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Show COMMENT OF NEIGHBORS. Say He Wns Often Despondtnt Through Bad Investments. That Collins hud lost much of his savings thiough had investments In mining stock un1 thut he was given to Ills of despondency as i result Is asserted as-serted by soveial of those who have known him Intlmatelj. 1'iank names, nn cmplovec ot the Wnim Hprlngs, snss Collins fienuently complained that lie wiib glowing old and hid little money tn euro for hlmsolf In his Inflrr-ity llo loll me ' said Mr. Harms, 'while ho was employed hcto as a cleik that he had once been weilthy In New ork but hid been reduced tn poverts by the loss of JIG 000 through hid Investments In-vestments After that inverse so he hild, he hid never been able to get a goid stilt ln the wot Id Out of his n.egrr earnings ho saved as much money nu possible nnd mode an Investment In Tesora mining slock He told nm lie Invested JWO and lost iho most of It Aftei that he wbh Uvea to fits nf lepondenc After ho left tho springs and went to work nt the Wasatka Jio soon beeamo discontented with his position there ns It did not pav him much A short time ago h I asked me to look out t r hin i r a Job where he could mak some monev ns he was gittlng old I don i know what I will do for something to eat unless un-less I get something else to do he told mo on one occasion nnd added tint he was making Just enough to buy piovlsions with He was well edu-inted edu-inted well mannered snd had seen a great deal of the worll 1 doubt vers much If miy one woull have been able to lure him up In the hills lo minder him as he wns very mi) ml, um seemed hi be feirful that someone would too him ' Mrs Orson rarkr of -til f,t Second Sec-ond North stieet at which place c olllna boarded until a month ago snss he wns given to brooding and had spells of despondcnc) because of losses In mining deals He used to tell me of his hard luck." said Mrs. I'aikei lie alwavs appeired to have plenti of mones with which to pas his hills but if he ever had ins large amount of money I never learned nf It nnd he used to tell me mans of his affairs Mis nit mothei if Clsde l"elt said last night that the last he saw of Colllnn was last Mondas morning when he enme tn the house to bonow a hatchet t" chop some kindling She askc d him w hen he w is going to New J otic having previous heaid fiom her boss thit he wns going Hast and lie leplled that In did not know on what dis ho would go |