Iowa state bystander., 1908-05-08
-FOUR MORE BODIES
GUINNESS FARM MYSTETi BE
: COMES MORE GREWsoME.
TWO coRPsEs IDENTIFIED
Relatives Recognize These OF Jennie
Olson and Andrew HelgeleIn--
May Have Been Shipped =
from Chicago. ."

Laporte, Ind.-A possible solution OF
the Guinness farm mystery, Whlcn
was deepened Wednesday when four
additional bodies were found In the
barnyard, developed late in the AFTER
noon. Evidence that the nine dismem'
bered corpses so far unearthed had
been shipped to this city, probably
from Chicago, came to light, the testl'
mony of draymen, who had carted
trunks and boxes to the Guinness
home bearing this out.
|. In addition, the local authorities re-
ceived information that two TRUNKS
consigned to MRS. Belle Guinness,
Laporte, Ind" were being held in an
express office in the larger city and
the assistance of the Chicago police
in unraveling the puzzle was sought at
once.
Two Bodies Identified.
Two of the nine mutilated bodies
were identified Wednesday afternoon
with considerable certainty. Antoine
Olson, 241O Indiana avenue, Chicago,
viewed the remains supposed to be
those of Jennie Olson, the 16-year'old
foster daughter of Mrs. Guinness, and
pronounced them those of his daugh-
ter. A sister of the dead girl, Mrs.
Leo Olander, 2S1S South Park avenue,
Chicago, accompanied the father and
added her testimony regarding her SIS
ters characteristics.
Ask X. Helgelein, whose inquiries
regarding his missing brother, An
drew, led to the first discoveries on
the death-haunted farm, became sure
that the largest and best preserved OF
the corpses is that Of his relative
Against this, however, is the result OF
the autopsy performed on this particu'
lar body by DR.. J. H. William Meyer.
He found contradictory conditions
which to his mind, at least, proved
that the dead man perished long after
Andrew Helgelein disappeared in jan
uary last, even going SO far as to say
that the corpse showed evidences IT
having been in the ground less than
two weeks. Ask Helgelein, however,
refused to be convinced by these find
ings, and his certainty led the local
authorities to accept his identifica-
ton, at least for the present.
Lamphere Says Nothing.
Roy Lamphere, who is held on q
charge of first degree murder grow
ing out of the fire which destroyed the
Guinness home and caused the deaths
of Mrs. Guinness and her three chill
dren, offered no new evidence, despite
repeated questionings. Ralph N.
Smith, the prosecuting attorney of the
district, asserted, however, that con-
fession is not necessary SO far as
Lamphere is concerned. I'VE have
positive evidence in the shape Of let.
ters connecting Lamrhere with the
murders at the Guinness farm" he
sa.s. The exact nature of these let
ters was carefully guarded by Mr..
Smith.
An attempt to identify one Of the
corpses as that of Ole B. Budsberg,
lola, Wis, was also started by the
sheriffs Office here. In response to
telephone messages sent there in the
morlsng word came at night that a
member of Budsberg's family had left
there for this city.
The increasingly divergent charac-
ter of the grewsome mysteries has
aroused the entire community. The
county commissioners of Laporte
county decided to offer reward of
$1,000 for solution of the enigma.
Tell of Taking Trunks There.
The best clew which has yet been
found came to light Immediately fol-
lowing the discovery of the last three
bodies Wednesday. John A. Welker a
liveryman, and Leo Wade, his EN-
ploye, told of having carted heavy
trunks to the Guinness farm in the
summer and autumn of 1906. Clyde
Sturgis, employed by Foster G. De
Garmo, another livery concern, re-
membered that he took two similar
trunks to the place about a year ago.
In addition several heavy boxes,
marked variously potatoes" and
wall paper" were carted to the house
at different times. Wade asserted
that his experience in taking the
trunks to Mrs. Guinness was not one
which he would care to repeat.
"She wouldn't let us into the house
with cne Of the trunks" he said. I'VE
rut st on the porch before the front
door, The other, at her ORDERS was
carried out after dark. There was
no light in the house and she didn't
strike one when we entered with the
trunk. She led us through two dark
rooms into third and opened another
door. But l told Welker l had had
enough and we dropped the trunk in
the third room and left"
Sturgis said that the trunks which
he took to the farm were old, heavy
and strongly corded.
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