Show CUT A MANS THROAT AT HIS REQUEST remarkable STORY OF PART TAKEN IN A TRAGEDY BY A SALT LAKE LAD ayd clyde felt aged 14 declares declare that man 11 ho wad W found dead lra in a cave to DO nie and nd that he II 11 cat throat alc throat for liliu it la is now thought by the officers io in 09 the ease case that the mystery our surrounding roundIng the death of col una lins whose body was found to io anavit acab ud in the mountains near salt I 1 ake city with nith his throat out cut has been solved numerous theories as aa to the man manne hla his death were vere advanced advance di but the gen iral opinion was that the old man had aee been murdered clyde felt aged 14 the boy who accompanied collins to the mountains the day lie disappeared broke down on thursday and ana made a confession in which he declares that collins in the cave and that lie he relt felt lid tile the dead mans Llo clothing thing and walled up the cave lie ile said 1 I carried mr coluna una valise to the top of B ensign and he gave me ills hta watch and go CO cents which he said was all the tha change he had I 1 stai ted fed down the it hill III but he called me back and told me to wait for tilt him at the point of the hill below because he wanted to go over the hill and hide his valise I 1 took the hatchet with me and waited about a half hour before lie he met me lie then told me he was go ing to kill himself that he hated bated to tell the people lie he wasti waso t going to new york and lie ho wanted me to come with him and hide his bis things so no one would know who lie he was or what be came of him 1 I told him I 1 wouldn t 1 ave anything to do with that kind of 0 a thing but lie he insisted and lie he had been such a good friend to me I 1 thought it would be no harm to do what ile he wanted lie took me to the cave and told me to wall it up after he killed himself then said to go down the gulch and return in about a half hour to hide the things he be left out of the cave care I 1 went down to the point of the hill bill and after a half bait lour hour went back I 1 saw his clothes and bundling them up I 1 hid bid them under the rocks I 1 fou found ad tile the razor in the mouth of the cave near a pool of blood and after wiping the blood off with my fingers I 1 threw it upon the cliff I 1 then discovered the bloody towel and buried it with tile the clothes then I 1 walled al led up the cave I 1 discovered then that I 1 had bad overlooked the collar necktie and suspenders suspend eis and I 1 hid bid them under the tin can where they were found I 1 was pretty badly seared scared and I 1 hurried to the spring where I 1 washed the blood off my hands I 1 then went home and after afterwards warda went to town 11 on friday young relt felt made another confession in which he amid that tile the old man begged him to take the razor and cut his throat for him film and that lie he did so in tile the confession the story was the same up to the point where eliere collins tile the boy he intended to kill himself after some persua tion the boy tied the old man hand and foot and cut his bis throat with the razor afterwards walling up the cave later young relt felt deL declared lared that another boy henry potts was with them and that potts botts did the cutting young potts potla hasi lias been lodged in lail jail but strenuously denies any linow knowledge ledge of the matter that a charge of murder in the second degree my mixy be lodged against again at clyde relt felt Is regarded as entirely probable when asked in regard to the matter county attorney christensen sa said ld that in a technical sense the boy committed murder to so far as tile the facts now show mr christeneen Christen aen said there was a lack of malice on the part of the buy boy let et depravity is shown as well as malignity and the facts in tile the case even as they now stand will probably justify the issuance of a complaint charging young with murder in the second degree or at least manslaughter just when the complaint will be drawn up has not yet been decided upon and probably will not be until tile case bas baa been thoroughly investigated 11 lite hie parents of young felt fell are almost prostrated and attribute the act of their son to the fact that the old man collins had a great influence over the boy and alho albo that he had bad been reading dime novels |