The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-05-11
VISIT GUINNESS FARM
FIFTEEN THOUSAND PEOPLE AT
 TRACTED TO PLACE.
Investigation on the Farm for More Victims of the Murderess Was Halted Yesterday-Physi-
 clans to Report.

La Porte. Ind, May 1o.-All roads in of Mrs. Belle Guinness. alleged mur- deress of at least ten persons, whose bodies have been unearthed in the barnyard and now thought to have been burned to death with her three children in q fire that destroyed her farm house on April 2S.
 Upwards of fifteen thousand sight seers visited the place of death before sunset of the first Sabbath to pass since news of the mystery transpired Nearly every able-bodied resident of La Porte went to the Guinness farm and railroads and trolley lines brought about 1000 on-residents to the city.
 Mayor Darrow found 1t necessary to issue stringent orders that the Sunday closing laws should be strictly en- forced. Hotels and restaurants were overrun with patrons. Every convey ance in La Porte was pressed into ser vice in an attempt to provide transpor- tation to the farm, which IS mile north of La Porte. Hundreds, however, were forced to walk.
 There was nothing in the attitude of the crowd to indicate that they were visiting a place where gruesome trag- edies had taken place. Jokes and lauKn1IlK CODlluGtlL WCA 70 LNGA0 OA w cry side and exclamations of joy from successful relic hunters were numer- ous.
 Along the roadside were several lem onade stands and lunch wagons. At the gates were vendors of souvenir postal cards. and those bearing a group picture of Mrs. Guinness and the three little ones who met death with her found readiest sale,
 $F AR | bodies halted today. The sheriff and other officers were forced to become spectators also. Several visitors, how | ever, who were seeking information concerning missing friends or rela- | tives, and some further information regarding the possible identity of the victims of the farm resulted from theiI | inquiries. -..,.
 The most definite information came from Olaf Lindboe of Chicago. He said that his brother. Thomas. worked foi Mrs. Guinness three years ago and | that the last letter from Thomas said that he intended to marry Mrs. Guin' ness. Olaf wrote to Mrs. Guinness la ter and she replied thar Thomas hae gone to St. Louis and that she had hac no word from him. Olaf Lindboe hal not heard of Thomas since.
 Sheriff Smutzer will continue his in | vestigations at the Guinness farm to- morrow when the floor of the cellal may also be dug up and additional ex l cayations may be made in the yarC where ten cadaNers have been un rarthed.
 The report to the coroner of thu physicians who made the autopsies ol the bodies found in the cellar is no expected for day or two. All fou examining physicians, pr. H. H. Long pr. J. H. William Meyer, Dr. J. T Gray and pr. F. T. Wilcox, said to day that they are ready to return thei findings to the coroner. Dr. c s. Mack That official, however, has not yet in dicated to them whether he desires
 Joint report on all four of the bodhe
 or individual reports on each. H
 stated today that he hesitates to clos
 up the inquest regarding the bodies be
 cause he feels that additional evidenc
 regarding them may yet be discov
 cred.
 Mayor Lemuel Darrow. law partne
 of H. NJ Worden. who is defendinI
 Ray Lamphere today said that the de
 fense would investigate the Pine Lax | cemetery. an old burial ground abou
 A mile from the Guinness farm. It
 the theory of the defense that MT!
 Guinness killed her children, placed tn
 body of a large woman near them, se
 fire to the house to cover up her crime
 and then fled.