The Washington herald., 1908-05-22

Laporte. May 21-Following the fling
Of his official report and verdict which
declares the charrcd bones found in the
fire ruins to be that Of Mrs. Belle Gun
ness, Coroner Mack to-day completed his
report and verdict, finding that the three
bodies found In the debris were those Of
her children. The coroner finds that the
death Of Mrs. Guinness and her children
was due TO "Felonious homicide the per-
petrator OF which is not known"
Coroner Macks verdict on the bodies
that were taken from the graveyard will
declare Mrs. Guinness TO be the murderer
or accomplice in the cases Of Andrew
Helgelein, Ole Budsberg, and Jennie Oh
son, and Of the other unidentified VIC
Tins. This verdict will also be fled to-
morrow.
To-day has been devoid Of sensations in
the Guinness tragedy. There were no
grewsome finds. no bodies taken from the
private cemetery. no identifeations of
skeletons were made at the two city
morgues. but the morrow. however, may
bring results.
To-day the floor in the cellar of the
eharnel house was torn out and excava-
tons made TO a depth Of three feet, but
no additional bodies were found.
Duquesne Man Missing.
John E. Hunter, Of Duquesne. Pa, will
probably prove TO be one OF the victims Of
the murderess. He left his home Novem-
Der 25 1907, for a Northern Indiana town,
as he told his family, to marry a wealthy
widow. He took with him a large sum Of
money. telling his daughters that he did
not know when he would return. To-day
a daughter. Mrs. Kulers. OF McKeesport,
Pa. appealed 10 Coroner Mack to answer
her prayer by finding her father. who is
ffty-two years old. dead or alive, at the
same time expressing the fear that ne
went to his death in the chaTnel house.
George Williams Of WapawaIlopen.
Pa, and Ludwig Stoll, Of Mount Yeager,
Pa, we're also reported to the authori-
ties to-day as having left their homes for
the port OF missing men. When Williams
left home it was with the statement that
when he returned 1t would be with
wife
Stoll. also a victim OF the matrimonial
bureau, left a fine farm Of several hun
dTed acres. in Pennsylvania. TO marry,
as he termed It, q wealthy widow in the
West Williams farm was sold a few
days after the flashing of the news Of
the Guinness tragedy. Disposition was
made in the same way OF the Stoll farm.
Pennsylvania relatives of the missing
men viii come to this city 10 view the
skeleton forms in the improvised morgue,
but with little hope Of Identification.
owing 10 the decomposed condition of the
bodies which have yet to be buried in
potter's field
Seeking Her BrOtheR
Mrs. B. F. CARING. Of Chicago. says her
brother left home a year ago telling
friend he was going 10 meet a widow
with lots of money. She will be a visitor
az the morgue. Despite the assertion Of
the dentist, DR.. Norton, who filed the
teeth Of Mrs. Guinness with gold, that his
filings have been found in the ruins at
the house, at least IS per cent Of the peo-
pie in and about LapOTte believe that the
archmuTdeTess Is still alive and is hiding.
After many days of investigation by
fifty special newspaper correspondents,
half dozen Pinkerton detectives. the en-
tire staff Of the sherifTs Office at Laporte,
and the police force Of the town. the
terrible series Of crimes perpetrated at
the brick house on the Hill remains as
unsoIved as it was in the beginning, and
there are still 100 mysteries in the Gun
ness tragedies.