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even-cutorment came 1 lo isitor it beVliW V/LtlVIiimuuutni^Jinns made in regard to the Gunness | to several hundred dollars, in addi-tnurders, are now waking up and male- tion to making several purchases ofing inquiries for missing relatives, jewelry, etc. She left $720 at the Sheriff Smutzer and Chief Cochrane State bank the day before the fire, are beginning to receive inquiries by She had had no money at any otherthe scare for missing people. Every-1 bank.body in the country who has beenmissed during the past ten years will I From Monday’s Daily Herald, gs of I be traced to LaPorte, in all probabil- H “Home Coming Week” in August 3 saylity. . [draws as nianv people as did the Gun-Mishawaka turns up with a case. ness traged' and the Gunness “Home t the I a young man, who was in the meat Horror yesterday the manaeers Depu- j business left there to go to A her-1 Home Coming Meek will bebsent deen, S. D., but he turned up missing perfect,y satisfted In fact thev willwould an{j now efforts are being made to Ce delighted. The crowd which dur-« At- learn if he was one of Mrs. Gunness’ ing the day tended its way from town jo the victims. It is a singular coincidence to the “House of Mystery” and then ed to 1 that he should have started for Aber-1 tramped over the grounds, inspected When deen, a place that already figures in |t,ie holes from which were taken ten into the case.\givniatW!edhaianlt;oflefforinsai(skeletons and decomposed bodies.latgohatinabert he I . t' i ~ c o j j looked over the edges of the brick anMelvin Kendaga of South Bend and . ‘ , ° , , , .‘dings r, ii « * t a * t-ii u . I walls into the cellar, poked theiri Delbert Landers of Elkhart are two . .....1 . .faces against the window of the car-1ca riage house, where lay nine of the ‘di(skeletons and surmised on the probwtMrs. said state-sltionthne-'thing i young men who met a strange worn-orney an on a Lafce shore train one day.jur iajshe said said she lived near LaPorte, , „ „ J 5I . ,,____ ability of Mrs. Gunness being dead orland invited them to call on her. From I J . |0nornev .u a . I alive, was variously estimated from* | the descriptions of Mrs. Gunness they | ^ wf_________________ , |believe it was she and that they hads,id‘| narrow escapes from being plantedin the private graveyard.Has Been Arrested Many Times.Mrs. Belle Gunness has been arrested in several cities in the country Lam-1 wjthin the past 12 hours. She is a ;roundjvprj, flighty creature, it appears, for|Porlt;e ear,y in the day. The first e wil11 last night she was in Kokomo, at mid. Lake Shore train at 5:10 o’clock in night in Syracuse. N. Y.. and today the morning unloaded a delegation ofsomewhere else. It’s a gay life she is T5’ and from that tlme ever-v tralrl, o add I leading. brought its quota. The largest crow-d \ W;rk of I The woman arrested on a New[orl a s^nS^e train came in on the ae-Lam- York Central train at Syracuse went commodatton train from the ea«tsince into hysterics and then fainted. She N'lne cars’ Packed t0 tlie doors. emp-3hably | later was able to establish her identi- tled their human load at the station, o tv. She was Mrs. L. A. Herron of Two morning trains from Chicago Cl 3reen-1 Chicago. She said she was on her ffere fi,Ied t0 overflowing, while from re10,000 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 jhe and some cities from one to two hundred miles away.The people began coming to Laisbedcoftof.mMwas way to New York city to visit. Uponthe south on the Lake Erie railroad at P'wasnoon came an excursion train that mHe I establishing her identity she ----- .i Gun- promptly released. brought In more than 500 visitors Hher of A Btrange woman answering the from Indianapolis and intermediate Pi a told description of Mrs. Gunness was at- P°ints- The Pere Marquette railroad t imber, I rested yesterdav In Kokomo. The ran a sPeclal tra,n ,rom f-uCrosse, 1*lt;-Olson woman was selling face lotion from Picking up crowds at every station, idy. two house to house. She was taken to At Wellsboro all the cars were filled 1 Mrs. I police headquarters, where she roan- t0 such an extent that it was lmpossl-101‘CP In aged to establish the fact that she ble to accommodate any more, and as | v-isitors was Mrs. Mary Puterbaugh of Logans- there were ° Passenger cars bandy •upied. p0rt • a string of freight cars was coupled «both ' Hunting Her In Chicago. Pn and used to haul the res* of the f.Jh one Detectives are not only .hunting crowd- The Michigan City-LaPorte j ti ig- In Mrs. Gunness in every citv in the Uni- interurban did a land office business.■t. and ted States but also in foreign coun- Regular and speclaI cars were iam’Mt they tr|es med, reminding one of the merchants? from Today detectives are hunting the picn!c day- Even tbe Air Llne r Jennie L-ornan on the South side in Chicago, crowded all day long, the south and |le had U being claimed that she was seen west ends ot the coimty furnish nf. t ew Jen- j there last night.\V. C. Weir of this city is quoted ir Mrs. I as saying that a friend of his saw s. He | Mrs. Gunness on North Clark street re be- in Chicago. She was on a southbound n will car. With her was a woman much Lam- younger than herself and a man with he was I a blond mustache. He wore a light ness. | colored fedora hat and a long light n her I overcoat. The sight so startled my am go-1 friend that he did not awaken to ac-3n her I tion until the car had gone.?ss she | No Bodies Found Today.She No bodies were found today, al-but 11 though excavators under the direction of Sheriff Smutzer commenced work d that I early. Testing rods were used to ; Roule find soft spots, and although the f which J ground was turned in many places no mphere more skeletons were uncovered, awklng j The old well was carefully gone in-of his to without any results.tlawwowbtheir quota of men, women and chll-jf( dren.The day was an Ideal one for a picnic or a celebration, for that is what it seemed when one watched the good natured, jostling crowd and listened to the jokes and stories that were told. The McClung macadam road not only proved a fine driveway for automobiles and carriages but was like a sidewalk to those who walked. Every livery rig In town was out, while | _ carryalls and wagonettes did a rushing business between the corner of Main street and Michigan avenue and the Gunness house from early in the morning until late at night. During the afternoon the road became congested at points and only careful action on the part of the drivers of automobiles prevented accidents. It is estftnated that fully 50 automobilesbtlh.1 »J'*! ? 1__I;t:oI]a
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La Porte Weekly Herald
La Porte, Indiana, US
Thu, May 14, 1908
Page 14
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