Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 216, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 September 1915 — LAD NEAR DELPHI SHOT TO DEATH [ARTICLE]

LAD NEAR DELPHI SHOT TO DEATH

Lifeless Body of Walter Collins Found {Monday Morning—Accused Man Is In Jail. Walter Collins, aged 16, living with his parents 6 miles south of Young America, near Delphi, in Howard county, was found dead Monday mowing with a bullet hole through his head, lying at the side of the road 2 miles from Young America. . _ Ellis Wood,, 29, a young farmer, is in jail at Logansport charged with the crime. The authorities are acting on the theory that jealousy was the motive which actuated Wood; that he sought to win from Collins the favor of Miss Luella Foreman, a 14-year-old girl living near Young America. Wood was the last person seen with Collins and although he denies committing the crime a revolver was found on his person when arrested Monday evening. The revolver was a 32-caliber one and it was a bullet from the same caliber gun that killed Collins.