Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-05-10
TELLS OF WEIRD ACTIONS
AT HOME OF MRS. GUINNESS

BY Associated Press.
OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla, May o.
Here, grieying because he cannot hear
from Jennie Olsen, aged IL and pretty.
the adopted daughter of Mrs. Bella
Guinness, whose murdered body has
been found near La Porte. Ind, Emile
Greening, a carpenter, and his brother
Fred, a painter, who both worked last
summer on the farm, tell stories of
the visits of mysterious men to the
woman's house and their mysterious
disappearance.
Emile Greening does not yet believe
that the body of his murdered sweet
heart has been found.
Jennie and I were good friends and
she told me a good deal about her.
self when we were alone" said Green
ing today. when her mother decided
to send her away to California with a
professor who was reported to have
come after her. but whom l never saw,
Jennie came to me and declared she
would never go.
I'm the morning / insisted on seeing
Jennie and her mother told me that
she had been awake almost all night
and that she was still asleep and did
not want to be disturbed.
II was sent on an errand late that
afternoon and when l got back I was
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her, but I gave the two letters to Mrs.
Guinness. l never received any answer.
and finally l got so tired working
around the place without seeing Jen-
ME that / left. / don't believe there
ever was a professor, for I slept in the
room next to Jennie's and l did not
hear any mans voice.
"No One Saw Girl Leave"
Mrs. Guinness later told me Jennie
had left at clock that same morn
Ing, but no one saw her leave and no
one about the place ever saw the pro-
lessor. All the day following the dis
appearance Mrs. Guinness was very
nervous.
Mrs. Guinness received men visitors
all the time. A different man came
nearly every week, and they always
stayed at the house. She introduced
them as her cousins, and they came
from Kansas, South Dakota, Wiscon
sin and many from Chicago. Several
We're never seen to leave the place.
MANY men who came brought their
trunks with them, and they rarely took
the trunks away. We never knew
when to expect these fellows, but they
almost always had money.
Mrs. Guinness kept them with her all
the time in the parlors and bedrooms.
She was always careful to make the
stay away from her cousins, |
who rarely tried to show them any af- |
lection.
After Jennie left the visitors were |
supposed to occupy her room, which |
was next to mine, but | was never able |
to hear them at night.
"I never knew of Mrs. Guinness be-
slowing her affections upon any of her |
hired hands except Ray Lamphere.
80 many men came and | saw so
NJ q nh
many of them, but l distinctly remem-
Der Mr.. Moo, who came from Chicago
the dav before Christmas, 1906 Moo
was with Mrs. Guinness almost con-
stantly. When he LEFT his trunks
stayed behind and no one saw him go.
1t was several days before Mrs. GUM
ness admitted he was gone.
Shortly afterward Mrs. Guinness
sent me to Michigan City to get a
horse she said Moo mad promised to
give her. | took a day to make the |
trip. When I got to Michigan City |
was wrong, and | was told |
to come back for the horse later
but when | returned to the farm
another cousin who was there when
left was gone.
Another Cousin Missing
an about two weeks I was again
sent to Michigan City. and still there
another cousin was missing and no
one around the place had seen him
leave.
"Moo's trunk was in the Guinness
home July IL, 1907. when / left the
place His wasn't the only one. There |
were about fifteen other trunks and |
one room was packed full of all kinds
of mems clothing. Mrs. Guinness said |
that the cousins had left their clothes
and that she was not certain that they
would be back for them.
'In the light of what happened re-
Gently I can see that many bloody and
mysterious things We're going on right
under my nose. Mrs. Guinness had a
little place fenced off just south of the
kitchen. She never allowed any of
the hands to go near it and she was
always in a rage if a man looked that
way when he was passing. Two sides
IF it were barricaded with barrels and
BOXES, shutting off the view, but from
he other two sides you could see that
{ looked like garden in toots :"
That Ray Lamphere, the lover of
Mrs. Guinness and under arrest
charged with being an accomplice to
he wholesale murders. was the only
nan that ever enjoyed her continued
eeac+iopa and that he WAS the only