The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1908-05-22
More Possible Victims of
the Guinness Woman
From Pennsylvania Are
Reports of Men Who
Announced That They
We're Going West to
Marry Rich Widow.

Laporte, Ind, May 21.-Following
the filing of his official report and
verdict which declares the charred
bones found in the fire ruins to be
that of Mrs. Belle Guinness, Coroner
Mack today completed his report and
verdict finding that three bodies
found in the debris were those of her
children. The coroner finds that the
death Of Mrs. Gnnness and the chill
dren was due to "felonious homicide,
the perpetrator of which is not
known"
Coroner Mack's verdict on the bod
les that were taken from the grave
yard will declare Mrs. Guinness to be
the murderer or accomplice in the
cases of Andrew Helgelein, ole Buds
berg and Jennie Olson and of the
other unidentified victims. This YER
dict will also be filed tomorrow.
Today has been devoid Of sensations
In the Guinness tragedy. There were
no grewsome finds, no bodies taken
from the private cemetery, no iden-
tifications of skeletons were made at
the two city morgues, but tomorrow,
however, may bring results.
Today the floor in the cellar Of
charnel house was torn out and exca-
vations made to a depth of three feet
but no additional bodies we're found.
John E. Hunter, of Duquesne, Pa.
will probably prove to be one of the
victims of the murderess. He left
his home November 25, 1907, for
northern Indiana, as he told his fam
lily, to marry a wealthy widow. He
took with him a large sum of money.
telling his sons and daughters that
he did not know when he would re-
turn. Today daughter, Mrs. Kuler,
of McKeesport, Pa, appealed to Cor
oner Mack to answer her prayer by
finding her father who is 81 years
old, dead or alive, at the same time
expressing the fear that he went to
his death in the charnel house.
George Williams, of Wapawallopen,
Pa, and Ludwig Stoll, of Mt. Yeager,
Pa, were also reported to the au-
thorities today as having left their
homes for the port of the missing
When Williams left home it was with
the statement that when he returned
It would be with a wife.
Ludwig Stoll also a victim of the
matrimonial bureau, left fine farm
of several hundred acres in Pennsyl-
Vania to marry, as he termed 1t,
wealthy widow of the west. Williams
farm was sold a few days after the
flashing of the news Of the Guinness
tragedy. Disposition was made in the
same way of the Stoll farm. Penn
sylvania relatives of the missing men
will come to this city to view the
skeleton forms in the moTgue, but
with little hopes of Identification, ow-
ing to the decomposed condition of the
bodies which have yet to be buried
In the pauper field.
Mrs. B. F. Carling, Of Chicago, says
her brother left home a year ago, tell
ing friend ne was going to meet a
widow with lots Of money. She will
be visitor at the morgue.
Despite the assertion of D. p Nor
ton, the dentist who filled the teeth
of Mrs. Belle Guinness with god
that his filings have been found in
the ruins at the house at least rs
per cent of the people in and about
Laporte believe that the arch-mur-
deress of Brookside farm is still alive
and is in hiding.
After many days Of investigation by
nifty special newspaper correspond
ents, half a dozen Pinkerton detec-
tives, the entire staff of the sherifr's
Office at Laporte and the police force
of the town, the terrible series Of
crimes perpetrated at the brick house
on the hill remains as unsolved as it
was in the beginning and there are
still one hundred mysteries in the
Guinness tragedies.