The sun., 1908-05-17
MRS. GUINNESS 4 HYpNOYTYY
A BOOK ON HYPNOTTSM FOUND
m THE RUINS,

Also Pages From Book on Anatomy and
IN diminished Letter In which she wrote
Despairingiy- Of Her intended VIC
tins Turn Up--Reports OF Finding Her.
LAroRrE. Ind. May 1e.-Search In the
ruins OF the house at the Guinness murder
farm yesterday and to-day brought 10
light evidences that Mrs. Guinness had
attempted to equip herself as hypnotiet.
A book, partially burned. treating OF
hypnotism was found. Pages from book
on anatomy were found also.
Among the burned pages was found q
scrap Of an unfinished letter written by
Mrs. Guinness. This is distinguishable:
Il seem changed since that time. Despair
and terror are with me in the last few weeks.
cannot understand why
Sheriff Smutzer continued the screening
Of the debris and the sluicing Of the ashes.
but aside from securing fragments OF
burned bones pothing new developed.
Particles that lo6k like gold were found
and will be examined.
Reports that Mrs. Guinness has been
found continue TO come Such reports
came to-day from California, Mexico and
Indianapolis. A Cincinnati detective agency
says it has positive evidence that she was IN
Indianapolis week ago, where she was
seen by Lake Erie and Western Railway
brakeman who made frequent visits to
Laporte and who is said to have been a
visitor at the Guinness place.
Other intended victims we're found to-day.
Joseph Freshling of Camden, Ohio, says
he made the acquaintance of Mrs. Guinness
through a matrimonial agency. He pro-
duoed r letter which he had received from
her six months ago asking him to make
out an account Of his possessions and to
come TO Indiana on certain Gate TO meet
her. The letter was signed Elizabeth
Guinness and not Mrs. Guinness, as most OF
her other letters are signed
Thank God that l am alive, was the ex-
clsmation in letter received this morning
He, like others. had answered matrimonial
advertisements and the lovemaking had
progressed to the point where Catchousen
was making preparations to visit the woman.
Come at once II you have 50 600 was the
message of Mrs. Guinness to her Illinois
lover. But he got a message to hurry TO the
home of his parents at Bishop Hill. ILL.,, and
went there.
An Indianapolis man still has two of her
letters. One of them, written in July. 1907,
came to him directly from Laporte. 1t
was signed Belle Guinness. He received
OtHei tnt NhIOW lo Woo
addressed to him from house in Ellis ave-
nue., Chicago, and was signed Elizabeth
Guinness. The supposition is that the
second letter was sent by Mrs. Guinness or
an sccomplice The letter urged the In
dianapolis man to meet her at the Ellis
avenue house. He was i'll at the time. how
ever and could not go.
The body of Andrew Helglean got a cere-
monial burial to-day.
Sheriff Smutzer announced tonight that
with the appropriation of 81 900 made to-day
by the county council he would detail a
force Of men for work Monday to determine
how many additional bodies are buried in
the woman's graveyard, thus complying
with the insistent demand Of the people
that further excavations be made.
With clear sky tomorrow, and this is
what the weather man promises, it 10 esti-
mated tonight that fully 5000 strangers
will come into the city over the railroad
and intefurban lines. Men arrived here
to-day to sell cards and refreshments who
had driven seventy five miles to be early
on the scene.