Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1908-05-11
MEN MYsTERIOUsLY DISAPPEAR
Farmland Says Room In Guinness
House Was Full of Trunks.

OKLAHOMA CITY, Okl.. May 1O.--An i'm
portant chapter in the LaPorte murder
story, developed here Saturday when Emil
Greening, a carpenter. and his brother,
Fred. a painter. both Of whom worked last
summer on the Indiana farm. gave circum-
stantial details of the mysterious visits OF
dozen men to the home of Mrs. Bella
Guinness and Of their mysterious disappear
ance.
The Greetings live in Oklahoma City.
having come here recently from the east
and have been engaged at their trades. Jen-
ME Olsen, II years old and pretty, the
adopted daughter of Mrs. Guinness. was
Emil Greening's sweetheart. She is among
the missing and today, grieving because he
could not hear of her. gave It his belief
that the girl had been murdered. He de-
clared that her body had not yet been found
and that her name must be added to the
already long list of victims.
Jennie and were good friends and she
told me a good deal about herself when we
were alone" said Emil Greening here to-
day in the course of an interview.
when her mother decided to send her
away TO California with a professor who
was reported to have come after her, but
whom I never saw. Jennie came to me and
| declared that she would never go.
"1n the morning did not see Jennie and
her mother told me that she had beer
awake almost all night and that she was
still asleep and did not want to be dis
| turbed. | was sent on an errand in the aft
ernoon and when got back was told tha
Jennie was gone. l wrote her, but l gave
| the two letters to Mrs. Guinness. 1 never
received any answer. Finally l got so tireC
] bn ,la xtytt
| Jennie that left. don't believe there wa,
ever a professor, for l slept in the room
next to Jennie's and l did not hear anJ
| mans voice.
Mrs. Guinness told me later that Jennie
had left at O'Clock that same morning
/ but ne one saw her leave and no one about
the place ever saw the professor.
IAN the day following the disappearance
Mrs. Guinness was very nervous.
Mrs. Guinness received men visitors al
the time. A different man came nearl!
every week and they always stayed at tn,
house. shs introduced them as her cousins
and they came from Kansas, South Dakota
Wisconsin and many from Chicago. Sew
eral were never seen 10 reave the place.
1 Most of the men that came brought
their trunks with them, but they rarely
took the trunks away. We never knew wher
TO expect these fellows but they almost
always had money
Mrs. Guinness kept them with her al
the time in the pariors and her room. Sh,
was always careful to make the children
stay away from her cousins, who rarely
tried TO show them any affection.
After Jennie left the visitors were sup
posed to occupy her room, which was mex
10 mine, but was never able TO hear then
at night ( never knew OF Mrs. Guinness
bestowing her affections upon any Of hel
hired hands except Ray Lamphere. S
many men came and / saw so little of ther
that I can't remember many OF them, bu
I distinctly remember Mr.. Moo. who cam,
from Chicago the day before Christmas
1906. He was with Mrs, Guinness almos
constantly.
when he left his trunks stayed beh'nt
and 40 one saw him go. Il vas severa
days before Mrs. Guinness admitted tha
he was gone.
TN about Two weeks 1 was again sent t
Michigan City and still there was no horse
but when / got back another cousin wal
missing and no one around the place hat
seen him leave.
'In the light Of what has happened re
Gently l can see that many bloody anS
mysterious things were going on righ
under my nose Mrs. Glinness had a it'll
piece fenced off just south Of the kitcher
She never allowed any Of the hands 70 &
near Il and she would fly into a rage il
man looked that way when he was passina
| Two sides Of 10 We're barricaded wit
barrels and boxes. shutting off the view
but from the other two sides you could set
that Il looked like a garden In spots"