A HORRIBLE STORY.
ALLEGED WHOLESALE MURDERS. Press Association —Copyright. New York, May 7. After a fixe on a farm at Laporta, Indiana, fonr bodies, believed to be those of the occupier, Mrs Belle Guinness and her children wore discovered incinerated. A farm hand, named Lamnhere, has been charged with murdering the family Since lie was arrested nine additional bodies have been found roughly buried near, all murdered. The police now believe that Mrs Guinness escaped to Chicago after burning a strange woman and her children.
The woman was decapitated to prevent identification. The other corpses, it is believed, include applicants who were lured to the house in response to Mrs Guinness’s matrimonal agency advertisements.
The applicants were robbed and murdered, and the insurance money collected. Mrs Guinness’ first husband is believed to have been poisoned, and there are indications that the second was murdered with a batcher’s cleaver.
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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIII, Issue 9140, 8 May 1908, Page 5
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148A HORRIBLE STORY. Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIII, Issue 9140, 8 May 1908, Page 5
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