The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-04-05
BOY KILL HIM
COMPELS YOUTH TO CUT
HIS THROAT
CONFESSION SOLVES MYSTERY
Police Still in Doubt Over story
Told of Staying of Man Found
without Clothing i'm
Cave in Utah.

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, April 4. -
Clyde Field a boy of barely fifteen years,
today confessed to the police that 1t was
he who cut the throat of Samuel Collins,
the aged Waterman of the Wasetka min
eral springs, whose naked BODY, pound
with ropes, was found last Sunday IN
small cave in the hillside above Warm
Springs. The deed was committed, the
boy Claims only after repeated urging
by the old man, who told the boy that ne
intended to kill himself anyway, as he
was tired Of living.
After cutting Collins throat, Felt says
he took the old mans clothes and MD
them under pile Of bolders, walled
I'D the entrance to the cave as best ne
could, wiped the blood off the razor and
his fingers, then went down the hill ana
washed his hands in the stream ColhhS,
he said, had given him small sum or
money for killing him.
Young Felt told the police yesterday
that Collins had committed suicide af-
ter arranging with him to wall up the
entrance to the cave so that his body
could not be found. Early this morning,
in company with two policemen, the boy
went out amcng the hills to locate Col
Inns valise which he had claimed he had
carried for the old man the day of his
Death After several hours search Felt
broke down.
Finally Forced to CONFESS.
'I killed the old man. he said, but I
could not help it. He made me do It.
We didn't go to Ensign Peak at all ana L
didn't have any valise TO carry. Inc Old
man told me to tell that story if his body
was found.
when we get up to the little cave he
began undressing. | asked him What ne
was doing that for and he said he was
going to commit suicide. l said: On
don't do that while 1 am up here
Then he said: I want you to Kill me-
Here are some stakes and some rope.
You tie me down and then cut my
throat
II didn't ike to do it; but he begged SO
hard that I Just could not stand it. He
took the rope and wrapped it around his
legs and got me to tie his arms to his
side. Then 1 took the razor. He hept on
begging and finally / took the razor and
gave one slash across his throat and
jumped out of the hole and ran. He had
told me to bury his clothes. L went and
got them into a pile and carried them
away down the gully and buried them.
Then 1 went back and the old man was
dead.
Police Think Boys in Plot.
ri took some rocks and built a wall in
front of the cave for about a foot. But
L got scared anu uluI IIISH II, 50 L
came back the next day and finished
walling>up the hole I couldn't help do
ing it. The old man could make me do
anything he wanted to-
Felt insists that he was alone with Col.
Inns when the murder was committed
Nevertheless, the police believe that the
boy has not told all of his story and are
working on the theory that others were
implicated.
Collins, according 10 the police. had a
number of the boys in the neighborhood
completely under his influence and they
express the belief that his death was tho
elimination of plot on the part of the
boys to kill the old man and thus rid
themselves of malign influence.
Young Felt, it is claimed by the police,
was a reader of dime novels. II is stat
ed by the county attorney that a charge
of murder in the second degree will be
made against the boy.