THE TRUNK TRAGEDY

Evening Star, Issue 19616, 23 July 1927, Page 9

THE TRUNK TRAGEDY

A PATHETIC, IHSIDEHT WRONGED GIRL’S ATTACHMENT. LONDON, July 13. Tljo most pathetic figure at the trial of John Robinson, who has been sentenced to death for the murder of Mrs ikmati.the victim of the trunk tragedy, was Ann Maxwell, a Tasmanian girl, whom Robinson bigamonsly married m 1923 'll Dublin, where she was employed as a barmaid, .she not knowing that he had a wife and four children in Lancashire. Maxwell stood by the man she loved until the last. _ She brought his meals every day during the trial, and stood to-day a'pale and shrinking figure, ;m a modest navy blue dress, outside cohrt, listening to the comments of the spectators, by' which means she gathered the progress of events. She almost collapsed from exhaustion. The wronged woman entered tho court to hoar the verdict, and stood weeping in the gallery, to vyhieh Robinson looked up as he 'was going down the steps of the dock. Tho judge permitted the couple to meet before Robinson was removed.