The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-10-06
COLLINS AFFAIRS
BEING PROBED.
Officers Looking Into Private
Matters of Husband Of Muir. :.
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dered Woman.
Special to The Journal.

( Special to The Journal ".
Parker, S. D., Oct. 6.--Officers trying
i to solve the mystery OF the murder, Of
Mrs. Harry NJ: Collins while in bed
eating the private affairs. of Collins
In order that every particle Of evi-
dence indicating the authorship of the
crime may be discovered. BY Monday
the state chemist is expected to have
ready his report OF examination OF the
vital organs of the woman. He already
has said that in a cursory- examination
he discovered no signs Of chloroform,
& with which Collins says the woman was
y killed by burglars The Collins phYsi-
clan is quoted as saying that he dis
covered no evidence that either Mrs,
/ Collins or Collins had been chloro-
formed. .st. &>.1.'
Collins Story. -
Collins has given for the first time
to the press his own story Of Just how
the death occurred. When his inter
viewer called at his home, Collins was
found lying down. He was informed
that story was being told of him that
connected him with a woman other
than his wife. Collins said he would
not attempt to conceal the fact that
he was intimate with such a woman
at a time when she was separated from
her husband and before he was mar
ried. But since then, he said, the
woman had moved away, and he had
not seen her for years and did not
know where she was living. .-,-- 81
Fond Of sister-in-I.aw.
Collins had planned to remove to
a claim west of the Missouri river next
week. His sister-in-law, Lydia Heinold,
whom Collins always liked, has claim
near that Of Collins.
Usunday light" Collins said, eve
went to bed about 10 O'Clock. We
were never happier and were planning
our trip across the river. We talked
until we went to sleep and | don't re-
after O'Clock. found the window
open, the light out, and my wife, /
thought, unconscious. s-~l
Here his voice choked and tears
sprang into his eyes.
81 took the pillow from my wife 3
face and shook her, but she didn It
wake. Then I ran out, calling for my
brother Earl, and found him in the
barn. I told him Emma was dead and
we had been robbed
Tried to Use Telephone.
After that, Collins says, he tried to
telephone, but couldn t, because the
wire had been cut. Then the brother
was sent to neighbor and Collins
says he tainted and was unconscious
till IL O'Clock. DR.. Cooke, who then
came, says he found Collins with 9
weak pulse.
Collins says the robbers took $10s
from his trousers pocket, a nicke
watch, razor, revolver and contents Of
the baby's bank. The bedroom wa:
T torn up, he said.
Collins declares there was a peculiar
odor in the room when he woke. Or
the pillow, when he turned it over tt
the coroner, was reddish yellow stain
and there was the same kind Of stair
on a rag found on the floor.
Difficulties for Robbers.
The robbers, to enter the window 0:
the bedroom, would have had to climb
over the bed of the children. Their
was lamp inside and bright moor
g. outside. The screen was torn off whe1
found.
When Mrs Collins body was dis
played at the funeral there was dis
coloration over the chin, about tw'
inches long and the shape of a finger
and also an abrasion over the eye. It j
stated that these marks might hav
been made when neighbors were rub
bing the woman to revive her.