The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1914-07-21
Will Declare Gunman Robinson,
Alleged Slayer, Victim Of
Prenatal influence
TO BARE OWN SHAME
HGart-Broken Woman Tells Of
Longing to Kill BetTayer Be-
fore Birth Of Son

Columbus. o., July 21.-Transmis-
sion OF desire to handle deadly
weapons anu to take human life, from
his mother to himself, will be pleaded
to save the life of the desperado, Law
renee Robinson now facing electrocu-
ton in Boston for numbering "A police
inspector who sought to arrest him for
robbery, and wanted in Grand Rapids
Mich, for killing three men in the
Thompson jewellery store, where he
and companion robbed the place II
about $2,500 worth OF merchandise
Robinson is from Washington Court
House, O., and il was there that his
parent this week told the strange
story of the prenatal influence that
has shaped his life of violence and
crime. Hidden from the hour of his
birth, the unhappy woman has decid-
ed To unveil the secret that has tortur-
ed her for 35 years.
Mother to Take Stand.
To prolong the existence which she
shared i'm producing, she has resolved
to take the witness stand and tell the
story of the black months of mental
anguish she endured prior to his COM
ing into the world. when. deserted bv
friends, she knew that her child was
To he born without "A fathers name
outside of lawful wedlock. She will
tell the jurymen how, when her he
trayer cruelty rejected her plea for
protection of herself and her babe,
she armed herself and determined To
slay him; how, for weeks. immured
in forced solitude, she fondled the pis-
tol and planned in her mind, racked
with thoughts of revenge and dis
grace, how to waylay and shoot him
from ambush. Throughout this per-
iod of waiting the weapon was with
her and served to keep alive the con-
suming desire for vengeance. Through
the mysterious alchemy of nature
these longings impressed themselves
upon her unborn child and became a
part of his nature.
The jurymen will also be told how,
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it was pillowed against a bosom that
throbbed with the hope to be able one
day to meet and shoot down the
wrecker of her happiness, and that IN
the lullabies she crooned there was
sounded a savage note of fierce re-
sentiment against her helplessness.
Farther along i'm her strange narrative
will be described the springing into
her soul of a new hOrror-the recog-
milton i'm the growing lad of her living
embodiment of her overmastering
thought.
scorned BY Companions.
In his boyish acts she discerned the
very behavior she had planned for
herself and she was overwhelmed with
the realization that she had added 20
the world another enemy to society.
The jurors will hear from her lips
the story OF the terrified watching of
the long and weary years from infancy
to adolescence of that son. Hootei
and scorned by his companions and
compelled to endure the ignominy of
the nameless, she saw the coming of
moody spells of melancholia, wander
ings into solitary places and unmean- |
ing mutterings. These bitter expert
ences, she will plead. overcame what
there was good i'm his soul and made |
it easy for the bad to predominate.
This i'm brief is the remarkable |
story of Mrs. VI. Robinson as recited
hy her in her home at Washington. c.
II. Her statement of the facts is In
the custody of her imprisoned son and
his lawyer in Boston, where the ques-
tion of it's legality as evidence is being |
studied.