A MURDER FARM.
AN AMERICAN HORROR UNEARTHED. 13 MURDERED BODIES RECOVERED. SUPPOSED WORK OF A FEMALE » FIEND. 1 Received 7th, 10.50 p.m. New York, May 7. t I After a lire on a farm at La Porte, I Indiana, four bodies, believed at the time to be those of the occupiers, Mrs. Belle Guinness and her children, were discovered incinerated. A farm hand named Lamphere was charged with murdering the family. Since he was arrested, nine additional bodies have been found roughly buried, near by, all being murdered. The police now believe that Mrs. Guinness escaped to Chicago after burning a strange woman and children. The woman had been decapitated to prevent identification. The other corpses are believed to ! include applicants who were lured to the house in response to tile Guinness matrimonial agency advertisements, the | applicants being robbed and murdered, and their insurance money collected. Mrs. Guinness' first husband is believ--1 ed to have been poisoned, and there are s indications that a second was murdered '■ with a butcher's cleaver.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 117, 8 May 1908, Page 2
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171A MURDER FARM. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 117, 8 May 1908, Page 2
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