The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-10-07
WARNING BY DOG OF
| sKULK|NG MURDERER
Parker Tragedy Might Have Been
Prevented Had Dogs Call
y: ..sta 50 Been Needed.
Special to The Journal.

Special to The Journal.
Sioux Falls, s. D., Oct. 6.-Had
warning given by dog received the
consideration it merited, in all hkeli- 1
hood Mrs. Harry M. Collins, who met
death near Parker, supposedly by chic
Last Sunday night, the night Of the
tragedy, the family dog did its best
to warn at least one member of the
family Earl Collins, the 17-year:old
brother Of Harry Collins, living in the
same house, says:
"On the night Of the murder went
Emma went to bed soon after. 7 did:
The dog was making some noise just
before I went to bed and went out.
The dog ran up to me and looked in
my face and then looked toward the
grove and whined as if someone was
there. But I thought little of it, as
the dog often made ass when peo-
pie passed on the >maiT road near the
house. The moon was full. the sky
but the evergreens and other trees
hear the house Swallowed things.
Heard Noise in Night.
."The robbers entered thru a win
dow right under my bedroom window.
Some time about midnight, think, [
! heard some noise, but did not, become
conscious enough to discern. whether
| it was made by the horses in the barn
or not. / slept until about $3.50, and
awoke with a headache: When L went
| our horses saddled and bridled and
standing near the barn. The horse by
| the sweat marks on him showed. that
he had been ridden smartly and then
| turned loose. I saw where the horse
had been tied in the night to an ash
near Harry's, bedroom window. An
other horse, sharp-shod, had also been
hitched there. From = this I judged
there were at least two Of the robber
murderers.
Brother Was Crying.
>"I was milking when Harry came
out. He was almost crying, ane
called to me that he had been robbed
and that he thought Emma; was dead
Afterward Harry told me that he wa
awakened just before he came out b.
\ the children's crying. He said he ha'
I headache and a queer, dizzy feeling
and fell against the children's bed
: which was close by Harry and Emma
bed. &.:H
= -. window Was Up. ~.
"The window curtain was clear dow
in the evening and up in the morning
and the window clear up; and the lam
which had been left burning near til
children IS bed was out when Harry 20
up" =,
INLAY Get Us Tonight.''
Harry Collins says: a,..:
"I heard the dog, Carlo, bark befor
we went to- bed, and remarked 'The
may get us tonight I had made sue
thoughtless remarks before. -. =, T..
1.-THE alarm clock did not wake m
, as usual; it was about 6:20 when I wa
top OF their voice; they were I'll
top of their voices; they were III
covered and cold from the open viii
:. dow. the. robbers and murderers ha
: climbed over. their bed inT3getting int
The room thru the window T saw b
the sun 7 had overslept; felt dizz.
~ and fell on the children s bed; I Gale
-sz to >myHwife to quiet, them, but got1r
answer; / went TO her to awaken HI
and found pillow over her face;
a removed It and. tried to arouse her, bi
$ could not. She was cold.
3: "We rubbed camphor over Emma
d lips and face to revive her. That mig
g have caused the discoloration-I don
!. know. Yes, I think we were chlor
h forn,ed-then drugged.'