Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1894-11-24
TWO MISSING GIRLS.
nIllIo and Mimic Figuring In
tho Case Of HOLMES,
THE INSURANCE SwIsDLEn.
4 Strong Probability that Both We're
Cruelty Murdered for the sake
Of IneIr Property.

NEW ORLEANS, Nov. "a Mimi,
II. William, aud Mamie williams
connected with the cateer Of Holmes,
Tho Insurance swinuler, were uieces oil
Rev. Dr. w. q. Black, u this cry,
VINO Is editor Of tho Mti9dnt Cdristiar
advocate. Their father was killed 10 d
railroad wreck aud their mother died
soon Afterwards. This was ia ls5.
anu the younger sister, Mamie, was
but one year old. Thelr parents died
poor anu loit them nothing. The
younger girl remained IN Mississippi
with her aunt and tho other girl went
TO Dallas, where sho lived with her
uncle, Do. Williams, who adopted her
na hiu unughttt anu educated her IA tue
schools Ot That place. La 1859 Minnie
Wh' sent 70 tue conservatory Of elUcu-
ton lu B sion where che was Rtadu-
aied aitura three years. course. In
the meantime her uncle dieu, leaving
htr MS property consisting OF ToAl
estate Ia Fort Worth, valued at
| 100000.
Coming back from Boston, Minnie
/ '''fH aAHA NAnNNA w. aNhA.NNNNNIlINIH anu the
two went b tho home VI her uncle, DE-.
| w. Is. Black, iu jackson, Miss, wnrrs
| tlUy were 90 ether for tho nrst time
since they were infants. This was In
i1'A lney visiivl Dr. Black for
some lime aud then went back 10
Texas together. Before this Minnie
hsd returned % Boston 10 take post
| graduate course iu the Nuw England
I cJuhufvntgFy VI uluculi0u. Hhu finally
finished tuis course Hud in 1890 went
| 20 Beaver, where sue remained Tor
some time, teaching Ul0cutiJu. When
shu visited her uncle, DE- Black, boz
Jacki0nvillr, Misl,, Ia 1850, She mad
| picture % young mau tlat hho hau
] met ln Boston, whose name wa Harry
/ u rupu. bhr upgku OF litn hH "Hurry,D
anu said that Bue was very much
tmitlcu win him, ns he was hunuBome
! anu wealthy.
In March, 1898. the elder Girl went
/ 70 Chicago. lnu press DISPATCHES have
stated thAt she was Typewriter, but
| DR.. Black saiu tlg. he doubted the
truth Of that, rs she was n nus olocu.
uonIs. and duvltol 90 10, giving her At.
tUnliun TO nothing else.
Soon after going TO Chicago she
WrItu 10 het sister telling her ul1ut
"tAFfy Gordon" aud saying tnat she
was going 10 Iaatgy him. Sunu Aiiar
ftosiving thiH letter another came stat.
INK they had been married anu invit.
INK Minnie o. come 10 Chicago, when
they would take Ia the Worlu's Fair
To- ether.
Tue sister In Texas leit Tor Chicago
on the last Of June, soon after the
school closed VI Midlothian, Texas.
On July 4, lse3, Mamie wrote the
following letter 10 htr aunt, Miss Lucy
Marshall In Terry Miss. She had not
been long Ia Chicago:
No. 1920 WmCITwooD sr.
Cnlclg,, Illinois,
July 8, 1903.
Dear Aunt Lucy:-l wrote You from
Midlothian saying / was coming here
anu also as B0Ou aB reached mere, but
! have not heard irOn you. 1 nave
"taken Ia" the Fair TO my hearl,5 con.
tent, aud have enjoyed 1t 70 much.
Sister, brother Hairy aud mys n g1 %
Milwaukee tomorrow anu will 70 10
Ola Orchard Beach, Maine, by way o.
the lakes anu tho St. Lawfonce river.
win spend about two weeks auu then
viii 10 down to Now York Tor me 10
look around about studying art. Then
We viii tail Tor Germany by way OF
London ami Paris. IL / like i'll will
stay AMI a,u ~ art, II not, 1 viii fe.
turn 10 New York IN timo 10 ma you
n visi; before beginning my work. |
can hardly realize that 1 am tD have
the great advantage for which 1 have |
wished no long. Brother Harry shys
you need not trouble any more about |
mu financially or Otherwise. He ami |
sister will zee 10 me.
hope our hard days are over. VIII |
write again rs soon M We are settled, |
Write uu right ave. anu address 10 |
Chicago ana the letter will bu lorwafd. |
cd to me- Your loving niece,
NASStE WILLIAMS.
In October DE-. Black began 10 feel
uneasy about tue Two girls, as the last
heard from thou was thus letter. Hut. |
thinking they had gone across the
Oceau, M this letter indicated, no ceased
for n time 10 worry ABOUT their sgfety,
When Mamie Williams left Midio.
THAN bho dld 40 hastily, and her trunk
was 10 DO expressed 10 her In Chicago.
The trunk arrived July o aud mas moi
yet been taken out OF the baggage room
there.
Al the letter from Mamie Williams
was written on July 4th, and as her
trunk arrived July ON, aud was NOT
taken out OF the depot, DR.. Black con.
oludos that the girls were probably
murdered on July ON. He has been
unable 10 fnd any record OF the mar
rage OF Minnie Williams to Harry
Gordon In Cook county, Illinois, aud
avs tnat no has no doubt that Gordon,
" Holmes, secured bogus preacher
aud bogus marriage license by which
no fooled the girl, soon aitor they
were married, no believes, che was
induced 10 give q deed TO her property
Ia Fort Worth, Gud after he hai muir
Tered the girl no went 10 Fort Worth
lnl sold the property, except one valu.
able lot on which he began the erection
u house. d.. Black says that Holmes
lad no other object Ia view than 10
secure possession N the giri's property,
lud that tho European trip was PRO.
lOsed to the girl 20 that when che wrote
ID her relatives aud told about Ii, A.
ho dii, thoy would bo thrown Oh thelf
.uard,
RAILWAY PROJECT.