The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1908-05-19
-BuTCHEREO F0UR
GUESTS At HER
XMAS PARTY
LATEST ATRoclTY CHARGED TO
MRS. BELLE GUINNESS BELIEVED
TO HAVE LAID THE BODIES IN
ONE GRAVE.

LA PORTE, Ind, May l9.-Murder
OF -four persons whom she had invited
10 her house OF horror" as her guests
al hristmas party, is the latest
atrocity charged To Mrs. Belle Gun
ness, La Porte's arch-assassin. who Is
being sought today by the police Oh
practically the whole world.
From a careful examination pf the
unidentified bodies which have been
recovered from the soft spots OF
Brookside farm and the comparison
OF other evidence II is now almost
certain that the woman slayer com
mitted her quadruple crime on hrls'-
mas night of 1906. Jennie Olson.
John Moe. OF Elbow Lake. MINI, and
a man and woman known only as the
professor and his wife were on
that night the victims OF the Gun
ness woman's passion for slaughter,
This discovery corroborates in de
tail the statement by Emil Greening
once Mrs. Guinness chore boy. who
has been interviewed in Oklahoma
City
Lad Noted Disappearance.
GreeniEg said that after the party
held at Mrs Guinness house on Christ
mas day, 1906. and the next day, Dec.
% he noted the non-appearance 81
any Of the guests, When he asked
Mrs Guinness where the visitors had
gone. she said that the professor and
his wife" VINO were at the house. had
gone back To their school near Los
Angeles. Cal. and had taken Jennie
Olsen with them.
Ii is now concluded by Sheriff Smut
ger that, following the Christmas feS',
tiyities. Mrs Guinness killed four per
sons. two men and two women and
buried them all in the same grave.
One OF the men at that Christmas
party is known to have been John
Moe. OF Elbow Lane, MINI. but the
persons remaining TO be identified are
the ones described as the professor
and his wife.
Heretofore. il has been generally
thought that Emil Greening was
wrong III saying that there was any
woman guest al the Christmas parry
besides Jennie Olson. The eXplana'
tion made was that probably Green
ing saw a man dressed in woman's
clothing
Four bodies were found In one
grave One OF them has been identi-
fied as that OF Jennie Olson and an
other as the remains OF John Moe.
The third is today shown 10 be that
OF woman. and the fourth that OF
q man yet unidentified.
Prepared Weeks Ahead.
There are reasons TO believe that
Mrs Guinness prepared for this
slaughter weeks ahead The grave in
which the four bodies We're found, was
dug two months ahead by Brijiski,
Polish laborer. who did odd jobs for
Mrs. Guinness The preceding October
Mrs Guinness was making girls
dresses. and when asked by one OF
the neighbors what she was doing said
that the dresses were for Jennie Oh
son. who was going away 10 school.
Ii may be presumed from the shreds
Of evidence now in the possession OF
County Prosecutor Smith, that Mrs
Guinness had plotted TO kill three per
SONS 1Als-eeeasieH- the-se-eaff~ti
professor, his wife. and Jennie Olson
but Moe, with his $1,000. arrived In
answer 10 Mrs. Guinness matrimonial
advertisement just in time to join the
party and to be killed and buried
with the others
Grisly Dismemberment of All.
Men who uncovered this large grave
with the four corpses say that each
body had been butchered and dis
articulated in the same manner.
With a saw the legs were cut in
two above the knee. the arms we're re-
moved at the sockets and the heads
cut of. The pieces were separated
and wrapped in burlop, apparently so