8 La Porte Weekly Herald, May 14, 1909, p. 8.
9 Ibid.
10 New York Times, May 25, 1908, p. 3.
11 de la Torre, p. 52.
12 Anon., The Mrs. Gunness Mystery! A Thrilling Tale of Love, Duplicity & Crime. Being a recital of the strange story of the career of Mrs. Belle Gunness. It tells in detail everything regarding her career of crime; how she, by representing herself as a charming and rich widow, lured matrimonial victims to her farm, only to murder them in cold blood. Also containing accounts of other noted murder mysteries, including the Bender Case, the Holmes Castle Mystery, and others (Chicago: Thompson & Thomas, 1908), pp. 10–13.
13 Ibid., pp. 44–45.
14 Ibid., pp. 68–69.
15 Ibid., p. 81.
16 Ibid., p. 176.
1 Holbrook, p. 140; de la Torre, p. 48.
2 Chicago Daily Examiner, May 10, 1908, p. 1; La Porte Herald Weekly, May 21, 1908, p. 1. Accounts differ in the number of watches found in the ruins, with some newspapers putting the total at eleven.
3 La Porte Argus-Bulletin, May 11, 1908, p. 1.
4 Ibid., May 23, 1908, p. 1; Chicago Inter Ocean, May 28, 1908, p. 3.
5 Chicago Daily Tribune, May 16, 1908, p. 3; La Porte Weekly Herald, May 21, 1908, p. 4.
6 La Porte Argus-Bulletin, May 13, 1908, p. 4.
7 Chicago Daily Examiner, May 20, 1908, p. 3; Chicago Inter Ocean, May 20, 1908, p. 2.
8 Chicago Daily Tribune, May 20, 1908, p. 6.
9 La Porte Argus-Bulletin, May 19, 1908, p. 1.
10 Ibid., May 15, 1908, p. 1.
11 Ibid., May 21, 1908, p. 2.
12 Chicago Inter Ocean, May 23, 1908, p. 2; New York Times, May 23, 1908, p. 2. Appended to these six indictments was a seventh, charging Lamphere with assisting Belle Gunness in disposing of Helgelien’s body.
1 La Porte Argus-Bulletin, May 21, 1908, p. 8.
2 Langlois, pp. 23 and 26–27.
3 de la Torre, pp. 61–62.
4 Shepherd, p. 126.
5 New York Times, May 30, 1908, p. 2; Chicago Inter Ocean, May 30, 1908, p. 3; Hinton, pp. 61–62; Shepherd, pp. 125–26.
6 Shepherd, pp. 125–26.
7 La Porte Weekly Herald, June 25, 1908, p. 4.
8 La Porte Argus-Bulletin, May 21, 1908, p. 1.
9 Detroit Free Press, July 10, 1908, p. 2; La Porte Argus-Bulletin, July 10, 1908, p. 1, and July 11, 1908, p. 1; Spanish Fork Press, July 16, 1908, p. 1; Chicago Inter Ocean, July 18, 1908; La Porte Argus-Bulletin, July 29, 1908, p. 1; Wichita Daily Eagle, October 9, 1908, p. 1.
1 Chicago Inter Ocean, November 8, 1908, p. 8. For unknown reasons, no transcript of Ray Lamphere’s trial exists. My account of the proceedings draws on the extensive coverage by the La Porte and Chicago newspapers.
2 La Porte Argus-Bulletin, November 12, 1908, p. 1; de la Torre, pp. 65–66.
3 La Porte Weekly Herald, November 12, 1908, p. 7.
4 de la Torre, p. 63; La Porte Weekly Herald, November 12, 1908, p. 3; La Porte Argus-Bulletin, November 10, 1908, p. 1.
5 Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette, March 9, 1905, p. 1; Cincinnati Enquirer, April 11, 1905, p. 1.
6 Fort Wayne News, January 22, 1906, p. 8; Argos Reflector, January 26, 1998, p. 1.
7 La Porte Weekly Herald, November 12, 1908, p. 3.
8 Ibid., November 13, 1908, p. 1.
9 Ibid., November 10, 1908, p. 1.
10 Chicago Evening American, November 10, 1908, p. 1; Chicago Examiner, November 10, 1908, p. 1.
11 Chicago Daily Journal, November 11, 1908, p. 3.
12 Shepherd, pp. 127–28; de la Torre, p. 50; Boston Daily Globe, June 1, 1908, p. 8.
13 St. Louis Post-Dispatch, June 1, 1908, p. 2.
14 Cincinnati Enquirer, June 2, 1908, p. 2; New York Times, June 3, 1908, p. 3.
15 La Porte Argus-Bulletin, November 10, 1908, p. 1.
16 Ibid., November 12, 1908, p. 1, and November 13, 1908, p. 1.
1 La Porte Argus-Bulletin, November 13, 1908, p. 1.
2 de la Torre, p. 70.
3 La Porte Argus-Bulletin, November 12, 1908, p. 1.
4 La Porte Argus-Bulletin, November 13, 1908, p. 1; La Porte Weekly Herald, November 19, 1908, p. 1.
1 La Porte Argus-Bulletin, November 13, 1908, p. 3, and La Porte Daily Herald, November 13, 1908, p. 8.
2 Chicago Inter Ocean, November 8, 1908, p. 8.
3 de la Torre, p. 75.
4 Indianapolis Star, May 11, 1930, p. 1.
5 La Porte Argus-Bulletin, November 10, 1908, p. 1.
6 La Porte Argus-Bulletin, November 13, 1908, p. 3.
7 de la Torre, p. 79.
8 La Porte Weekly Herald, November 19, 1908, pp. 1 and 3; de la Torre, p. 79.
9 La Porte Weekly Herald, November 19, 1908, p. 2.
10 Ibid.
11 de la Torre, p. 85.
12 Ibid., pp. 85–86.
13 La Porte Argus-Bulletin, November 13, 1908, p. 4.
1 La Porte Argus-Bulletin, November 14, 1908, p. 2.
2 Daniels, p. 722.
3 Indianapolis Star, December 12, 1912, p. 2; January 20, 1913, p. 8; February 23, 1913, p. 16.
4 de la Torre, p. 86.
5 Ibid.; La Porte Weekly Herald, November 19, 1908, p. 2.
6 Indianapolis Star, August 17, 1940, p. 14.
7 See, for example, Dental Digest, Vol. XI, No. 5 (May 1905), p. 520.
8 La Porte Weekly Herald, November 19, 1908, p. 3; La Porte Argus-Bulletin, November 16, 1908, p. 3.
9 La Porte Argus-Bulletin, November 16, 1908, p. 3.
1 La Porte Weekly Herald, November 19, 1908, p. 3.
2 La Porte Argus-Bulletin, November 16, 1908, pp. 1 and 4.
3 de la Torre, p. 100; La Porte Argus-Bulletin, November 16, 1908, p. 8; La Porte Weekly Herald, November 19, 1908, p. 5.
4 de la Torre, p. 93; La Porte Weekly Herald, November 19, 1908, p. 3.
5 La Porte Argus-Bulletin, November 16, 1908, p. 4; La Porte Weekly Herald, November 19, 1908, p. 3.
6 de la Torre, p. 94.
7 La Porte Argus-Bulletin, November 16, 1908, p. 4.
8 Ibid.
9 La Porte Argus-Bulletin, November 16, 1908, p. 8.
10 Carroll (Iowa) Herald, May 13, 1908, p. 3.
11 La Porte Argus-Bulletin, November 17, 1908, p. 1.
12 Chicago Daily Journal, November 17, 1908, p. 2.
1 Washington Irving, «Rip Van Winkle», in Selected Writings of Washington Irving (New York: The Modern Library, 1984), p. 48.
2 La Porte Weekly Herald, November 19, 1908, p. 5.
3 Evansville Press, May 12, 1908, p. 1; Pittsburgh Press, May 7, 1908, p. 1; de la Torre, p. 101.