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Show PSVCHOLOOY OF CASE Collins Too Cowardly to Sulcida, but Comttd D'atii When f l)de elt told of nailing ut the cave In which Ihe body of hnniit 1 1 olllns lay welterlne In his own n, of lonuiiiliiK the clothing woin hi th dend man and disposing of thi 1 u. with whlih tho terrible deed w ih ,,, mltted when he quoted thu awful w n is thit wer spoken and the U( unenie thit transriieil In the lonely min n the moitutnlns whete the 1. 1 ili 1 -,, shadows heralded the uming 1 lk , It s inel that the full llm 111 , had 1 en nttalned I Hut )etrdsv when hi 1 fcricl t further detail of ni ' iiene und said he had ncii mi tn j I dirk re nises of the Ion cavern, sue-umbed sue-umbed to 1" '"rt-like rower of his mpanlon boui 1 nlm with a rope and . it his thrcnt b) his own comniond, the limit wns Inleed rea h I The soul sickens nnd the blood runs cold nt the reflection that such a monster mon-ster as Cl)de J elt represents Snmuel 1 olllns to be was n member of the human hu-man family If the boy Is telling the truth Collins s mind bad reached n. depth of morbid derravlty that no normal being can Imagine let alone understand un-derstand and ho will icinaln to the medical profession as the extreme example ex-ample of erotic degenerac) To the world he was n once wenlthy man reduce! to moderate circumstances, circum-stances, a kind irlend, u genlnl companion com-panion well educated Intelligent und honest Among his bov com anions if )oung Pelt Ih to be believed, he was a veiltable demn a man who could calmly ask mei chll lrcn If the) had eier dressed a sheep 'If they would like to dtess a man ' 'If the) would dress hlm a man who tould proptse that a fourteen-) car-oil bo) should cut him Into small bits nnd feed his bod) Into j stove H still rel)lng on the boys stor), he was too cowsrdl) to put an end to bis own life After vainly tr)lng to persutde bo)s to do It for him In the ml 1st if life and ictlilt) ho lures the lad Into the solitude of the hills and th'te b the itrength of his will forces an unwilling )oungster to stain his hands w Ith blood His cowardice 1 vplnlns tho presence of the rope and of the stakes Ills spirit courted death but he had a physical repulsion to It that he could not overcome over-come Tiobahl) time nnd Hgnin he hnd stilven tn drive th blade Into hla throat when the Instinct of nature stn)cd bis hand Tin will that was su-prem su-prem over nls Juienlle victims was helpless in the pres nee of the philinl man When he concelied the plan of th trip to the hills he selected the bo) or bo)s most completel) under his Influence Influ-ence and In his power But ho had one fear suppose that when the bo) )leld-ed )leld-ed to hla demoniac il power mil ns the stioke was about to full thnt Invincible Invinci-ble Instinct of self preservation should assert Itself He knew that it would require almost as much ph)sUn! courage cour-age to keep from pioteitlng himself If he had the power as It would to do the deed himself ud should he by nn in-voluntar) in-voluntar) moiement Interfere with his h)pnotlied subject the spell would bo broken the bo) would )leld no more, and might publish this crowning In-fani) In-fani) to all the world When Collins first sawed the end from the shaft Iu the Wnsntka works he had ptobabl) alrend) planned the details of his contemplated deed The ihnrpenlng of the stakes the Inking of the rope In his bundle nil his proper-t) proper-t) prole the absence of premeditation on the part of the boy who actual!) dll the deed and som peculiar use for the attli les b) the old man Preposterous ns seemed Cl)dea statement tint Collins wished to be staked out nnl tied hnnd nnd foot It now nppenrs to be th" simple truth The ke to the ni)stei) Is foun I in the bn) s words HP H D MP Till HOT II HANDS AND ON! O! nil M MLST IIAVi: lOMi: I'NPAVmNHD ' It was the freedom of the left hnnd that made Iho explnnntlon so dimnilt to Hnd Clyde woull hme no objeit In telling this If It were not true Palling ti get tho lid to use the stakes which he hud brought llong the hntihrt to drive and feuiful that the bo) might weikcn he compiomlsed by haling his han Is and feet hound Ho was nuw helpless nnd loull offer no leslstnnce even when his craven Mesh irled out ugalnst denth Ihe deed was dine t onsclousness was gone In the twinkling of mi oc but that shrinking bod) still protested Ho threshed uriiiin 1 nwful ' said tl)de The ciiIh mid bruises on fnce anl legs tell the c 11110 stor) At last the willingness of ihe spirit had con-queied con-queied ihe woikncss of the flesh This Is probibl) the only theor) thnt will ever explnln tho truo luwnrdness of the Hell a hollow killing If what ( l)de sn)s Is true ltlsiislud' not of outward signs but of mind und soul Burial of Collins. The remains of hnmuel Collins were burled yeslerd ly ufteinoou by Undertaker Under-taker Joseph William Taylor No funeral fu-neral services were had |