The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1908-05-07

and wept like a child His older
daughter tried to console him.
Coroner Mack advised that Miss OIL
sons sister should see the body later
after it is placed in coffin.
Arrangements for an inquest unon
the body of Jennie Olson will be made
at once by the coroner and the father
will then arrange for the burial
telephone inquiry at Highlands
that Olson has been living on small
farm east of Highlands for some time.
Recently he secured a position in Chi
cago and left the farm every Monday
morning to go to work, returning Sat
urday night
Olson has four children and the
neighbors report that he lost one some
time during the winter No one
seemed to know of the recent death
of his daughter Jennie in LaPorte or
of the discovery and Identification of
her body in the Guinness house of
death.
The latest sensation which has de-
veloped as a result of the investiga-
ton that is being carried on by Sher-
if Shutter was the discovery of four
more bodies which were dug up in
house yesterday.
The terrible total now reaches thir-
teen and the people of LaPorte and in
fact the entire country stand aghast
as the fearful crimes of Mrs Guinness
are revealed and the mystery of the
many murders becomes even more
difficult of solution. The days devel-
opments pointed to the conclusion that
Mrs. Guinness ran a fence of clearing
house for corpses for a band of Chi
cago criminals organized into a MUIR
| der trust.
Trunks From Chicago.
This belief is supported by evidence
that many heavy trunks. some idon
bound and others tightly corded, were
| shipped to Mrs. Guinness from Chicago
Nine of these mysterious trunks
] reached her farm house in 1906 In
variably she had them carried to her
home by night.
Once an expressman started to re-
move the ropes from a trunk Mrs
Guinness became excited, showed him
away and told him to mind his own
business. She never permitted the
expressmen to carry the trunks into
the house. They left them on the
porch. Several days after the arrival
the trunks were given to Joseph Max
! son, a hired man, to chop into kindling
He declared all the trunks were stained
inside. He knows now these stains
were blood
| Mayor Lemuel Rarrow of La Porte
declared today he had received secret
evidence that Mrs. Guinness IN dispos
ing of bodies was acting the agen
! for Chicago matrimonial bureau. Mrs
Guinness is known to have advertised
constantly in papers at a distance fol
a wealthy husband.
Chief Schuettler telegraphed that HI
has put his best detectives to worl
upon the Chicago end of the mystery
He has decided to dig up the cellar o
$40 Alma street, the house in which
| Mrs. Guinness lived with her first hus
band, MAIDS Sorenson.
Cement Floor to be Removed.
The floor of this basement, accord
ing to advices from Chicago, was o
cement, but was wavy and broken, a
if it had been tempered with. The pc
lice thing the murderess may hav
buried her earliest victims here.
Sheriff Albert Smulzer said he be
lieved at least twenty-f five bodie
would be unearthed on the Gunnes
premises before the investigation end
ed. He kept a force of laborers al
day digging up the garden and yard
The cement floor of the cellar of TIL
wrecked house also will be dug VI
This floor was put in by Mrs. Gunnes
two years ago. 1t is believed it wa
intended to seal finally many tragi
secrets.
BIuebeard Hall Barred.
The delivers among the ruins of tn
Guinness home todaw barred the rooT
in which the murderess is believe
to have cut up the bodies of her vic
Tins. It has been named the "chambe
of horrors" and 'Bluebeard hall" ]
Is a basement room with cement foo
windowless, and with only one doc
openinE at the top of a narrow stair
way. IN the secrecy of this un
foreground chamber, the woman, it
believed. worked by lamplight at he
ghoulish task of saving up and dis
Numbering the corpses of those sh
had murdered.
That Mrs. Guinness has not fed an