Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 August 1919 — LAFAYETTE LAWYER JUGGED [ARTICLE]

LAFAYETTE LAWYER JUGGED

For Murder of Woman Found Dead in Loan & Trust Building. Edgar Collins, a prominent and well-to-do Lafayette lawyer, has been arrested and jailed on the charge of first degree murder, in connection with the death of Mrs. Clifford Long, who was found dead at an early hour Monday morning in the lobby of the Lafayette Loan & Trust building, mention of which was made in Wednesday’s Democrat. Collins admits his relations with the woman and that they were together in his office in the Loan & Trust building until a late hour Sunday night and that both drank highballs until they were under the influence of liquor. He says the woman .left his office to go home, taking the stairs, while he went down on an automatic elevator, but denies any knowledge of her death and says that the first he knew of her death was when he came down town Monday morning.