A MURDER SYNDICATE.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9086, 11 May 1908, Page 5

A MURDER SYNDICATE.

1 THK INDIANA. SENSATION; 'THIRTEEN BODIES FOUND. ; '/ NEW YORK, May 8. Mrs (ininness, who is suspected of 4 having iMmmitted a number ot murders, rubbing the victims and claiming' their hfo insurance money, was • 48 yearn of age. She was handsome iand jioMsessed of extraordinary • strength. Thirteen bodies have been ex~ ' humed mi the farm, at La Porte, '. Indiana. They had been buried with • chloride of lime. It is expected that . more will us found. The police suspect Mrs Guinness ■:was u '"murder fence," or receiver i*of the bodies of victims assassinated , by a Chicugo murder gang. The brxiies had hean dismembered f.apparently by an expert. Bessie Wallace, a pretty girl, of 120, has boon arrested on suspicion "bf being n decoy, in connection with -<3uinnesa' seductive matrimonial i.&dvertisemtmts. The police believe they &w on the ■track of oi eof the greatest r..u der syndicates of the age. . Fivibig trunko were recontly deHivered on the farm 1 from Chicago; **and placed in a secret room, m the (abasement only opened by Guinness.' MORE BODIES FOUND. Received May 10,4.2 p.m. ;; NEW YORK, May 9. " Further investigations show that Mrs Oninness' first husband wns i:named Sorenson, and he died the day before an old insurance policy ex- . pired. ( Two days after a second policy became operative. . The. bodies of another man. and woman have been uneartheil, mnkjlng ( flfteen victims, including those found "incinerated.

A cab'egram pffhlfehed on Friday morning stated that after a fire on. a farm at La Porta,' lndiara, four hod-1 ies, -which were then believed to be j those of the occupier, Mrs Belle Guinness, and her children, were dis- J covered in an incinerated state. A farm hand named Lamphere was ' charged with murdering the family. Since he was arrested, nine additional bodien had been found loughly burned near by. ■' All had been mur-t dered. 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 ' believe*] to include applicants who were lured into the house in response to Mrs Guinness' matrimonial agency advertisements. < The applicants were robbed and' murdered; , and their life insurance money was collected. Mrs Guinness' first bus- j band is believed to have been pois-' oned, and there are indications that her second husband., was murdered with a'butcher'B.clledver.