The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1908-05-18
Murdsrsss' Bloody Traffic
n. Brought Her $4,000

81 LA FOhlE. luus May lo.-1ui D
Belle Guinness, arch-murderess and
'proprietress OF the house OF horror.
20 which her suitors were lured for
olaughter. is today speeding across
the Atlantic on the Hamburg-Ameri-
can liner DANA, according TO informa-
Hon received by Sheriff Shutter. The
|6olice authorities at Hamburg have
been asked by cable 10 arrest the
woman upon her arrival.
"a The Identification in Galveston.
Tex, OF a woman who tallies exact
~ with the missing murderess, was
hade by James Stokes and Frank
Dayton. who talked with the woman
INST as she was about to sail on the
DAnia. Several Of the passengers were
fscussing the gruesome La Porte
Ease and their first suspicion that
ME- woman with whom they were
Making was Mrs. Guinness was arous-
Ia by the curiosity which she mani
heated and the frequency with which
|ghs declared she had never before
,Aeard Anything about the case.
Said She Visited Indiana.
3 She said she was familiar with In
diana, having visited In Indianapolis
~ number OF times. In explaining her
object In going abroad. she said that
her husband had just died and that
ohe was going to Germany TO settle
his estate.
This woman is believed to have
been the same one who passed
Through St Louis day earlier and
Who was thought by Union station OF
ncials to be Mrs. Guinness. She at
fracted attention by her extreme ner-
vousness. At st. Louis she purchas-
"a q Pullman ticket and left her berth
only once during the entire trip TO
Tort Worth, Tex. where she disap-
peared.
Find . New Grave.
A new grave has been found on the
murder farm and Sheriff Shutter exr
poets to unearth another body before
night. The spot is about forty rods
from the place where 10 bodies were
found. The ground is soft. and when
q pipe was pounded into the earth evil
0ence was given that a body had been
buried there. Two other suspicious
spots have been located, and those
will be excavated as soon as they can
BE- reached In the course of the in
vestigation.
Profitable Murder Traffic.
Careful calculations of the amount
OF money which Mrs. Guinness realized
by her trafic in human life, sets the
amount at over $4,000. The follow
1ng tabulation shows the amounts she
obtained from various victims:
From MAIDS Sorenson. her first hus-
band, life insurance, $4,000: Peter
GUINNESS, second husband, life insur-
.ance, $4,000: Charles Erdman. New
Carlisle, Ind, $4,000: Herman Konit-
nor. Chicago. $4,000: fire in Guinness
6tore. Grand-ave. and Elizabeth-st.,
Chicago, insurance, $500; fire In
0unness house in Austin, ILL.,, insur-
'once, $780, ole o. Budsberg. lola,
Wis. $4,000; John o. Moo. Elbow
Lake. Mimi, $1,000; Andrew Helgel.
Elm. Aberdeen, s. d.. $4,000; Geo. Ber-
~. Tuscola, H.. $1,000; Henry Ger
hall. lola. Wis, $1,000; four men other
than the above, whose bodies were
found In Mrs. Guinness graveyard les.
Minated at $1,000 EACH, $4,000; Is
other men, who were In correspond
ence with Mrs. Guinness and mystic
'ti0usly disappeared ESTIMATED at ST..
100 EACH, $4,000. Total. $4,000.
0heriff Shutter and his men have
made careful inquiries in endeavor.
Ing TO learn what Mrs. Guinness did
with all this money. They are as
much In the dark after their investi.
cation as they were before II is like
~ that the 1920 that Mrs. Guinness
put In a safety deposit vault. the day
or the fire. was all the money she
then possessed,