WHOLESALE MURDER.
AN AMERICAN HORROR. A MATRIMONIAL AGENCY. VICTIMS ROBBED AND KILLED By Telegraph rress Association.— Copyright(Kcceived May 8, 12.15 a.m.) New Yokk, May 7. After a fire on a farm at Laporte, Indiana, four bodies, at first believed to be those of the occupier, Mrs. Belle Guinness, and her children, were discovered incinerated. ; , Suspicion resting on a farm harm named Lamphere,' he was arrested and charged with murdering the family ' - . ; Since his arrest, however, nine additional bodies have been found roughly buried, near the house, all apparently having been murdered. The police ' now believe that Mrs. Guinness escaped to Chicago after killing a strange woman and her children and burning their bodies. The body of the woman was decapitated, evidently to prevent identification. The other corpses are believed to include those of applicants lured jo the house in response to Mrs. Guinness' matrimonial agency advertisements. ,' * Having gone to the house the applicants were, it is believed, robbed and murdered and the insurance money collected. Mrs. Guinness' first husband is believed to have been poisoned, and there are indications that her second was murdered with a butcher's cleaver.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13744, 8 May 1908, Page 5
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