Mexico weekly ledger., 1889-11-21
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Mrs. Izetta Scanland, the daugh-
ter, said she was making her home
with her father and mother and
that her husband was in Kansas
City. She said her mother called
to her TO get up, that ner father
had been shot. She went through
the where the body of her
father was and on upstairs to
notify her brothers. She did not
stop to look at her father as she
went through the room where his
body was. There was a light in
the room where her father and
mother slept, but she did not know
whether or not it was their custom
to bum Il light in the room all
night. She never heard any other
noise but the report of the pistol
shot. Thought she heard her
father and mother talking after
they retired. She said she thought
her mother and father got along
we'll enough together, and that
nothing unusual transpired between
them the night of the murder, to
her knowledge. She did not know
that her father had any enemies.
Charles E. Collins, a son. testi-
fed, among other things, that he
did not think his father had an
enemy. His father and mother,
he said, sometimes had fuses and
his father swore a good deal at her.
She would always talk back to him.
His mother did not know he car
ried the pistol.
Arthur Collins, another son, tes-
tilted substantially es did other
members of the family, and said his
mother told him his fathers money
was gone; she also told him his
(Arthur's) watch was gone, and his
brother Charlie also told him
someone had taken his (Charlie's)
pistol. Arthur noticed drawers in the
writing desk open. Had heard his
mother tell Charlie he ought not
carry a pistol. Father and Charlie
always got along we'll together.
His mother and father, he said,
had had some difficulties, but it had
been a good while age. His father
and sister always got along well; he
did not know where his sisters
husband, Mr.. S%canland, is. His
sister had been living at her faith
er's 7 or s months. Witness
thought burglars did the killing.
Perry E. Kee, a son-in-law OF
deceased, testified before the Coro-
ner's Jury that the relations between
Collins and wife were pleasant.
He never heard of any trouble he
tween them. Kee says he went to
Laddenia, when he left Collios'
place, and came on to Mexico. Got
back from Mexico on the night
train between II and 2 O'Clock. Be
tween 4 and 5 O'Clock the same
morning he got word of the MUIR
der, and went to the house at once
Mrs. Collins, on being recalled
by the Coroner, said she did not
take hold of the body of her hus.
band and did nothing towards ar
ranging or making up the bed. She
left the bed, she says, just as it was
when she got out of it and did not
make it up afterward or arrange
the bed clothes in any manner. A
light was burning in the room
when she retired and it was left
turned down low.
Mrs. Scanland was recalled and
stated she did not change the bed
clothing or arrange the bed on
which her mother slept in any
manner, nor did she see it done.
Arthur Collins made a like state.
ment and says when he returned
from Rush Hill after a physician the
bed was just as he saw 1t when his
father was murdered.
Charlie Collins testified the bee
had not been made up and was like
he saw it on coming down stairs
into the room when his mother
gave the alarm.
When Sheriff Adams arrived a,
the scene of the murder he made .
thorough search of the place bu'
could get no clew at all which
would lead to the detection of the
murderer. However, the officer:
are busiiy engaged investigating
the murder in the hope that some
light may be thrown upon the
mysterious affair.
The Coroner's jury only PARTIAL.
completed its work Sunday ant
adjourned until Wednesday.
AS before stated, there is grea
excitement at Rush Hill and in thu
neighborhood where the murde,
was committed, and there are al
kinds of rumors flying here ant
there to which little or no credenc
can be attached. The bed upol
which Collins was sleeping is mad
of feathers and we were told tina
several parties who examined tn
bed-at the request of the Corone
-say it did not bear evidence c
any one having slept on the from
; part at all. This, of course, is onl.
a matter of opinion, as Mrs. Collin
says she occupied the bed with he