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Bought Much Quick Lime.All of the Gunness victims were buried in quick lime, it has been noted. This was for the purpose of aiding disintegration. It was discovered yesterday afternoon that Mrs. Gunness bought considerable quick lime of Moore Richter, saying she used it for building purposes and for disinfecting purposes. Heavy sacks she purchased of Wesley Fogle.Bankers of the city estimate that if Mrs. Ovnness left town she could not have had much money. She was in debt before Helgelein came and she got 13,000 from him. After that she paid a note of $500 at the Savings bank, paid a $700 lumber bill at Moore Richter’s, paid bills at various other places in town, amounting to several hundred dollars, in addition to making several purchases of jewelry, etc. She left $720 at the State bank the day before the fire. She had had no money at any other bank.T1 thei bom amu the for it b thro R lunc out beei real ter the; unti par st re eveFrom Monday's Daily Herald.If “Home Coming Week” in August draws as many people as did the Gunness tragedy and the Gunness “Home of Horror” yesterday the manaeers of the “Home Coming Week” will be perfectly satisfied, in fact they will be delighted. The crowd which during the day wended its way from town to the “House of Mystery” and then tramped over the grounds, inspected the holes from which were taken ten skeletons and decomposed bodies, looked over the edges of the brick walls into the cellar, poked their faces against the window of the carriage house, where lay nine of theskeletons and surmised on the probability of Mrs. Gunness being dead or alive, was variously estimated from 10,000 to 15,000. It was a great day for the morbid curiosity seekers not only of LaPorte and vicinity but of all the nearby cities, towns and hamlets and some cities from one to two hundred miles away.The people began coming to LaPorte early in the day. The firstVgivlt;nigtwcedhadandofleftforinsaiClatlt;gorhattheablerant1cardidAwacotthslie;he;isbe:do:oftn
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La Porte Weekly Herald
La Porte, Indiana, US
Thu, May 14, 1908
Page 14
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