The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-13
.NELMS MYSTERY IS !. DEEPENED BY TIME .
 . AND INVESTIGATION
No Trace of Young Woman Can Be FOund-Clues Indicate Foul
 Play

Atlanta. July 12-Time and investi-
 gation apparently are deepening the
 mystery surrounding the disappearance of Miss Beatrice Nelms and her sister,
 Mrs. Elois Nelms Dennis, members of l a wealthy Atlanta family. Attention first was called to the strange ease by a telegram from the Atlanta chief of police to the chief of police of san
 Francsico. This message requested the Californian to notify Mershell Nelms that his mother in Atlanta had received a letter from her daughter, Elos stat ing she had killed her sister Beatrice in New Orleans and intended killing her brother. The letter was postmarked San Francisco, July B. Nelms Is on his way to Atlanta
 | No trace of either young woman has
 been found since that time The police of five widely scattered cities are as
 much at sea tonight as when they first began to investigate the mystery.
 maze of clews evolved indicate that the principals may have met with foul play. Nelms. before leaving San Francisco for Atlanta, July 10. showed a tele-
 gram he received June 8, signed Nam
 ma," which read:
 ''Lookout for Elois, she has killed
 B." Search of San Francisco and Oak
 land failed to locate Mrs Dennis
 Signed by Mrs. Dennis According to Mrs. Nelms the letter lconveying the alleged threat against bat fo ell. writing of her married daughter, Mrs. Dennis, whd she said, left here June 10. for San Antonio, Tex, and was joined in New Orleans June 13, by Be- atrice. On June IS. Mrs. Dennis cashed a draft for $145O at New Orleans bank. supposedly to close up invest ments made in Mexico. A telegram from New Orleans, June IA, said the sisters
 were leaving for Houston. on their way to San Antonio. A week later Mrs.
 Nelms received telegram from Hous- ton signed "E. and B. saying the sisters planned to stay there d few days longer. The last word from both
 was dated New Orleans. June 2s. and said, going farther west"
 After the aid of police in New Or leans, San Francisco and San Antonio had been called in vain Mrs Nelms called for assistance from Victor E. Innes, formerly United States attorney of Nevada. who was located in Port land, Ore.
 The case was complicated still further when Mrs. Nelms declared Mrs Dennis had been engaged to Mir. Innes Innes denied the eh> ement. He said he had acted as attornes for Mrs. Dennis when she obtained $ divorce at Reno IA months ago.
 | Other startling statements made by Mrs. Nelms were that Innes wielded a l hypnotic influence over Mrs. Dennis and that he had promised to turn over tt
 Beatrice Nelms deeds for Mexican propert, he was supposed to have purchased 10, Mrs. Dennis. It was to get these pa pers. Mrs Nelms asserted that Beatric. Nems went to Houston. Another state ment later denied by Innes was tha
 he had been in Atlanta early in June l When located in Portland Innes de clared Mrs. Dennis had told him sh, made several attempts to kill hersel and that she had planned to kill he sister. He denied emphatically the state ments of Mrs. Nelms and said he neve had represented Mrs. Dennis in any Mex lean investments.
 The latest clcw which apparently ha only added to the confusion, was th tracing of an express package sent t, Beatrice Nelms in care of Mrs. Mar garet Mindes of San Antonio. Mrl Mindes according to Mrs. Nelms. cam
 to Atlanta early in June, saying she wa
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