The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1908-05-12
LIST OF GUINNESS
VICTIMS GROWING
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dig up with his own hands from Mrs.
Guinness corpse plot mouldering mu-
tilated fragments of the body that
had once been his brother Andrew,
the last of the many victims of the
amazing murderess. Until now the
secret of just how the hunt for vic
tins had started has never been told
Sheriff Shutter knew and so did
County Attorney Smith but for rea-
sons of their own they have kept si-
lent.
This morning, however, the. Sun
correspondent the man with whom
the surviving Helgelein drove back
into town Immediately after he had
exhumed his brothers body. For GER
tain reasons this mans name cannot
be given.
81 was driving past the Guinness
place" he told the Sun correspondent,
last Tuesday, soon after noon. Of
course l knew about the fire there
night before and the finding of four
bodies in the ruins and l naturally
'rubbered' at the place when I was
passing. AS l drove by Sheriff Smutz-
er came down with a strange man
whom he introduced as AISLE Helgelein,
and ordered me to take the stranger
back to town as he was in a hurry
said / would and he got in. He was
pretty much excited but had good
control of himself considering what
he had just been through. In his
broken English he told me all about
it.
He said when Mrs. Guinness wrote
him his brother had gone away he
did not believe it because his brother
wasn't the kind of a man to stay
away four months without letting him
know where he was and when he
heard the house burned he came to
Laporte. The more he thought of it
the more he was sure that Andrew had
been murdered. He said that as he
was standing up on the hill he won
dered how the woman would have
disposed of the body if she had really
killed his brother. Burying it was
the first thing he thought Of
80 then he asked Joe Maxson, the
Guinness hired man. if he knew of
any holes being dug around there late
ly. Joe told him yes, that a couple of
months or so ago Mrs. Guinness had
told him to dig hole in the garden
to put some rubbish in. Joe said he
did dig the hole and Mrs. Guinness
filled it up some time when he was
not around
Il went and got a spade from the
barn. said Helgelein, "and went
into the garden and began digging
where Maxson said he had dug the
hole. Not six inches under the sur
face l hit a bunch of rubbish-tin
cans, old pals and rags and so on.
kept on till | had got all the rub
bish out. The very first stroke of the
spade after that cut into the gunny
sacks that held my brothers body"
That was all the digging Helgelein
did out with that single stroke of
his spade he dug up not only his
brothers body but the most startling
tale of crime In many years. Body
after body was recovered from that
sickening little murder patch until
ten had been exhumed. For the pres
ent there the total rests. but no man
believes the story has been told to
the end.
The diggers did no more work to-
day and the sheriff says they will do
no more for several days, not in fact,
until the digging can be carried on
without the presence of a mob OF
curious spectators. At present the
Guinness place is so oVerrun by peo-
pie, drawn there solely by the motor
iety the farm has achieved, that no
methodical work can be carried on.
Today being the first Sunday since
the authorities began making ghast-
ly discoveries, the crowds broke all
records for the week. Throngs be-
gan to flock out from towns along the
McClung road as early as o'clock.
n NNINBdllOu VI OUU dIIINGu from
South Bend. An excursion was run
from Chicago and other hundreds were
picked up all along the route. Add
to this number the Laporte residents,
who sucumbed to curiosity. and it
became clear not less than ten thous-
and persons visited the murder farm
today.
The authorities are not a step near
er determining whether Belle Gun
ness perished in the flames that con-
sumed her murder laboratory and her
three children or whether the fourth
charred body is that of another wom-
an. Four doctors have examined the
body. One says IL is too small to
have been the murderess. Another
holds a different view The opinion
of none of them can be considered ex-
pert. Their formal reports to the