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Stark evidence appeared last week further to puzzle investigators seeking to untangle the mystery of Long Island Sound, the Collings Case. From the drifting, lightless cabin cruiser Penguin one night had disappeared a young inventor, Benjamin P. Collings, and his younger, pretty wife, Mrs. Lillian Chelius Collings, leaving their 5...
Lack of clearly defined police jurisdiction caused confusion from the start. District Attorney Elvin N. Edwards of Nassau County announced he believed Mrs. Collings' story; District Attorney Alexander G. Blue of Suffolk County said he did not. Mrs. Collings was questioned and requestioned. Theories of piracy, kidnapping, murder were...
Mrs. Collings collapsed. To protect her, her father-in-law hired Lawyer Homer Stille Cummings, onetime Democratic National Committeeman, adviser of President Wilson, counsel for James Joseph ("Gene") Tunney. District Attorney
She and her husband had been sitting in the dark on the Penguin's deck. Barbara was in bed. Two men approached in a canoe, asked to be taken with a wounded companion to South Norwalk, Conn. Mr. Collings demurred. The men boarded the Penguin, started it, ordered Mrs...
...they believed it. A stolen canoe was found. The Sound was searched for the missing man's body, without success. Motive for a crime remained obscure. The two men had stolen nothing, though fearing robbery Mrs. Collings had hidden her rings in small Barbara's shoes. The Collingses led a secluded life, had no enemies, were happy. Mr. Collings' income had dwindled to about $1,000 a year. He had no insurance. The Collingses were avid readers of detective stories. Long Island detectives remained baffled by their case; Inventor Collings remained missing...