MURDER OF MILTON COLLINS

COLLINS

Posted By: Nancee(McMurtrey)Seifert (email)
Date: 5/2/2006 at 20:44:43

The Chariton Patriot
Chariton, Iowa
Thursday, September 22, 1875

On last Friday DR. COLLINS, of this place, received a dispatch that MILTON
COLLINS, of Kearney Junction, son of ASBURY, a brother of the Doctor and a
former citizen of Chariton, had been shot and killed. The Doctor took the
next train for Kearney and is still absent. The only particulars of the
murder that we have received are found in the following dispatch, taken from
Sunday's Hawkeye:

Kearney Junction, Neb., Sept. 18. -- Last night about twenty Texas herders
camped on the Platte. During the night their horses got into M. COLLINS'
cornfield. He took up their horses and they promised to settle, but, coming
to town, got drunk, and shot COLLINS five times, killing him almost
instantly. The citizens organized a pursuit and captured the Texans. They
will probably be lynched to-night.

Young COLLINS has many relatives and friends in this county who will be
pained to hear of his untimely death, and all the more that he was brutally
murdered by a gang of Texas cut-throats. ASBURY COLLINS, his father, is a
former, and a much respected citizen, of Chariton, and "MILTIE," as he was
called, although leaving here when quite a boy, was well known, and so far
as we know, a peaceable and worthy young man.
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