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umcago company. i\o recoras 01 methird number is known to the manufacturers.Look For Fort Wayne Men?Chief of Police Anglenbruck, Sheriff Griece and Dr. White of Fort Wayne, Ind., drove over to the Gun-ness farm yesterday afternoon and were admitted to the improvised morgue. They examined all of the bodies carefully as though they were in search of some one, but they denied that they had anything in view when they made the trip, except to inspect the work of Mrs. Gunness.Notwithstanding their denial, it is reported that three well-known men in Fort Wayne, who have dropped out of sight within the last two years, are believed to be in Mrs. Gunness’ garden plot.Find Lamphere’s Trunk.Last night it became known that detectives and deputy sheriffs, who for several days have been digging into Lamphere’s history and his movements, discovered at the home of John Weatbrook, where Lamphere worked after he left the Gunness farm and where he was arrested, a trunk which was alleged to have contained a batch of letters written by Mrs. Gunness to Lamphere after he had left her farm. Lamphere left the Gunness place on Feb. 3. The letters are said to Bhow the relations that existed between Mrs. Gunness and the man who is now accused of her murder, as well as Intimating that Lamphere might have helped In doing some of the Jobs that were c mitted on the :farm.One of the letters is allegedliuwei uvei ms sweeiueai i.What People Have Observed.Every hour some person is found who has seen some mysterious or unnatural incidents at the Gunness place. Jess Dickinson, a well-known wrestler, says that one day he was fishing at Fish Trap lake, “This was in the summer of 1906,” observed Dickinson, “and while I was there Jennie, whom I had seen before, came into the woods at the edge ofthe lake, which is just across theroad from the Gunness house, with a cow, which she was to look after. The girl had a book and sat down behind a tree, all the while keeping alookout for the cow. Shortly thereafter I happened to glance up and sawMrs. Gunness sneaking up on thegirl. She reached for her and then began beating her on the calves of the legs. After the woman had left I went up and talked to the girl and she told me that this happened often. She said Mrs. Gunness beat her all over her body and she showed mesome of the marks.”Charles Hall, a wellknown resident of Pine Lake avenue, tells of seeing digging going on in the Gunness yard at night. This was two years ago last July. He thought nothing special of it at the time, but he recalls It now with peculiar significance.Dr. Long Makes StatementDr. H. H. Long, who was one of the four physicians to conduct an autopsy on the four bodies taken from , the ruins of the Gui^gsrAQme the day ofhave said;Uh youAlier uie eenur ueeu wurn.euover, the cement floor torn up and the grounds thoroughly explored the lake may be dragged, but the belief is that all the victims have been found.Philadelphia Man Among Missing.Friends of Charles Neiburg, 28 years old, a Scandinavian, living in Philadelphia, is believed to be one of Mrs. Gunness’s victims. He left there In June. 1906, saying he was going to visit Mrs. Gunness. Although he left a trunk containing all his clothing and many personal effects nothing has been seen or heard of him since. Neiburg is said to have had a hobby of answering matrimonial advertisements. He had $500 when heleft.Sheriff Smutzer will try to find out if Neiburg came here.Kenosha Girl May Be Victim.People in Kenosha, Wis., are watching with interest the developments in the Gunness case, believing that Anna Tillman of that city was buried in the Gunness private burial ground. She may be the woman uncovered yesterday. Miss Tillman disappeared two years ago and at that time she had left LaPorte to go to a farm near the city. The last letter received from her stated that she was not In good health and that she had been invited to go Into the country for an indefinite time. Anna Tillman was a handsome brunette. She had beenestranged from her mother, who still resides In Kenosha.Step-Brother In Prison.Gunness is *
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La Porte Weekly Herald
La Porte, Indiana, US
Thu, May 14, 1908
Page 14
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