Los Angeles herald., 1908-05-11
SEEK TRACE
OF VICTIMS
SICHTSEERS MINGLE WITH
ANXIOUS RELATIVES
PICNIC PARTIES ENJOY DAY AT
oRUEsoME PLACE
Fifteen Thousand Persons Walk or
Ride from Laporte TO Death Trap.
Vendors Do Thriving
Business
BY Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
LAPORTE, Ind, May 10.-All roads
in Laporte county led to the Guinness
farm today. more than $1,000 sight
seers visiting the place of death be-
resident of this city made the trip
and the railroads and trolley lines
brought about 1000 more to the city.
Mayor Darrow issued stringent or
ders that the Sunday closing hours
should be strictly enforced and the
hotels and restaurants were overrun
with patrons.
Nearly every conveyance in the town
was pressed into service in an at
tempt to provide transportation for the
crowds. In the afternoon these proved
insufficient and late comers were
forced to make their way to the farm
on foot.
Investigation of the case by authori-
ties halted, the sheriff and other off,
cials who went to the farm were com-
PEELED to become mere spectators.
Several out-of-town persons were
here seeking information concerning
missing relatives, and some further
information concerning the identity of
the victims resulted from their in
quiries.
Another Missing
The most definite information came
from Olaf Lindbo of Chicago. He said
his brother Thomas worked for Mrs.
Guinness three years ago, and that
the last letter which he had from him
contained the information that Thomas
intended to marry his employer.
Olaf wrote to the woman a little
later and she replied that Thomas
Lindbo had gone to ST. Louis and she
had had no word from him. Olaf
viewed the unidentified corpses, but
was unable to find any likeness to his
brother in the .decayed bundles of bones
and .fiesh,-.
The crowds began arriving in La
porte when the first trains from the
east arrived, shortly after 5 o'clock in
the morning. The strangers had no
difficulty in finding their way to the
death farm. The constant stream of
carriages, cabs, omnibuses, automo-
bies, bicycles and farm wagons point
ed Enthusiastically the direction to those
unable to obtain places in these con-
veyances and were compelled to walk.
The macadam road which winds past
Clear lake and the Guinness farm to
Pine lake was choked SO that even the
automobiles were compelled TO move at
a snaiPs pace. Many of the vehicles
were unable to get within quarter of
a mile of the farm, their passengers
joining the crowds which walked
across the intervening fields.
AT the farm only the speakers stand
with its customary pitcher of ice water
was necessary to complete the impress
sion that a big political rally had
drawn the inhabitants of the country
side to the spot.
There was nothing in the attitude of
the crowd to indicate that they were
xysesiff ff,aer 1nIoa yhnr he ncf
some tragedies of a decade had taken
place. Jokes and laughing comment
on the antecedents of the farm were
heard on every side and exclamations
of Joy from successful relic hunters
were numerous.
Picnic Parties on Lawn
Picnic parties grouped themselves on
the sloping lawn among the fine pines
and cedars which dot the dooryard, or
found resting places beneath the flow
ering apple and plum trees of the or
chard Children were numerous and
many of these groups had a baby cab
as nucleus.
Along the roadside in front OF the
farm were lemonade stands and lunch
wagons. At the gates were venders of
postal cards, those bearing a
group picture of Mrs. Guinness and the
three little ones who met death with
her finding the readiest sale. A base
ball game in the vicinity was repre-
sented by strong voiced barkers.
Sheriff Smulzer will continue his in
at the Guinness farm to-
The first object of search
ing will be the heaps of ashes and
other refuse in the cellar of the ruined
house. The ashes and cinders are to
be carefully sifted and then sluiced by
4 miner in an effort to discover the
gold filings which are said to have
oeen in Mrs. Guinness teeth.
The floor of the cellar may be dug up
also and additional excavations may be
made where ten cadavers have been
r.thnd