Show MURDER MURDEE- AS ADVANCED BY MAYO MYO AND LOCAL JUSTICE Here are the vi views ws of city city and county county county coun coun- ty officers who advance the murder theory COUNTY COUNT PHYSICIAN MAYO MAYO-I I do donot donot donot I not not believe beleve the wound in in the throat was self inflicted sel It I was a straight horizontal horizontal hori hori- incision made by a a quick quick short stroke from a very sharp instrument It I severed almost reached the but no important arteries arteries ar ar- ar- ar teries tenSes were severed A suicide In cutting cutting cutting cut cut- ting ting- his own onn throat generally makes makes' an irregular incision extending upward to the left lef if the man man mad Is right handed and upward to the right if he is left- left i handed Collins choked to death from the blood which poured from the wound Into his windpipe It I would have been impossible for the man man to have cut his throat outside of the cave where he was discovered and afterward to have crawled into the l hole le and piled pied up the rocks as they were found at the mouth of the cave From Prom the position In in which the body was found and the PrOfusion profusion profusion pro PrO- fusion of blood inside the cave my Impression impression impression Im im- im- im is that the injury was inflicted in in- inside tile the cave What W Justice Ni Nielsen sen Say Says JUSTICE C. C M. M NIELSEN NILSEN Acting 1 Coroner Coroner MY My theory is that Collins was murdered by some toughs of the neigh neigh- who learned that he was preparing pre pro paring to leave for New York and be believed be- be that the dead man had had considerable consid erable enable money Collins Colins had a mining claim up In the hills his and my theory Is th that thit t the murderers Inveigled him UP on the understanding that they wished to see his Ils claim with a view to purchasing it When they got liim near the caYe cave where the body was as found they murdered him The indications are that the body was dragged over the ground gound A rusty but keen knife Wa was found IO feet away and the mouth of the cave was blocked up with stones In a way that could have hardly been done from the Inside |