New-York tribune., 1908-05-10
MRS. GUINNESS ALIVE
DECLARED BY CORONER.
Bones Found IN Burned House
Those of Much Smaller WOmdn.

La Porte Ind. May s.-Dr. Harry H. Long cor
oner Of La Porte County who assisted in the post
lnortem examination of The body supposed 10 pe
that Of Mrs. Guinness, declares positively that inc
body in the morgue is that OF woman VIM
weighed fully fifty pounds less than did MIS- Gun
ness: also that ii is five inches shorter than Mrs-
Guinness. lie says Mrs. Guinness is still alive
DR.. Longs statement follows:
A strange coincidence is that the foreheads Of all
is extraordinary a skull crushed by blow at any
point and then subjected TO fire would ee nnS nU,
place a. the heat and fire would reach the honE
structure and thus aItack me ad nf Mrs Guinness
rad been entirely burned away is disproved by the
sa, snd and beins Ra rder it could have
heen burned away as easily as the SKULLS Vi 'ie
The BODY al the morgue is not that of Mrs Gun
because is not correctly he General
contour of Mrs Guinness but weighing between % 5S9
and $50 pounds Mrs Guinness weighed fuiiy 20
The arm that burned off vas found found beside snI
the bodv and is well formed The fingers show
evidence of careful manicurlns. ana IIlat We
something that Mrs Guinness sneW nosns ns rres
81 eminent physicians OF this cesnry and Sreat
-1aosi Inches shorter than the body Of Mr ,n
Tne fire w,ould of course ca use the body 10 lose
weight. but the general phrslcal outline VI ''''
Mrs guinness was woman Of unusual appear, sli,
81. vas and laiss sscS e0E es She was
Who would attract attention anyMhere rom p 1ee ne
f1Ir coat during the winter and her long strides
together with her remarkable countenance aIo ne,
that almost terrifying
Only one man was occupied in digging at the
Guinness farm to-day. and his work was without
yeeult.
The authorities endeavoring 10 trace young
man named Canary. who it is believed may nave
t,een one Of the victims OF Guinness a letter
was received morning from his mother al f-llh
Lake Ind. saying that her son. who was ABOUT
-nenty wears old disappeared almost TWO years
aro 1t is known that young Canary worked Tor
Henry Bfzse who lived about quarter OF nllfe
IRON, The Guinness farm. He disappeared from La
Porte in June. 1905. Mrs. Canary declares III liei
letter that the boy not bright and that ne oice
burned an empty cottage for the pleasure ol sees
il destroyed
A sreat crowd Of siEhtseers is expected to-ror-
row 10 view the Guinness farm An extra force OF
deputies and guards will he On duty TO see lha'
the fences and other appurtenances OF the place
are rot disuantled and carried off by relic hunters
Okla horna City Okla MAY S--Emii Greenlns' a
,srnen1er and his brother Fred, a painter, ooth
OF whom worked last summer on Mrs Guinness
Indiana farm. told to-day Of the mysterious NlslIs
Of a dozen men the home of Mrs Bella GUINNESS
and Of their more mysterious disappearance JENNIE
Olsen seventeen years Of the adopted daughter
Of Mrs Guinness was Emil Greetings sweetheart
Emil said to-day:
Jennie and ] were good friends. and when her
mosheT annomneeo S ai;foInia Slf with professor who
she said. had after Jennie. but whom never
In The mornnc did nor see Jennie Her mother
returned from an errand late that afternoon. vas
raTe rac tss tSe tWo letters 10 Mrs Guinness
received any answer I d 0 cont hear 6efre anew maes voice
any strange man about the house Al '"a'
Mrs Guinness received men visitors all the e tine.
She introduced them cousins from
Kansas South Dakota. Wisconsin and from I'll
@st them: but ut they rarely T took the trunks
Mrs Guinness kept the cousins WIN sib ne ss a az al
ways careful to make the children stay away from
her cousins who rarely tried to sno" them any
never knew of Mrs. Guinness bestowins he. her
affections any OF her hired men, except nay
So manv men came and saw so little Of them
5ctiy ren1ernber Mr- Moo; who came from Chi chi
with Mrs. Guinness almost constantly
When hs left his trunk STAYED Sehind hnfoT an9 M no
GUINNESS announeed that & he Vas gone ma -
Michigan City to get a horse that she said Moo
had promised TO give her oSk dsy st, to tn,o mase
thing wrong. and was told to come oack
for the herse later When ,r re5nTned ned 70 IRE t4e
was gone. -. ,,,.s3..,
civ. and st there was no horse. but .shen got
hack another cousin was missing, and no one
around the place had seen hlm IeaNe. I'll, ;,
Moo's trunk vas in the Guinness nome on ;1y Il II.
-eT when / left the place His was not the oills.
one There about fifteen other trunks and
sne room was packed fun of all kinds of men 8
clothing. which Mrs. Guinness said her cousins
lad left and she not certain that they would
he back for them
In the light of what has Jranspired oeiieVe tIiat
many murders were done right under my ncse:
sol1th of the kitchen. She never allowed any, OF
The hands to 20 near il. and she would fly If a
rage II a man looked that way when he vas pass
ing Two sides Of il were barTicaded with barrels
other two sides you could that ii looked like a
earden in spots.