The Washington times., 1908-05-18
Forty Witnesses Summoned
at Inquiry Into Firing of
Guinness Home.
SUSPECTED WOMAN
ON WAY OVER SEA
Hamburg Authorities Asked TO Ar
rest Her-Traffic in Death and
Arson Yielded $4,000.

LA PORTE, Ind. May 18-The La
Forte county grand jury today took up
the case Of Ray LampheTe. accused OF
numbering Mrs Belle Guinness and her
three children, and firing the Guinness
home. Forty witnesses were on hand.
Coroner Mack today received a letter
from Mrs. Henry Wesler, 5254 Maple
street, Toledo. Ohio. declaring her
fear tnat her daughter was a Guinness
victim The girl was a graduate of VAL
paraiso College, the letter said, and re-
turned home November .. 1902. short
" after that she disappeared
The body OF Ole Budsburg, one or
the Guinness victims. was shipped 10
Budsburg's home, at lola. WIS. today
Tumorrow digging viii be resumed in
the Guinness private grave yard.
Mrs. Guinness Crossing Ocean.
Mrs. Guinness is on her way across
the Atlantic on the neutrality-suspicious.
liner Dauia, according to information
received by Sheriff Shutter. The po-
lice authorities at Hamburg have been
asked by cable 10 arrest the woman
upon her arrival
The Identification in Galveston. Tex,
OF a woman who tallies with the miss
ing murderess was made by Jfnes
Stokes and Frank Dayton, who talked
with the woman just as she was about
to sail or the Dania. Several OF the
passengers were discussing the la
Porte case. and their first suspicion
that the woman with whom they We're
talking was Mrs. Guinness was aroused
by the curiosity which she manifested
FaaH.4rG.H.arT rfr-Fnr
clared she had never before heard any
thing about the case.
She said that she was amiliar with
Indiana. having visited in Indianapolis
a number OF times. In explaining her
object iu going abroad she said that
her husband mad just died and that
she was going 10 Germany to settle his
estate.
This woman IS believed to have been
the same one who passed through ST
Louis . day earlier and who was
thought hY Union Station officials 10
be Mrs. Guinness. She attracted atten-
ton by her extreme nervousness.
$4,000 From Murders.
A calculation Of the amount Of money
which Mrs. Guinness realized by her
traffic in human life sets the amount at
more than 1000 The following shows
the amounts she obtained from various
victims.
From MAIDS Sorcuson. her first hus-
band, life Insurance. s.. 600: Peter GUM
ness, second husband. life insurance,
$4,000; Charles Erdman. New Carlisle.
Ind, $500; Herman Kontzer. Chicago.
5000, FIRE H. Guinness store. Chicago.
insurance, s. 800; fire in Guinness house
in Austin, III insurance. S1.535, Ole
BudsbeTg lola. Wis. 5000, John o.
Moo. Elbow Lake. MINI, 81 90: An
drew Helgu!ein, Aberdeen. s D. g. 800.
George Berry, Tuscola, III. $500; Hen
ry Gerhalr. lola. Wis. $1,000. Crom four
men other than the above, whose bodies
were found in Mrs Guinness's grave
yard ESTIMATED at $1,000 each). $1,000:
from fifteen other men. who were in
correspondence with Mrs. Guinness and
mysteTiOusIy disappeared ESTIMATED at
81 90 esch). $1,000
Sheriff Shutter I'D his men have
made careful inquiries in endeavOring
to learn what Mrs. Guinness did with
all this money. They are as much in
the dark after their Investigation as
they were before. It is likely that the
SIzJ that Mrs Guinness put in a safety
deposit yaulc the day OF the fire was
an the money she then possessed.