The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-05-09
TEN BODIES HAVE
BEEN EXHUMED AT
GUINNESS FARM
laporte Horror Grows as
Search Progresses
REMAINS OF A WOMAN
Suspect Believed to 30 Mrs.
Guinness Has Been Arrested at
Utica.

Utica, May 9.-The Syracuse police
officers took woman from train
reaching here this morning at 1880
from the west on suspicion that she
might be Mrs Belle Guinness, the al
legged Laporte murderess. The Off.
ers were informed from Rochester
that the woman answered the de.
scription OF Mrs. Guinness and they
boarded the train at Syracuse.
The woman was asleep and the
train pulled out while she was dress
| ing and the officers came on here
Arriving at the station she said she
was Mrs. l.. A. Heron and that she
was a widow from Chicago, on her
way to New York to visit her sister
She resembles I'm many par
ticulars the picture published of Mrs
Guinness, but the officers are In
doubt as to her being the woman
wanted. She is stylishly dressed in
black and her costume is that of a
widow.
She declared herself the widow of a
Chicago manufacturer who died last
January. When she was brought into
the station here she partially broke
down. She was accompanied by a
benevolent looking well-dressed old
lady. whom she said was her mother.
| 1t is not understood that she was
under arrest here, but detained under
suspicion. When the next westbound
train reached here shortly after o.
clock the officers took her back to
Syracuse.
La Porte. Ind, May S.-One more
body was added to the death roll of
The Belle Guinness farm today, max
ing total OF ten bodies and skeletons
exhumed In the yard. besides the four
bodies found in the ruins of the farm
house after the fire of April 2s.
The announcement by Coroner Mack
that two bodies had been discovered
only served TO increase the rush of
curiosity seekers. The scraps of hui
nanity were found In the barnyard,
which had already given up nine cada-
yers, and We're discovered under cir.
cnmstances similar to those which
prevailed on Tuesday and Wednesday
The body was by far the least pre-,
served OF any OF the ten. In addition
10 the usual traces of lime, the body
showed that less skillful hand had
iismembered 1t. The legs had been
as usual, severed above the knee
Joint, but the bones were splintered
The shoulder blade' was shattered in
cleaving the head from the body. The
skull was lying near the.pelvis Moth
ng but jumbled heap OF decayed
lesh and crumbling bones was left to
indicate the identity of the person. II
was thought, however, that the body
was that of n woman. as a pair of wo
mems oxford shoes and the meta
rame of woman's purse were found
IN the grave.
With the worldwide publicit,
given to La Porte In the last few days
queries as to the whereabouts of mer
who are said to have started for the
town from different parts of the coun
Try have begun to pour in, but Sherif
Smutzer declines to disclose theil
names.
Two rumors are current, one that {
man from Providence was among tn,
dead, and another. that a man Twin,
in Ohio is said to have visited Mrs
Guinness, and that in a few days late
she explained the possession of hi
horse and carriage after he had disap
peared by the explanation that sh,
had traded with him."
The only suitor whose name ha
: not been mentioned hitherto is Der
Albert of Huron, s. d.. to whom sh,
IS said to have promised marriage.
plan that never was carried out be
cause of his lack of wealth.
The woman frequently changed he
signature, sometimes signing Gun
ness" and often writing 1t Guinness.
The generally accepted spelling of tn
name, however, in La Porte is Cur
. mess"