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A Vernon, Texas, press dispatch says: Julius G. Truelson, of NewYork, who confessed to being implicated in the crimes of Mrs. Belle Gun-ness of LaPorte, Ind., will be brought to trial here at once on charges of forgery. He must answer several charges alleging forgeries aggregating $S00. Since his repudiation of his “confession” the authorities here declare his statement was a piece of fiction.A New York telegram says: Cesare Lombroso, the noted Italian criminologist, declared today in a published theory following a thorough investigation of the crimes committed at “death farm” in LaPorte, Ind,. that Mrs. Gunness must have had at least one man accomplice in order to consummate the death of her score of victims.Cesare Lombroso, the eminent criminologist, is quoted In part as follows: “It is not an unusual thing in criminology to find great ferocity and great dissimulation in women. When they are criminal they are considerably more so than men. It is not enough for a woman to murder an enemy; she wants to make him suffer, and she enjoys his death. But however she may be, a woman has not sufficient strength to commit alone a large number of murders of young, robust men. It is therefore quite natural that there must be one or more man accomplices. There is no reason to wonder that Mrs. Gunness used the knife, poison, deception, etc. Born women criminals often devote themselves to two different kinds of crime-^-poisoning and assassination. Mrs. Gunness must have used to obtain her accomplices besides the attraction of gain the attraction of sensuality. The enormity of the crimes convinces me that there must have been In her a strong inclination to hysteria and epilepsy. In criminal mothers the maternal instinct, which is conspicuous in the normal woman is not only suppressed, but reversed,no 1 ♦ Knnomaa in ♦folly.In response to requests from relatives of Mrs. Belle Gunness in Norway, Carl F. Faye, acting consul for Norway in Chicago, is expected to come to LaPorte in an effort to learn facts with which to reply to these letters. Numerous inquiries concerning the murderess have been received at the Norwegian consulate. The letters are from persons seeking missing relatives, who, the writers fear, may have become victims of Mrs. Gunness.The county commissioners today considered the matter of finding some way to secure additional funds to permit of the prosecution of the investigations under the direction of Sheriff Smutzer. As it now stands, as told in yesterday's Herald, there is no money on hand to continue the probing, unless it is considered that the commissioners can use some of the $5,000 appropriated. The people want the investigation to continue, they want no stone left unturned to get at the bottom of the Gunness case, if possible, and so the commissioners will find the people back of them in whatever action they may take to permit of the prosecution of the work of the sheriff and state’s attorney, Commissioner Miller stated this afternoon that he was willing to do whatever he could, for he did not want to stand in the way of getting at the bottom of the case. He said that he would do nothing to tie the hands of the sheriff in his good work.Sheriff Smutzer spent part of the day at the Gunness farm looking over things and trying to find the spot where Truelson says he helped Mrs. Gunness bury his wife and Reidinger. No suspicious looking place was found.A telegram from Rochester, N. Y., to The Herald says that Mae O’Reilly Truelson is said by the Rochester police to have recently gone from New York to the home of the parents of her second husband in Saratoga. Their name is believed to be either Welch or Cowan.notwalofavewhiKai\froidovdaonegutHehavtheheneea finhoiborrnaovetig;bolP-Tritheoneurntiowhsheshematesneineithssheingsaiwe
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La Porte Weekly Herald
La Porte, Indiana, US
Thu, Jun 11, 1908
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