Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1908-05-15
GUINNESS WOMAN
NOT DEAD, HIDING,
Is LATEST BELIEF
ALLEGED OGRESS THOUGHT TO
HAVE ESCAPED FLAMES WHICH
BURNED HER HOME.
TWO MORE BODIES ARE FOUND
Possibility That Skeletons Dug Up Are
Remains of People Murdered
in Chicago.
OFFICERS WORK EVERY CLUE.

LAPORTE, Ind, May 6.-ISpecial.l-
Two more CHASTITY finds were made on
the farm of Mrs. Belle Guinness today
when the skeletons Of two adults were
dug up by the searching crew. One was
found in pine box and is badly decom-
posed. The other was buried feet be-
low the surface, wrapped in a cloth. An
examination will be made to determine
whether the skeletons are those of men
or women.
The latest theory and the one upon
which the police are now working is
that Mrs. Guinness and her children
were not incinerated in the burning of
her home. that the bodies We're brought
here from Chicago by her, that plausi-
biity might be given the theory that
she and her family had fallen victims to
the flames and while in reality it was
the contamination of a plot which en-
abled her to see safety in flight with her
children. The statement was made to
The police today by man whose name
cannot now be divulged, that Mrs. GUM
ness was seen to board a train going out
of the city and that she is now on her
way to Norway. This theory is suf-
fciently well defined as to warrant rigid
made.
Will Drag Lake.
Fish Trap lake will be dragged for
the missing head and unless it is found
the officers will make a post norton ex-
animation of the remains of Mrs. GUM
ness and subject them to a more care
full analysis to learn whether or not the
woman was killed by the fire or had
substituted the remains of one of her
female victims for herself and then set
fire to the house to cover up the crime.
1t is pointed out as opposing the belief
that Mrs Guinness is alive that the day
before the Guinness home was burned
the woman deposited $500 in the state
bank here. She was worth about $780,
as the incentive for the crimes commit
ted. A belief that she might be alive in
cludes the supposition that she feared Roy
Lamphere her former employee, was
about to expose her through jealousy.
Suspect Insurance Plot.
The sheriff has notified the Chicago
police to be on the lookout for a gang in
that city believed to be in murder plot
for purposes of collecting insurance. The
gang is believed to have disposed of
parts of the bodies in Laporte. On Sat-
home was burned, Mrs. Guinness re-
ceived by express from Chicago, four
large trunks. What their contents were
has not been learned. Sheriff Shutter is
confident, however, that they contained
bodies of murdered people, shipped here
from Chicago. This leads the officers to
suspect that Mrs. Guinness conducted
murder fence" to dispose of bodies of
persons murdered in Chicago for their
life insurance.
The startling revelations have awak-
Cned Laporte people to recollection of
some strange occurrences at the GUM
TOSS home during the last year. Last
summer Mrs. Guinness reported to Chief
of Police Cochran that a child had been
murdered in the woods back of her house
by man and woman who had driven
past her home.
Finds Child's Grave.
The officer investigated, but could
find no trace of the body, and dropped
the case Not a week later Mrs. GUM
ness sent her little daughter to him to
state that she could take him to the spot
where the supposed murdered child had
been buried. Cochran went with the
girl and in the woods she showed him
an empty hole, explaining that some
one must have taken the body away.
Cochran now believes that Mrs. GUM
ness slew the child and later buried it.
Body Is Identified.
Anton Olson of Highlands, Ind, father
of Jennie Olson, who was adopted by
Mrs Guinness, today identified the body
found yesterday as that of his daughter.
EIe said: Il know it is my daughter by
her shape and by her wavy light colored
hair I heard from her about two years
ago, but had not had letter since that
time. Mrs. Guinness took my daughter
when she was s months. old and had
charge of her ever since.
Carried Trunks to Home.
Claud Sturgis, employed by Foster &
Degarmo, local deliverymen, today stated
that he took two large trunks to the
Guinness home in the spring of 1907.
They were very heavy and were bound
together with ropes, and he offered to
assist Mrs. Guinness in removing the
ropes, but Mrs. Guinness refused his as
sistance and appeared to be greatly agi-
tated. He was told not to interfere with
business which did not concern him.
Sturgis also recalls that these trunks
were ironbound and that officers are now
contained human bodies and the bodies
thus consigned may be those uncovered
yesterday.
Jennie Olson was last seen alive, it ap-
pears. in the light of the evidence I'M
covered today, two weeks before Christ
Guinness home and it is believed it was
at this time she was murdered by her
foster mother.
Coroner Makes Statement.
DR.. J. H. W. Meyer, the coroner here
said today: "The body identified YES,
terday as that of Andrew Helgelein
bears no resemblance whatever to him.
Helgelein disappeared about the first
of the year and if he was buried then
his body by now would of course be
badly decomposed. The bodies dug up
yesterday are in excellent condition. The
skin is apparently fresh there is not