Durango semi-weekly herald., 1902-11-24
TELEGRAPHic NEWS.

Special Telephone to The Herald:
TELLURIDE. Nov. 2O.-Telluride
is again the scene of tragedy, the
strong chain of horror remaining un-
broken. Arthur l.. Collins. manager
OF the SmugglerUnion Mining & Mill
Ing company, was shot through his
window last night as he sat playing
cards at his home. He is still alive
but fatally injured. He was shot with
a charge of buckshot, eleven pellets
entering his body.
There is no clue at this hour 90: 80
a. m.) as to who the assassin is or the
motive for the crime One ball passed
through the arm. one through the
back. into the lungs, and two into the
kidneys.
I A special train left Denver at mid
night with President D. b. Lawrence
and Attorney Jacob Fillius of the COM
pany, Mrs. Collins and number of
doctors. and this party is expected to
arrive in Telluride at 2 p. M, today
Mr.. Collins was stronger and easier
is no hope OF his recovery.
/ .
TELLURIDE. Colo, Nov 2O.-3:15
p. MIR. Collins is weaker than this
morning, and DR.. Shelton. in charge
of the Miners hospital expresses no
hope for his recovery.
The shot was fired at 1890 last
night from the front or west of the
building. Mr.. Collins was playing
| r. rtG with Nd
o. B. Camp, the latter receiving
scratch from one of the flying mis-
sies
Mr.. Collins has a wife and one child
| a little girl
| The special train from Denver ar
| rived here at 2:30. making the run in
thirteen hours. The party announced
| including Mrs. Collins and physicians,
arrived.
Your correspondent is unable to
advance any theory regarding the as
sassination or any motive for it.
/ No hope is held out for the recov-
cry OF the unfortunate man.
The Herald communicated with
| President st. John of the Miners
union at Telluride this afternoon, with
the purpose of learning what view or
theory he entertained regarding the
trouble. Mr.. st. John said he had
no idea upon which to base a theory.
and that as he had been quite busy
with office work for several hours he
had not heard of any theory or specu-
| lative idea expressed about the
| streets. He had heard from some one
coming up the street that Mr. Collins
was dead, but that he had received no
confirmation of the report.
| The location of Mr. Collins home is
higher on the mountain side. near to
and above the great Smuggler- Union
| combination concentration and cyan
ide mill. 1t was palatial in the days
when Ernest Waters built 1t for the
home office of the Sheridan NJ endota
| mines. The house faces the west
| !ooking toward the Bullion tunnel and
overlooking Marshall creek on the
way to the SmugglerUnion mines.
The trail leading into Marshall and
Savage Basins passes near to the
house, in fact trails or passage ways
| wind all around the locality. and any
one familiar with the locality at all
would find it easy to approach the
house. Where so many people are
employed day and night. going and
coming at all hours, one could easily
approach at any hour of the night fire
weapon, conceal it, and pass on
without attracting the notice of an
| othnr bn hn
lash of the shot. To the casual OBJ
server, who has been about the local
ity since the crime has been commit
ed, 1t is easy to comprehend that it
might have been perpetrated at any
time with little danger of detection.
Mr.. Collins was one of the most
affable and companionable gentlemen
whom we meet about the hotel lobby,
railway train or public place, but one
of those sturdy stern Englishmen
whom we cannot do business with
when he is disinclined to do business
Many of the men who worked for
him, knew him and came in contact
with him. have said they liked him
better as a friend than as master.
He was the general director of one OF
the greatest mining and milling enter
prises in the world, and in which for
eign and nonresident investors have
large sums OF money invested He
was responsible to those investors for
the results obtained. He had a
number of other men about him quite
as capable as himself who might be
termed his lieutenants, and these men
saved him from contact with the hun
dreds of men employed about the
mines and mills.
1t will be remembered that little
more than year ago Mr.. Collins un.
dertook to inaugurate the English
fathom plan of working his mines. and
that this policy met the strenuous op.
position of the Telluride Miners
union, one of the best organized and
most powerful labor unions in the
United States. strike was precipi
tated which was attended with TRACE