Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-05-10
QUIT Digging
Sheriff Smutzef Announces
That He Will Discontinue
Digging for Bodies
Still RumOred That Mrs.
Guinness, the Murdefess,
| Is Yet Alive

Laporte, Ind, May 9.-Sheriff
Shutter announced this afternoon
that he will discontinue digging for
bodies on the Guinness farm. Half
a dozen spots have been excavated
since the tenth corpse was unearthed
yesterday morning but in none of
these places was the trace of cadav-
ers found. This is the first setback
which the sheriff has experienced
and he is beginning to believe that
the ten corpses are the extent of the
private graveyard.
The sheriff, however, has not fin
ished his investigation of the premi-
ses Heaps of debris in the cellar of
the ruined house are to be searched
for evidence next week. While the
authoritis are certain that the larg-
| est of the four bodies found in the
tcellar was that of Mrs. Guinness,
| yet they intend to leave no stone
unturned in the effort to still the ru-
| mors that Mrs Guinness is still alive.
One of the stories upon which these
| reports have been based is to the
| effect that Mrs. Guinness had a large
amount of gold filling in her teeth
|
| been found.
The sheriff said that Monday he
| will put expert miners in the base
ment to. search the heaps of ashes
| for traces of the gold. The gold
ring and metal buckle, both of which
| were owned by Mrs. Guinness have
already been found in the basement
and it is the sheriff's idea that the
gold filings will also have survived
the heat of the fire.
Digging operations this afternoon
were hampered by the crowds which
swarmed about the excavators and
after futile attempts to keep morbid
sightseers back the sheriff laid off
his men and abandoned the work for
the time being.
Investigation today into the story
of the former occupants of the MUIR
deress's farm brought to light the
fact that one was G.. Hile Cary,
leader of the gang Of outlaws that
in 1877 terrorized this section of the
country. Garry was a giant and had
unusual strength. He weighed
about 200 pounds. After a stormy
career Cary left Indiana and went
west. The next heard of him was
7 when his body was brought back tc
Laporte. He was killed near Denver
: in either a gun fight or a holdup
r His principal associates, Jerry Draper
: and Charles Tibits, also died will
: their boots on.
SEARCHING FOR A VICTIM
Minneapolis, Mimi, May "a
J dispatch to the Journal from Laporte
: says that relatives of E. ]. Tief1und
: formerly of Minneapolis, have en-
: gagged private detectives to investi-
: gate whether he was one of the vic
tins of Mrs. Belle Guinness. Tie,
5 fund is said to have answered one Of
, the matrimonial advertisements o.
Mrs. Guinness. Later, it is said, he
} correspondent with her and left Min
neapolis for Laporte. He disappear
: ed the day after arriving there.
, The dispatch from Laporte say
that Tiefund went to Laporte will
Y money on his person.
Was Relative of Kate Bender.
Louisvill, Mo-, May 9.-The editor:
of the Louisville afternoon paper to-
} day received the following unsigned
communication in the mails:
''Louisville-Dear. Mr.. Editor:
do not like my name to be known
hence I will not give it, but will tel
you that the notorious Mrs Guinness
pronounced with the accent on tn
4 second sylabel-is desendent frol
U the same man as was Kate Bende
of Kansas notority Hates fathe
was brother tor Mrs. Guinness:
grandfather I know this to be tru
by my own marriage ties.
Gin my opinion Ray Lamphere
lin of Mrs Guinness