24 April 1913 Tonawanda News North Tonawanda, NY Father Kills Himself and Son New York. April 24. - William C. Robbins, a lawyer, whose office at present is in Norfolk, Va., where he is said to have considerable business interest, shot his 9-year-old son William, and then committed suicide by cutting his own throat with a razor. The boy died a few hours later in Flower hospital. Mr. Robbins had been separated from his wife for some months.