| Show CLYDE FELT TAKEN JUDGE DIEHL clyde felt charged with the murder of samuel collins was taken before judge diehl for arraignment yesterday afternoon at 2 A complaint charging murdering mur derin the second degree had been drawn up earlier in the day and feigned by chief of police hilton who consented to become complaining witness in the case no plea was en acred by the defendant ilia attorney judge W 11 king asking that ho be allowed until today to prepare a plea alie boy was taken before tho court at 2 p m today clyde was escorted to tho courtroom by sheriff naylor and was accompanied by his lather and mother he seemed in the best of spirits and did not show any ill effects of his imprisonment and the trying questioning processes to which he had been subjected since ahe time of hiis detention he took a scat in a chair beside judge king and remained perfectly calm despite the gap ing curious throng that filled the room to and eagerly watched hia every move in response to a summons from judge diehl the boy stood up while alie complaint was read by clerk meeks clyde seemed deeply interested in the complaint paying the closest attention to the reading of it when alie words did wilfully unlawfully and feloniously kill and murder the said samuel collins were enunciated alie lines of the boys mouth broke into a smile several others phrases of the complaint also occasioned a smile on his part As soon as a continuance of the time of the arraignment had been granted judge king informed the court that nothing in regard to the matter of a bond for Clydes appearance would be brought up at that time accordingly the boy waa committed to the custody of sheriff naylor he was taken into an anteroom ante room whence after a short interview with his sorrowing mother and father he was returned to his cell at the county jail the complaint charging murder in the second degree filed yesterday against young felt shows that the words wilfully feloniously and of his malice aforethought 11 are used whereas the authorities until recently have held that the act was not wilful or felonious having been committed at the solicitation of the victim who was acting with suicidal intent however an effort will be made to show that the act was both wilful and felonious and it was with this in view that tho phrase was inserted in the complaint A copy of the complaint follows the exact manner in which the police gained the first clue which led to the discovery that young clyde felt was responsible for the death of old man colens haa never been explained and efforts have been made by the officers to keep the affair a secret for the purpose of protecting from the consequent publicity those who gave the first information for several days the officers who were at work on the case believed implicitly that the old man had committed suicide and ridiculed as absurd any theory other than self destruction while the body of the old man was at the undertaking establishment of joseph william taylor a boy called with tho expressed desire to sec the corpse the request was granted but the morbid desire caused tho undertaker to carefully watch the lad at the conclusion of his observations he remarked to the undertaker 1 I could tell you more of this if I 1 cared to the papers ibave not learned the truth no especial attention was paid to the youngster at tho time but thinking of it in connection with other facts which were brought to light mr taylor related the speech of the boy to chief and sergeant burbidge tho officers at once followed the boy who is about the age of clyde felt ilia name is wallace but the officers did not gearu his first name the boy at first denied any knowledge of the crime but later admitted that another boy named johnson had told him of having seen clyde felt come down from the mountain and go to the spring where ho washed the blood from his hands when asked how the blood was there felt replied that he had killed a hawk the officers then began a search for the johnson boy and from him learned the story alie boy begged not to be brought into the affair but in the trial which will follow johnson may be placed on the witness stand to testify to the actions of young felt on that day following this clue the officers began work on the murder theory and finally succeeded in gaining a confession from young felt |
