CABLE BRIEFS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 383, 9 May 1908, Page 3

CABLE BRIEFS.

New York, May 7 After a fire on a farm at La Porte, 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 Lamphere was charged with murdering the family. Since he was arrested, nine additional bodies have been found roughly burned near by. All had been murdered. The police now believe that Mrs Guinness escaped to Chicago after burning a strange woman and her children in order to prevent identification. The other corpses are believed to include applicants who were lured into the house in reponse to Mrs Guirness’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 was murdered with a butcher’s cleaver. The United States and Japan have signed an arbritation treaty similar in terms to those accented with other countries. The newspapers of New York and Tokio interpret this fact as an indication that all differences between the two countries are now settled. Paris, May 6. Mile. Giraudin, niece of the Goulds (who were convicted of the murder of Madame Levin at Monte Carlo), has died at Monaco Hospital of decline, the result of grief. [The niece Isabella Giraudin gave evidence to the effect that she saw traces of blood in the house where the Goulds murdered Mrs Levin, but she attributed these to her uncle’s hemorrhage. Her aunt forbade her to enter the room where —it subsequently transpired—the body was dismembered.