PROMINENT LADY ARRESTED ON SUSPICION.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLII, Issue 167, 16 July 1908, Page 2

PROMINENT LADY ARRESTED ON SUSPICION.

A dispatch, dated New York, May 9, states: An unfortunate mistake was made by the police yesterday in arresting Mrs. Belle Herron, of Chicago, because she was suspected of being the infamous murderess, Mrs Belle Gunness, of La Porte, Indiana. Mrs Herron was travelling to New York accompanied by her mother. Mrs Herron is a widow, and is. about the same age as the suspected murderess. A detective had travelled in th& same train some; distance, and finally at Syracuse, New York, he came to the conclusion that the lady was the one h£ wanted, and he woke her and her mother from their sleeping berths, and compelled them to alight from; the train, when he turned them over to the local police at Syracuse. Mrs Herron and her mother were highly indignant, and offered the amplest proof possible, on the spur of the moment in the way of cards and receipts and other papers, but the detective was unmoved. The s chief of the Syracuse police, howeveY, be^ lieved that the detective had made a mistake, and later on yesterday Mrs Herron was able to establish her identity and prove that she was going to New York to visit her sister, Mrs Charles Rockefeller, the Standard Oil magnate. Slie was thereupon released, but declares she will bring an action against -the authorities for her unwarranted arrest.

The search for the bodies at La Porte on the farm of the murderess is still going on, and one more'male body in a state of dismemberment and putrefaction was added to the already long list on Saturday morning. Detectives, however, have managed to secure a large "number of letters written by Mrs Gunness to Lamphere her farm hand, and several of them are said to refer to the introduction of people to the farm. One of them speaks of a woman whom Lamphere was to bring to the house.