Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-10-26
FEDERAL WARRANT
SERVED ON |VNES .
As He QUITS GANG
Charge of Misuse of Mails
to Be Pressed Against
Man Blamed for Disap-
pearanCe of Sisters
BY o. i. KELLER

"I'll say this, and 10 more, about
the federal indictment on which ]
understand I am being held" said
Victor Times, at the Fulton county
tower Tuesday morning. There's
nothing to it-not a thing. Moth.
ing to it. And as for the other case,
for which have just finished serv-
ing a term. on the Fulton county
changing we'll. it takes all tho
philosophy and strength of charac-
ter that man possesses who has
lived rightly; and all the adaptabili-
ty with which his philosophy can
endow him, to suffer as I have suf-
fered for things Of which he is ut
terly innocent, and Of which he
knows absolutely nothing"
And that was Victor lines one
and only reference to the disappear
ance Of Eloise helms Dennis and her
sister, Beatrice Nelms, which con-
stituted one of the greatest TRACE
dies, and probably the most battling
mystery, that ever crept in more
or less definitive form across the
record books Of Georgia and Texas
law, and stretched it's devious way
through Frisco to Portland, Ore.
Victor Innes was released Tuesday
morning from the Sandy Springs
camp of the Fulton county convict
system. At once he was arrested
by. federal authorities, on an indict
ment dated July Is, 1915, charging
using of the Uniteds States mails TO
defraud. From the United States
marshaIs office he was taken to the
office of the clerk of the court where
he was committed to the Fulton
tower to await trial in default of q
$4,000 bond.
Sentenced for Larceny
! The term he had finished serv-
! ing was for larceny after trust
after his extradition from .Texas
where there had been an attempt
to show that he and his wife had
murdered tie helms girls and dc
/ stroyed their bodies, dissoIving tn
\ flesh in a I've solution and Crime
| ing the bones to powder. But TIT
| Texas law-the law of the "Corpu1
! Delicti" --blocked that action, WITH
the impossible problem Of produc
ing the body of the deceased, o.
sufficient thereof to establish the
fact of death.
Back in Atlanta, Hugh Dorsey,
at the instance of Mrs. j.. w.
helms, the mother, and widow O.
the. late Sheriff Nelms, prosecuted
Innes and his wife and gained d
conviction. He was sentenced IT,
seven years Imprisonment; she ~
three. She was releaseda April z,
1920. Assumably she has gone back
to their home on the Pacific coast.
Innes got $40 days off his sentences
for good behavior-a year and g
half.
And as for Victor Innes, he stood
in the welI-barred lobby (save, tho
markD, of the Fulton tower Tues
day morning, smoking a CIGARETTE
rolled by himself; attired in new,
substantial blue overalls, topped by
a dark overcoat; wearing black
SLOUGH hat on his gray hair; hill
eyes twinkling away back OF his
spectacles; waiting for quarters to
be assigned him.
"a matter of small moment II |
have this place or that" said Victor
Innes. eff there's one thing you
acquire, being knocked about by life,
| it's adaptability. Lacking that,
you're out of luck"
DR.. Auten, county physician, stood
near.
You're looking mighty WELL" he
told Times. Innes looked at him
quickly. $
That's an opinion, Doc he said
with q smile. You are not basing
that on an examination"
well, you certainly look well ana
robust" said the Doc.
"Yes-T am we'll, only my back Is
busted" was the reply. ''I did d
lot of hard work out there. The
hardest work I ever did in my life"
Hands Show Work
Sure-enough, Innes' hands were
the hands Of a manual worker;
large, adequate hands; Drowned an
calloused and strengthened, by rea
toll. He rolled another cigarette
with them, the manipulation being
oddly deft for such thick, strong
| fingers.
| at was we'll enough treated at the
camp, TOO" said he. Charlie Gates,
the boss, does just what a man has
to do in his place. When there is
e. disagreement between a prisoner
L. 49,
word. He has to. You would. I
would. Anybody would who main.
tanned discipline. He is a fair man
L have nothing but commentators
for him and his administration at
The camp"
a Tower attendant came up.
What did you say your age was
-fifty-eight?" he asked Innes
Fright" said Innes. He did nor
look that old: in his early fifties.
rather.
ooh, I'm fifty-eight, all right" he
said. He took off the black SLOUGH
hat and ran his fingers through his
nearly white hair, rather long and
curly. at was only bit gray when
1 went out there" he said rer1ecxIve
ly. Hardly gray at all. Well, !
went through a metamorphosis at
the camp. I'm a changed man, in
q way. Not that I was degraded By
vicious associates out there-no. A
man of settled habits, convictions
and principles does not yield TO the
objective evils of environment or
companions.
'Still, there is an influence, sub
jective, not objective. Impressions
of environment are absorbed by the
subconscous mind, whether or not
And they linger. Maybe they become
a part of you. I don't knew. Socra-