THE LA PORTE MURDERS.
CORONERS' INQUEST. Received IVJay, 22, i) a.m. NEW YORK, May 21. At the inquest at La Porte, the .coroner reports that Mr. Guinness had been burned to death as the result of felonious homicide, the perpe"traitor being unknown. After a fire on a farm at La Porte, Indiana, recently, 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 muideling the family. AfWr his arrest nine additional bodies were near by. The police believed _ that Mrs Guinness escaped to Chicago after burning a strange woman ami her children, in order to prevent identification. The other corpses are 'believed to include applicants who were lured into the house in response :to Mrs Guinness'g matrimonial agency advertisements. The applicants were robbed and murdered, jind their life insurance money was •collected. Lamphere has stated that he saw the woman committing some »of the crimes.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9096, 23 May 1908, Page 5
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167THE LA PORTE MURDERS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9096, 23 May 1908, Page 5
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