Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 184, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 August 1919 — LAFAYETTE ATTORNEY HELD FOR WOMAN’S DEATH. [ARTICLE]

LAFAYETTE ATTORNEY HELD FOR WOMAN’S DEATH.

Edgar G. Collins, 45, Lafayette lawyer and real estate owner, was arrested Tuesday, accused by a police affidavit of having, with premeditated mailice, caused the death of Mrs. Clifford Long, 29, whose •body was found early Monday at ,the foot of a stairway in the Lafayette Loan & Trust building, where Collins has offices on the fifth floor. Collins’, attorneys said Collins admitted drinking with the woman in his office late Sunday night. They became intoxicated, the (lawyer’s statement said, and the woman left the office first. Collins left later, descending in a small, automatic elevator used only when the main elevator is not running. Collins says Mrs. Long tried to make her way down the stairs and plunged over the railing. Collins was married several years ago to a Chicago young woman, who Was divorced from him two years ago. He denies having had a quarrel with Mrs. Long, his attorneys slay, but admits being in her company many times.