William James Robinson - a case of mistaken identity.
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William James Robinson - a case of mistaken identity. On Saturday the 25th of November 1916, 26 year old William Robinson had got into an altercation with some Canadian soldiers in a London pub. The following night he was drinking in the Sussex Stores pub in Upper St. Martins Lane off Leicester Square in London when he noticed a pretty girl with a Canadian soldier whom he wrongly thought was the one who had offended him the previous evening. As 35 year old Alfred Williams (the soldier) and Maggie Harding left the pub, Robinson and his friend John Gray followed the couple out and Robinson confronted Williams and stabbed him with a pocket knife. Hearing the commotion outside several other drinkers came out to see what was happening. Williams was lying in the road with Maggie cradling his head in her arms. Robinson and Gray had fled the scene but they were identified by one of the pub’s regulars, Walter Rhodes, as having been the men that followed Williams and Maggie out. Robinson