Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-10-26
FEDERAL WARRANT
SERVED ON RELEASE
FROM COUNTY GANG
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about the earth being the center of
the universe, but he knew as much
psychology as Hudson and Freud
and all the rest of them. Ever read
Socrates? He's worth your time. [
suppose human nature, and incident
ally psychology, was much the same
in Socrates time as in GUS. Logic
also.
Discusses Future
"And speaking of logic and train
ing, how logical does it appear to
you that man who has spent years
as a prosecuting officer of the law;
in bringing offenders to justice; in
practicing in federal courts-how
logical does it appear to you that
such a man should transgress the
law, and get crossways with the
same authorities by stupid misuse
of the mails? Not logical, what? t
think not 1t is the instinct Of the
officer of the law, the prosecutor, to
be with the law, in word and deed.
1t is against his instinct to trans
gress the law And surely he knows
what the law is"
This evidently was with reference
to the present indictment of the fed
eral court. AS to the helms case
at have suffered as an innocent
man. said Innes. "And yesterday
is yesterday-'one with. yesterday S
seven thousand years." he quoted
from the Rubaiyat. Its past now.
And what 1 am to do now, and where
am to go, and what l am to do
with myself and freedom? That's my
own personal business. I think the
newspapers will az, ee TO that"
Suave and even jaunty in his blue
overalls, smoking his homemade
of the spectacles; brown and sun
Victor lines leaned against the desk
in the Tower lobby and waited for
his room" to be assigned to him.
I'm not bothered about the loca,
ton, and if it's an outside room
has connecting BATH" he said.
"One gets over such trif1ing tastes in
a few years in camp. I've been
metamorphosed, you see :"
1t was something like a decade
ago that Victor Innes appeared at
the beginning of a mystery that
DoI-1 4NellS the Sll CllSSSI IdIlClSS "
GabOrieau, a mystery that has puZ-
zied the courts of many states and
left it's trail half around the CONT
nent.
Ten years ago, Victor Innes was
a dashing young lawyer III the west.
He must have been in his late for
ties, then, but photographs of him
at that time make him appear as
l, r, L7c, ~,
and moustache, done in the mode
before the days of patent-leather
coiffures for men; quite the dandy,
he was then.
Met Him at Reno
And that was the time when Mrs.
Elo:se Nelms Dennis, going to Reno
New, to seek a divorce from her
husband, found Innes there and EN-
ployed him. He won the divorce
and her heart. When she came
home, it seems, she told her mother
Of her love for the young lawyer
and her confidence in his business
ability as well as IN his devotion to
herself.
Innes, she said, was investing hel
money-she had come into consider
able property, along with her sister
in various ways which, she had
teen assured, would bring her large
and prompt returns.
Mrs. Nelms was skeptical. So was
Miss Beatrice helms, her sister. And
later there came letters and tele
grams, Mrs. helms afterWard re
counted, all having to Go with the
transfer of money to the indefat!'
gable Innes, who was said to be IT.
vesting it SO well.
Later still came mysterious ap
DointmentS, with man and a WON
an. Innes is believed to have been
the man. The woman was said tC
be his sister, who was to "keeT
house" for him and Eloise, after
they were married and went to In
/ dia, the land of romance md mys
terry.
And always the apparent idea OF
investments"
The Nelms family was living near
Smyrna at the time, Marshall Nelms
| the son. being out on the coast.
Then came arrangements for Mrs
Dennis to go to San Antonio, Tex.
to join Times, for some reason that
Seemet sound to her. But her Siste.
and mother were worried, and the
sister decided to GO with her.
All this has been established def