Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 33, Number 83, 8 May 1908 — Page 1

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FOUND TODAY At Dawn Sheriff and His Deputies Began Digging "Soft Spots" on Gunness Farm And Later Found Remains. POLITICS HAS ENTERED THE HORRIBLE MYSTERY. Republicans and Democrats Entering Counter Claims as To Whereabouts of Arch Murderess. THIRTY-THREE ARE DEAD. 80 THINKS SHERIFF SMUTZER WHO IS WORKING DILIGENTLY ON THE CASE PINKERTONS ARE ACTIVE. Laporte, I nd.. May S. Sheriff Smutzer and his deputies began digging In the "soil spots" at dawn and tit nine o'clock had unearthed a skeleton. This soon was followed by the iliBcovery of the second adult skeleton, believed to be a male, several feet (deeper. Several bones of another body were found at noon, making three today. They were dug np several feet, from the former discoveries. Total now eighteen. Household debris and rubbish covered the spot. The total of eighteen. Including the two husbands of the Woman, her three children and the corpse supposed to be Mrs. Gunness. The Hnkertons' engaged to work on the mystery are Impressed with evidence that Mrs. Gunness is tstill alive Coroner Looking sitid tiiey will work on this theory. They will also work toward the connection nf a Chicago gang with the Laporte fi'rm. Chief of Police Cochrane is receiv ing many letters from all parts of the; country concerning men who left their j homes, taking all their money and j mysteriously disappearing. Scores ' will come here to endeavor to make' identifications. ! A secret conference between Frose-' cutor Smith and Coroner Mack is said to have resulted iu an agreement that j the body of the headless woman in i the fire ruins w as Mrs. Gunness. j Smith claims he has found an import-; Bill w itness in Loins Roule, saloon-j keeper, who claims that Uanipnere j told him he would set even wivh the i widow if he had to burn her hous? ' "with her and her children inside. This ' "was a few clays prior to the fic : Politics in Investigation. Politics begins to figure in invesiiga- ; tlon. Iieniocraiic papers claim that Mrs. Cunuoss is alive and the republican paper says she lies in the morgue. City officials of respective political faith, agree with the theory their political papers advance. Democratic Mayor Darrow, is the law partner of Herman Worden. attorney for Lamphere. Affidavits in the case formerly read "In case of death of Mrs. Gunness" etc.. have been changed so that they now read, " case of death unknown woman" etc. Attorney Wordcr cross-examined Mrs. Gunness during her second prosecution of Lamphere for trespass. Worden now declares her testimony was such as to indicate that the woman believed lamphere suspected her of being a murderess. nd he believes she was then in fear of arrest and exposure. At that time IWordeu asked her direct, accusing

MODERN WOMAN BLUEBEARD AND HER THREE CHILDREN

MRS BE questions regarding the death of her two husbands and their insurance. "I noticed she turned pale," said Worden. Lamphere declares that while Helgelein was visiting her, Mrs. Gunness wanted him to procure some chloroform "to kill a hog," but he refused to do so. Sheriff Snjutzer declares he now- has evidence to justify the belief that thirty-three persons suffered death on the Gunness farm. Many reasons were deducted today to convince the authorities that the widow is still alive and fled to Norway after murdering her three children and substituting a corpse to represent herself. The identification of another of the bodies dug upon the Gunness farm, near here, as that of Ole B. Budsberg. of lola. Wis., and evidence that he, like.

Over the Several Dismembered Bodies

Andrew Helgelein. of Mansfield. S. D., had been brought into Mis. Bella Gunness's net through 'matrimonial" advertisements, was one of the clarifying features of the latest developments in the complications of the case. The identification of the bundle of bones and flesh as the remains of Budsberg. was made by the man's sons. Mat Budsberg. aged twenty-nine years, and Oscar H.. two years his junior. The young men arrived here Thursday afternoon. A soaking rain, which fell continuously for twenty-four hours, prevented further excavation about the farm, and Sheriff Snmlzer devoted his day to unearthing possible evidence which may be used in the trial of Ray ljamphere on the charge of having caused the deaths of Mrs. dimness and her three children. The result of his investigations were such that Ralph X. Smith, prosecuting attorney for the district, announced that he will seek the immediate indictment of Lamphere and will endeavor to have the case called at the next term of court, which is scheduled to start Mjy n. "lamphere will be on trial within three weeks." said Mr. Smith. "So far as the state is concerned the case is complete and I am ready to present the evidence to the court and jury. I am satisffed that we have collected testimony of such a character that Lamphere's responsibility for the THE WEATHER PROPHET. INDIANA Fair and warmer Saturday: fresh to brisk northwest winds. OHIO Clearing Saturday; fair and warmer; fresh, variable winds.

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deaths in the fire will be established beyond doubt." During the sheriff's absence Thursday afternoon two men. thought to be from Michigan City, caused some apprehension by breaking into the carriage house on the Gunness farm, where the nine cadavers have been kept since their exhumation. The men raised a window of the building and one of them already had made his way into the barn when discovered by a watchman. The latter ordered the men away and sent a message to summon a deputy sheriff from Laporte. The intruders disappeared before the officers arrived and efforts to discover their identity failed. It is thought, however, that the men were merely led by curiosity to desire a close view of the grewsome skeletons. Coroner Mack has taken lengthy depositions from the father, sister and brother of Jennie Olsen and also from Asle K. Helgelein. of Mansfield, S. D. These documents detail at considerable length the known relations between Mrs. Gunness and these two of her victims. Helgelein's proved of special interest in that it confirmed many of the previous reports regarding the metods by which Mrs. Gunness drew the South Dakota farmer into her web. The Olsen testimony details the early life of Mrs. Gunness and revealed thai i.ie woman had refused at one time to return the girl to her father. Religious Fanatic. Chicago, May S. Mrs. Belle Gunness is a religious fanatic, self-hypnotised into crime. This was the solution of the I-aporte horror, so far as motive is concerned, offered by Dr. Charles E. Jones, of Austin. 111. This sensational sidelight was strengthened by assertions made by Anton Olson father of Jennie Olson, one of the supposed victims. He declared that he was convinced that his daughter had been strangely fascinated by the woman, and he was strongly inclined to the belief that she possessed a peculiar hypnotic power over all children. Sudden affluence, following the receipt of insurance money on the death of her first husband, is also supposed by the physician to have had its effect on her mind already unhinged by religious eccentricities. Dr. Jones and Dr. J. B. Miller were called to attend Mads Sorenson. the woman's first husband, on the day he died July 30. 1900. He made some remarkable observations at the time. "If Mrs. Sorenson. or Gunness, as she later became, is guilty of the hor-

MARSHALL OPENS HIS MOUTH AND ; STICKS FOOT IN

Remark That He Will Cut Out The Churches and Fight Under Directions of State Committee Causes Alarm. BREWERY INTERESTS BEHIND HIS CANDIDACY. State Committee Is Generally Conceded as Being Under Thumb of Taggart Fairbanks Liquor Combine. Indianapolis. Ind., May S. The democratic politicians here who are closely allied with the state organization were busy today trying to explain the statement made by Thomas K. Marshall of Columbia City, their candidate for governor, at a meeting of the state committee at the Grand hotel Wednesday afternoon. Mr. Marshall himself did a little explaining before he departed for Logan sport. The democratic campaign managers are trying to remove the effect of the report that Mr. Marshall said that he will cut -out the churches in the coming campaign and make his fight, under the 'guidance of the democratic state committee and the democratic stato plaform. It seems that at the committee meeting Mr. Marshall made three different speeches. In one he said in substance the following: "I will not accept any invitations to address . church me?tings, Sunday school meetings, Y. M. C. A. meetings, Anti-Saloon meetings or other conferences. I expect to make my fight, under the orders and guidance of the democratic state committee and on the democratic state platform and will not mix religion with politics." This utterance as a matter of coarse was not intended for publication but some of the members of the committee who regnrded it as a covert, at tack upon the republicans were tin-1 able to keep still about it. They told! it so often that it is gaining general circulation, much to the chargin of the party leaders, who do not. relish the idea of Mr. Marshall being compelled to start in the campaign with explanations of his own statements. -Mr. Marshall in Attempting to explain this statement said in substance that he'rioes not care to attempt to get votes through religious bodies and that he prefers to make his campaign at political meetings. The report that he had said that he would not address church gatherings or conferences but that he would make his campaign undr the direction of the state committee is causing a lot of comment in view of the well known fact that the committee is under the control of men who were elected by the Tom Taggart-Crawford Fairbanks Brewery Combine, which is dictating the policy of the democratic party in the present campaign. The night before the meeting of the democratic state committee, Taggart was in conference at the Denison hotel with Crawford Fairbanks, Stokes Jackson. Chairman of the state Committee Joe Riley. Secretary of the State Committee, W. H. O'Brien, formerly chairman of the committee. Bernard Korbly, chair of the Indianapolis district and olher well known democrats, who are whooping things up for Mr. Marshall. During their conference. Albert Lieber. another important member of the brewery combine, joined them and spent an hour with Fairbanks. These men are in control of the democratic organization which Mr. Marshall says will direct this campaign and which made np the platform that he says he will support. "SPRAYINGVTHE SUBJECT. The Wayne County Horticultural society will hold its regular monthly meeting at its room in the court house tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock. It is expected the attendance will be large. Spraying of fruit trees will he the chief topic for discussion. THE FIRST HUSBAND OF MRS. BELLE GUNNESS. His death was mysterious and he is now snpposed to have been murdered b Ms wiX -

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jostru UAXSON. Hired man at. the Gunness farm who barely escaped from the fire of last, week and who told the officers about the spots in the yard where Mrs. Gunness instructed to throw old refuse in ruder to fill up the depressions. In these places bodies weie found.

ATLAHTATH BEATEN ED Fire Does Damage in Southern City tcT Extent of $1,500,000. BUSINESS HOUSES BURNED Atlanta. Ga.. May s. Fire starting at four o'clock this morning, raged four hours and entailed a loss of

Where First Grewsome Discovery Was

AitaOW POINTS ... it threatened the entire business district. It destroyed the block bounded by Mitchell, Forsyth. Peterson streets and Madison avenue. The heaviest losers are the Schlessinger Candy factory, Robinson Neckwear Co.. Goodrum Tobacco Co.. Central Trust Co., Schroeder Bros.. Terminal hotel and Childs hotel. Marion Cafe Keystone Type Foundry: West Disinfecting Co.. Gans Merchandise Co. Half a hundred smaller concerns were burned. TO SEND DELEGATES. The First English Lutheran .Sunday School will send delegates to the co'inty convention at Fountain City, the st ue convention at Vincennes and the inter-national convention at Iouisville. The delegates have not been chosen. CREW RESCUED. New York. May 8 The crew of one hundred on the stranded ship Rickmers was re.-cued after a perilous nisrht. One is missing. MORE TROOPS TO GO. Columbus, O., May 8 Another load of troops was ordered to Adams county on account of the threatened " outbreaks of the night riders. SUICIDES IN HIS ROOM. Chicago. 111., May 8. Dr. J. Sanderson Christison. the noted Alienist ' writer, and a student of criminology, suicided by locking himself in his iooui and turning on three gas jets.

NO TRACE OF WILLS Cambridge City Druggist Seems to Have Made Good His Escape. IS MUCH IN COURT. Cambridge City. Ind.. May S.--As yet the authorities have been unable to secure any trace of J. B. Wills, nroTO WHERE THE FIRST FTVK BODIES prietor of the People's Drug Store, who i3 wanted on the charge of conducting a blind tiger, having sold intoxicating liquor to two men who were placed In the city jail Sunday for being drunk, and who later made affidavits to the effect that they secured some drinks at the Wills store. This is the second offense on the part of Wills, and if he is apprehended, the penalty will be a severe one, it is asserted. Wills has faced the court on several charges recently, and at present is defendant in a divorce case with his wife. TO BE A BIG EVENT. Katon, O., May 8. Th fireworks display in connection with th" home coming events here will be the biggest ever atempted in this county. There will b a parade over a mile in length. Special invitations will be extended Use veterans of the Civil and Spanish-American wars. Regular meetings of the association are held and at each the plans are enlarged. ROBBERJS SHOT. Lanareh. Pa., May S. The poetoifice here was dynamited by robbers. Considerable booty was secured. Constables are pursuing and in a running fight, one robber was shot and captured. 3RD REGIMENT MEMORIAL. It is expected that the local member of the Uniform Rank, Knights of Pytfc ias, will attend the memorial service: of the Third Regiment of the IndianBrigade, whjfch will be held at Rush lille.

EVENTFUL LIFE

OF NAT U. HILL COMES TO A CLOSE Former Treasurer of State Dies in Indianapolis This Morning While Friends Are At His Bedside. WHEELHORSE" IN THE REPUBLICAN RANKS. Not a Member of the Party in Indiana Who Will Not Be Grieved to Learn of His Untimely Death. Indianapolis, Ind.. May S.-Nat U. Hill, formerly treasurer of state, died at '. o'clock this morning at the stale college hospital, after a brave fight for life. Death resulted from a disease of the bladder for which he underwent operation at the hospital yesterday afternoon. Following the operation h lost strength through the night though he never ceased fighting tenaciously against what those at his bedside were beginning to see was inevitable. Twenty minutes before death called. MrHill spoke to one of the hospital attendants. "Am I dying?" he asked. You'll have to make a bravi fisrht," answered the attendant. "WelL boys, stand by me," said th dying man. Thone were his last words. At his bedside were his wife and two sons. Nat l. Jr.. and rhilip. Maj. Roa Hill and Sarah J. Hill of Bloomlngton, his brother and sister. George Thompson. business associate at Blooniingion. L. Vanbuskirk of Bloontington, officer of the bank of which Mr. Hill was president. William Bosson, who was his attorney while he was state treasurer and Mrs. Bosson. hi niece. Will Fesler, associate with Mr. Hill on board of trustees of the University of Indiana and Dr. Homer Made at Laporte "WERE FOUND. Woollery of Bloomlngton, hl physician. The family was tmmmon4 hurriedly yesterday afternoon and arrived during the night. The funeral of Mr. Hill will take place Monday morning at lO o'clock at Bloomington. Many prominent citizens of the state will be present at th services In the College Avenu Methodist church. The strain of his work at the last state convention, and following that, his efforta a a member of the board of trustee of the University of Indiana, in settling: the medical war with Purdue, are thought to have contributed to his end. Mr. Hill was bora In Clay county, Indiana, in i2. and wax .VI years old. He became state treasurer in irC and was reelerted in 114. serving un'il Jan. 1. ltf7. when he was succeeded by Oscar Hadley. Mr. Hill was president of the Firrt t National bank at Bloomington. which

position he held for thirteen years, resigning to assume the office of state treasurer. For thirty years he took a a active part in republican politics. Hs was county chairman, district chairman, delegate to the national convention at Minneapolis that nominated Gen. Harrison, and at St. Louis, wher McKJnley was nominated. Has Been "Wheelhorse." Mr. Hill was a "wheelhorse' In th republican organization during the ast five presidential campaigns. He j-erved a a member of the state committee and was talked of as a candidate for the state chairmanship two . ears ago. He was urged to become candidate for the nomination for overnor at the close of his second -rm as state treasurer, but he prejf.Contia.ued on. Page Two.)