| Show ANOTHER PURPOSE POSSIBLE Evidence That Collins May Have Vlantcd Surgical Operation Some of the most significant developments develop-ments In the Collins case yesterday welP the confession of Clyde Felt that Col Ins was under the Influence of chloroform chloro-form when he was killed the demonstration demon-stration that one small boy could push the body Into the cave alone and some strong evidence tending to show that what Collins sought at the hands of his boy friends was not death but a surgical surgi-cal operation 1 Is learned from Raymond Johnson hat Collins frequently hud Clyde Fell and Henry Potts fasten him down and administer chloroform This Is chloroorm supplemented supple-mented by a statement from Don McDonald Mc-Donald another boy that he hoard Clyde and Henry ay Unit Collins had offered them 523 to perform the opera ton saying he could take chloroform so It would not hurt him and the boys could perform the operation with his razor I remains to be proved by Clydes confession that this is what Collins vlshcfl him to do when they entered Tolls hollow together but If such a confession Is made it will go far toward explaining every detail of clrcumsan lal evidence that has puzzled and Is still bothering the officers It explains the presence of the butcher knife shoes and pocketbook on the little bench above the cave I explains the cut overtime over-time old mans eye and the bruises on the shins It explains the stakes the rope and the binding of the bpdy and explains why Clyde hesitated so long l to mention the chloroform ond Ignored olllnss propositions for the operation In all his confessions I would also throw a new light on Colllnss enigmatic inquiry whether tho boys had ever dressed a sheep The place that would naturally be selected lected for such a purpose would not be ho dark cave or the rocky ground around It but the smooth shelf above the cave where the light Is the strongest strong-est The butcher knife would be brought along to perform the first part of the operation and he razor the last ho anaesthetic to deaden the pain and the rope nnd stakes to prevent an involuntary Invol-untary movement o the patient Jie would undress on this shelf and also spread out his Instruments there When hc was unconscious end bound it would not be difficult for Clyde to drag him from the shelf down to the cave drop his head with sufficient force to cut off the eyelid and dispose of the body as he has proved he could do The pocketbook pocket-book might have dropped out of the pocket unobserved when he picked up the clothes One of the shoes could have been knocked down from the shelf when he body was dragged down and remained re-mained where It I was afterward picked Upwhfle the other stayed where the old man had placed 1U The butcher knife might have slipped Into a crack In the rock and remained undiscovered This theory is strengthened somewhat b y the statement Dr Mayo that Its It-s a common thing for moral perverts to desIre an operation of this kind durIng dur-Ing their saner moments In order to escape from their thralldom To a Tribune reporter who saw him lat night Clyde Felt admitted something some-thing that he has hitherto concealed Jlthcrto and denied I goes far toward sustaining sus-taining the theory suggested by the use of the chloroform and the testl tesl money of Don McDonald When asked If Collins had not requested CoJns quested him to perform the operation he kept repeating Not that day Not that day Pressed a little further he confessed that Collins had I asked him and Henry Pots if they hud ever performed a similar operation on a sheep After more arduous questioning he went so far as to say that Collins had been after him the day before his death to do the same thing Collins according to boys latest confession entered Into the details of how It should be done prescribing three strokes to be made In such a manner that different kinds of Instruments such as a razor and butcher knife would be required He denied the other feature of the theory in his usual manner and protested protest-ed that he was telling the truth both yesterday and the day before |
