Show FOR KILLING HIS FATHER Young Haii at Topeka Arrested On This Charge Topeka Kan June 9The Wiling of J S Collins a tragedy which has excited I ex-cited the people of Topeka for four weeks past culminated tonight in the arrest of the dead mans son John I Henry Collins and he is charged directly di-rectly with the murder of his father I The youth who is a student at the I state university is held at the county I jail He refuses to talk The evidence I against him while only circumstantial looks very black Indeed I Johnson Jordan of Topeka and John Harper of Lawrence negroes of bad repute are also under arrest Both negroes have confessed that Collins hired them t kill his father and that they backed out after accepting his pay As a motive for the crime it is charged that the youth was heavily in debt as a result of fast living and that his fathers life was insured for 26000 of which about 6500 was in favor of the son |