Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1908-05-15
GUINNESS H0M4N
NOT DEAD, HIDING,
Is LATEST BELIEF
ALLEGED OGRESS THOUGHT TO
HAVE E6CAPED FLAMES WHICH
BURNED Her HOME.
TWO MORE BODIES ARE FOUND
Possibility That Skeletons Dug Up Are
Remains OF People Murdered
in Chicago.
OFFICERS WORK EVERY CLUE.

LApORTE, Ind, May CT Special. /
Two more CHASTITY finds were made on
the farm Of Mrs. Belle Guinness today
when the skeletons Of two adults were
dug up by the searching crew. One was
found III q pine box and is badly dccOm-
posed. The other was buried 4 feet be-
low the surface, wrapped in 4 cloth. An
examination viii be made to determine
whether the skeletons are those of men
or women.
The latest theory and the one upon
which the police are now working is
that Mrs. Guinness and her children
were not incinerated in the burning of
her home, that the bodies were brought
here from Chicago by her, that plausi-
bility might be given the theory that
she and her family had fallen victims to
the flames and while i'll reality it was
the contamination of plot which en-
abled her to see safety i'll flight with her
children. The statement was made to
the police today by a man whose name
cannot now be divulgCd, that Mrs GUM
ness was seen to board IA train going out
Of the city and that she is now on her
way to Norway. This theory is suf-
ficicntly well defined as to warrant rigid
police investigation, which is now being
made.
VIII Drag Lake.
Fish Trap lake will be dragged for
the missing head and unless it is found
the officers will make a post norton ex-
animation Of the remains of Mrs. GUM
ness and subject them to q more care
full analysis TO learn whether or not the
woman was killed by the fire or had
substituted the remains of one Of her
female victims for herself and then set
fire to the house to cover uD the crime
;e,Y ,niy I'd VI EI,, &c
that Mrs. Guinness is alive, that the day
before the Guinness home was burned
the woman deposited $500 in the state
bank here. She was worth about S2O,-
O00 and her passion for money is given
as the incentive for the crimes commit
ted. A belief that she might be alive in
cIudes the supposition that she feared Roy
Lamphere, her former employee, was
about to expose her through jealousy.
Suspect Insurance Plot
The sheriff has notified the Chicago
notice to be on the lookout for a gang in
chat city believed to be in a murder plot
for purposes of collecting insurance. The
gang is believed to have disposed of
parts of the bodies in Laporte On SAT-
urday, April %, two days before her
home was burned, Mrs. Guinness re-
ceived by express from Chicago, four
large trunks. What their contents were
has not been learned. Sheriff Shutter is
confident. however, that they contained
bodies of murdered people, shipped here
from Chicago. This leads the officers to
suspect that Mrs. Guinness conducted a
ttmurder fence" to dispose of bodies of
persons murdered in Chicago for their
life insurance.
The startling revelations have awak-
iened LapOrte people to recollection of
tsome strange occurrences at the GUM
ness home during the last year Last
summer Mrs. Guinness reported to Chief
of Police Cochran that child had been
murdered in the woods back Of her house
,hy man and woman who had driven
past her home
Finds Child's Grave
The officer investigated, but could
find no trace of the body, and dropped
Che case Not a week later Mrs. GUM
ness sent her little daughter to him to
state that she could take him to the spot
where the supposed murdered child had
been buried. Cochran went with the
girl and in the woods she showed him
an empty hole, explaining that some
'one must have taken the body away.
Cochran now believes that Mrs. GUM
mess slew the child and later buried it.
Body Is Identified.
Anton Olson of Highlands. Ind. father
lof Jennie Olson, who was adopted by
Mrs. Guinness. today identified the body
found yesterday as that of his daughter.
He said: AZ know it is my daughter by
her shape and by her wavy light colored
hair / heard from her about two years
ago, but had not had letter since that
time Mrs. Guinness took my daughter
when she was S months old and had
charge of her ever since.
Carried Trunks to Home.
Claud Sturgis. employed by Foster &,
Dcgarmo, local deliverymen, today stated
that he took two large. trunks to the
Guinness home in the spring of 1907.
They were very heavy and were bound
together with ropes, and he offered to
assist Mrs. Guinness in removing the
ropes. but Mrs. Guinness refused his as
sistance and appeared to be greatly agi-
tated. He was told not to interfere with
business which did not concern him.
Sturgis also recalls that these trunks
were irOnbound and that officers are now
working on theory that these trunks
contained human bodies and the bodies
thus consigned may be those uncovered
yesterday.
Jennie Olson was last seen alive. it ap-
pears in the light of the evidence un-
covered today, two weeks before Christ
Goinness home and it is believed it was
at this time she was murdered by her
foster mother.
Coroner Makes Statement
Or. J. H. w Meyer. the coroner here
said today: The body identified yes
terday as that of Andrew HeIgeIein
bears no resemblance whatever to him
Helgelein disappeared about the first
of the year and if he was buried then
his body by now would of course be
badly decOmposed. The bodies dug nm
yesterday are in excellent condition. The
skin is apparently fresh, there is not a