Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 264, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 November 1918 — VIRGIL M. ROBINSON DIED OF POISONING [ARTICLE]

VIRGIL M. ROBINSON DIED OF POISONING

Lafayette Journal/ Virgil M. Robinson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred C. Robinson, of 1319 North Eighteenth street, is dead at Great Falls,, Mont., resulting from arsenic poisoning. Hewas a graduate of Purdue university in the class of ’l6 in chemical engineering and was employed pt the Anaconda Copper Mining company. . • Robinson was a member of the Theta Xi fraternity. His parents moved from Rensselaer to Lafayette during their son’s freshman year, and had resided here ever since. Had Mr. Robinson lived have celebrated.his twenty-fifth birthday today. Besides his parents he is survived by one sister, Eva Grace. , The remains will be brought to this city by F. S. Weimer, a Purdue alumnus and a fraternity brother of the deceased, who is employed at the Anaconda plant.