The Detroit times., 1908-05-18
Murdsress' Bloody Traffic
Brought Her s52,900

LA PORTE, Ind. May 1S.-Mrs-
Belle Guinness, arch-murderess and i
proprietress of the house OF horror,
10 which her suitors were lured for
slaughter. is today speeding across
the Atlantic on the Hamburg-Ameri-
can liner DANA, according to informa-
ton received by Sheriff Shutter. The
police authorities at Hamburg have
been asked by cable TO arrest tho
woman upon her arrival.
The identification in Galveston,
Tex, OF woman who tallies exact
ly with the missing murderess, was
made by James Stokes and Frank
Dayton, who talked with the woman
just as she was about 10 sail on the
DANA. Several OF the passengers were
discussing the gruesome La Porte
case and their first suspicion that
the woman with whom they We're
talking was Mrs. Guinness was arous-
ed by the curiosity which she mani
tested and the frequency with which
she declared she had never before
heard anything about the case.
Said She Visited Indiana.
She said she was familiar with In
diana having visited in indianapolis
number OF times. In explaining her
object in going abroad she said that
her husband had just died and that
she was going TO Germany TO settle
his estate.
| This woman Is believed to have
been the same one who passed
through st. Louis day earlier and
who was thought by Union station Of
ficials TO be Mrs. Guinness. She at
tracted attention by her extreme ner-
vousness. At st. Louis she purchas-
ed Pullman ticket and left her berth
only once during the entire trip TO
Fort Worth. Tex, where she disap-
peared.
Find a New Grave
A new grave has been found on the
murder farm and Sheriff Shutter ex.
poets TO unearth another body before
night The spot is about forty rods
| from the place where 10 bodies were
| found. The ground is soft, and when
! n pipe was pounded into the earth evil
dence was given that body had been
buried there. Two other suspicious
spots have been located, and those
will be excavated as soon as they can
be reached in the course of the in
vestigation.
Profitable Murder Traffic.
Careful calculations OF the amount
OF money which Mrs. Guinness realized
by her traffic in human life, sets the
amount at over $4,000. The follow
| ing tabulation shows the amounts she
obtained from various victims:
| From MAIDS Sorenson, her first hus-
band, life insurance, $4,000: Peter
Guinness. second husband, life fnsur.
ance. $4,000; Charles Erdman, New
Carlisle. Ind, $4,000: Herman Konit-
zor. Chicago $4,000: fire in Guinness
store, Grand-ave. and Elizabeth-st..
Chicago. insurance. $500; fire in
Guinness house In Austin, Ill.,, insur-
ance, $1,000; Ole o. Budsberg, lola.
Wis. $1,000: John o. Moo, Elbow
Lake. Mimi. $500; Andrew Helgel-
Elm. Aberdeen, s. D., $500, Geo. Ber-
ry, Tuscola. H., $500; Henry Ger
hall. lola, Wis. 81 900: four men other
than the above, whose bodies were
found In Mrs. Guinness graveyard les
timated at $1,000 EACH. $4,000; Is
other men, who were in correspond
ence with Mrs. Guinness and mystic
riously disappeared ESTIMATED az ST.
| 900 EACH. $4,000, Total. $4,000.
Sheriff Shutter and his men have
made careful inquiries in endeavor-
ing TO learn what Mrs. Guinness did
with all this money. They are as
much In the dark after their investi-
| CATION as they were before. II Is like
| ly that the 1920 that Mrs. Guinness
put In a safety deposit vault the day
/ OF the fire, was all the money she
| then possessed.