Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1914-08-19
|NNES AND WIFE ARRESTED FOR
MURDER Of THE NELMS SISTERS
Evidence Found in House Occupied
In San Antonio Indicates Girls
Were Killed There and Bodies
Destroyed

positively identified by Mrs. Williams.
SO has his wife.
Innes and his wife occupied the
furnished home with two trunks and
suit case. Upon June %, when Mrs.
Williams returned, he and his wife
departed with three trunks and three
suit cases One of the additional
cases was light tan, the other a
dark tan Mrs. .Nelms says that Bea-
trice's suit case was a light tan.
Eloise's a dark tan. The third trunk
was bulky affair, weighing 2SO ex-
cess baggage, for which Innes paid to
FL Paso.
When Mrs. Williams returned, she
found Mrs Innes in highly nervous
state. She feared the woman would
collapse They carried with them, N
addition to their baggage, several
bulky bundles wrapped in newspaper.
The floor of the two bedrooms and
the bath room were splotched with
acid, and there were dark finger
prints, presumably darkened by
blood, on the door and window fac
ings.
Bed quilts, rugs and bed spreads
had been nailed over the windows.
Huge wire nails had been lett pro-
trudng from the woodwork. Can
vas had been stretched across tle
back porch A tiny hole in the cloth,
, not big enough for a girls little ting
er, had been plastered over with
| plaster. Mary Alexander, the house
maid and cook of Mrs. Williams, who
had been left at the service of Innes
and his wife, and who lived in little
dwelling in the rear, was discharged
after the second day of the lnnes oc-
cupancy.
She had cooked breakfast for them
twice They informed her that they
would need her no longer. On or
about the 18th day of June she re-
turned suspecting that lnnes or his
wife would have some employment
for her. She went to the rear OF the
house. The front door was securely
Hooked and all windows were down
The back porch was canvased III ane
the door was bolted. She knocked
and Mrs. lines appeared She wa:
= followed by her husband, who tolo
the girl, according to her statemen
to leave at once and never come bacl
.apain until the return OF Mrs. WI.
liams.
il The servant girl had left some be
! |longinys in the house. She asked per
mission to go get it. Mrs. lnnes KEEP
: her on the porch steps while she, her
self, went after the possession.
Destroyed Blood Corpuscles
A specimen OF the acid spots wer
carried for examination to chemis'
He found that the acid had been SUI
| hciently strong to destroy all trac
5 of blood corpuscles. 1t was an ac'
: apparently sulphuric, that would hav
, destroyed a human body within a
amazingly short time. The finger
: prints were not discovered until ate
I the chemical analysis. They weF
: deeply embedded, very plain and al
3 peared masculine.
y The house was ransacked for clew
5 and a search was made beneath i
Ii was not until the soil behind
! small outhouse was excavated, how
a ever, that more satisfying evidenc
s was unearthed. Digging into tn
0 earth at spot not more than sever
r ty-fve feet from the back porch rigl
e in the corner of a high-board fenc
+. a small medicine vial was found.
|, had the words, "Elkin Drug Co., A
d lanta, Ga" blown in the glass.
e was empty
n Two more similar bottles were dr