Its con-
troll over him. Robin flushed, but still
maintained he could not recall any OF
these maunderings which he uttered
months after the time he had Just
sworn he had ceased to hear the COM
pelling "voice."
Justice Gon finally called q halt to
Mr.. Steuers questions by saying that
since Robin could not "recail" he could
not be questioned further upon that
specific testimony. 80
49,