Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1908-05-21
|22 DEATHS LAID
| TO MRS. GUINNESS.
Semi=official Report Is Given
Out at Laporte-List Includes
Supposed Victims.
10000 VISIT MURDER FARM
Picnic Parties Romp Around death
Garden''-Seek to Identify Man
From Minnesota.

Laporte, Ind, May 15.-Denials by
Laporte officials that the Rev. r. A.
Schell had revealed to them the sub
stance of his conversations with Lam
phere and the discovery of evidence
that Mrs. Bella Guinness was aided by
an accomplice in Turing her victims
to the farm were the chief develop
ments in the case yesterday
Points to Accomplish.
The evidence regarding the aids of
Mrs. Guinness came in a letter from
a resident of Cleveland, addressed to
the local chief of police. It told of the
writer's having met a stranger in that
city last August who gave him pho
tograph of ga rich widow who resided
in Laporte," and tried to persuade
him to come here to see the woman.
The photograph is a fairly good pho
tograph of Mrs. Guinness and was evil
IDENTIFY taken some time ago.
Louis Schultz, the miner who is
sluicing the ashes and cinders from
the cellar of the Guinness house, turn
ed over to Sheriff Shutter a number
of pieces of fused metal which he had
found in the tailings of the sluice box.
Several of these relics are globules
and believed to be bits of gold.
Schultz also found some small pieces
of bone. One of these, the sheriff
says, is thought to be a portion of
vertebrae.
Woman Feared Lamphere.
A new witness regarding Mrs. Gun
ness fear of Lamphere was found
yesterday. Bertha Schultz, clerk in
local dry goods store, said that the
woman was in the store several days
before the fire and told her that she
was afraid Lamphere would set fire
to the farmhouse.
JaWbone That of Arch-Murderess.
Laporte, Ind, May 17.-"The identi-
fcation of the piece of jawbone taken
from the ruins of the Guinness farm
house as a portion of Mrs. Guinness
skull, bears out most conclusively the
contentious of the state regarding the
| identity of the bodies found in the
cellar on April %. 1t is the clinching
| bit of evidence which should set at
rest the rumors that Mrs. Guinness
! had escaped
! This statement was made by Mrs.
Ralph N. Smith, prosecuting attorney,
last night It followed a report from
DR.. G. P. Norton, dentist, who found
that the piece of charred bone pre-
scented evident characteristics which
he had observed while working on
Mrs. Guinness teeth.
Search Continues.
The search of the premises yester-
day revealed almost nothing of impOr-
lance The screening of the ashes
produced several additional bits Of
bone, but none Of them is of sufficient
size or we'll enough preserved to fur
nish convincing proof of their origin.
The first of the Guinness victims to
be inferred with Christian rites was
buried last night in Pattons cemetery,
on the outskirts of LapOrte. The
corpse was that of Andrew K. Hedge
lein of Mansfield, S. D. The body was
released for burial last evening, after
Coroner Mack had received the re-
ports of the Bertillion experts who
have examined it and compared their
findings with figures taken from the
records of the Minnesota penitentiary
at Saltwater.
% Deaths Laid to Mrs. Guinness.
Laporte, Ind, May 19.-Twenty-two
deaths are now charged to Mrs. Bella
Guinness, arch murderess OF the age,
in a semi-official report given out by
the authorities. Should it be proved
later that Mrs. Guinness is alive and
that the headless body of a woman
found in the ruins is that of another
victim the total number will be in
creased by four, counting the three
children who persisted in the fire, and
the total number of murders for which
Mrs. Guinness will have to answer will
reach twenty-six.
Lured to Death.
The list given out by the authorities
contains the names of Mrs. Guinness
| two husbands and all those who are
| known to be her victims. Added to
this list are the names of all those
who have been traced to the Guinness
farm and have disappeared 1t is the
belief of Sheriff Shutter that all of
these were victims OF Mrs. Guinness
lure to death" and that the remains
of some of them now lie in a mass,
hopeless of Identification, in the i'm
provised morgue near the site of the
death garden"
J. G. Ramden of Manfred, N. D.,
whose half brother, John Moe of Ell
bow Lake, Mimi. came to Laporte in
December, 1906, for the purpose of
visiting Mrs. Guinness, and who since
then has never been seen nor heard
of by relatives, was in Laporte yester-
day for the purpose of identifying, if
possible one of the skeletons as be-
ing that Of his brother, but the re-
mains were in such condition that he
found it impossible, though one skele-
ton had light hair which Mr.. Ram
den said resembled very much that of
his brother.