New development in death of "Little Miss Mystery"

International News Photos (New York, N.Y.) · August 2, 1950

Hoboken, N.J.....In Hoboken police headquarters where they were questioned, Mrs. Ida Robinson, 30, and her paramour, poet-bartender William Harris, 34 (right) are shown with public safety director Michael M. Borelli. The mystery surrounding the death of Mrs. Robinson's 6-year-old daughter Louise, whose body lay unclaimed in a morgue for four days, was climaxed last night when Hoboken prosecutor shea announced that Harris had confessed to punching the child in the stomach last Wednesday because she threw away food while he was feeding her. Harris is to be arraigned today in Hoboken recorder's court on a charge of murder. Mrs. Robinson is being held as a material witness. Earlier the mother had pointed to her estranged husband Francis, accusing him of abducting the little girl.