Show friendship AND DEATH go hand in hand with Tennese eans C D colllns a wealthy Tennes eean lured to his fate by a man who had been an intimate friend from boyhood st louis mo june 16 0 D collina Col linc a wealthy Tennesee enn lured to bis probable death on tuesday firlit by a man be bad known bince boyhood and with whom he has been on terms of intimate friendship for eix years his assailant is martin of melphie Mem phie whose father colonel ensley was one of the prominent mine owners and planters of the south deneley induced his companion to visit meramec highlands a summer resort fifteen miles from here on the plea of illness he went to a clump of beebee about 75 yards from the hotel there stepping behind bia victim ho 1 dealt blow after blow on the bead with a hammer which he had presumably for the purpose of committing the murder when the pounding with the piece of steel had reduced gollins to a detate of insensibility ensley stooped over the prostrate body and tore from a vest 1 pocket a roll of bills that amounted to he darted up the bill and passed the money to an accomplice who is believed to have escaped on a trolley car then the would be murderer ran down the path leading to the river two men baw the terrible a sault and the robbery and witnessed the transfer of money and the escape of the principal and bis accomplice chas felter a baker employed at the inn and a gardner who bad been engaged about the grounds a fortnight were the witnesses they ran to the inn and notified Night watch buech and told him the story bubach found collins lying oat on his head groaning but unconscious bloch was flowing from several wounds on the ecale the left ear was nearly torn away he was removed to kirkwood where a physician dressed hie wounds ensley did not try to board the car he ran down the hill to the river and followed ther tream for nearly a mile until he reached a shanty occupied by a boatman he pounded vigorously upon the door and when the old man opened it he exclaimed ive been robbed and my friend ahna been murdered hear I 1 look I 1 am covered with blood the old man chastely dressed and answering toe strangers appeal for assistance accompanied him up the river and then up to the inn ensley evidently expected to find the body where he had left it and evinced areat surprise when be saw people running run around here ie a man you want to tell your story to the old boatman said as some one came up the arrival was the night watchman to him ensley repeated the story be had told on the river bank your name asked buech martin ensley was the reply you are the man I 1 am looking for said baach 1 I want you for murder and he seized hia prisoner prie oner deneley protested bis innocence but waa taken into the inn and placed under guard all this occurred about midnight at 2 this mornine two deputy slier iak from clayton county arrived at mer abec highlands they ee arched the ground for a weapon and discovered a new hammer covered with blood on deneley was found which at first was supposed to be part of the stolen money at daylight ensley was driven over to kirkwood and it wae broad daylight when the prisoner wae taken to the room on the third floor of the north side inn and brought face to face with the wounded man who was tossing on the bed ie this the man who struck you asked a deputy colline looked at bim steadily yea he said ensley bow could you do it be added the prisoner looked down muttered something som ehing about having been assaulted M well and wae led away he was then driven over to clayton collins the wounded man has a stable here at the fair grounds but be 1 yg ag runs the horfed under an assumed name hie parents who are prominent in nashville objected to lie owning race horses and eo did hie wife who is from cleveland ohio this spring colling decided to try his luck on the track he eold a hotel in nashville for and made arrangements for placing a stable at one of the tracks in order to be at perfect liberty be sent hie wife to her relatives in cleveland and then unfolding hia plans to martin deneley bis boon companion and asking him to accompany him he purchased two horses which bad run at memphis and which be fancied and left with them for st louis ensley accompanied him codine bad at hie command and enaney 1000 or eo the arrangement entered into at nashville was that ensley should figure in all business transactions as collene did not wish liis name to appear martin father was col enoch doeley a man 0 more than national fame and regarded until bis death three or four years ago as the richest individual in the south ool ensley was a leading spirit in the de of the mineral resources of the south he was largely interested in the tenesee coal iron company established the cleel works at bessemer ala helped make sheffield ala a great mining place founded beveral towns one of which bears bis name owned several big cotton plantations and waa an intimate friend of andrew carnegie he had two children martin who is almost 32 and lady a year or two younger for the latter be named the lady ensley mine one of the largest in alabama martin occupied a high position in the social circles of memphis nashville birmingham and other southern cities during hie life he was married to mies bettye seldon of M L selden a wealthy miss selden was regarded as the hand some woman in the state when colonel doeley died it developed that his estate was encumbered so heavily that it was doubtful it anything would saved about two years ago bouthern society was startled by the announcement chrt martin difo was suing him for divorce on the around of nonsupport non support since the divorce martin has divided his time between memphis nashville birmingham and other cities where his father bad interests |