Show 4 t 91 I A DARK MYSTERY i t H Ht 4 4 4 44 4 f M 4 M 4 44 I 4 4 4 H 4 4 4 4 4 4 I 4 4 I 4 4 4 4 4 I Again Salt Lake City is in inthe the presence of a am astery m mystery of blood The suicide or murder of the old than hian Co Collins lins and the discovery of his bis nude body in ina ina ina a cave cave on Ensign Peak furnish a thrilling and an all unpleasant local sensation Perhaps the dark secret secret se se- se cret involved in inthe the tragedy never may be disclosed Possibly the question whether r the dead man killed himself or was killed by others ma may remain open opel to the end of time The last pe person son known t to have seen Collins alive was th the boy who accompanied him on his last walk up the mountain On parting Collins ga gave e the boy his wat watch h. h That That fact taken take in conjunction with his lois death soon afterward would seem to support support sup sup- p port rt the suicide the theory which appe appears rs to be the popular one with the police The discovery of the Ithe empty purse and aud of a butcher knife some distance from the cave on the other hand lends strength to the presumption of murder to which which the County Physician ial the Sheriff County Attorney and arid Coroner Coroner Coro Coro- ner Del a aJ are understood to tobe to-be be inclined One of the of-the the officials om- om daIs says says that it would have b been en so difficult for Collins Colling to to gouge his eye out strip himself bind himself with the rope in n which his body was found tied build up the mouth of the cave with boulders s from the inside cut his throat and then carry the butcher knife to where it was vas discovered that he is unable to accept the theory of suicide Probably when the result of the Coroners Coroner's inquest which has lias b been en c called for tl this is afternoon is before the he public there may be further light on the painful affair For the present it itis is a horrible mystery y |