The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1908-05-14
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.
TWO MORE BODIES ARE FOUND
OFFICERS WORK EVERY CLUE,

OFFICERS WORK EVERY GLUE
IAPORTE, Ind, May G.-i Special j.
Two more CHASTITY finds were made on
the farm Of Mrs. Belle Guinness today
when the skeletons Of two adults were
dug up Is the searching crew. Onr was
found in pine box and Is badly drcom-
posed. The other was buried feet be
low the surface, wrapped in a cloth. An
examination viii 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 al
her home. that the bodies were brought
here from Chicago by her. that plausi-
bliity might be given the theory that
she and her family had fallen victims to
the flames and while in reality II was
the contamination of a plot which en-
abed her to see safety in flight with her
children. The statement WAS made 10
the police today by man who's" name
cannot now be dIyulgnd, that Mrs Gum
ness was seen 10 board train going out
of the city and that she IL now ON her
way to Norway. This theory is SUI
fcicntly well defined as 10 warrant rigid
police investigation, which Is now beng
made.
Will Dag Lake.
Fish Tran lake will be dragged for
the missing head aud unless il is found
the officers will make q post mDrtrm "E-
animation Of the remains of Mrs Gum
ness and subject them 10 more care
ful 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 70 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 S2O,-
600 and her passion for money is given
Ms the incentive for tho crimes commit
ted A belief that she might be alive in
cludes the suppOsiton that she feared Roy
Lamphere, her former empoye, was
about to expose her through Jealousy,
Suspect Insurance Plot,
The sheriff has notified the Chicago
police to be on the lookout for n gang in
chat city believed to be in murder plot
for purposes of collecting insurance. The
rang Is believed to have disposed Of
parts Of the bodies in Laportc. On Sat
urday, April %, two days before her
home was burned Mrs. Guinness re
ccived 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 IN
suspect that Mrs. Guinness conducted q
"murdcr fence 20 dispose Of bodies Of
persons murdered in Chicago for their
life insurance.
The startling revelations have nwaI.
oncd Iaportr people to 4 recollection Of
somc strange occurrences n tho GUM
moss home during the last vcar Last
summer Mrs. Guinness reported to chief
or Police Cochran that a child had been
murdered in the woods back of hnr house
hy a man and woman who had driven
past her home.
Finds Childs Grave
Tho officer investigated, but could
find no trace Of the body. aud dropped
thc case Not Il week later Mrs. Gum
ness sent her little daughter to him to
state that She could take him 10 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, rNpIuning 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 Jcnnl" Olson, who WIS adopted by
Mrs Guinness today identified The body
found yesterday as that of lis daughter
He said. 81 know il Is my daughter 10y
her shape and hy her wuyy I.ht coIurcd
hair | beard from her about two years
ago but had not had letter since that