The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-23
KILLS SON, SELF
topeka Father on Jealous Rage
Shoots Up Family.
Wife and Daughter in Hospital
Badly Wounded.
She WAS AFRAID OF HIM
Mrs. George j. Robinson Lived
i'm Constant Terror.
NeighbOr Might Have Prevent
ed the Murder-Suicide.
SHE WAS AFRAID OF HIM
THE DEAD.

THE DEAD.
George J. Robinson, 223 Klein street.
brother Of Roy Robinson VINO tbsn ancom
pany Battery A to the border; George D.
Robinson died by his own hand pii,sa NV
bullets from a gun in the hands or his
SERIOUSLY INJURED.
Mrs. Robinson. suffering at st; Francis
hospital with three bullet wounds in her
body inflicted by her husband. Lucy, MI
and Mrs Robinson's 3-year- daughter,
at St Francis hospital, wounded by her'
father.
George J. Robinson, 223 Klein
street, shot and killed his 6-year-old
son, Vernon; seriously wounded his
wife and their 3-year-old daughter,
Lucy, and then committed suicide
Sunday evening about o'clock The
tragedy took place at the home OF
James Adams, 317 Klein street, and
climaxed, it is shown by a note found
on Robinson, a premeditated it of
Jealous dependency The note, dated
July 16, asked that no one but the
writer be blamed for the deed Do
nestle trouble, said to have extended
back several months, is declared to
have caused Robinson to decide upon
ana attempt TO XIII Ills Sillli c.
For several months, according to
neighbors, Robinson and his wife
have been quarreling. The trouble.
it seems, did not abate Sunday and,
it is declared, was further agitated
because of Mrs. Robinson attendance
at a dance in North Topeka Saturday
night and her alleged refusal to &C
company her husband home, when he
asked her to. She denies, however,
that she did not answer when he
asked her to come home.
As the result of Robinson's actions
thru the day Sunday, Mrs. Robinson
left her home and went to the My
ers home for safety. When she left
home the husband already had the
gun. He followed almost on her heels.
With Laura Adams, the wife rushed
upstairs. Robinson followed Miss
Adams tried to shut a door to the lit
tie room in which they took refuge
with the children but Robinson pushed
it open. He shot once. Vernon fell
to the floor-dead He turned the
gun on the baby girl and wounded her
seriously. Ee seized Mrs. Robinson,
who screamed as she saw her two
children shot to the floor, and began
firing point blank at her. Three bull
| lets entered the woman's body caus-
ing bad wounds. Miss Adams had es-
capped from the room when the shoot
| ing began.
sIashed Own Throat.
Robinson fired every shot in his
pistol, a .22. He threw it to the floor,
wheeled and ran down stairs, where
James Adams, who did not see him
enter the house, had dropped Il razor
being used in shaving himself, and
| had started for the scene. Robinson
rushed into the dining room and
seized the razor. Before Adams could
disarm him he had slashed his throat
several times. He dropped the razor
| then and ran back upstairs just as the
police, having been summoned, ar
rived. He was breathing his last
when a number of plain clothes men
and patrolmen, led by Sergeant Sturm
reached him. The wife and her baby
| girl were rushed to the Santa Fe hos
! pital, where they were given emer-
| gency treatment by DIR. ]. P. Raster
end DR.. H. L. Clark, city physician
| They were then taken to st. Francis
hospital where. this morning, they are
reported resting easy and in fail
way to recovery.
''I want to live" said Mrs. Robin
| son at st. Francis, $50 I can care fol
my little girl Otherwise 1 wouldn't
care" Mrs. Robinson told of ungov.
crnable fits of anger by her huaba nc
and declared he became so bad she
had been afraid to live with him Sun
| day was described as 'tjust one Ions
frenzy of anger"
HE threatened to shoot me-" she
said, about A o'clock in the after
loon. My sister Miss Myers, came il
and talked him out of it. That saved
me then" She said there had beer
no quarrel as stated by neighbor,
| about the dance Saturday night
Neighbors Might Have Saved Them
.Neighbors turned in riot call fol
the police as Mrs. Robinson, on he
ing from the house. Led by Sergean
/ Sturm, they arrived and found the
| Robinson home deserted. A neighboI
woman told Sturm that she didn'
| know anything about the matter anc
hadn't seen ANYTHING going on a
| or around the Robinson place. TIVE
! or three minutes were spent, after tn,
| womans refusal to volunteer informa
ton, trying to find out where tn,
Robinsons had gone Sturm saw
| number of persons running to tn,
] Myers home. He raced down the al
ley, his men at his heels, and arrived
just few seconds after the HUSBAND
had slashed his throat
Robinson and his son, Vernon, wer
| taken to Shellebarger's undertaken,
establishment. Robinson is a brothe
of Roy Robinson who, last summer
committed suicide rather than go t,
the border with Battery A when
was called into federal service becaus
of the Mexican trouble. Anothe
brother, Charles Robinson, is SERVING
time in the Missouri state penitentiar,
for killing his brother-in-law, Henri,
c. Krohn, in Platte City last winter
The three boys are the sons of MI
and Mrs. G. d. Robinson of this city
The two parents are almost prostrate
with grief over the last tragedy ii
their family. George J. Robinsoi
had. before his suicide, been employs
at the Santa Fe shops.
; The note he left, telling of his &C
in attempting to kill his family, wa
dated July Is, 1916. The year
,, thought to have been a mistake o
the part of the writer. The death not
follows:
Topeka, July 16. 1916.