Omaha daily bee., 1908-05-10
She is Mrs. Heron of Chicago and
Quickly Proves Identity.
PHYSICIAN EXAMINES THE BODY
Doctor Says Corpse Found in Ruins is
Not that of Mrs. Guinness.
WORK OF DIGGING IS RESUMED
Omcers Are Trying to Trace Young
Farmland Named Canary who
Disappeared Two Years
Ago.

on West Van Buran street informed the
police today that q man ana woman, the
latter much resembling the pictures OF
Mrs. Guinness, entered his place early to-
day. The waitress handed them a paper
containing a picture Of the woman on the
front page They hastily left the place
without eating the food they had ordered,
and the proprietor and waitress followed
them to the street and watched them until
they ran up an alley. The curious actions
of the woman attracted attention in the
first place, and the proprietor declares she
bore a remarkable resemblance to the La
Porte woman. Police are now seeking for
the couple.
! SYRACUSE, N Y, May s-Mrs. Cora
Belle Heron, widow of Frederick b. Her
ron, former vice president of the Sethness
Chemical company of Chicago. was ar
rested by Syracuse detectives in a Pull
man sleeper this morning on suspicion Of
being Mrs. Belle Guinness, the La Porte
alleged murderess Mrs. Heron quickly
was able to prove her identity and will go
on to New York this afternoon.
The young woman. who answers the de-
scription of Mrs. Guinness only i'm being
considerably above the average in height
and weight characterized her arrest as an
outrage, without the shadow of an excuse
|
she has a summer home, and was accom-
panied by her mother, Mrs. Lucy Burton.
She said that she boarded the train at
! Cleveland, o., and was on her way to
New York to visit her sister, Mrs. Charles
p. Rockefeller of No. 317 West Fortieth
street. She telegraphed Mrs. Rockefeller,
telling her of her detention and asked her
to wire corroboraton of her story.
Mrs. Heron is still in the matron's
rooms at police headquarters. An effort is
being made to have her sign papers releas-
ing the city of Syracuse from liability for
her arrest.
Body Not That OF Mrs. Guinness.
LA PORTE. Ind. May e-Dr. II. II. Long,
'ne of the physicians who performed the
autopsy on the body of the woman found
In the runs OF the Guinness home, after
the fire, today made the following state
ment:
I'm my opinion the body of the woman
found in the house is not that OF Mrs
Guinness.
"A strange coincidence is that the fore
heads of all the children were burned at
the same place. This is extraordinary A
skull crushed by blow at any point and
then subjected to fire, would be more likely
to burn away at that point than at sound
places. as the heat and fire would reach
the bony structure and thus attack the
cartilsges from both sides. The theory
that her head has been entirely burned
away is dsproved by the fact that being
subject to the 5ame intensity of heat and
flames. and being harder. it could not have
burned away easily as the skulls of the
children.
THE body at the morgue is not that Of
Mrs Guinness, because it is not correctly
I proportioned It is that of rather plump
woman of the same general contour of
Mrs. Guinness but weighing between $50
and 16O pounds. Mrs. Guinness was literally
a succession OF pillows of flesh, and weighed
fully 225 pounds.
Fingers Well Cared For.
"The arm that was burned off was found
beside the body and is we'll formed The
fingers show evidence OF careful manicur-
ing and that was something that Mrs.
Guinness knew nothing about.
"Basing my statements on the statistics
and figures of eminent physicians of this
country and Great Britain, frd that the
body at the morgue is almost five inches
shorter than the body of Mrs. Guinness
would be in under similar circumstances.
The fire would, of course. cause the body
to loose weight, but the general physical
Mrs. Guinness was a woman of un
usual appearance She was large, boney.
powerful looking, with square Jaws and
| black eyes. She was a woman who would
attract attention anywhere from her lack
of womanly characteristics She wore a
large fur coat during the winter, and her
| long strides, together with her remarkable
countenance and her generally vicious ap-
pearance, gave her an aspect that was al
I most terrifying"
Work of Digging Resumed
The work of digging on the Guinness
! farm was resumed today, only one man.
however. being put at work.
! The local authorities are endeavoring to
| trace a young man named Canary, who. ii
/ is believed. may have been one OF the vic
| tins of Mrs. Guinness A letter was re-
ceived this morning from his mother. AIR,
| j. NJ Canary, Pine Lake Ind, saying that
her son, who was about 20 years OF age
has completely disappeared and that she
has had no word from him for almost two
years. Ii is known that young Canary
worked for Henry Bizge who lived about
one quarter Of a mile from the Guinness
] farm He disappeared entirely in June
| 1906. Mrs Canary declares in her Litter
/ that the boy was not intellectually bright
and says that he at one time burned an
empty cottage for the pleasure of seeing IL
destroyed. 1t is known that he was around
! the Guinness place at various times one
| circumstance which is considered to be
against his having been killed by Mrs
I Guinness is the fact that the boy rarely
I had any money with him.
| About one year ago man arrived in La
/ Porte from some place in the state Of New
York, He said that he had made arrange
ments TO work for Mrs Guinness and that
she was going to buy horse and buggy
which he had lie has never been heard
/ Of since lie went to the Guinness farm and
his buggy was today identified while stand
| ing in shed on the Guinness place.
No Trace of Jennie Olson.
} IL has been conclusively proven that the