l iicibE6i MURDER lIlystery Surrounds Finding of f theBody of I Samuel Collins Yesterday + I Discovered by Boys in Cave on Ensign Peak Body Nude and Throat Cut I Clothing Not Yet Found Various Circumstances Point to Two TheoriesNo Known Aotive for Murder DCS pondentThrough Financial Losses u rt r t 9 V t i tt > IP V V V rtI r Evidences of Suicide t I J 1 Ho gave his household effects 6 J5 In cold and a watch to some V f J p jjoya with whom ho had been V t f friendly and left his former homo t CJ thoroughly searched It is not probable 6t prob-able that murderer r would havo 6 left tho weapon In plalnjolsht on t tho hlllsldo fc No murderer would havo been 6 likely to tako pains to partially p satchel containing his personal effects and there parted with the bOy to whom he had previously given his watch and chain and a Masonic charm He said he was going to New York to his relatives rel-atives and wanted the boy to keep the gifts as remembrances of him On the snmo day he wrote a note to B G Raybould his employer stating thai he was abouL to go to New York and might not return His action In going to the top of the mountain a climb few people would care to mako except for some urgent reason Is regarded as a fign I of despondent de-spondent mania and the pulico believe that when he gave away the watch and other Jewelry he already had In mind the Idea of selfdestruction SUPPORTING MURDER THEORY On the other hand there are circumstances circum-stances connected with the case which seem to indicate that murder Is the true solution of the mystery The body when found was lying face upward up-ward In the cave with the feet stickIng stick-Ing out over the pile of rocls which enclosed en-closed the entrance Around the I sand s-and right arm was a rope so tightly drawn that Indentations were made In the flesh The left hand was free and covered with blood and mud Most important Im-portant of all the slash in the neck was a straight horizontal Incision evidently evi-dently made with a single swift stroke from a very sharp Instrument It was not deep enough to sever any of the I l I J r I Z IMtc Jr r fe Vj V r g L L ¼ J I f ifP 4 g y Il Pr ki r t < t j t 1 l 0 Indicates Entrance to Cave Wlicro Body Wns Found rv Fnear f tholWarnVBpYlne3nho t > IIplrl of last week S t 2 About the name limo ho hired t > K a small boy tq carry his vallso to foP > fo-P Ensign peak and talked of going to t Y New York P f I p So On Thursday a man answer t H Ins his description talked with his l > tf attorney and Bald ho had left his I V former homo and taken a room In V V town Ho appeared to b6 In mental t > H distress t 4 Tho body when found was fc > H nude except for tho soclto1 Ro t > fc moval l of tho clothing la ono of tho S > surest symptoms of dementia f bt E Ho had no mon y or at least I H not enough t o make robbery an ob fc H Jcct for murder tf > G He was lofthandcd His loft b IP hand was free when tho body Wa t > f 1U J t t conceal the body with ton 5lwhcn t C a simple push would havo con tj I fc5 coaled ManUre body effectually tf V tho further recesses of tho hole l tp No rational mudefor would bind b i a man by twisting a rope around I t t > his thighs and one wrlat and with tout t t t-out forming a knot l I Tho vagaries of a deranged mind t t t arc likely to take thO most grot I gro-t tcsquo forms and when it Is re t Vl membered that the wound was not V fc t > enough to cause Immediate death t 6 Insanity may account for all these t t b peculiar circumstances huts murderer t fe mur-derer unless he too wcro Insane tit ti-t > would mako tho appearance and t t > surroundings of the remains con t 1 fe form as nearly as possible to the i fc > natural Indications of suicide P f fc Si t tt V V V V ti V It H l V r main urterles and the victim came to his death through choking on tho blood that poured from the wound A selflnfllctod wound it is claimed would have been Irregular vlnS to the left or right according as It was made by the rIght hand or the left No trace could be found in the cave of any knife or razor and the butcher knife found outside Was at such a distance dis-tance and in such a position that it could not easily hoe been thrown there from tho hand of a dying man ABSENCE QF MOTIVE Tho chief obstacle to the murder theory the-ory however Is the absence of any apparent motive So far as known Collins had no enemies and so far as can be learned he had not enough money to make sufficient Incentive for a murder for robbery Furthermore there are no evidences of a struggle about the place where tho body wan F I k r Jt wJtLs 4A I1 pa iW t 1 f C 3 Irif i fiir V i I U tVi 3R A fl A A li tejm t i l 4 4 1 I A 24r 1 t i 4 43 1 e hm 14 I p I F k 1 1L 4d I 24 r I ± r 4t ri General Appearance of Path Leading to Cavo and Some of the Boys Who Discovered the Body discovered nnd a ropo twisted t a nboiHsjhd right r p 7 S blood < w3 found outside t P tho cave whdro he wan lying nnd fe > the aptrluro WOI too small to per e I mil of another person entering at y > P tbo name time tmc r r 8 Ho wns in pospcslon of r t n razor which ho took from his fc > J cabin near Iho Warm Springs fe J 9 Although normally of a cheer V iul dlspoaUlon ho had recently > i r Shown abnormal 1 ulgns of despond t bcnc7 l ene1Clt 1Clt a the Murder Theory t 1 A nharpencd butcherknifo V p 3 dl8cocrcd over thirty feet > from tho body a a plnco where It V could not easily havo been thrown v > tram thrown J tho cave t I 2 ECCM largo rocfer were piled loosely nt tho mouth of the cave t A rOM Ivan twlatcd about his V t legs above the knees ab s and about his V r right rGht wrist 9 wrst I ip Theories Analyzed I Een admitting that tho knife p fUd I und waa the IriMrunvnt that r Ufr hI fc death which Is very t dOUbtfUl na tha cavn has not been b Mystery surrounds the death of Samuel Collins who was found dead with his throat cut In a narrow CAVO about a half mile north of tho Warm mit Jorth Tho body Springs yesterday afternoon JTho was nude oxcept for a pair of Socks and boulders had been carefully piled before the entrance Blood In profusion profu-sion was Inside the cave and outside nt some distance from tbo entrance was a sharp butcherknife Collins was last seen alive by his neighbors on MondaySUICIDE SUICIDE THEORY The police Incline to the theory of suicide attributing the deed to temporary tempo-rary Insanity caused by brooding over financial troubles From certain peculiar pecu-liar actions on the dily when he was last last seen by his acquaintances they believe that hewent up on the mountain burned or concealed his clothes crawled Into the cave nnd there cut his own throat with n knife or razor In support of this theory It purged 1 that ColllUB wan an old man practically practi-cally alone In the worlll and was without With-out I homo or regular employment Lately he had lost money on mining stocks and was despondent over his misfortunes On londay he WOnt to UU top of Ensign Peak with a lad whom he had employed to carry n found mil tho boy bore no bruises except upon the right eye which however how-ever might have been done by convulsive con-vulsive tossing about on the rocks of the cave In the moments preceding deathTHE deahTI MISSING ROOMMATE One fact came t light late last night which may have an important bear Ing on the case I was learned that n man named Collins answering tho description of tho dead man was the plaintiff In a sult before Justice Nielsen Niel-sen on Thursday and that he told hlH attorney of securing a room In a down town lodginghouse 1Inglusc He had had a quarrel with n roommate whom he accused ac-cused of stealing 1C from him If the identity Is established It is certain that Collins warf Hve an late as Thurs day afternoon and the police will begin be-gin a search for the missing partner ml3InS Plrtner In this case tho presence of the dead man on the his might be accounted for by the fact that he owned amIno ing claim In the vicinity of the InS Warm spdngB Collins was for some time tme employed by the AVasatka Sprlngu clplo te watchman Sprng company as night at theIr establishment cstlbl meat near Worm Springs He received no for this service rcele pay serlcc but was al lowed the privilege Of te prhle occupying rooms at the house and sold soft Ioms pay his living expenses He was C5 Continued on Pao z SUICIDE OR J MURDER Continued from Page 1 years old and unmarried Although the at predominance of evidence so fur no secured se-cured points to the Uleor oC suicide the police will renew their Investigations Investiga-tions today and malce a special search for the clothing and personal effcctsTof the dead man