Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1914-07-16
Mrs. Clarice Sickles Innes Be
lieves Former New Yorker
Who Got Nevada Di-
vOrce Is Same Man.

rance from New York city six
years ago of Lavourne Victor Elmore |
lines and his infant son, James Sickles
Innes.
While Mrs John w Nelms, mother of
the two women who have disappeared,
has appealed to the Governor of Georgia
to help find find her daughters Mrs. Clar-
ice lines has likewise taken steps.
through her attorneys, to ascertain the
whereabouts Of her SON.
No trace has been learned Of the where
abouts of little James Sickles Innes, who
if alive. is now nearly N years old. but
lines is known to have married again
and living with his present wife and twin
babies.
lines Is wanted in this city on war
rant charging him with abandoning Mrs.
Clarice lines. In her possession Is the
following order, issued TO her in accord
ance with the warrant of arrest, soon
after the Disappearance of Innes and the
boy:
ORDER FOR INNEs' ARREST.
No 1905.
Police Department Of the City Of New
York, Fourth Court.
New York July o. 1908.
To all patrolmen:
Upon identification by bearer you will
arrest for abandonment Victor lines
Warrant issued July g. Issued by Magis-
trate Henry Steinert and Endorsed for
Sunday and night service held Fourth
Court, Lieutenant on desk duty please
detain and notify.
MICHAEL W COLLIN,
Lieutenant, commanding
Fourth Court.
studied law at the New York Law school.
who was a principal in one of the most
sensational divorce cases ever tried in
this country. The Haddock suit vas car
ried through all the branches Of the New
York State courts. then into the Supreme
| Court of the United States.
According to Mrs Clarice lines, her
| husband was a student Of occult sci
ences. following the precepts of Mrs
Katherine Tingley, some time known
as The Purple Mother" whose Theo-
sophical Institute at Point Iona, Cal,
IS one Of the show places of the Pacific
| coast
In appealing to the Governor of Georgia
|
ters and to arrest lines, Mrs. helms was
quoted in Atlanta yesterday as saying
that lines exerted a hypnotic influence
over Mrs. Dennis.
SISTERS STRANGELY GONE.
lines first met Mrs. Dennis. it ap-
pears, when she went to Nevada a few
years ago to obtain divorce Later
according to Mrs. helms, lines and
Mrs Dennis became engaged to marry
This, however is denied by lines who
told The World correspondent IN Port
land yesterday that he simply acted as
Mrs. Denniss attorney and that he ha6
not seen her since her divorce
Mrs. Dennis and her sister left At
lanta in June, ostensibly for Texas tc
meet lines Mrs. Neln1s declares Mrs
Dennis expected to marry 1nnes.
Mrs Dennis carried a draft for Sl40
which she had Cashed in New Orleans
Checks issued by Mrs Dennis for pre-
vious sums for investment were mad
payable to Innes.
No word has been received by Mrs
Nelms from her daughters. except
typewritten note This purported T.
come from Mrs. Dennis. 1t stated tina
she had tired of life and had put he
sister out of the way. was going to Sal
Francisco to kill her brother. Marshal
helms, and then intended to feed he
own body to the fishes"
Mrs helms declares that not only wa
Innes engaged to marry her daughter
but that Mrs. Dennis gave him SlO.OO
for investment for her in Mexican prop
critics
GOT A NEVADA DIVORCE,
lines denies ever having negotiated
Mexican Investments. and ridicules IN
idea that he ever was engaged to MARI!
Mrs Dennis. He declares Mrs, DENIM
knew he was a married man.
'"rhe last time heard from Mrs. Den
mis- was about the middle OF 1918, say
Innes.
lines admits however. that he an
the wife with whom he Is now living re
turned to Portland on July s, after
tour through Texas and California"
A statement in Portland by the woma
now claiming to be Innes's wife that sh
met and married him in Hong Konf
; China, In 1903, while ne was engaged I
the practice of law in the Philippines,
clouded by the fact that the records c
> the county clerks office in Carson CITY
/, New. show lines obtained a decree {
divorce there on June 6, 1910 froi
: "Viola A. Innes." He testified he wa
married in New York on October l
1908
o Mrs Clarice Innes told the World r,
porter yesterday that she had never bee
served with the papers in any action &c
divorce. Mrs. Innes added, howeve
that she was glad to be legally frt
of Innes."
POSSIBLE CLUE TO CHILD.
NIX chief concern Is for the safety {
# my child" said Mrs. lines. For 81
j. wears | have searched the whole OF II
n United States for Times, hoping that
i might find the son he so cruelty sto
- from me. Up to this time all that
/ have ever heard was in the form of
short note from Innes soon after he le
: New York, saying he was going to tai
II the boy to the Philippines and that
" need never expect TO see either of the
, again."
- A possible clue to the lines child W;
:, furnished from Reno yesterday. Advice
:. to the World stated that soon after Ii
ia mes obtained his divorce, in 1910. Mr.
IN Dennis arrived on the scene with h
"a baby boy" According to Mrs, helms.
Atlanta, Mrs. Dennis had no child.
The explanation of lnness marria'
k and divorce, as the World was informs
" from Nevada yesterday, was that VIII