Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1908-05-07
BODIES SHIPPED fsoM Chicago
Drayman Tells Stories About Deliver.
ing Mysterious Boxes to the GUN.
ness Woman-Two Of the Victims
Positively ldentified-Roy tamphe.e
Remains Silent.
(By Associated Press)

bic soluti ion of the Guinness farm mys-
terry. which was deepened today when
four additional bodies were found in
1, Ne barn yard. developcd tonight. Evil
dence tending to show that nine dis
corpses unearthed yester-
day and today had been shipped to
Laporte probably from Chicago. came
to light. Testimony Of draymen who
had carried trunks and boxes to the
Guinness home. lent color to this
superstition. The Laporte police also
received information that two trunks
consigned to Mrs. Belle Guinness. La
porte, Ind, are held in an express Of
fee in Chicago. Assistance OF the
Chicago police in unraveiling the puz
zie was sought at once.
Two OF the nine mutilaMd bodies
were identified by friends with reas-
OnaLae certainty.
Identifies His Daughter.
Antoine Olsen, of Chicago. viewed
the body supposed 10 lie that OF Jen-
ME Olsen, Is years old, foster daugh-
ter of Mrs. Guinness, and pronounced
it TO be that OF his daughter.
A sister OF the girl. Mrs. Leo
Olander, of Chicago, confirmed the
fathers Identification.
A. X. Helgelrin, whose inquiry re-
garding his missing brother, Andrew.
led 10 the first discoveries OH the
death haunted farm. became sure to-
day that the largest and best preserv-
ed of the corpses is that Of his bro
Their.
Against this Identification. however.
is the result of the autopsy perform
ed on this body by DR.. J. II. Meyer.
He found conditions. which to his
mind. proved that the man persisted
long after Andrew Helselrin dlsap-
peared last January.
DIR. Meyer said that the corpse show
ed evidence of having been in the
ground less than two weeks.
A. X. Helgelrin. however. refused to
be convinced by these findings and his
led the coroner to accept his
for the present.
lamphere Refuses to Talk.
Roy LampheTe who is held onse
charge of first degree murder al
result of the fire that destroyed tae
Guinness home and caused the death
of Mrs. Bella Guinness and her three
children. gave no new evidence to-
day despite repeated questions. Ralph
W. Smith. prosecuting attorney to-
night asserted that 4 confession Is no.
necessary so far as Lamphere is con
cerned. I'VE have evidence in the
shape Of letters connecting Lampbere
with alleged murders at the Guinness
farm" he said.
He said the exact nature OF these
letters was carefully guarded by Mr..
Smith.
An attempt TO identify one Of the
corpses as that of Ole r. Buds5crg-
lola. Wis. was also started by the
sheriff in response to telephone mes
sascs that a member Of that family
had lief; lola for Laporte.
Reward Of $1,000 offered.
Stirred by the horror experienced
bv citizens a. each additional bundle
Of decaying homes and flesh was dis
covered. the citizens Of Laporte coun-
ty today resolved 20 use every re-
source Al tnfT 0b.sHhoHb ""HsH h'-
ing an answer to the puzzles that con
front the police.
The board dccided to Offer reward
OF 81. 600 for the solution of the caiS-
ma.
The Guinness farm was TO-DAY
thr,nrcd with curious siGhfc~rs.
When sheriff Snui;zrr and his assist
ants reached the place this morning
thcv resumed the ;aSk Of drlvinS Tor
I5dics. The fact that traces OF ar
os hcr corpse found vas magnet and
early in the afternoon the crowd he-
came go dense that the roadways were
chokcd.
The sheriff appealed 10 the police
tn keep the crowd back. Relieved cf
the crush the excavators doubled their
cNcrts and sruu found q fcw scatter
cd bones. Then skull was uEcoS-
cred. Digging around THIS another
corpse was exposed. and beyond this
yc, another.
> Ono of the bodics found in this pit
Il believed ;o ~ that Of woman.
The other tso. and thai found cartier
today. arr probably those ~ men. Ot
TIE uiae cadsvcrz. seven arc those OF
males. All we're adults. the t~o