The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-05-11
People From Many Miles
Around Crowded About the
Ruins of the Guinness Home,
In Thousands.
PEDDLERS SOLD THEIR
WARES TO VISITORS.
confidence in the Good Char
acter of Lamphere Is Shown
BY His Attorney Who Will
Fight for Mans Life.

Laporte, Ind, May 1.-THE grim
'confines of the Guinness farm, still la
den with the grewsOme evidence of one
of the greatest murder mysteries of
modern times, Sunday rang with the
daughter of little children, the quibs
and jests Of country swains and sweet
Ihearts, the jargOn Of postcard sellers,
Rnd street men" and the loud dispu-
iations of souvenir hunters 1t is es-
Minated that at least $1,000 people
poured into Laporte on special excur-
Sion trains, interurban cars, autos and
rall sorts of smaller vehicles. to attend
.an organized feast of the morbid and
curious believed to be without parallel
'in the United States.
Had an admission fee of - cents a
head been charged enough money
might easily have been raised to de-
afray the expenses of employing an ad-
ditional corps of detectives to work on
materially have increased the CONNER
cial aspect of the place of butchery
Sunday.
Sheriff SmutZer and Deputies Leroy
Mari and William Ansliss stood guard
all day to prevent the debris in the
cellar of the house from being carried
off by the bagful. Digging for more
bodies was out of the question. The
sightseers would have swamped all eff
forts to conduct excavation. AS it
was, women clawed at the little red
carriage house. which has become the
repository of the dismembered bodies.
They stuck their fingers in the cracks
and wrenched the boards in an attempt
no pry them apart far enough to see
inside and feed their curiosity.
Had to Make Room.
Men boosted each other to the win
dow in the end of the structure and
eazed at the bodies until others be-
hind them pushed them from their
places to make room for other gaZers
Several times during the day the
doors were opened and the spectators
filed lin line" past the door through
which could be seen the bodies and
from which was exuded terrible
stencil.
Psychologists would have been at a
loss to designate the spectators as be-
longing to any given rank in society
There were women in smartly tailored
gowns who came all the way from Chi
cago with their husbands in costly au-
tomobiles, old men and women who
hobbled in from their homes on
Crltches, and hired men galore from
all the farms in northern Indiana. ap-
parently. Members of churches min
gled with the demi-mOnde in strug-
Cling for views of the places from
which the bodies were taken last week
and babes of a few months sat neglect
ed in their little carriages while faith
ers and mothers bought postal cards
bearing pictures at which Dore might
have stood aghast. And over all flow
ed revelry and merriment suited 10 a
country fair or a summer amusement
park. It was a perfect day, and un-
der fruit trees showering vari-colored
petals Of bloom. bevies of country
Uncle Ren's prophesy.
Back and forth through the crowd
walked Uncle Ben simple old negro
from the country. armed with a fOrked
willow 'divining rod" with which he
assumed TO detect hidden graves Of
murder victims. Thirty-seven in all
he announced solemnly to the supersti-
tious
rs there a dance down at the pavil-
Son tonight:" called country boy
with bunch Of lilacs in the button
hole of his Sunday coat.
You bet" responded a HOOsier girl.
with her mouth full of chewing gum.
I'll be there with bells on" re-
sponded the lad gleefuIly just s-s pos
tal-card vender started TO drown him
out with stentorian shouts of Here's
where you get your picture postal
cards of the Guinness family; 10 cents
each or three for quarter; better take
q half dollars worth and make a good
selection"
''Postals of Helgeleiu's body all
gone" announced the vender. Sold
'em all, but got some good ones left of
the other bodies"
This is just the way this body laid.
announced another man with a bundle
of horrible pictures. You see the
head here, the trunk there and the
limbs as Mrs. Guinness sewed them up
in the gunny sackiHg" Tee cream. :
cents; ice cream. ; cents" piped man
with white wagon at the edge of the
road just as a surry. converted into
candy wagon and manned by white
coated men pulling white cream, dash