The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-05-14
GUINNESS HAPPY
HAD EMPLOYEES To
DRUM UP VICTIMS
Letters Show That Others Col
lected Mail for Her in
Many Towns.
HER AGENT APPROACHED
MAN IN PUBLIC SQUARE
Wanted Him to Go to See La
porte ArCh-Slay =
Seek Missing Ones.
Especial to the Evening stsr.l

LAPORTE, Ind, May 14.-That Mrs.
Belle Guinness, the arch-slayer. employ
ed drummers as we'll as F, matrimonial
advertisements to find victims, is the
latest amazing development of the
murder-farm atrocities.
A letter came to Chief of Police
Cochrane from a nan in Cleveland, o.
The letter says hat last August while
the latter was standing in the Cleve-
LAND public square a well-dressed man
engaged him in conversation He
asked the writer casually If he vas
married and the writer replied tina he
was not. Immediately the stranger
told him about a rich widow living in
Laporte who wanted "a man. The
stranger asked the writer if he was
willing to so to Laporte to see the
woman, IN when the latter declined
the stranger said the woman would go
to Cleveland if her fare was paid. The
stranger also turned over a picture of
the lLaporte widow. 1t is a picture of
Mrs. Guinness, of the penny variety.
The authorities also got evidence to
show that an agent for Mrs. Guinness
had collected mail addressed to her I'M
der her own name and two aliases at
h post offices in Chicago, Peru, Ind. /;
Champaign, ILL.,, ard Warsaw, Ind.
This agent would gather all the mail
sen to Mrs. Gunnes at the various
towns mentioned in response to her
matrimonial advertisements and would
bring the letters to the Guinness house.
Letters Reveal PitifuI stories.
Hundreds of letters revealing pitiful
stories of anxious parents. brothers.
sisters and wives who have waited long
months for word from their loved ones,
are being received by the authorities
investigating the atrocities of Mrs.
Belle Guinness, the arch-slayer.
The letters show that in an aston
fishing number of cases the habits,
characteristics or physical peculiarities
of the missing persons have been either
unknown or forgotten. SO that the au-
thorities are powerless to give the aid
sought.
The attorneys for Lamphere, the ac-
cused farm hand, are salt to be looking
for David Ravens, who, it is reported
aided in ~uncovering the bodies of the
persons whom Lamphere is accused OF
numbering. The attorneys say thai
Ravens has declared that the bod
les were found in the cellar of the
Guinness home, thus showing hat the
bodies had been placed in the cellar
previous to the beginning of the fire
which destroyed the farm house.
Victims Killed in Night Clothes.
The testimony of Sheriff Shutter and
of the physicians who examined the
corpses established the fact that the
persons burned were clothed in night
robes and that remains of bedding and
mattresses were also present. If
Havens, when found, s~ubstantiates the
claims of the defense an interesting
conflict of testimony is likely to follow.
The possible determination that the
globules of metal found by the mining
operations on the Guinness farm yes
to-day We're bits of gold used by a
dentist for filings in. or crowns on, the
woman's teeth is likely to be a develop
nlent of Importance in tho case today,
The specimens were turned over to a
local jeweler last night II it is ex-
pected that he will report on them
soon.