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-year-old daughter Barbara to be picked up by passing fishermen. Next morning Mrs. Collings was found half-hysterical in the anchored launch of Mayor Howard C. Smith of Cove Neck, L. I. To police she told a strange story of how two mysterious men...
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