The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-10-04
DREAMED HE SAW
HIS WIFE KILLED
STRANGE STORY TOLD BY MUIR
DERED WoMAN'S HUSBAND.
Collins Case at Parker, S. d. Continues
:. to. Mystify Public of Parker-Sus-
picious Circumstances Cause Many to
Question Story Of Chloroforming as
Told by Husband. ..1s -: 49,
Special, to The Journal.

Special to The Journal. ....-,. =. -
Parker, S. D., Oct. 4.-How> came Mrs. Harry
NJ. Collins to her death while sleeping peace
fully by the side of her husband? Was she
murdered by burglars, as her husband. declares,
Or was she the victim Of plot by someone
who ransacked the house to give color to the
burglar story? .. = - "z-,.F =. -
On their face, the facts show that burglars
| entered the sleeping apartments 'ofvMr. and Mrs
Collins in their farm home three miles from
here, chloroformed Mr.. and Mrs. Collins and
then looted the house without awakening Mr..
or Mrs. Collins the two children, or Earle
Collins, aged II, sleeping in an upstairs room
But there are SO many remarkable features Of
this burglary story that people Of this COM
mun1ty are casting about for some other ex-
PLANTATION. -, -. t.. -.
:, Dreamed Of Tragedy. 49,
Collins has told officers that he dreamed In
all it's details the horrifying death of his wife,
| and did SO on three successive nights preceding
the murder. O.. ~. - 49, -
Zone night 1 awoke with a start he said
.'and found myself with revolver In hand, point
ing It at the window thru which the robbers
| afterward entered and chloroformed my wife to
death. Before her death told, her of my
dream. One night we heard the dog barking,
| and she said: Harry there the robbers you
dreamed about The dog stopped barking and
We went to- sleep again, but nothing happened
that night =; I. .'f.-l
Mrs. Collins was lying dead in bed. a pillow
| over face and mouth, when Collins awoke Mon
day morning He drew the pillow from her
face and called to her, but received no re-
| Spouse. he says. He shook her but still she
was silent. The two children, aged and 8,
were still sleeping quietly. in the room. Collins
| called upstairs to his brother, who Immediately
came down. The house was itopsy-turvey. When
! Earl came down Collins told him he
thought burglars entered: the house and chic
reformed himself and his wife, and that his wife
had died from the effects He said SLY he
had drawn from bank Saturday had been
stolen.
| Suspicious Circumstances. -
Collins rushed from the house in his night
attire and the brother was sent to a neighbo1
| Collins had gone back to the death chamber
He said he had tried to telephone, but found
! the wires cut outside. When the neighbors
came they found a horse saddled in the yard
Collins had said the burglars stole a horse Oh
which to escape: The blanket on this hor;
showed no marks from the saddle indicat ting
that had ridden the horse. Some say
the horse showed Precipitation caused by
hard run. = ",.
Someone about the house-some say Collins
and some say his younger brother-told tho
county authorities that the window thru which
found to be raised to height of four to 81,
| inches, and that the curtain was still down
The authorities puzzled to know what man
ner of man could tear of the screen, break thu
fastener that held the window down, ente1
thru a space between four and six inches, chic
fhouse, ransack the rooms, cut the telephone wire
and take q horse from the barn and do al
this without rousing Collins his wife or tn
babies, or the brother sleeping upstairs.
Furthermore, the brother says he: detected, n
odor. in the sleeping room when he came, down
So far as known, there was no stain on, It'll
pillow over Mrs. EColns'E face, indicating 1T ha
been satura ted with any drug. - '5S ~ :''rI