The Bennington Evening Banner

AUTOPSIES AT LAPORTE
One of Seven Unidentified Bodies That of Woman

Laporte, Ind., May 18.--Autopsies of the seven unidentified bodies exhumed from Mrs. Belle Gunness' private burial ground were completed today and they revealed the fact, according to the reports of Drs. Wilcox and Osborne who conducted the autopsies under the direction of Coroner Mack, that one of the seven was a female.

This revelation aroused new interest in the story, that a man and a woman came to the house one night in 1904 to take Jennie Olsen to a Los Angeles college, as Mrs. Gunness told those about the place. The next morning Jennie, the man and woman were gone. Mrs. Gunness said that they had left on an early train for California. The theory now advanced is that Mrs. Gunness may have, on the same night murdered Jennie Olsen and the man and woman who had come to take her to California and buried all three bodies.

The mystery surrounding the watch found on Ray Lamphere when he was arrested was learned today when J. G. Ramden of Manfred, N. D., who came yesterday to investigate the disappearance of his half brother, John Moe of Elbow Lake, Minn., identified the time piece as the one owned by Moe when he left home. Lamphere said that Mrs. Gunness gave him the watch.

Coroner Mack is still holding the four bodies found in the fire ruins of the burned Gunness home, and which according to the evidence produced, are the bodies of Mrs. Gunness and her three children.

In view of the offer of the county commissioners to pay $4000 for the production of Mrs. Gunness alive, Prosecutor Smith expects that this search will be world wide.