Evening Star Newspaper, September 18, 1931, Page 3

WIDON 15 ABSENT | AT COLLINGS PROB Policeman Says “She Told Him She Saw Body Float- iy in Sound. (Continued From First Page.) the elder took her to ‘an anchored motor boat, where he left her. Forest said this first story made no mention of an attack upon Mrs, Col- lings by the elder of the two men. In later stories she sald she was attacked. The inquest opened today without the presence of the widow, who had been asked to testif; Coroner William Glhon called Amza Biggs, the patrolman who found Col- lings’ body on the beach of the Marshal Field estate, as the first witness, Before the inquest opened District ‘Attorney Alexander Blue announced he had requested the presence of Mrs. Col- lings despite previous statements that he did not intend to call her. He said he made his request to Willlam A. Kelly, mssoclated with Homer 8. Cuinmings as counsel for the Collings family. ‘Widow Held 1L Kelly arrived for the inquest with a stenographer, but Mrs. Collings did not accompany” him. He acknowledged having received the request frome Blue, but said the physical condition of Mrs. Collings, who he said is under the care of two g‘eyslclmx in Stamford, did not permit ber appearance as a witness. ‘When Dr. Gibson, who had previous- ly announced that he would like to have Mrs. Collings as a witness, heard thatsshe was not coming despite Blue's requsst, he told reporters, before ascending the bench, that the only way to get her would seem to be extradition as & material witness. Blue said that this step had not been considered. Biggs told of finding the trussed body lying face downward on the beach and of calling his superiors to the scene. He was followed on the stand by Police Sergt. Robert Forest, the nm official to question Mrs. Collings after she was found on a motor boat to which she said her husband's assailants took her after throwing him into the sound to Blue is to refer the case to a grand jury in hope of obtaining indictments against the slayers, a dispatch from New York said. “I now have a clear picture of what happened on the Penguin and after the events on the Penguin were over,” He said, adding that he had information he did not care to reveal. He announced ®that Felix de Martini, private detective, and one time an ace of the New York police, had been retained as his special investigator. Martini figured prominently in the Hall-Mills murder trial as a defense in- tor. Blue has a brief case full of papers; mlch his detectives have taken from Penguin, .It contained copies of a will lefs by Benjamin snydex. ‘Wash- ington banker, and Mrs. H. P. grandfather and mother, rerpemvely, of Collings. The papers indicated there had been a‘legal tangle over one or both wills. Cummings said he decided not to Jet Mrs. Collings go to the coroner’s in- quest, as she had only the same to tell: That her husband was beaten and thrown into the sound by two men, one middle-aged, the other a youth. She was taken away in another small boat and attacked, while her daughter Barbara, 5 ymrl old was left behind on the drifting cruise: Oumming‘:m unt his own investi- gation led to believe that the mur- der was committéth by a paranoiac. Tlu older man’s actions, as described by Mrs. Collings, he said, indicated that the younger man was, under his domina- Fred J. Voos, prcsment of the - port, Conn., base ball club, 15 to a blanket Mrs. Ooll.l'ng says the men threw over her when she left the Pen- Fromi o hotel in SpringAce, Mas. ed Tecently it was stolen from his yacht, he told police. SPECIAL KOTICBS cur car. * lev. $a73o0. 18% o on:u Than those co::'u-cu:d by M‘z FRANK E. 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Mrs. Collings also told of her who forced her to leave their daughter Barbara dnne on the abandoned yacht. Above pictures trace t.he night of horror and locate the action of the weird sea —A. P. Photos. BY ARTHUR B. REEVE, Creator of Craig Kennedy. NEW YORK, September 17 (N.AN.A). ~—Checking up on the evidence in'the murder of the younc yachtsman, Bm- jamin P. Collings, of Stamford, Con: ‘whose body was wuhed uhnn at Hum,- have today turned over Blue, district attorney of Buflolk County, & brand-new clue which, if handled, may break the autopsy an- nounced today. Far from clearing up the mystery of what happened in the recluse family that lived IM cruised up and down Long l.he Sonndu:z the lnx-xgt cruiser, the Penguin, II-IWDSY o Otto H. Schultze deepens Fits Widow's S!ory. true that the finding of the body ly verified a turning that cruiser sound without lights, with only the helpless B-Ielr—old Collings baby, Bar- on inion, there is something that u nt in the it of this -t.rl.n:z nme family that has not been ething that the district at- case is not to go down as just another unsolved mys- Therefore, I hope T doned if in developing fhh new theory resort to questions rather than ago, not the story she told hymrlcally to Officer Forrest of Cove NT | crime was settled on Suffolk County. ‘What was that “bargain” that she referred to in her bizarre tale of her husband and the pirate of about 50, with his eomeganhn of 17?7 Was it a ain struck that night? Far more like ,ltmmn'nme it was a bar- gain struck some time ago, and that somehow, by some act of Collings, the Collings Mystery Deepens Creator of Craig Kennedy Finds Widow’s Story Tells Nothing of Apparent Desperate Battle Which Preceded Drowning. family’s mode of living had been dis- turbed. The first and most vital thing to de- termine is what happened in July xnd August to the Collings family. Mrs. Collings wes much of the time not on the Penguin, but in Stamford await- ing the birth of her sister - in-law’s baby. Collings was, at least some of the time, cruising alone on the 30-foot hermit boat. Hotel Register Cited. ‘Then . there is the strange coinci- dence of the registry of “F. E. Col bourne and wife, St Conn.." at 8 Springfield is easily reached b) Iuw- mobile from Stamford, yet it Is almost. ly easy to reach by small boat, going up from the Sound at Saybroock, through the Connecticut River. ‘What is the connmection between "the hotel register and- the Hotel Charles blanket found with Mrs, Collings the morning after the murder? At once the objection may be mlsed Aigust s, 1036, nor- 1057, But 1ha nof only the starting pol of my x i| Let us make one jump wwnd t.he end of it. For a week the Suffolk County au- thorities have been chasing an elusive Chris Craft that left rume hm -nd there on the north shore of A couple of days ago in Nor'l.\k t.hue bobbed up a story of a Cris Craft that put in at 5, the morning after the mur- der, with two drenched occupants, one took | 0ld and the other young. Citizen Gives Tip. I do not say that that search is on 2 | a useless line. What I offer is a search on a line that looks much more prom- ising. As I waited this morning in the | colonial town hall of Huntington for District Attorney Blue to arrive, one of the leading citizens of Huntington drew me aside and whispered, “Deputy Sheriff William Wuismann has some- thing he’s not told any one yet!” Here is Wuismann's story. On Wed- nesday night a week ago he was pa- trolling the road on Asharoken Beach, which is a mneck of land that - joins Eaton’s Neck and Duck Island to the mainland of Long Island. Some time after midnight Wuismann saw a model A Ford car, with battered mudguards, parked on the beach. It had a Con- necticut license. New Jersey, even Pennsylvania, licenses are common enough out there; Connecticut licenses are rare, It was just at the point, and with about enough time to cross Duck Is- land, commandeer Minor Crary’s canoe geldtg“ out to the Penguin at Prices . None of His Business. Why didn’t Wuismann investigate? Well, in the first place it was n:‘g: of his business. 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Now comes the other question. e the license whispered it me that he believed that Wul.l» mann u:tullly could remember the first t.hreeh numbers of the five on the license P was this information todsy that I turned over to Attorney Blue. Mr. Blue jumped at it. narrow the search to 100 last two numbers on the battered model A Ford should hard to locate among & hundred Con- necticut cars. Believes Slayer Was Known. ‘There is no doubt that once that car is located we shall be a long way toward discovering what lies in the secret past of this strange family. 1 have talked at length with the assistant district attorney, Pred J. Mun- der, who has the case in charge lo- ~ | cally, with the district attorney himself, over the telephone repeatedly, with Dr. Schultze and with the Nassau County authorities under District Mtorney Elvin Edwards and Inspector Harol King. I cannot say that I agree mo per cent with any of their deductions, but taking them all, I am inclined to S:dl:k 1"3: ‘whoever came ‘:y ovu;”:m of the Penguin that fateful over a week ago, was known to one of the Collingses. It is evident uut his violent intent armed himself with the .32-caliber auto- matic or the bowle knife which were close at hand. I do not think either Mr. Blue or Mr. Munder believe there were two nd. pirates. They believe that there was one. I am not so sure, however, but that a second dominated by the first is quite logical, but the “wounded man” is to me a myth. I may say here, how- ever, that little Barbara, 5 years old, but with the mentality of 2% or 3, is quot&e:“n saying, “th: bad man made my y go overboard swimming in his clothes.” She did not say “bad men.” There is some simple explanation to the strange, lnflpl!mbh story told by the dead yachtsman's wife, some reason why the wounds nd brulses and fa- tality were one-sided. In my opinion it lies in some “bargain,” whatever it was, that had been violated. (Copyright, 1931, by the North American e NOWSPEPSE Allighes, M%) [ HESTER WALKER BEALL | Studio of the Spoken Word Stoneleigh Court National 2266 Courses for Cultural Development 'oise—Voice—Confidence FRIDAY, SEPT IN MYSTERY FIGHT Texan Kills Trio, = Shoots Fourth, After Being Lured From Gasoline Station. By the Assoclated Press. ATLANTA, - Tex., September 18.— Three men were shot to death and fourth was wounded dangerously near here last night by J. H. Boyd, 50-year- old Louisiana gasoline station operator, who said they had lured him from his station and kidnaped him. Officers identified the dead men as Hardy Luce, 45; Bill Fish, 38, Boyd’s stepson, and Early Sullivan, 28. Physi- clans said they did not expect Bill Sul- livan, brother of Early Sullivan and brother-in-law of Fish, to live. All were filling station operators. Right Arm Broken. One pisto] bullet fractured Boyd's right arm. Another plowed a furrow across his chest. Boyd said two of the men came to his station, 13 miles from Atlanta, told him a motor car in which they were riding had developed trouble and asked him te tow them in. He sald when he drove up behind the machine one of the group forced him with a shotgun to enter their car. Boyd told officers he liberated one arm and opened fire after he was struck over the head. Two of the four slumped on the seat. A bullet tore into his right arm, disabling it. He said he shifted the pistol into his left hand and fired two more shots. Officers said Boyd fired but four shots. Motive Undetermined. The Sullivan brothers lived near Viv- fan, La. Luce operated a gasoline sta- | tion just over the Louisiana line in Texas. Both Boyd and Fish operated stations in Louisiana. The motive of the alleged attack was not made clear. 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