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Show DISCOVERY OF HODY. round by Boys Who Were Spending Diy In Hills Tho body won found In a nnrrnw re-cet'J re-cet'J In Iho rocks at a point n mllo up Iho hlllsldo northonst of Iho Warm Springs The cavo or iciess Is foimed nt tho base nf a rursed tl'ff In a nar-iovv. nar-iovv. unficquented uivlne clothed with a thlrk growth of underbrush, which rendeis traveling extremely difficult. The biush. Iiowvei, was no obstacle to tho purty of nlno bns who v.e e spending the day In tlo hills, nnd fey wnlll up tho bottom of the n. lino pulsing In the shade at the foot ot tho dirt to eat their dinner haw roor i'i ki ''DirJa It wan Jnima Waid who first noticed what had the appearance of the mouth I lift -.".' cnc ""'"I 'n with locks .ill... Bl'(,ntlon was paid to the ills mri"vft in',i" ,mt nft(,r olh!rs of the 1CJ h,111 'I1 """""'I " Pair of shoes V .B '"I te ' t0 onc 'dc of the heap So. " """ decided to tear the hi"?y l? "e0 lf n mjstery or an-lMS-0,f, nlue m'Bl" he disclosed As voung Hard pulled aside the uppermost upper-most rock he gave a gasp ot horror arid sprang back It was the sight of alirn a unmn uclns """ lU5ed ,.",hout pausing to mike nn further fur-ther Investigation the boji laced down ;. ral,e OHt 'n'" ",e open hillside ami nnde their wtiv ns quitklj as pos-? pos-? Vi1 J? th.e Wllrm hprlngs wheie thc old 1 rank 11 lines, the dn clerk of their discovers rtirnea at once noll-lled noll-lled the pollrc stitlon b telephone IN CAVE llKAD riRST Tho pntiol wagon with Oillcer Oil-lesple Oil-lesple losponded dulded h the bojs Otllrer tllllesile made his wn up the lonely luvlne to the cave When the rock heap was removed the bodv wan disclosed It lay on Its left side without with-out a vestige of clothing other than a pair of worn socks covering It The head wus in the ieret the length of rfloi - 1 l-- k V i-i iMXf'li Henry Potts. the bodj, while the feet were nt the entrance of Iho cave The hody reposed re-posed In a nnturil position, excepting that the head was upturned As the cavo is not high enough to admit tho form nf a man In on upright position. Onicor Olllesple caught the corppe and dragged It out Into the open air Then the discovery of the horrible gash ln tho neck was made. witAi'rnt) with norn. About tho loner limbs of tho rigid form wns colled n piece of thin ropo about twenty feet In length and this ropo wis alto colled nbout the right forearm but It was not tied ot .in point The presence nf this rope nnd Its utility hns not jet been solved, and tho thcorj thus far advanced by tho police li that It was placed thero by Collins himself In order to glvo the Impression that ho had met with foul plav The ropa was tightly colled leivlng Imprints In the flesh, et It would havo been pospible, the doctors si, for the man to havo wound the hemp about his own body. jiUTcnnu KNin: tound Ortlcer Olllesple sent a boy to summon sum-mon Acting Coroner Nielsen and other policemen, uud then began a search of tho vicinity leaving the body Ivlng on a heap of locks The most Important Import-ant discovery wns that made by a boy of a rusty butcher knife lying on a shelf In the locks thirty feet ubove nnd In n nnrthensteily dlicctlon from the cave. The blade ot the knife was partialis par-tialis Imbedded In the disintegrated lock a If it had been hurled there, striking blade downward. An examination exami-nation of the knlfo showed no Indications Indica-tions of blood other than some rust stains on the point, which might have been caused by either blood or molU-uie molU-uie Tho edge wag as sharp as a razor and boio evidence of having been late-ly late-ly sharpened. It wns identified later as belonging to Collins, a number of persona claiming to bavo seen It In his nbode nt the Wasatka Mottling works during the past month Whether Wheth-er this Is the weapon which cnuped tho death of the old man has not jet been determined It Is held that It would not have been possible foi Collins Col-lins to havo rut his own throat and then cast the knlfo to the point where It wns found, as a shoulder of rock fully ten feet III height liitervenc-B If tho unfortuiuitn ninn took his own life the police are confident another weap on will bo found Inside the narrow cave, which has not set been thoroughly thor-oughly explored A rnor which Col-Una Col-Una had In Ills poscstlon previous to his disappearance is missing and It Is the belief of tho olllrers that this rnnor mas bo found In tho cuve when Mint envits 1 thoroughly searched to-das, to-das, MYSTi:nious stakiih. Alongside the body were found three sharpened stakes, eighteen Inches In length and fashioned out of haul wood, a copy of a New York paper of iccent dote, th.eo han Ikerchlefs and a magazine maga-zine Iho use co which theso stak-s might havo been put Is yet a matter of theois. tho police hellevlng that Col-Hns Col-Hns might hive Intcndel staking off a mining clilm, although so far as known he had nnnounced no such In-tentlon In-tentlon The paper li lerognlzed b; soung Telt as tint which was wrapped about tho unknown articles which Col-linn Col-linn cairled In the outer pocket of his ovticoit tho clay of the stinngo Joui-ney Joui-ney tn the summit of l.nslgn peak A spectiicl" case from which tho spectacles spec-tacles were missing, the rusts hatchet, boi rowed from Mis I'elt. and the dead man's small, leather pocket-book weie also found nearbs Tho pocket-book contained nothing of value, and nine no evidences of having been lilled It was recognized Intel by tho Felt bos as tho same v hlili Collins extrnrted a JS-ccut piece In pay him foi earning tho Mllso up hnslgn peak. CLOIHIlt AHi: MlfcSINO A reauh of ndjolnlng ravines nnd hills filled to lovenl an) tiare of the clothing or underclothing ot the deid man oi ot thu valise which ouns felt siys he curled up Unslgu peak Mnn-das. Mnn-das. The disposition made of the clothing will be Investigated by the police po-lice today and tho locality will bo caicfully gone ovei It Is held bj the nllhcis that the old man miy hivo riuhcd oi burned his effects to pic-vent pic-vent IJcntlllintlon If ho died by his own hand nnd wished to conceil that fact As his clothlnr was of Inferior miterlil and badly worn It Is held by the olllrers that robbers would not have dlaturhed It A searching parts will begin looking foi tho clothing and othei lillsrli.R eficcts ut da)bieak. |
