| Show ST THAT WAS SEEN t OF COLLINS WHilE ALIVE TM The last seen of collins was Monday I L when he be called to his young friend Clyde CIde Felt and asked to be joIned In an expedition up the moun n Felt Is the H earold son ot of 11 P Felt who bo JI lives several hundred beyond the Warm SprIngs on OD the I road A warm friendship has baa for faa a bime me existed between n the mae maa an anu the 00 boy Tl ft lad wi wa on his way to th the thet t s sprIngs at 1 Jock Monday afternoon but bat was bailed hr by Collm who offered ot W 1 cents to carry is grip p up the tn mountain side The TIte was 17 accePted end and together they bet begin the a cent to peak Reaching the top oL of the crap crags they rested In their Journey pd pointed out with pride the view that before them Par Far out lit hi the I distance glistened tIN the lake the of the city rose J from th other direction He pointed out In detail the landscape and beguiled the time of the boy with stories He was neither morose nor exuberant exuberant ant but In the opinion of tile boy was wa wain in his usual state M o bope pe He told of his prospects fron the claims that he be bew w Was staking ot of And then he admon admonished young Felt not to call at his biB room the next morning for tor Ute the reas that M he Intended making a trip to New e York and would leave on the Ule early IDOnat morning g train D Dismissed lD ed the Boy They left their of Dd star started in a northerly direction The old man halted and told the boy that he be need go CO no further that he would proceed alone the moan moun mountain talus tain He gave him a which he had worn end and bade the lad an a a af affectionate farewell I 1 give you this watch to remember me by boy sad aad be sure INIe not to call me Die In the morning for fM I 1 will Ite be OR on my way to New York he be said Leaving him at i b In the afternoon the oy boy returned to his home and Dd told of the present he received Since that time Ume se far as aa Is f known Collins laM has not been seen NeSt N No effort bas baa been made to reveal the secret of the cavern further than to take the old man from the place piece ot of othis his death No weapon of an any tibet Uon Is known to be Inside the place with whIch he be could have ban ended his life lite nor Is It explained how he could have betided the huge mass of boulders In front frent of the entrance The whole a affair Is I shrouded In mystery and nd will not be cleared UP until today when the win Will make a more thorough search of the place piau Scouts Suicide Theory I cannot believe that t he has done what the officers say 1 said young Felt last night when hen he learned of the th horrible discovery and had undergone a series of from the He acted strangely to me at times but his manner on Monday aft afternoon afternoon was just like It had always been He gave me his hut but he had bad bought another and he told me goodby like he told others or of his frIends He gave another boy i 5 sa saIng say saying Ing that he was going to New York and would probably bly not be b back ck soon He had bad a grip and aDd some ume am small ll bun bundles bundies dies under his coat when we went on the mountain but I d dOnt nt knoW what they were He ed come Mille stakes and also a hatchet which he e had her bor borrowed rowed from my mother hatchet was wall found today half a mile away from the piece pIMe where he was found by some man whom I did not know and aad given to me He ap appeared despondent at times but I 1 cannot believe that he killed himself Went to Mountains Often He made t trips to the mountains and wee was gone for long periods He told me often otten of his pros poets In a coal mine which he was In interested in up there I thought when he left me 05 that be would continue to roam about and wanted me to go home to my mother He told be O goodby dby at af affectionately but bad done the same thing time and aDd again I 1 dont know whether h he had bad any money with him at the time thue or not He gave me the quarter that he promised but It had been rumored about that he had received a draft f 10 and was 88 going to New York on It Mother saw two suspicious looking men mea peering Into I his window early In Inthe Inthe the afternoon and Intended to warn him The They stood at the window and then went behind the building on hear Ing a wa wagon on approach I 1 dont know who they were but they may have seen through the window that he bad money II and watching g him go up the moan tam followed and lured him to his death |
