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Lyon County, Kansas

WHERE IS COLLINS?

An Americus Man Missing Since Wednesday

Had Money With Him and His Wife Thinks He May Have Been Murdered

Emporia, Kan., Aug. 20---J. M. Collins, of Americus, a town fifteen miles north of here, has mysteriously disappeared. His wife was here today hunting for him.

Collins started for this city last Wednesday evening with the intention of seeing a doctor and getting some medicine as he was sick. He was to have returned home the same evening, but up to this time he has not done so, and what is stranger, no evidence can be found that he ever reached this city; so it is evident that he disappeared between here and Americus.

Mrs. Collins thinks the he has been murdered. He had some money with him when he left home and this may have been an inducement for some one to have committed the crime. There is a possibility that Collins became insane and wondered away.

His dsiappearance is shrouded in a dense mystery.
(Kansas Semi-Weekly Capital ~ 23 Aug 1898)

EMPORIA MAN STABBED

Santa Fe Brakeman Charged With Attempted Murder

Emporia, Kan., Aug. 7---J. A. Downey was stabbed last night and today A. H. Elliott, a Santa Fe brakeman, was arrested on a complaint of Downey, charging him with assault with intent to kill. Elliott is out on bond. The preliminary will not be heard for a week or more, in order to allow Downey time to recover enough to be at the trial. He is now in bed with a wound that is serious and one that might result in his death if it should work open. Elliott, the arrested man, is also in bad shape. His lower jaw is broken. He says that Downey struck him with a billy club or some similar weapon.

It is the outcome of a fight at Downey's place about 10 o'clock last night.
(Kansas Semi-Weekly Capital ~ 10 Aug 1900)