The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1908-05-07

days later the child was dead. DR.
Martin, not having been called in the
Interim refused a death certificate
and the infant il IS said was buried
without fulfillment Of the legal re-
quirements. The coroner is consider
ing the advisability of exhumine this
body for the purpose Of an autopsy.
LiVeryman Give Clue.
The best clue which has vet been
found came to light Immediately fol.
lowing the discovery of the last three
bodies. John A. Walker. livery.
man, and Leo Wade. his emnloye
told OF having carted heavy trunks to
the Guinness farm in the summer aud
autumn of 1906. Clyiie Sturgis em-
ployed by Foster & De Garmo. another
livery concon, remembered that he
took two similar trunks to the place
about o year ago. nj addition. sever
al heavy boxes marked yariously 'po-
tatoes," and wall paper were carted
to the house at different times
Wade asserted that his experience
in taking the trunks to Mrs. GUM
ness was ndt one which he woull'
care to repeat
"She wouldn't let us into the house
with one of the trunks . he said I'VE
put u on the poarch before the f-ont
door. The others were 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 a third
aud opened another door But told
Walker ! had had enough and we
dTopped the trunk in the third room
and left"
If these trunks contained dismem-
bered corpses. disposal of the bodies
at the farm would have been compare
tivelv simple. Joseph Maxson. man OF
lat work at the place since February
last; Ray Lamphere the prisoner in
the case. and Fred Blickman q neigh
bor have told Of digging trenches IN
the barnyard at Mrs Guinness direc.
I tons
! She was a woman of great physical
strength and those who know assert
that to drag $50 pounds across o barn
yard would have been comparatively
: easy for her
/ Despite the known physical strength
of the woman, the authorities arc not
at all convinced that Mrs Guinness
was unaided IN her horrifyiug work
"The large body found yesterday IS
That of ? man weighiug well over 200
pounds" said Or Never I'm explaua-
tion as the result Of his autopsy on
the corpse I donbt II ayh man or
any one woman could have handled
/ it'
Worc Dead Man'r Goat.
RAY Lamphera Is the person toward
whom the hand OF official suspicion e.
pointing in this connection His ac.
/ acknowledgement of Intimate relations
with tho woman the admission that
be had been IN the vicinity OF the
Guinness house on the morning OF
the fire, and above an. lhe letters
which P.osecnior Smith is guarding
are the principal links of the evidence
thus Tar revealed against him. Then
there Is the testimony OF several
townspeopie that the. saw him wear
ing Andrew Heigeleln's fnrlineo
loverooat after the South Dakota man
had dropped from view. 30 man Is
known 10 have been SO deepiy IN the
good graces OF MRS Guinness a.
Lamphere
The motive for the wholesale mur
ders has not been fully established
The circums tances surrounding thf
disappearance of Hegelein and oil
b. Rudsberg Of lola. Wis. are how
ever So similar as 10 give a clue aI
10 the object OF the persons who com
United the crimes Heeeleir la,
secured $1,000 through The First Na
tional bank here shortly before h'
was lost sight or Radsbers nogotia
ted the sale OF MORTGAGE thrOuel
the la Porte Savings bank wme
yielded him $1,000 He drew mi
money Alcli G. 1907 No record @
his furiher appearance in The iles
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