The Washington herald., 1908-05-11
BABY A VICTIM
OF MRS. GUINNESS
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Immediately after he had exhumed his
brothers body For certain reasons this
mans name cannot be given.
4 was driving past the Guinness place"
he said, last Tuesday, soon after noon.
OF course. knew about the fire there
the night before and the finding of four
bodies in the ruins. and I naturally rub
bered at the place when I was passing.
As drove by Sheriff Emulzer came down
with a strange man y nom he introduced
as AISLE Helgelein, aud ordered me to
take the stranger bark to town, as he
was IN hurry / sad ! would, and he
got In. He was pretty excited, but had
good control Of himself. considering what
ne had just been through, In his broken
English he told me all about it.
Knew story was Not True.
He said when Mrs. Guinness wrote
him his brother had gone away, he did
not believe Il, beca use his brother wasn't
the kind Of man to stay away for months
without letting hin. know where ne was.
When he heard the house was burned
he came TO LapOTte. The more he
thought Of Il, the more he was sure that
Andrew had been murdered. He said
that as he was standing up on the hill
he wondered how the woman would have
killed his brother Burying it was the
FIRST thing he thought Of.
so he asked Joe Maxsom. the Guinness
hired man. If he knew of any holes being
dug around there lately. Joe told him
yes. that a couple Of months ago Mrs
Guinness had told him to dig hole in the
garden to put some rubbish in Joe said
he dug the hole, and Mrs. Guinness filed
It up some time when he was not around
u went and got a spade from the
barn, said Heigelein, and went into the
garden and began digging where Max
som said he had dug the hole. Not six
inches under the surface ] hit a bunch OF
rubbish. / kept on till I had got all that
out. The first stroke OF the spade after
that cut into the gunnysacks that held
my brothers body
That was all the digging Helgelein did,
but with that sin gle stroke Of his spade
he dug up not ely his brothers body but
the most startling tale Of crime IN many
years, Body after body was recovered
from the sickening little murder patch
until ten had been exhumed. For the
present no man believes the story has
been told 10 the end.
Crowd Prevents Search.
The diggers did not work to-day, and
the sheriff saya there viii be no more for
several days-not, in fact. until the dig
ging can be carried on without the pres
ence OF a mob Of curious spectators. At
present the Guinness place is overrun by
people, drawn there solely by The noto-
riety the farm has achieved. so that 20
methodical work can be carried on.
To-day being the first Sunday since the
authorities began making ghastly discov-
cries, the crowds broke al records for the
week. The throngs began to flock out
from towns along the McClung road as
early as o'clock. A delegation OF 800
arrived from South Bend.
An excursion was run from Chicago.
and other hundreds were picked I'D along
the route. Add to this number the La
porte residents who succumbed to curl
osity, and il became clear that not less
than 1000 people visited the murder farm
to-day.
Doctors Fail to Agree.
The authorities are not step nearer
determining whether Belle Guinness per
fshed in the flames that consumed her
murder laboratory and her three chill
dren, or whether the fourth charred
body is that OF another woman. -Four
doctors have examined the body. One says
it is too small to have been the murder
ess. Another holds different view. The
opinion Of none Of them can be consid-
cred expert. Their formal reports 10 the
coroner have not yet been made, but it
is doubtful II they will take a chance
on declaring the body that Of Mrs. Gun
ness. Should they do so and she should
thereafter turn up alive. it would be
awkward for those local doctors.
LapOTte is still confident that the wo-
man has escaped. and tale is being told
Of a mysterious automobile being heard
on the NlcClung road about dawn Of the
day OF the FIRE The FIRE started al about
O'Clock, just as IL was getting light
and a farmer who lives a couple Of miles
beyond the house Of slaughter thinks he
heard motor ear hum past his house
at high speed Before he got wide awake
the noise died away. bat he looked at
his watch, and il was AIS o'clock This
is pretty fiimsy testimony, and it is being
investigated But it appeals strongly to
the imagination Of Laporte. This morn
ing, Mayor Darrow got a letter post
marked Chicago. 1t read, in part. like
this
Drag lake or pond some distance east
of Guinness farm for the body OF Mrs
Gunuess. The head of the woman whose
body was found in the ruins OF the home
will be found near the body Of Mrs Gun
ness. Lamphore not guilty. Other valu-
able information will be forwarded as
Roon a body Is found SOMEBODY