New Britain herald., 1925-02-09
MILITARY COURT
 HAS BEEN CALLED
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cause of the difficulty and expense of bringing witnesses here after the work has ended.
 Lieutenant Robert Burdon of the Louisville fire department, who has stated that he had positive knowl- edge efforts were made to block res- cue york; will be summoned. Bur don was one of the comparatively few who talked to Collins. Three brothers of the imprisoned man. Homer, Marshall and Andrew, will be summoned and William B. Miller of the Louisville Courier Journal is expected to give his testimony.
 All of these who talked to the trapped victim and those who know the circumstances of his expI0iauons will be heard. Persons familiar with the cave country and those who have heard various rumors will be asked to tell what they know,
 ' Thursday or Friday.
 The shaft through which rescuers hope to reach Floyd Collins was ap- proximately 30 feet deep at a. m Four days after it was started. Al the present rate, the level where Collins is thought to be will not bt reached before Thursday or Friday
 Mother Nature today had added another obstacle to the efforts of man to rescue Collins, sending tor. rents of rain last night with a prom. ise of more today.
 Water Seeping in.
 Despite precautions to keep the water out of the perpendicular shaf aimed at Collins prison, seepag' crept into the bottom of the shaf and added heavily to the burden O the volunteer diggers. They kep doggily at it, with some slight in crease m hourly progress, as thu tenth day of Collins Imprisonment ended at 10 o'clock this morning The shaft then was less than hal way to Collins, 60 to 70 feet belov the surface.
 Gas Experiment Fails.
 When rock slides below tn natural tunnel of Sand Cave Thurs day the use of pungent but harm less gas was seized upon as a mean of finding the back end of Collint latest cave, but the gas expermen tried last night with banana oil wa unsuccessful. Despite strong down draft of air into Sand Cave, no trac of the odor could De located in an other nearby cave.
 With most of the spectacular frenzied striving to free Collins closed chapter, and all efforts cen tered on the monotonous toll of dig ging and drilling, new methods be gan to develop at the situation, uptt they were almost as thick as the out standing incidents in the drama.
 Three Theories.
 The principal groups of theoric fall into three classes: That the i'm ! prisonment of Collins by roc slide on his leg is a publicity hoax that enemies finding him trappe caused the walls of the cave to co lapse so he could not be rescue alive or possibly caused the slid which trapped him; and the mol generally accepted theory, Collin own story in the early days of tn rescue work-that he really was aC cidentally trapped after discovering cavern more beautiful than any v found in the region.
 Doubts Hoax Theory.
 One, of the more active rumol of Sunday night was that Circu Judge Basil Richardson would call grand jury to investigate the prot ability of a publicity hoax. Judg Richardson said he had nevt : thought of such a thing, and didn believe it was a hoax anyhow,
 County Attorney J. Lewis Wi Hams, though, said he could prcseI the Collins cas. 10 the March gran jury, but had no afridavits or an information ot any kind whle