INDIANA MURDERS.
CORONER'S INQUEST. By Tele*rajfli.— Press Association.— Copyright. (Received May 22, 9 a.m.) NEW YORK, 21st May. At the inquest at La Porte, the coVoner reports that Mrs. Guinness had been burned to death as the result of felonious homicide, the perpetrator being unknown. After a fire on a farm at La Porto, Indiana, four bodies, which were then believed to be those of the occupier, Mrs. Belle Guinness, and her children, were discovered in an incinerated state. A farm hand named Lamphero was charged with murdering the family. After his arrest nine additional bodies, were found roughly burned near by. The pohco believed that Mrs. Guinness escaped to Chicago after burning a strange wqman and her children, in order to' prevent identification. The other corpses are believed to include applicants who were lured into the house in response to- Mrs. l Guinness's matrimonial agency advertisements. The applicants were robbed and murdered, and their life insurance money was collected. Mrs. Guinness's first husband is believed to have been poisoned, and there are indications that her second husband wasmurdered with a butcher's cleaver. Lamphere has stated that he saw the woman committing some of the crimes.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 121, 22 May 1908, Page 7
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