INDIANA MURDER.
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LAMPHERE FOUND GUILTY OF ARSON. NEW YORK, November 27. Laphere, with murder and arsori at La Porte, Indiana, was convicted of arson, and received an indeterminate sentence of from two to twenty years. He appeals against the sentence on the ground that he is either guilty of the murder of Belle Guinness and her three children or innocent altogether. In May last a farm house at La Porte, Indiana, was burned dawn and four bodies believed to be those of Mrs Belle Guinness (the occupier) and her three children were found in the ruins. A farm hand named Lamphere was arrested for murdering the occupants of the farmhouse.' Subsequently nine additional bodies, roughly buried, were discovered. The police believed that Mrs Guinness decapitated a strange woman to prevent identification, and then burnt the bodies of the woman and her children. The other bodies are believed to be those of matrimonial applicants lured to the house, they being robbed and their insurance money collected.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3057, 30 November 1908, Page 5
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173INDIANA MURDER. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3057, 30 November 1908, Page 5
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