The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1896-11-24
NO AIR-SHIP LAST NIGHT.
Il Care the Capital City a Very Cold
Shake.
Lawyer Collins Changes His Tune a
Little, But He Still Has
Client.

The airship did not pay the Capital
City another visit last evening as had
been expected The weather was
stormy, and the probability is that for
prudential reasons the Captain did not
take his craft out for the customary
nocturnal trip.
The San Francisco papers claim to
have run down lawyer Collins client
and found him to be one DR.. E. H. Ben
jamin, an individual who has been oc-
cupying room at 633 Ellis street in
that city. E. H. keiser who lodges in
the same house, says that Benjamin
passes as a dentist, but that he is
there very little of the time and is quite
a mysterious sort of individual. He is
represented as a man who has plenty
of money and is always experimenting
with metals, such as aluminium and
copper.
So much for the alleged inventor of
the strange aerial craft Now comes
the San Francisco Bulletin of last
evening, after several other papers Of
that city had published interviews with
lawyer Collins-in which he reiterated
that the airship was a reality-with
said anything of the kind. He is thus
reported as having said to an inter-
viewer:
COLLINS LATEST
Il never saw the airShip and don't
know anything about it. 1t is true that
a man of standing in the community
came to me, asking me to get out
patent on an air machine"
-os,.
the reporter, eagerly waiting for an ac-
count of the great latter-day genius
who had invented and sent forth the
dark moving mass with its brilliant
shooting lights into the atmospheric sea
above the Sacramento Valley.
mo, a. San Franciscan. l don't know
anything about Oroville or Oroville mill
Ionaires. This man came to me some
,iine last week, Thursday, / think it
was, to obtain a patent for an airship
he had invented. l asked him for a
description and model of the invention.
He gave me a rough description and
promised to bring the model in a few
days. / expect him to-day or to-mor-
row with the model. But whether this
airship has anything to do with the
sights in the heavens or not l don't
know. ] shouldn't think so. They have
been taking me and the whole thing. l
am anxious to hear what my client has
to say about it.
THE description he gave me of the
airship was very incomplete. 1t gave
me no idea of the nature of the ma
chine or of how it operates 1t was
in a very inchoate condition and quite
unfit for legal purposes. / have yet
to see the model.
Il really don't think my clients in
vention has anything to do with these
mysterious appearances. And I assure
You I would not plead guilty of such a
fake" Mr.. Collins added, with twin
kle in his eye.
COLLINS REITERATES
A Post" reporter also had an inter
view with lawyer Collins yesterday
and to him he reiterated in part the
statement originally published. After
admitting to his private office the
Post" reporter, Mr.. Collins YEARLY
asked whether the mission of the visit
or also concerned the airship.
Il have told my connection with this
matter 50 often" said the attorney,
that l can almost repeat what / have
previously said word for word, but to
be brief / will tell you that much that
has been attributed to my lips is abso-
1utely false.
Il have once and for all never seen
the airship and actually know very lit
tie about it. Last week a man came to
me whom l know to be responsible in a
financial way and in every sense in the
full possession of his mental faculties
He told me that he had invented an
airship, and that he had successfully
solved the problem of aerial navigation
He told me that he had made his way
to this city in his flying machine, and
that since his arrival he had made sew
eral trips at night in order to test his
invention, which had proved to be sue
cessful in every working detail
A HUNTERS STORY
Yesterdays Cali published the fol-
lowing letter:
San Rafael, Nov. 90. 1896.
Editor Cali: The mysterious light
mentioned in your valuable paper this
morning as seen by several citizens In
different parts of the State, and which
seems to mystify yourself as we'll as