Show rIDE BELIEVE AN OLDER HEAD THAN THAI l Ni P tANNED PLANNED AND EXECUTED CRIME Companions of the Boy Put on the Rack lack by But They Hold IDe fr Stories They Have ladY dy Told of the Collins dY of Hells Hell's Hollow BULLETIN r f 4 ff 4 4 4 44 t s Clyde Felt Fett w was wis s los dos Closeted ted with Kay Kay- ot of the county Jail The other boys bors l Involved ed Thith the Ing called in t to face tace Felt In the effort to bring out more 4 ct on with the Collins tragedy or gained general gener-al circulation during lg early early afternoon 4 t had had cut his own throat In In Inthe the county j Jail U and caused aused 4 nt un until iI it was contradicted V afternoon Clyde Felt is giving to the f has been given out Is that he he exonerates s Henry Pot Potts s. s f th him In the Sheriffs Sheriff's office Sheriff Naylor County f 4 en Chief of Police Hilton r n p Policeman n Roberts Roberts Roberts' anc and I 4 1 Voys V th boy boys boy's s father r rIs f d 11 lie he Is making a full tulI cohr 1 land and the inquisitors are 4 i Ih se se 1 3 o ohis his story that he committed the deed himself was still in progress at 3 s c called In and to him Felt ald said Henry I lied about nothing to d do with it J I f t J. J t. t t t of Hells Hell's hollow bec became me fraught with greater gr ater comand cornn com com- n and city officers officer of the law law and the relatives of the thet t tuning a ning Ing every resource to 0 arrive a at 1 the thereal Teal truth and the of ot Samuel Collins S wro bOdy was in Hells Hell's not be startling are re momen- momen d' d e which may mayor or may IIi i r Ro Roberts who had been by Chief Hilton and id went to the co county nty Jail upon a summons anFelt anI an- an I Felt was prepared to make a further confession leased ce ceased ed to believe in the statements of youn-g youn young Felt The i Ith which he has concocted three entirely plausible IN st stated ted them to be untrue e has caused the police to doubt a a 5 q 4 in pie the je hl ont adl r ns nd a-nd supported by rt I acts Sets they have have- that the boy rs is ls mis- mis I ftp p shield some one elsel else stor story story-of of his final parting with the aged man was beli believed ed ent that he was vas on the the the scene scene scene and s sas saw w Collins c commit ing of truth In it His succeeding His confession that he had lr t at the latter's request though appalling in its hornall horri- horri all and purposes convincing b but but- t. t Within a few Hours flours of f all the these tales declared that chum that Henry Potts I 1 iad drawn the murderous weapon across r ss Collinss Collins's throat at strenuous and he sticks to It h 11 ye vc their thell doubts They are casting about for a peg upon theory theory that neither Clyde Felt nor Henry Potts killed Colw Col- Col w 2 together me one else older stronger and more capable of ot doing the the cave are not lacking It Is considered that thatIS IS of the shocking relations between Collins and the boys pe haps followed the old fellow and one or more of at his hist t where they had gone to repeat the hateful things things- atI of at I doing a Justification was found for summarily terminating IL would not be impossible that the boy or boys witnesses by bribes or threats induced to keep silence or Tons johs hs of ot the affair This would account for their possession which belonged to Collins hat It that no child of the age of or r Clyde Felt Feltl and am resting under guilt could have concocted a story so cleverly woven as asIL ashe IL Rhe he old mans man's suicide nor could he tearless and almost g ted In his falsehood against the artful inquisitions of or ofen oriff iff en l hearted pleadings of his own father young oung Felts Felt's stol stol- i of a trained criminal but rather the security of one Innocence and fortified by the idea that he was doing and nd commendable In shielding the r real al perpetrator of the from the face race of the earth a being who had become a ab ao b o the boys boy's own life lIle I the theorists it develops that Cylde Felt was a particles partie- partie es e was as not alone A study of the conditions makes it ap- ap oo 10 or 01 two boys of his sUeto to have lave ave killed Collins to have haveIt It was and to have disposed of at the various evidences I t Is held that if ir the boy who wielded the razor was at atins's ins's side In the low roofed cave as Clyde described It it possible os for the boy to have crawled ou out without covering d which gushed tr frOm the gaping wound No blood has thing of or the a accused bO boys G. G Again and It it Is possible Ift if t rendered Insensible outside the cave and stripped of id d be he almost impossible for one boy or two to have he cave ave as far as it was before cutting cutting- his throat The go rc 0 of the cave lying naturally on Its I left ft side La a cloud on Clydes Clyde's shuddering story of at how the body l' l the razors razor's work had been done J JI I fly lY doubts have beer been raised and nd so many possibilities p police lice will not rest upon the statements of the boys but buti i frn the theory that others than CI Clyde de Felt Felt have ave had somes some- some rime 1 s 5 father has been el closeted with him for tor several hours he most searching questioning and tracing In sequence f t his actions on the day of the tragedy He had carried U point where the boys lifter after returning from town town- where re iT iTS iTS' 1 had gone to a gravel pit and indulged indulged-In In target stuck and here hero Is where the memories of Potts and t ami nation at the county jail last night For Tor hours the bo boy had held to it that no one else was connected with the he murder but the following question at last broke the way for his last confession confession confes contes- sion Bound Ay iby an Oath You are bound by an oath oath not not to tell on each other otherS arent aren't you Felt unwittingly answered that they were and and thereby admitted what what h he had all the time been een denying What will Henry o Potts do to you youIt It if f you do tell This received no answer but a little littlemore littlemore more mor urging brought out the whole story We all went up the hill hIlI together just like I told you this morning and the he old man mail took us down and showed us the cave Says Potts Killed Collins He lie took off his clothes Just like I Isaid Isaid Isaid said and then laid down and begged us to kill him We didn't want to do doIt doit dot It t but after a while Henry picked up the razor and cut Collinss Collins's throat The Theold Theold Theold old man was lying at the mouth of the cave and that was how the blood got there After we pushed him down Inthe in inthe the he cave we partly walled it up then we got scar scared d and ran down the Ule h hol- hol l low ow Henry stopped to wash his hands In n the spring but I 1 didn't wash mine until we got clear down the hill Felt Stands Stands- by Story Felt insisted that it was Henr Henry Potts who w the razor and said that he could make Henry admit the deed l if It he were brought face tace to face tace with him Sheriff Naylor at once set out to bring about this Potts was located at th Salt Lake Theatre with Raymond Ramond Johnson and EmU Emil Knecht When the they came out at 11 o'clock Potts Potts' and Knecht were wele taken to the Jail When Pitts was told of ot the charge against him he exclaimed Let me see him and I will dare him to tell it to my face When they arrived at the Jail Felt was told of at Potts's protestations of Iu in noc nce Oh gee he said I thought hed he'd try to get et out of it Brought Face to Face Pace When Henry was brought into his cell Felt shouted You know you were up there with me You know I was not up there was the reply Then followed an animated cus sion between the two Potts Potts' declaring his innocence and Felt disputing it it un un- thi Felt was exhausted and ald asked to be he given a rest until this morning when he promised to tell more Henry Potts tried to account for his movements on the l Monday or the murder murder mur mur- der by a long story of at the events of the day which he was afterward made to acknowledge was what took place on Tuesday As to the latter day he could give no account of at himself ex except except ox- ox that he was cutting tripe between 2 and 3 o'clock in the afternoon His memory as tp to what occupied the rest of the time that day failed him en en- |