Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1908-05-14
MURDER FIENO WHO
LURED men, LIVES
Mrs. Belle Guinness, Monstrous
Female Assassin, Is in
Hiding.
BROTHERS. OPINION
AZ TO MURDER.

eRoTHER's OPINION :
AZ TO MURDER. =
Helgaltne. another brother. said to- =
7 day his supicions were aroused be-
Gauge of some trouble between Mrs.
ma,s'1 now Under strsst: FIJI wa, was
reported in a clipping received from
LaPorte authorities Of whom he !
had inquired for the w~hereabouts Of =
Andrew. Henry declares his belief
that his brother was murdered soon =
after he. received the money and
auarrelled over The division OF :
spoih. =
Laporte, Ind, May s.-From
out of the mass of tangled sensa
tional evidence, which indicates
that Mrs. Belle Guinness was one
of the most monstrous murderers
of the century; that her beautiful,
we'll kept farm a mile from La
porte, was a clearing house Of as
sassination and crime, there de-
veloped today the startling theory
that the woman did not die in the
fire which destroyed her home on
the night Of April %; that she
still lives and is in hiding, prob
ably in Chicago.
This theory is strengthened by
the fact that the head Of the body
of the woman found in the ruins
of the Guinness home after the
fire is still missing. although
every effort was made by the au-
thorities to locate it. Unless the
head is found today, officers will
make a post mortem examination
of the remains Of Mrs. Guinness,
and subject them to more careful
analysis to learn whether or not
the woman was herself killed in
the fire or had substituted the re-
mains of one of her female VIC
tins for herself and then set fire
to the house in order to cover up
the crime. In case it is proved
Mrs. Guinness did substitute the
body of another woman for her
own, it is very likely she also was
guilty Of the murder of her three
children.
More Bodies Found.
The skeleton of a sixth body was
unearthed on the Guinness farm at II
O'clock this morning. The. body is Of
an adult and was found In q box. face
downward. 1t had been buried for
probably two years. 1t has not been
identified.
The seventh body was found on the
Guinness farm this afternoon, buried
four feet deep. 1t is evidently that Of
an adult, but the sex ia unknown. It
had been dismembered k a majority
Of the others
Continuing their digging at the same
place the men came upon the skeletons
Of two more persons. but it was im-
possible to tell what sex.
Examinations made today of two
bodies. which yesterday were supposed
to be those of children. has revealed
they are those of adults. probably men.
They evidently had been buried for sew
eral years. All of them had been dis
embere
Passion for Money.
1t Is pointed out as an opposing the
alive: that h day before the GUM
ness home burned the woman depos-
tied $500 in the State bank here.
She is worth about 5000 0 Her pas
sion for money Is given as the incen-
tive for the crimes committed. The
theory that h might be alive includes
the supposftion that she feared LAM
phere was about to expose her through
jealousy.
Mrs. Guinness maiden name was
Bella Raulson. She was of Norwegian
descent. In 1893 she married Max Sor-
enson. a Swede. who died under sus-
picious circumstances. She married
Phillip Guinness. who came to a yio-
lent death. The claimed it was
an accident; that a sausage grinder fell
on him in the kitchen OF their home.
Both carried life insurance aggregating
$4,000.
Seek Confession.
Sheriff Smother n Prosecuting At
torney Smith expect to make another
effort to secure a confession from
Lamphere this afternoon. In his cell
Lamphere talks sullenly back and
forth.
That more bodies will be found is the
Arm belief Of the officers. They have
the mystery Of the five runk shipped
from Chicago to the Guinness farm to
solve. These trunks all arrived in La
porte during the last our months and
in view 'Of,the developments it is very
probable they contained human bodies,
which now lie hidden III some eclude
spot on the farm.
AceompIiees in Chicago.
1t is the opinion of the authorities
hat Mrs. Guinness had acconplices in
Chicago, and that after the prospective
victims had been lured to that city to
be robbed and murdered. their bodies
were shipped to this city In order to
keep the Chicago police from gaining
knowledge of the crime.
Prosecuting Attorney Smith said to-
day a colored woman named Lizzie
Smith. who once killed a prominent at.