Show PECULIAR ACTIONS Went With His Valise to Top of E sign Peak Monday So far ay known Clyde Felt the fit teenyearold son of D P Felt to whom Collins gave his watch chain and Masonic charm was the last one o his neighbors to see the old man alive To Clyde he told the story of going fo Join relatives In New York city and Induced the lad to carry tho satchel to tho summit of Ensign peak late Monday afternoon The old man had for weeks past shown a liking for tho Felt boy who had befriended him and the lad says tho old man presented him the watch as a keepsake at thC Game time explaining that he had secured se-cured a better watch and exhibiting anew a-new gold timepiece Clyde says ho Cannot be mistaken about having seen tho new gold watch but there Is no trace to its present whereabouts or to tho manner or place In which Collins secured It The boy says also that Collins made no explanation ot his strange Journey Into tho hills Monday when he was Hist seen and that he made no remarks which would show he Intended commit < le tlng sukiide l SAID HE WAS GOING AWAY For several days past said Clyde she has been telling me he would leave 11e 0 few days for New York Sunday when I visited him at the Wnsatka works there wad another boy there a boy I do not knowand after repeating repeat-ing that he was going to leave the city he held out his watch and n 55 gold piece telling me to take my choice BoyS I want you to take these things to remember me by to show ypu I ama am-a good man he satd i My relatives have sent me some money and 1 am going to llvb with them I took the watch continued Clyde and time other boy took the money Later Jn tho day he called In Henry Potts and told him he could have the things about the house as he would not need them any more Monday af rnoon When school was out I was on my way Jiome when I saw him again and he asked me to take a walk with him up Into the hills I said I would go with him and then he showed me his valise and said he wanted me to carry It for him He had on his overcoat with some things wrapped up In the pocket but what these things were I havent the least Idea He also had a hatchet In his pocket which he had borrowed from my mother during the morning I was I long hard walk up to the top of the peak and It was 430 when wo reached there PARTED ON ENSIGN PEAK After asking me what kind of country coun-try It was to the eastward of the peak the boy continued lhehclc out his hand to me and said he wanted to tell me oodbyc as he wouldnt ever see me again He said I must go home the way I came but that he would take anQther path baok I thought it was rather a funny thing for him to do but asked him questions He told me I would not get to see him again for the reason that he would leave for New York onn train that left before I got up In the morning and also told mo he would write to mo when lie reached the end of his Journey As I turned to go he remembered that he had not paid me and pulled out his purse and gave me n quarter I did not see any other money In the purae He started to wnllc northward along tho summit carrying the valise with him and I turned and ran down the hill towards home and saw nothing more of him GAVE FURNITURE AWAY To Henry Potts a lad residing near tho Wasatka works Collins gave all his household furniture He gave mo the things Sunday said young Potts saying he would needthem no longer as he was going to New York I saw him Monday morning and he told me goodbye but I did not see him after that |