AN AMERICAN SENSATION.
GRUESOME DISCOVERIES. WHOLESALE MURDERS. FARM HAND ARRESTED. | A WOMAN IMPLICATED. Received May 7, 10.56 p.m. NEW YORK, May 7. After a fire at a farm at La Porte, in Indiana, four bodies, believed to be those of the occupier, Mrs Belle Guinness and her children, were discovered incinerated. A farm hand, named Lamphene, is charged with murdering the family. Since he was arrested, nine additional bodies—all of murdered persons —have been found roughly buried near the destroyed house.
The police now believe that Mrs Guinness escaped to Chicago atter burning a strange woman and her children. The woman had been decapitated to prevent identification. The other corpses are believed to include applicants lured to the house in response to Mrs Guinness' matrimonial agency advertisements. It is surmised that these applicants were robbed and murdered and their insurance money collected. Mrs Guinness' first husband is believed to have been poisoned, and there are indications that her second husband was murdered with a butcher'a cleaver.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WAG19080508.2.16.17
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9084, 8 May 1908, Page 5
Word count
Tapeke kupu
166AN AMERICAN SENSATION. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9084, 8 May 1908, Page 5
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Wairarapa Age. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in