The San Francisco call., 1908-05-08
PRIESTESS
OF MURDER
YET ALIVE
Evidence Discovered That the
Woman Who Lured Men to
Death Was Not Slain
Measurements Prove Body in
Burned House Not That of
Mrs. Guinness
Remains of One of Many VIC
TINS Is Fully Identified
by Two Sons
Matrimonial Letters Show How
Siren Drew Her Prey to
Lonely Farm
Ia PORTE, Ind, May T.

Ia PORTE, Ind, May L.
Proof that Mrs. Belle Guinness,
high priestess CT murder, who, at
the back door Of her farmhouse
near La Potre, kept private
graveyard from which nine bodies
of her victims have been un-
cart he'd, IS alive was established
beyond a reasonable doubt yes
terday.
The agent which may lead to
the solution of the mystery of the
wholesale tragedies was an or
dinary tape measure
Careful measurements were
taken OF the hcadless trunk OF the
woman found in the ruins of the burned
home. which at first was thought to be
the body of Mrs Guinness. This re-
suited in the astounding revelation that
the dead woman was not more than
half the size or weight OF the siren
who is supposed TO have lured a score
Of men to their death.
IN addition to the convincing testi-
mony Of the tape. half d dozen of the
most intimate friends OF Mrs Guinness
asserted with the positive sness Of abso-
lutte conviction that the dead body was
not that Of the mistress lDf the Castle
Of Death on the McClung road.
The body of the dead woman, with
the corpses Of three children supposed
10 be the Guinness children. now lies
, in the undertaking rooms Of Austin
Cutler in la Porte. Before it was en-
cased 81 the shroud in which It is to
be Inferred it was placed Upon table
and taped- The head is 1pissing and
tae body IS badly burned
SIREN WAS LARGE
Mrs. Guinness. according 10 her
friends. was feet inches tall She
was excessively corpuient alnd weighed
between 2So and 240 pounds.
because OF the missing head and
feet the exact height OF the dead
woman could not be deter mined The
measurement from the neck to the end
OF The fractured tibia and the ankle
bone was four feet, or q fraction less.
According TO experts. y tnches might
be figured as the distan ce from the
base or the neck to the crown of the
head. Another two inches. or possibly
a trihe more, might be accounted for
between the ankle bone and the sole
Of the loot BY this aleulation the
dead woman IN life was only feet
inches in height
The dead body was not weighed. but
* was lifted and the weight estimated
by the undertaken. He declared the
mutilated corpse weighed in the neigh
borhood OF I2o pounds
Figuring in the weight Of the miss
ing head. arms and legs. it is esti-
mated that the dead woman when alive
weighed around I3O pounds.
Two boys. Mat and oscar o.. sons of
Ole o. Budsberg. who disappeared from
the home Cf Mrs Guinness last April.
identified their fathers body tonight.
IT was that Of the man with red
mustache found Tuesday afternoon in
the grave in which three other bodies
were located. Budsberg's identity was
established by his entire figure.
RAIN Steps ExcAvATING
Evidence that Budsberg, like Andrew
Heigeiein Of Mansfield. s. d., had been
brought into Mrs Guinness net
through -rnatrimonial-, adverffsauaentx rs
was one Of the clarifying features OF
tcday's developments Of the case.
The soaking rain which fell continu-
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