New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-12-02
ROBIN IS PLANNING
TO ASSA|L VAN TUYL
Probing Superintendent Al
legged Relations with Cum
minis Crowd, He Says.
WILL SPEAK OUT TO-DAY
Letters Demand That Bank
Wrecker, Who Has Pleaded
Guilty, Be Punished
Hyde Has Lonely Day.

While Charles II. Hyde spent yes
terday in isolation in his Tombs
apartment, seeing no one and re-
fusing to talk for publication,
Joseph G. Robin, the man whose
testimony caused Hydes transfer
from the office Of City Chamberlain
TO the "Cummins shack" in the city
prison, was perfectly willing-in fact
almost eager-to speak again to the
outside world in all his old confidential
manner.
No one visited Hyde except the
waiter from a nearby restaurant seek
ing his order and taking him food
His isolation-he is removed from con-
tact with other prisoners-must have
been about as complete as that of any
other human being within the city
limits.
Robin not only repeated his assur-
ances that he would eventually saddle
a former colleague with the charge to
which he himself has pleaded guilty
but he announced that he was planning
10 assail George c. Van Tuyl, State
Superintendent OF Banking, in case
certain investigations he has been con-
Quoting into Van Tuyrs alleged rela-
tons as president Of the Albany Trust
Company with the Cummins crowd in
the Carnegie Trust Company bear
fruit. On this point he would be able
TO make a more definite statement to-
day. he said.
Don't say" he said. that 1 am at
tacking anybody, but 1 suppose in en-
tering into this shall be biting off an
other scrap. / always come into
matter, however. pretty we'll heeled
with facts. Tomorrow l shall be
ready to announce the results of certain
investigation have been making into
Van TuyTs relations with Cummins.
Il should like to know why the
Banking Department has not an
nounced a second dividend to the de-
positors of the Washington Savings
Bank? 1t has enough cash on hand to
pay 10 per cent. dividend in addition
TO the 30 per cent. dividend it has al
ready paid and have half a million in
slow assets left Still, the facts may
warrant the delay. and if they do no
body will back water or apologize more
quickly than I"
While Robin has been interesting
himself in Superintendent Van Tuyrs
record the Superintendent OF Banking
has been making certain excursions
into Robins past it is safe TO assume.
District Attorney Whitman has been
receiving letters from persons Of i'm
pOrtance URGING that Robin be pun
ished on his plea of guilty. being
moved 10 such action because they say
Robin has done other things besides
steal S27. 900 from the Washington
Savings Bank, the crime for which he
awaits sentence.
Robin reiterated his sentiment Of re-
greet that Hyde should suffer, saying:
II was merely an automaton in the
Hyde trial. Don't think that / had
anything to sell. 1 didn't trade an
others liberty for my own. 1 want
vindicatioa. not liberty. And felt no
luminosity toward Hyde"
The District Attorney is planning TO
proceed Immediately with the prosecu-
ton Of those cases in which other bank
ers have been indicted, following the
collapse Of the Northern Bank and the
Carnegie Trust Company. Frank l..
Grant, the president of the Northern
Bank when 1t failed, will be one of the
first men to stand trial. He is indicted
for a misdemeanor in classifying q re-
port Of his banks condition to the State
Banking superintendent.
John Kirkland Clark, the Assistant
District Attorney, who spent the last
two years preparing the Hyde case, and
10 whose efforts the success Of that
prosecution was in a large measure
due. will have full charge of the other
cases.
Joseph G. Robin has received so far
from the District Attorney no promise
whatever of clemency in return for his
testimony in the Hyde case. He has.
however, been assured of the custom
airy leniency with which men who plead
guilty are dealt because they have
saved the state expense and trouble