The sun., 1908-05-09


Murdersss Due to Alleged Resemblance
10 Newspaper Pictures Of Mrs. Guinness.
UTICA, N. Y, May "a woman dressed
in mourning was arrested on the Atlantic
Express just as It left Syracuse at io'clock
this morning. She is suspected Of being
Mr Belle Guinness, the Laporte, Ind,
murderess.
She was taken from the train when It
reached Utica, and with a woman said
10 he her mother. who accompanied her.
she started back 10 Syracuse at 2O5 A. NJ,
after being in the city about half an hour
The woman was in such state OF col
spse when she left the train here that she
could hardly talk, Then she became more
composed and said sne was Mrs LA, Hearon
oi Chicago. She said that her husband,
d dealer in essential oils in that city, died
On January 1, and tnat sne came Fast
few weeks ago to stay with a brother at
,ooperstown, Pa. near Franklin.
The woman said that she started yester-
day afternoon with her mother to visit her
ss,er in New York She wouldn't tell the
sisters name. under instructions from the
detectives. She has receipt for lodge
dues made out to Mrs. l.. A, Hearon, and
another receipt made out to her in Frank
Inn, Pa
She made good impression Her mother
had nothing 10 say.
The woman was arrested on tip given
10 the Syracuse police by trainmen on the
Atlantic Express on which she was a pas
.anger. Travelling men on the train told
the conductor they we're positive that the
woman was Mrs. Guinness,
Telegraphlc advices were sent to the
syracuse police and Detectives Donovan
and Nes Of that place boarded the train
when il arrived at 1855. As the woman
was in her berth and the train would not
wait for her to dress, the detectives went
aboard and arrested her on the way.
The Pullman conductor told the detectives
that the two women got on the train at
Ashtabula, Ohio. which might be a juno
ton point for a person travelling to New
York from Franklin, Pa,
Both women we're nicely dressed. The
woman arrested asked the detectives to
Iai her sister in New York know that her
train had been delayed, She pleaded with
them not to tell her sister that she had been
arrested
ROCHESTER, May s.-The information
which led to the arrest OF the woman sup
posed to be Mrs. Guinness was given to
Police Lieutenant Henry A. MoAlester Of
this city by two travelling men VINO came
here from Cleveland. They had copies OF
newspapers containing pictures OF Mrs.
Guinness and they thought that one OF the
women passengers bore most striking
resemblance to the pictures, This belief
was strengthened by the peculiar actions
Of the woman herself,
AZ soon as they got 70 Rochester they
vent to the Powers Hotel. where they told
The house detective, who in turn notified the
police. The police here called Syracuse
on the telephone and informed the police
there Of the travelling mems suspicious,
giving the number Of the car in which they
had been passengers.
The travelling men who furnished the
Information we're Z. R. Buell. and II. E.
Hunt. both OF Detroit They say that
the woman was between IS and 10 years
of age and weighed about 200 pounds,
She was heavily yelled and seemed eager
10 avoid attention on the car Once abe
Is,sed hor veil, and it was then that they
noticed the resemblance that she bore to
the picture OF the Indiana murderess a.
printed in the newspapers.
I.APoRTE, Ind. May s.-To-day's ex-
ceyations in the private cemetery Of Mrs
Belle Guinness brought three additional
cletons to light and hardly one-ffth OF
tho suspected ground has yet been investi-
gs,ed by the Sheriff and his assistants.
Tho skeletons we're those Of men, one Of
lem very large one, and in every instance
uuicklmo had been used TO hasten the
dostruction Of the flesh
Dr.. II. H. Long Of this city assisted
n an examination OF the supposed body
II Mrs. Guinness. The body is not that
n Mrs. Guinness" he said tonight. "ln
the firBt place, it is not proportioned cor
rectly. The body at the morgue is that
u a rather plump woman Of the same gen.
oral contour as Mrs Guinness. but weighing
hetween $50 and 100 pounds. Mrs. Gun
ross was literally a succession Of billows
~ flesh, tipping the scales at 225 pounds.
The fact that one Of the arms was burned
N the body found in the ruins leads me
~ believe that II IL that Of cadaver The
arm was found beside the body and is well
formed. The fingers show evidences Of
careful manicuring and nail training, some
hing with which Mrs. Guinness was not
conversant. Mrs. Guinness Is alive, but
her children are dead
The discoveries Of to-day increase the
number Of known victims to twelve, or 10
fourteen II the two husbands OF Mrs. Gun
meas we're really murdered, as is now be-
heved Counting four persons who lost
their lives by the burning OF the Guinness
home the victims Of the murder house
number eighteen persons and the investl-
cation has only begun.
In search Of the debris in the cellar
= the burned residence during a shower
to-day several bones were discovered, but
il could not be determined whether they
teonRed to a human or an animal. IL is
leieyed that some Of the bodies OF Mrs.