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Show ently by placing a dot above or below IN TIIE ODD CORNED. COLLINS MURDER CASE They have learned from Europeans to write from left to right inQUEER AND CURIOUS THINC9 stead of from top. to bottom, as they STORY OF THE CRIME THAT formerly wrote. Palm leaves were forHAS STARTLED TOPEKA. AND EVENTS. merly used for paper, and an Iron styls for a pen. They use writing for corA Chfcptar of KiiurktU ColneldBnens respondence only, as they have no Will Us Recited Mefore a Jury The Collin Leave Double Life of Io Dialect ot tho Philippine hblilK-Slndglbooks of science or history. The misIII of Doubt Murderer Bllaht (iutlt sionaries furnish works the gibarU-yiChlnoM religious is L'aueea by Any of the Neighbor. FUlorlra. printed In the various dialects of the Islands. The natives of the Moluccas have a very pleasing way of corresWhat promises to be one of the most Happy I with their friends. They ponding murder trials in the hisHlB youthful yearn had withered In the interesting flowers of different colors In a lum Kansas of tory jurisprudence began In Wherti he and hla were (red. bouquet In such a way that the receivShawnee district court at the county He wti a burden, and though llfcj were er understands by examining the varieother It Is the the Topeka morning. dumb, ties and their shades (which represent case against John Henry Collins, who Heart wlehed that he were dead. so many characters), what his friends Is charged with the murder of his And ao wished he; for In hie wearied Intended to say to him. Scientific father, J. S. Collins, on the morning soul American. of May 13. There waa but one dealra To slip away, to reach a strange vague The high standing of the Collins goal In Siberia. manner in tbe SladslDg family, Where time would cease to tire. was which crime the the In Siberia in committed, Traveling by sledge Hut on a day some one with grave, sweet winter has Its perils, as the experience social connections of the accused, the face. of Mr. Robert L. Jefferson and his romance, which. It la alleged, furnishAnd tender, skilful hands. friends goes to illustrate. The Incident ed the motive for the crime, and many Came to his side, and bore him from the other striking features all tend to la told In "Roughing It In Siberia. place. It seemed, to land. "We had chartered six sorry looking Yet, after all, twaa but a whirling hour horses to drag us on to the next stage. It was night when we started. The Out of the smoke-blin- d town To where the sky shone with unblemish- driver, maudlin drunk had to be helped ed power to his seat, and we set off along the Over a fair, broad down. narrow roadway at the usual gallop, And he, the cripple, whose sad springs which, however, soon dwindled Into a were more mere shuffle through the snow. We Than one who watched him knew. Had never seen so much green grass be- had gone to sleep, and some hours after our departure Gaskell woke me and fore. Nor skies so Mg and blue. said he thought something was wrong. The sledge was at a standstill and our He was so softly glad, so full of peace. shouts to the yemshik brought no reHe laid him back and sighed. And watched the deep sky and its float- sponse. Black darkness prevailed. I ing fleece bundled out of the sledge so benumbed Dreaming that he had died. that I could scarcely move. I felt -- J. J. BelL along the sledge, sinking to my knees in the snow. The drivers perch was Remarkable Colneldences. and Just then I stumbled over empty; A most remarkable story of coincione of tbe horses, which was lying burdences Is contributed to the London led up to Its neck. It was clear that as Spectator by W. J. Humble-Crofthe driver had fallen from his seat, follows: "Many years ago, when at from Oxford father gave me as an heirloom and that the horses had wandered stuck were track. beasts the The poor a ring presented to him by an old JOHN COLLINS, fast, and a closer inspection Bhowed friend, and bearing an Inscription stat- one of them to be dead make the case one of lively public frozliterally ing that It contained the hair of the en to death. If we would save ourinterest. Duke of Wellington. This ring I gave Briefly stated, here Is the story of acselves from the same fate, prompt to my wife on our marriage In 1876. tion was necessary. The other horses the murder' as far as Is known at In October, 1879, when we were on a were this time. On the morning of May 13, nearly succumbing. They lay flat visit to Mr. W. Arkwright, of Sutton on their shortly after 5 oclock, two reports of the at nibbled stomachs and Bcarsdale, my wife felt It slip off her snow. We cut the dead animal adrift, gun shots coming In rapid succession and, al- and using the spare rope as whips, we were heard issuing from the Collins finger at the dinner-tablwas made, noth- stood on either side of the living and residence. Almost Immediately afterthough careful search ing more was seen or heard of it for lashed them until our arms ached. At ward John Colllna, thoroughly dressed, eighteen years, bo far as we were con- length they moved, and by pushing was seen dashing out of the front door. He ran across the street to the cerned. At the commencemnt of this and pulling we got the sledge turned. residence of Ed. Lange and asked him year, however, my wife received a Then step by step, with much flounderuse He notified the r, to the Mrs. Hodge, from her telephone. we to retrace began ing and many falls, hla that in New Zealand, which stated Incidentpolice father, had been shot our way. All this In pitch darkness, waa In condition. He also a and was In a which church she that dying ally in a raw, cold wind, and in momenInterested out there had received un- tarily expectation of one or all cf the summoned Dr. Teft. The news that a foul murder had expected helj some years ago from a horses dropping dead. It was a terricurious source. Her sister. Miss White, ble experience, but we regained the been committed spread rapidly and a had sent out from England at her re- road and finally reached the village." large crowd congregated. It waa found that J. S. Colllna, one of the most some In on a quest pair gloves. trying prominent men In Topeka, had been of these gloves, she, to her astonishQueer Chinese Pillories. shot twice with a shotgun. He died ment, found Inside one of them a ring are when nations Just now, European within SO minutes without making a of Duke containing the hair of the all hungry for a bit of broken China, statement, so far aa is known, except Wellington, which had1 evidently been drawn off the finger unconsciously hy the rulers of the Celestial Kingdom to his wife, who says she heard him exsome one trying on the glove at Bides. are pretty careful to give the foreign claim: "Helen, I am shot; get the Unable to find the owner of the ring, devils" no excuse for reprisals. They camphor; 0, Helen, my back! The police arrived a few minutes aftand not liking to keep it, Mrs. Hodge havent forgotten how Kaiser Wilhelm Klao-Cho- u of took of possession er the murder had been committed. Germany be a to sell It would fair thing thought bay, apparently because Germans Although It waa daylight at the time, It and apply the proceeds to the church fund. She did so, and the purchaser had been attacked there, really because and the shots aroused the neighborhe wanted It Nor of how that hood, no one saw the murderer escapwas a Mr. Frank Arkwright, of Over-toold hypocrite, J. Bull, gobbled ing from the house. An examination Marston, New Zealand, whose harbor. of the place by the police disclosed grandmother had given the ring to my up Hong Kong fact that all the outside doors to the reso who most far has For Ignorant subjects kindly father, and who were locked, as were also the house the brickIn as to throw Now here It themselves my possession. placed fergot with the exception of one windows, Is a series of coincidences that are bats at the Christians In the treaty window In the second story. If the humorlifea once a have in to happen only likely ports, local mandarins time. That of all the thousands of peo- ous punishment, which is called the murderer escaped from the house he This was recently used in must have escaped through this winple who purchase gloves, my wife's "cangue. should have lighted upon Pekin Itself on a number of Chinese dow. It would have been a big Jump. this particular pair, and, unknown to who let their angry passions rise too The ground beneath waa soft from the herself and to Bides, should have sent patriotically. It consists of two heavy rain of the night before. A thorough examination failed to find footprints. out this ring In them to her sister In planks fitted together, with a hole The theory that a burglar had comthe Antipodes, and that there should them Just big enough for a mans mitted the crime waa abandoned, as It have been recovered in the house of a neck. Each man was tied to a stout was shown conclusively that he did In whose Mr. head cousin of the Arkwright hung a big post, and above hla house It had been lost eighteen years placard In teachest letters announcing not escape from the house. It waa also discovered that nothing had been that he was exposed "for attacking stolen. The .ago, surely goes to show that sometheory of suicide was also rate Is ticketed truth Thus the prisstranger Europeans. times, at any as the gun which did the abandoned, than fiction! As a minor coincidence oners remained all day, before being was work found out In the hall. fatal I may perhaps mention that the letter removed to prison for other punishmerest a been have chance, happened ment which may which, by the prompt to mention the finding of the ring, was release or something a good deal worse dated from Wellington, In New Zea- than the cangue, according to the officials. The Chinese are Ingenious In land." cruel penalties. The most horrible of these Is the death by a thousand cuts. Dialect of tbo Philippine. According to a Spanish missionary, In this case It Is the object of the exewho resided for eighteen years In the cutioner to show his skill by hacking Philippines, there Is no language that the victim as long as possible without 4s common to all the Islands, but each absolutely killing him. canton has a dialect peculiar to Itself. All these dialects, however, have some A Pocket Electrical Plant. Affinity, somewhat like that which exOf late years pocket contrivances ists between the Italian dialects of have been growing steadily popular. 'Lombardy, Sicily and Tuscany. On the This fondness for pocket-size- d articles Island of Luzon there are six dialects, of reached such sort a state has every some of which are current In the other are there that "pocket" typewriters, Islands. The most universal are the pocket dressing cases, pocket encycloTagala and Blsaya. The latter Is very pedias and what not, and now some Is more former while the polcoarse, one has Invented a remarkable pocket ished and peculiar, and to such a deelectric lamp. It Is cylindrical In Catholic Roman a missionary gree that form, Is about nine inches long and one J. 8. COLLINS. who had a thorough knowledge of ev- Inch In The diameter. contains lamp were There no bloodstains on the ear-pe-t. was to the Islands erything pertaining The condition of the bed showed accustomed to say that the Tagala lan- no wires, but it has three batteries, each having a capacity of three volts. that the murdered man bad not arisen guage had the advantages of four of the At the end of the telescope-llk- e tube after being shot Another thing which of It the world; that principal tongues makes which the exterior of the lamp disproved the suicide theory was the was mysterious like the Hebrew; that It bad the articles of the Oreek, as la a magnifying lens for the purpose to-of fact that the shots had scattered, showing that they had been fired at a well for appellations as for proper distributing light The batteries gether have a life of about 7,000 llghls distance of at least ten feet Suspi-slo- n nouns; that It was as elegant and and can be renewed at pleasure. The Immediately pointed to John Colpious as Latin, and that It was as well Is designed for use among chemas the murderer. His actions llna lamp as for Italian and compliments adapted careless use of matches or strengthened that story. He was pernegotiations. The natives make use of icals, where fectly cool and collected, manifesting !ut three vowels and have but twelve ordinary lamps might result in no grief over the death of h!s father. consonants, which they express differ them. ng Nr ge cold-blood- far-of- lt ts e, lt-t- er half-siste- n, half-sist- er en ed He talked and moved about with careless abandon. Another hignitkant circumstance Is that, when he was called by big stepmother, he came downstairs but did not enter the fatal bedchamber. Without talking to anyone he went across the street to the telephone and told all about the murder. One of the stronge.--t things in Collins favor Is the testimony of bis Bister, Grace who alleges that Immediately after tbe shots sbe heard him jump out of bed In his lieilroom and begin moving about. Their rooms are so situated that ho would be obliged to pass her door in order to reach the stairway. It has been discovered since, however, that John did not sleep in his own room that night, but In order rlept In the "spare room. to reach this room from the stairway be would not have had to pass Graces room. That night was the first time In his life that John ever slept In that loom. He has yet failed to explain the reason for sleeping in It upon that caught John off bis guard and upon both occasions they think he made significant and damaging statements. Detective Harbaugh, while In the Collins home as Johns confidential friend, took John Into tbe fatal bed chamber and asked him to explain his theory of the murder. John went Into It In detail, acting out the part of the murderer. He destribed how Mr. Collins acted, what he Mid and what tne murderer did. It was very realistic, llarbuugh suddenly turned to John and tr Almed with emphatic directness: w,ow do you know that, Johnny? The question and the directness of the questioner confused John, lie could make no satisfactory reply. At another time Mr. Harbaugh was questioning Mrs. Collins about the scenes and Ineldents of the murder. Mrs. Collins began saying that she was aroused by the shots, arose on her elbow and looked toward the door where the murderer was standing, when John Interrupted her. "Why, mamma. he exclaimed, "you particular night. know you didnt look toward tbe door. Detectives and officers immediately You were looking toward the celling began working on tbe rase, but it was all tbe time. R. M. RUGGLES. nearly a month after the murder before any arrests were made, when ASKS $10,000. John Collins was arrested and placed of on the charge in the county Jail CapL Thomas J. Reilly, formerly having murdered his father, and Jesse professional at Balmer's Harper and Johnson Jordan, two colored men, were arrested aB his accomplices. A striking counterpart of tbe story of Dr. Jekyll and 31 r. Hyde can be found In a study of the character of John Collins. Ills actions before and since his arrest, together with the evidence brought out by the Btate at the preliminary hearing, cannot but impress one that tbe young man has been leading a double life during the past few years. The two Identities are spparfite and distinct They are as entirely foreign to each other as if one had been a colored and the other a white man. One John Collins Is a refined, educated and religious young man. The other John Collins appears to be a moral degenerate. The one finds pleasure In refined society, the other associates with a dangerous criminal element and consorts with disreputable negroes. There are sworn statements in abundance in the possession of the detectives tending to show that tbe state- bathing pavilion. Coney Island, has ments are not exaggerated. The aff- now gone to court to demand 810,000 idavits are made, not only by colored damages from a young woman because be did not find her body under the sad persons, but by reputable white persea waves last summer. CapL Reilly sons of both Lawrence and Topeka. The life John Collins led in Topeka was In charge of the life guards at was wholly foreign to the life he led Balmers pavilion when Miss Louise In Lawrence. In Topeka he was quiet King and her maid engaged compartand studious, caring nothing for so- ments, and Miss King disappeared and the maid wept and said she had been ciety, or at least never participating In drowned. He searched the beach for it He attended church regularly, and two weeks In vain and In hla complaint alleges he suffered great mental strain and waa discharged because he could not find Miss Kings body. As that healthy and much alive young woman was In Philadelphia after leaving the bathing pavilion and with the man of her corresponding not to blame, neithwas choice, Reilly er was the young woman. Girls In love have done stranger things than leave their clothes In a bathing compartment, don others and go and get married to the only man on earth. In this case the only man was S. Lloyd Chamberlain, and after a brief stay with friends In Philadelphia Mies King ' IV i Jwl became Mrs. Chamberlain and her AND COLLINS. JOHN MRS. GRACE, In family forgave her for the scare she (Scene Court.) took a leading part In the Sunday had given them. But the professional feelings are too tender and school. While occsslonally In unguardtoo bis great to be trifled with by pride moments mask he would let the ed fall and display to his associates traits a mere girl In love with somebody else. It was worth 810,000 to his pride of character Indicating moral degenerbe searching for a pretty young to acy, yet as a rule he played the part, if It was such, with cunning ingenuity. woman In the flotsam and jetsam At Lawrence young Collins' life was thrown up by Coneys seas when some other fellow found and married her in entirely different. Ills habits were Philadelphia. his He abandoned completely changed. He an became tendencies. religious Russian ConrUhlp. ultra society man, and plunged madly One of the national eccentricities in Into the social whirl. He participated In and gave wine suppers. He dissi- the Ukralm Russia Is that the maiden pated to exc bs, and boasted of tbe fact Is the one that does all the courting. that he "set the pace for the boys In When she falls In love with a man she goes to his house and tells him their carousals at Lawrence. If he reDetective Harbaugh says he has un- the state of her feelings. Is a formal all and well, covered that John Collins frequently ciprocates Is however, If, arranged. duly consorted with disreputable colored marriage she remains he Is there, unwilling, was one Lawrence. at It during people of his carousals with a colored woman hoping to coax him Into a better mind. there, Harbaugh eays, that John got The poor fellow cannotor treat her with turn her out, mixed up with Jesse Harper, the col- the least discourtesy ored man who now swears John tried for her friends would he sure to avenge the Insult His best chance, to get him to kill his father. It Is the frequency and the rapidity therefore, If he Is really determined in which he made the changes In his that he will not marry her, la to leave dual life, however, that bears the his home and stay away as long ae most striking similarity to the ctory she Is In It This is certainly a peculof "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde." With- iar way of turning a man out of housf in the same day, even within a few and home. hours, young Collins frequently oclie Had Lnt III Canning. "Dere's no use talkin, said the cupied his two Identities. He often made the trip between Lawrence and burglar, I'm gettln too old Topeka. When he stepped on the train fer de bis. I'm goln' to retire." W.y, at Lawrence he would drop his role ole pal, wots de trouble?" asked a felof a social lion, and upon his arrival low professional. "Me glims fatin me, In Topeka he would become the pious, date de trouble, replied the old man dignified man he was known to his as he tried to suppress a sigh. '"Las' friends here. He made the same re- night I spent tree hours crackin a safe verse changes when he would return and when I fin'ly busted It open to Lawrence. The change in bis twusnt nuthln but one o dem measly Identity was not less sudden when he ole foldin beds. would leave hie sweetheart with vows of lovs on his lips, and within an "Eleanor, when we are married, will hour be consorting with the lowest rou love me enough to cook for me? colored and criminal element In LawTee, dear "Henry; but you will have rence. to hire somebody else to de my cook Detroit Free rran. Only twice, the detectives think, thsr !ng. LIFE-SAV- ER life-sav- er life-save- rs gray-halr- ed |