The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-04-05
TWO THRILLING CONFESSIONS THAT
WERE MADE BY YOUNG CLYDE FELT

wished million times I had never
! done II. Il Fan see il yet and I VIII
I never forget that day. I couldn't bear
/ 10 look IN that cave and hid his
! clothes first. but I was so scared / for
( got some Of the t-ings and covered
! them up by the cave.
/ W hen looked at the vest a 50 gold
/ piece was just coming out of the Do,eket
/ and Just took it because I didn't think
! there was no use of leaving it there
/ TO rot.
Walled Up the Cave.
! When I went back to the cave if was
/ an blood in there and I coUldnt bear to
! look in. Z just hurried and piled up
some rocks. but il made me SILVER so
and / was so scared I left il and fin
lShed building no the wall the next dav.
All the time / could see that blood.
4 ana, on, gee, 1 wished I hadn't done it.
/ 1t so bad I couldn't stay there any
more and 7 just run down to the
/ springs TO wash my hands. had some
{ blood on my shoes, too but 7 guess I
| forgot that and il just wore off. Hen
Potts and Raymond johnson came
along while I was washing my hands
and they asked me where 7 got that
blood from. I told them that 1 had Just
/ been killing hawk III the mountains
ana we went TO town to buy a gun. I
bought revolver with 50 cents or the
. 1 had and some bullets and then we
went home. / didn't want them TO
know I had a gun so I hid Il under
the floor and I told my brother that [
rad bought II with some money ] had
saved up.
Deed Preyed on Him.
II kept thinking of that thing all
the time and that night when 1 went to
bed 1 knelt down and prayed asked
God TO forgive ne for what ] had done.
/ didn't sleep much that night though.
I tel you. I could see that cave all
the time and on. how I wished I had
never met Mr. Collins. ] prayed every
/ night for God TO forgive me- but I
[ couldn forget that thing ana Oh, gee.
l did want TO tell Il. but 7 was afraid
I would get in Jail for FIVE or six years
/. and I didn't say anything. Two on
three times ] came very near telling il,
. but j thought Of ma and pa and didn t.
Il told the story about the valise
and that other because the old man
told me 10. and I guess I was nerved
up TO handle them bloody clothes and
keep quiet by reading those stories in
those nickel novels. We boys he'd
4 D
! Weekhes, and I hid them under the
Z house SO they wouldn't be found.
! read some stories in them about detec-
I tives chasing men and all that kind
OF stuff
why did you consent to cut his
( thrOat?" asked the father of the boy
Why Re Cut Collins Throat.
"Weu, just because he kept on ask
, ing as to kill him, and he begged Sc
just couldn't refuse
in response 20 questions, the boy de-
. elared that for a month past Collins
had repeatedly impiored him and 9th
err companions 20 cut his throat. bU
they refused TO do it,
He first told US about it by asking
us 81 we ever dressed a sheep or q
Z man. said the boy. We asked hin
! what he meant by that and he saic
: lac meant did we ever cut q person
2 oDeu He said he wanted us to do
that for him. We said, Not on YOU
u life, We don't want to have nothing c
do with anything like that, and W.
Y wouldn't do IL. He asked me and Hen
! Potts, and several others TO do tia
Cor him almost every time we wen
. there T didn't like 10 go over Their
I 7 much but when he asked me 20
[ couldn't refuse him. Every time W
. came he used 10 ask as If we ha'
( been thinking that thing over ant
would we 90 1t now. We kept reIusnl'
SD J know he must have prepared 10
. that Monday and got me in the cav
before he told me what he wanted. s.
, i wouldn't refuse to go up with him
duplicates Young Potts.
I AS he sat behind the bars OF III
4 county jail last night relating his sec
\ oud confession. accusing Potts OF cut
s ting Collins throat. Young Felt said.
e Wei. it is this way. Ne and Henri,
( Potts went up 70 the cave with the Oh
p mar because he wanted to get som
u money which he said ne had niddel
2 there When he Undressed we though
; he wanted rs 20 do what he had bee
z having us do. but then he said n
wanted us to kill him, because he wa
s tired of this world and was afraid Wha
6 he had been having us do would becom
e known. He wanted us 10 tie him dow
r to the stakes aad cut his thorat; the
70 hide every hing so he wouldn't b
identified il he was found. We didn
want to do ii, but he begged US and w
, couldn't refuse.
Z we wouldn't tie him to the stake,
= but we tied the rope about him and h
r lay down with his head in the mOUt
7 OF the cave. Then Henry just took III
! razor that was laying near and jus
: WhaCked it across his throat 1 too
= the razor and wiped the blood off
= with my fingers and threw it upon tn
: cliff.
7 Showed Body Into Cave.
e we hid his clothes and after we don
that we took ho75 OF iiim and shove
i ,hm into the cav We built I'D III
i. rocks part way, but we were so scare
3 Ne did not pile the b all the way up.
il When we started back down tn
I canyon WE took an oath that # eithe