Smashing all the windows and electric light globes in her cell at the county jail and breaking everything within reach that was breakable, Miss Nina K. Robinson, charged with passing three worthless checks on local business houses, and accused of assault with a deadly weapon with intent to commit murder as a result of barricading herself in District Attorney M. J. Cheatham’s office, April 30, and shooting indiscriminately at the officers for eight hours because, as she said, the authorities refused to issue a warrant for the arrest of Thomas R. Walton, a wealthy dairyman of Red Bluff, for alleged refusal to provide for her 17-year-old daughter and his child, late yesterday afternoon emphasized her objections earlier in the day to appearing in Judge E. F. Lennon’s court for a hearing.
When she refused to accompany Sheriff M. O. Ballard to the justice court, it was decided to have Doctors E. E. Thompson and F. L. Bly go to the jail and have a talk with her. They were the examining physicians at the hearing recently in the superior court to ascertain her mental condition and who found her to be sane. Upon the appearance of the two doctors at her cell door, Miss Robinson broke into a torrent of abuse and they left. Immediately afterwards she started in breaking the cell windows and making a complete job of it.
Later Judge John F. Ellison of the superior court and Attorney W. P. Johnson, who represented her at the hearing to inquire into her mental state, called at the jail to see Miss Robinson. The reception she gave them was something similar to that accorded the physicians.
Sheriff Ballard again visited the woman’s cell and declared that unless she quieted down he would have to place her in the padded cell. This had the desired effect, for she ceased cursing and screaming at the top of her voice.
Local officials now say that they have a real problem on their hands in dealing with the woman. Opinion is divided among them as to her mental condition, some believing that she is insane and others holding to a contrary view. They had intended to press the forgery charges against her before taking up the complaint in which she is accused of assault with a deadly weapon.
She continues to insist that she was promised her liberty if she would surrender on the day she held the officers at bay in Cheatham’s office, and she sill demands the promise be fulfilled.
— May 14, 1921
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