The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1908-05-08
PINKERT0N SLEUIH
GETSNEWEVIDENCE
IN Hell LGELINE CASE
Trial Of Lamphere Will Be Delayed As Conse
sequence :. Sensational Developments Are
Expected...Anotf1er Body Identified Yes.
terday..Draymen Tell Weird Stories
and Tales Of Mysterious Trunks.

tion. The men raised the window
on the south side Of the building
and one of them had already made
his way into the morgue when dis
covered by watchman.
Later D. M. Hudson ordered the
men away and sent messenger to
summon the sheriff from LaPorte.
The intruders disappeared before the
officers arrived and efforts to dis
cover their identity were fruitless.
1t is thought, however, that the
men were led by morbid curiosity to
desire close views Of the skeletons
stored in the carriage house.
Wild Rumors Afoat
Lacking the excitement which at
tended the discovery OF the bodies
Wednesday and and Tuesday, rumor
mongers of the town made use Of
their opportunity to start many wild
stories about the streets. These
false sensations followed each other
at intervals all day, but none Of
them bore the test Of investigation
The report had it that DR.. G. S..
Mack, coroner of the county, had
expressed his official opinion as to-
the identity of the body found In
the ruined house and since identi-
fled as that of Mrs. Guinness. The
second story declared that the Chi
cago relatives of the woman had de-
cided to contest the will by which
her estate was bequeathed to an or
phan asylum in Chicago. The report
stated further that the officer Of the
orphanage association had arrived
here to defend the Institutions S
rights. This rumor, however, was
exploded when the suspected strang-
er denied that he had ever heard of
the institution in question.
Coroner Mack put in a busy day
taking dispositions from the father,
sister and brother of Jennie Olson.
and also from AISLE K. Helgaline, Of
Mansfield, S. d. These documents
detail at considerable length the
known relations between Mrs. GUM
ness and the two victims. Helga-
lines testimony proved Of especial
interest in that it confirmed the
many previous reports regarding the
methods by which Mrs. Guinness
drew the South Dakota farmer into
her web.
The Olson testimony detailed the
early life Of Mrs. Guinness and her
foster daughter and also revealed
that the woman had refused at one
time to return the girl to her father.
LaPorte, Ind, May 8.The best
clue which has yet been found in
the mysterious Guinness murder case
came to light Immediately following
the discovery Of the last three bodies
yesterday. John A. Walker, livery
man, and Leo Wade, his employe,
told of having carted heavy trunks
to the Guinness farm in the summer
and autumn of 1906. Clyde Sturgis
employed by Foster and DeGarmo,
another livery concern, remembered
that he took two similar trunks to
the place about a year ago. In adj
dition, several heavy boxes, marked
Evariously potatoes and "wall pa
per" were carted to the house at
different time
Wade asserted that his experience
in taking trunks to Mrs. Guinness
was not one which he would care to
repeat.
aShe would not let us into the
house with one Of the trunks he
before the front door. The others,
at her orders, were carried out after
dark. There was no light In the
house and she did not strike one
when we entered with the trunk
She led us through two dark roomf
Into third and opened another
door. But I told Walker / had had
enough and we dropped the trunk ii
the third room and left. e
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