Evening star., 1943-10-27
Body of Mrs. Robinson Lies Y
Unclaimed at District Moroue
Background Reveals
Connection With
Midwest Bondit

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Midwest Bondit
The body of Mrs. Charlotte w.
Robinson, 80, who refused to go back
to Germany with her parents be-
cause she wanted to become an
American citizen. lay unclaimed at
the Morgue today while police sought
friends or relatives OF the murdered
woman.
Police said they would commune
cate with Chicago attorney who
was reported to have been either a
close friend or had had business
dealings with the slain secretary.
If the body is unclaimed, police
said they will use funds from an in
surance policy and War bonds she
had purchased to defray burial ex-
penses up to $500.
An address on the insurance policy
led police to her confessed slayer.
Three times investigated by the
FB1. the attractive blond stenog-
rapher was twice married to and
twice divorced from Brown Wiley
Robinson. who, the FBI said, was
connected with every big-time gang
OF bank robbers and jewel thieves
in the Middle West. He now is
serving l0-year term in Leaven-
worth Penitentiary.
Born in Posen, Germany, Mrs
Robinson was educated in Hamburg
and came to this country with her
mother and stepfather in Septem-
Der, 1924. The family settled in
Chicago and the daughter went to
Immaculate Conception Academy,
Davenport, Iowa. from which she
graduated in 1880.
While she was working in the
German English translation section
of a Chicago patent medicine firm.
her parents decided to 60 back to
Germany but she refused to 70.
They left in 1881 and now are living
in Zeppernich, Germany.
In 1885 she met and married Rob-
inson, who already had a criminal
record stretching back to 1924, the
FBI said. She told the FBI that
her husband continually left town
on business but told her 1t was be-
cause he had an interest in a night
club IN California.
Came Here in l941.
She divorced Robinson in 1886 and
remarked him in 1898 at CLAYTON,
Mo. She told the FBI that due to
discrepancies Of my husband he
was arrested but released, aboN
that time
In Chicago, she was a member of
the local sport club and sang in
church choir. She got her business
training at a Chicago business COL
lege. In Washington, she attended
st. AIMS Catholic Church.
Mrs. Robinson went to work for
a real estate company in Columbus,
Ohio, In l94l, and came to Washing
ton late that year. She worked first
for the American Bottlers Of Car
donated Beverages as a stenograph-
er. In the spring of 1912 she went to
live in the Mergner home as his
housekeeper.
Mrs. Robinson became natu-
rallied citizen last August 3 and
later that month applied for a secre-
tarlal job at Recreation Services. |
Inc, where she worked until her
death.
Often Investigated.
The FBI said it had investigated |
her first in 1910 in connection with
her husband She was investigated |
in 1912 as an enemy alien and again
in January, l943, when she sought
permission to travel to Chicago.
Enemy aliens must get permission
to travel
When Robinson was brought to |
trial in a Federal Court in st. Louis
in July, 1910, for an $4,000 diamond
robbery in Texas, the FBI said a
woman who identified herself as
Charlotte w. Robinson, wife OF the
defendant, tried to establish an alibi |
Tor him by testifying she was lunch
ing with him in St. Louis when
events leading up to the Jewel rob-
berry would have placed him in
Texas.
The FBI said Robinson and two
other eunmen had drove their VIC
tim through Texas for hours threat
enlng his life after they took the
jewels. They were apprehended the
day after the crime in st. Louis. but
while they were being taken to a
hospital after they were injured in
the wreck of their car, Robinson
escaped from the ambulance. He
was later picked up in Chicago.
Had Many Aliases.
The FBI has a thick file on Rob-
lnson, who went under dozen
different aliases and who was
booked for various offenses from
vagrancy to grand larceny, in San
Francisco, Dallas, Elgin, Ill; San
Antonio, st. Louis. Chicago. st.
Paul, Oakland, Calf, and Rich
mond, Va.
Mrs. Robinson, the FBI said. con-
sistently denied that she knew of
her husbands criminal activities.
In Chicago, Donald D. Rogers, an
attorney, told the Associated Press
he had obtained divorce for Mrs. |
Robinson last January on grounds
of desertion. He said he also repre-
sented her in her attempts to have
transferred to her name $4,000 in
bonds of Chicago apartment
building. The bonds, he said, be-
longed to her mother and STEP
father.
Washington police said they had |
third grade; Buddy, II, who attends