The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1916-05-25
WESTERN POLICE
CLAIM FINDING
MISSING WOMEN
Mrs. Dennis and Sister, Thought
to Be Dead, Are Now To-
Gated In Alaska Town,
Says Chief.
MURDER WAS SUSPECTED
Following Strange Disappear
ance, lines and Wife We're
Tried on Murder Charge
Failed to Convict.

Seattle. Wash. May 23.--Mrs, Eloise
Nelms Dennis and her SITTER. Miss Be-
atrice helms, Of Atlanta. Ga. In con-
nection with whose mysterious disap-
p%earance two years ago. Mr.. and AIRS.
Victor e. Times. OF Eugene,Ore, were
tried in San Antonio, were living in
Seattle and Snohomish, 80 miles north
OF here, until August. 1915. according
to information gathered by ]. p. Byi-
ling, chief of police of Snohornish.
Bylling said he had not positively iden-,
tilted the women. but he said he had
reason to believe they We're the missing
helms sisters.
Bylling said that the evidence he had
gathered indicated that Mrs. Dennis
had lived here mi in SnohoInisll as
Mrs. Patrick Buckley, wife of a former
Snohomish saloonkeeper. Mrs. Buck
leys name was lIloise. Her sister, Be-
atrice, Bylling said, lived in Seattle
until August, 1915. when they went TO
Alaska to join Buckley, who left Sno-
homish in October, 1914. He did not
know their present whereabouts.
Went to Alaska.
The Buckleys went to Snohomish in
the uYnmer OF 1914, Bylling said, and
Buckley conducted a saloon until Octo-
Der of that year, when he sold cut and
went to Alaska, leaving Mrs. Buckley
in Snohomish. Her sister. he said.
lived on Tenth emu in Seattle, blu
he did not know the exact address, nor
was known. Mrs. Buckley. he said.
had property in Seattle and spent part
of her time there before going north.
Bylling said that Mrs. Buckley, with
whom he was acquainted. never mem,
toned the Nelms nor hines case in his
presence and, although she did not say
she came from Atlanta, she frequently
referred to the fact that she had lived
in Georgia. Bylling said he believed h
joined Buckley in San Francisco two
years ago.
Describes Woman.
Bylling described Mrs. Buckley as a
| stout woman 5 feet 8 inches tall, 80 to
IS years Of age. of dark complexion.
The names Of Patrick Buckley, Mrs.
Eloise Buckley, Mrs. Elotse Dennis and
Miss Beatrice Nelms do not appear in
any Seattle directory.
M. j. McGuinnes, former city attor-
ney of S~nohornish, who was attorney
for Buckley. said that the properly held
by Mrs. Buckley was held In the name
Of Mrs. Eloise Dennis. Mr.. McGnin-
ness said he learned this when he came
to Seattle with Mrs. BucAaay to trans
fer the property which she sold before
going to Alaska.
The cass.
Atlanta, Ga, May 22.-Messages TO a
local newspaper ~purporting to come
from Chief Of Police Bylling, of Sno-
homish, Wash, and from an individual
signing wv. j. McGuinness." of the
same town, say that Mrs. Eloise Nelms
Dennis and Beatrice Nelms, sisters.
who disappeared from their home more
than two years ago, are alive n liy-
ing in Alaska. Victor q. lines and his
wife were tried in San Antonio on
charges of killing the women, but it
v was proved they were dead.
Innes and his wife were freed on that
charge. but are in Jail here facing in
dictmenfs alleging larceny after trust
in connection with the helms disap-
pearance.