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PROOF OF THIS IS VERY CONVINCINGTOO SHORT BY FIVE INCHES AND FAR TOO SMALLHER FINGERNAILS MANICUREIIDOCTOR SAYS MRS. GUNNESS DID NOT CLEAN NAILS ^r , , A - $ DIGGING IS STILL GOING OilWork in Yard at Gunness Farm Com tinuee—Evidence Is Piling Up Every Hour *LA PORTE, Ind., May 9.—After a careful scientific examination of the body now held by ifce coroner and generally believed to be that of Mrs. Belle Gunness, Dr. Harry H. Long oj La Porte, who had known the woman in life, today stated unqualifiedly that the burned corpse was not thal of the mistress of the La Pom ‘House of Horrors.” Dr. Long sayj the finger nails of tfce dead woman were carefully manicfured, somethin! with which Mrs. Gunness was no3 familiar.“The body at the; morgue is th»1 of a rather plump woman weighing about 160 pounds. Mrs. Gunness was literally a succession of billows of flesh, weighing J2a pounds 01 more,” he said.“The arm of the, body at thf morgue is well formed and rounded, but Mrs. Gunness’s arms were not. The hotly is almost five inches shorter than the body of Mrs. Gunness w’ould be under the same circumstances. The body at the morgue is that of a recent victim. It is not that of Mrs. Guness. I «.£p sure of that.” *She Had an Accomplice.It developed today through evidence of persons here looking for clews to missing relatives that Mrs. Gunness must have been in league with some one at Aberdeen, S. D.f for the purpose of misleading relatives as to the whereabouts of her victims. This is indicated by James Beard and John Mason, of Mishawa-s ka. Tnd., who are certain Bert Chase j of that town was one of the victims.! Sometime ago Chase sold his butcher shop at Mishawaka for a good sum and left town, telling friends he was in correspondence with a ‘‘wealthy w idow who owmed a fine farm in Indiana,” and he was going to look her up. A short time afterwards hi^ brother, Fred Chase, received a telei.I gram from Aberdeen informing him his brother had been killed in a freight wreck. Chase •went to Aberdeen. but found the name signed ta the message was fictitious, and thal ' no wreck had occurred in that locality for months. When the mysterrieN ’ of the ‘‘House of Horrors” at La Porte became known and It warf
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La Crosse Tribune
La Crosse, Wisconsin, US
Sat, May 09, 1908
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