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HELLH HEEREN or CHICAGO,
W., IN Tier way to visit sister Rcrc and
ROumCs Trip After syracuse Police
iscNcr Their Blunder One Of Ncn
vino Gave false Tip Tries To Explain.

--r,s'cA carly this morning on n New York
central train on the suspicion that che was
Mr.. Belle Guinness, the Iaporte Ind.
r.rderer. ia Mrs Cora Belle Heeren, wiGow
., Frederick B Heeren, who was president
he SethHes3 Chemical Compeny Of
OIL. ago. Detectives Carl Mes and John
donovan. who made the Grrest, brought TO
oyrtclse also her mother, Mrs. Lucy Burton
ri franklin, Pa The two women we're
loDt,d up in the matron'5 rooms AZ police
h.. lIuarters until they proved their
identity this morning. Mrs. Heerea and
her mother remained at the police station
,auntarily after they had breakfast at the
..s House, and left on the Empire State
Lures, for New York at O'Clock,
g., soon as Chief Of Police Martin l..
,ad.n reached headquarters this morning
nr gterviewed Alrs. Heeren in the corridor
side his Office and realized Immediately
=, m:s.ake had teen mGds. Mrs.
fl.agan failed to answer the descuI ton OF
V.- Guinness in the essential particular
o, wing number OF teeth set in gold in
b.. upper jaw Mrs Heeren aLs very
,.. md white teeth.
Mrs Hceren asked permission to send a
,..tram 10 her sister, Nlr5 Charles Rookie
.supr Of 3l7 West Forieph street New
Yor, city, whom she wss on her way to
,.sI. Al the time Of her arrest In an inter-
View Mrs, Heeren said:
j is all a case OF mistaken identity.
J have not sent word to any one to verify
nv Uury, as the police are doing that Tor
Co., Ny home is in Chicago, but | have
flviys spent my summers at Franklin, Pa.
on . small farm near that city where | wGs
/ or1.'
Chief Of Police Albert SchaffeC OF Franklin
sid over the long distance telephone that
Mrs Heeren was a schoolmate OF his, and
liz supplied the name OF the hamlet JUS
outside Of Franklin where the family lived,
lie said that Mrs. Heeren had two brothers
who we're farmers at Galloway, Pa, and
gave such particulars that there. was no
POSSIBLE chance OF Mrs Heeren's identified
ION being incorrect.
When Mrs. Heerens husband died In
the South last winter she took his body
10 franklin for burial. She had no children
Since her husbands death she had been IN
chicago most OF the time, but had expected
TO spend the summer with her mother.
ROCHESTER, NY, May 9-E, r. Buell.,
one Of the travelling men who gave the in
formation which led to Mrs Heeren's
arrest told to-day how the suspicious Of
himself and his friend, H +. Hunt, became
aroused
Il suspected the two women on the train,
sald Buell., "and II seemed as II the younger
one wished to escape attention. She was
dressed in black and wore a heavy veil.
This she lifted for a brief moment, and
caught glimpse Of her face. The features
bore such a striking resemblance TO the
pictures the papers have published OF Mrs
Guinness that | was startled, and the men
with me noticed the likeness as quickly
as did
we found paper and compared the
features in the picture with the face Of
the woman In every detail they we're
exactly alike. At least that was our opinion.
We asked the porter where the women
boarded the train and he told us they got
on at Ashtabula. which is between Cleve-
land and Erie
Another thing that seemed 10 sustain
our suspicious was the fact that not only
did the younger woman, aided by her com
panion, seek TO keep out Of sight as much
as possible but as soon as they could they
had their section made up and went to bed.
1t could not have been much later than
! O'Clock when they retired
Mrs. Heeren has a sister, Mrs. Eta V.
Rockefeller, who lives at 81 West Fortieth
street. and brother-in-law Adolph Heercn,
living in Brooklyn at sos ~. Johns place.
Another sister, Miss Sadie Burton, teaches
school at Morristown, \. j.
Mrs Rockefeller learned Of the detention
cf her mother and sister early yesterday
morning from the reporters who called to
interview her. She was greatly shocked,
4 cannot understand how the Syracuse
police could make such a mistake she
sail. MY sister was coming 10 New York
with nv mother 10 visit me. She has been
visiting at Franklin, Pa. Our family home
Is at Bethel, near there, where two OF INV
! rothers have farms. Mrs. Heeren's hus-
/ and died about Christmas time IN Nichs-
! urg Of valvular disease Of the heart He
was travelling salesman and yice-presi-
cent Of the Sethness chemical Company OF
20! North curtis street, Chicago, Mrs.
Heeren was on her way here with the eX-
9 tation Of establishing herself In business
IL this city
Later in the morning Mrs. Rockefeller got !
a telegram from Mrs. Heeren which she |
said had been delayed for several hours by !
tse police II read
Myself and mother taken on the train at |
Syracuse Suspected Of being woman wanted |
hy Chicago police. Everything will be all |
right VIII let you know when We leave for |
New York
Detective Lieutenants Hyams and Hughes |
4 the Central ONCE arrived soon after the |
reporters and put Mrs. Rockefeller through |
a course Of questioning She soon con-
yluced them that the police of Syracuse
had made a mistake They expressed
their intention, however, o. meeting Mrs
Heeren when she arrived in New York after
Ter discharge in Syracuse,
Mrs. Rockefeller and Miss Burton, her
sister, for whom she had tele-
eraphed to MorTistown, ~ j., put in fever.
lsh afternoon waiting for their mother and
.ister, Mrs. Rockefeller described her
sister as pretty, remarkably well Rroomed
woman, '5 feet 81 inches tall, with light
brown hair
1T was her good looks, said Miss Burton,
mat probably got her into trouble for ]
understand that the Guinness woman for
HON she was mistaken WIS markedly
good looking The fact that she was
heavily yelled and wished to avoid Cb-
zArvation told against her, | suppose, and
he additional fact that mother called her
Belle the first name Of Mrs Guinness, too
nuched the matter in tho minds Of those
travellers who made tho com
n.ant."
ITS been dreadful experience TOR her
and for us. added Mrs. Rockefeller, "and
may affect our mother seriously. II seems
Ia me a very stupid mistake for those de-
ecuves to make. and II there is any redress
Al law | think that our sister is certainly
Untitled TO it,
Mrs. Heeren and her mother got here
N the Empire State Express. They were
net at the Grand Central Station by Miss
sadie Burton and Mr.. and Mrs. Rockefeller
md went TO Il home Of the Rooksfellers
FOR DEFRAUDING POETS.