Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1894-11-26
MINNIE AND NANNIE.
Another Chapter coneerni g
 These Strange Girls.
WHERE THEY CAME PRoa TO TEXAS

ing at New Orleans, Gives Interest-
 ing story He Relieves They Have Been
 Murdered hy Holmes to Secure Their
 Property.
 NEW ORLEANS. Nov 2G-Minuie R Williams and Mamie Williams. con nected with the career of Holmes, the insurance swindler, were nieees of Dr. c. ". Black of this city, who is editor of the Methodist Christian Advocate Their father was killed in a railroad wreck and their n.other died soon after wards. This was in 1s7s. and the younger sister, Mamie, was but year old Their parents die1 poor and left them nothing. The younger girl re- maned i'll Mississippi with her aunt and the ether girl went b Midlothian, Tex, where she lived with her uncle, Dr. Williams, wno adopted her as his daughter and educated her in the schools of that place In 1886 Minnie was sent to the Conservatory of Music in Boston. where she was graduated afte; three years course. In the mean tme her uncle died, leaving her his property, consisting Of real estate in Fort Worth yaiued at $20 900.
 Coming back from Boston Minnie met her sister in Mississippi and the two went to the home of their uncle, Dr. c. w. Black in Jackson Miss, where they were together for the first time since they were infants. This was in 1889. They visited Dr. Black for some tiIue and then went to Texas together. Be fore Inis Minnie had returned to Boston to take q post graduate course ill the New England conservatory of eloeation. She finished this course in 1890 and went to Denver where she remained for some time, teaching eloeution.
 When she visited her uncle Dr. Black, in Jackson, Miss, in 1889, she had a picture Of young man she had met in Boston whose name was Harry Gordon. She spoke of him as Harry" and said she was very much smitten with him, as he was handsome and wealthy.
 In March, 1898, the elder glrl went to Chicago The dispatches have related that she was q typewriter. but Dr. Black. doubted the truth of that. as she was q fine eloeutionist and was devoted to her studies. giving her attention to nothing else.
 Soon after going to Chicago she wrote to her sister telling her about Harry Gordon" and saying she was going to marry him. Soon after receiving this letter another came stating that they had been married and inviting Mamie to come to Chicago where they would take in tine Worlds fair The sister in Texas left for Chicago last June soon after school closed ill Midlothian, Tex.
 On July l. 1893. Mamie wrote tho following letter to her aunt, Miss Lucy Mrshall, al Terry, Miss. She had not then been long in Chicago:
 No 192o WRIGIFrweoD STREET, CHI- CAGo, IDs, July f, 1893. Dear Aunt Lucy: 1 wrote you from Midlothian say ing l was coming here, and also as soon as l reached here, but have not heard from you have taken in the fair to my hearts content aad have enjoyed it so much, Sister, Brother Harry and myself go to Milwaukee tomorrow and will go To Ofi 0eeh ffd Beach. M4., by way ot the lakes and tae St Lawrence river. Win spend about 1wo we ks th re and fhtn wiil 70 dewn to New ' orS for l.ie to look around about stu,iy- ing art. Then we viii sail for Germany by way of London and Paris If l fiizo I wilistav and study art; # Hot, I wiil return 10 New York in time 10 msse you a visit before b ginning my voyage. 1 can hardly realize that l am to have this great advantage for which 1 hayl wished so png. Brother Harry says you need never trouble any more abous me, financially or otherwise He and sister will see to me. l hope our hard days are over. Write again as soon a4 we are settl-d. Wiite lie right awav and address 10 Chicago and letters wlll te forwarded to me.
 Your loving nieca,
 ''NANNIE WILLIAMS"
 In October Dr. Blaek began 10 feel uneasy about the two gir,s IS The last heard from them WAS this letter. bus thinking that they had gone across the ocean as the letter indicated, he ceased for the time 10 worry about their safety. When Mamie Williams left Midlothian she did so hastily and her trunk was to be expressed to her i'll Chicago. The trunk arrived July and has not yet been taken out of the haggaseroom there.
 As the letter from Nannie Williams was written on July I and is her uuak arrived on July and was nor taken out of the depot. Dr. Black concludes that the girls were probably murdered on July 5. He has been unable 10 find any record of the marriage of Minnie Vi Hams to Harry Gordon in Cook county,