29-30. A Los Angeles college professor and wife--names not
yet ascertained.
31. Andrew K. Helgelein, Aberdeen, S. D., ranchman, the
last victim, whose fate led to the discovery of Mrs.
Gunness' crimes.
32. Charles Edman, farm laborer, from New Carlisle, Ind.
Took $3,000 in savings to Mrs. Gunness' home.
33. Frank Riedinger, young German farmer, of Delafield,
Wis., went to La Porte in February, 1907.
34. Babe seen by a neighbor, Mrs. William Diesslen, which
afterward disappeared.
35. Unknown young woman visitor, seen to go to Gunness
house; never accounted for afterward.
36. Unknown man, a widower, and his young son, went to Mrs.
Gunness' house a year ago--never seen again. One of the
bodies found on farm was that of a small boy.
37-57. Twenty-one babies entrusted to Mrs. Gunness' care
while she was running a "baby farm" on the outskirts of
Chicago all disappeared mysteriously.
57-180. Other unknown men, women and babies, who went to
Chicago and La Porte homes of Mrs. Gunness, and were never
seen again, are estimated to bring the grand total of
victims up to 180.
This, then, is the crowning work of the matrimonial agency; this
horrid burying ground of dismembered bodies, this ghastly charnel pit
on an Indiana hillside. By their fruits ye shall know them. In the
dread Gunness Farm behold the ripened fruit of the matrimonial agency.
[Illustration: RIDES OUT OF THE CLUTCHES OF MATRIMONY]
[Illustration: She Steers Him Straight for the Lily Pond.]