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MORE BODIES FOUND.
Remains oil Four Other Persons
Found In Mrs. Guinness Yard.
THE SEARCH is CONTINUED

Evidence Tends to Show That the Nine
Bodies Were Shipped to La Porte
From chicaqo-Mrs. Guinness Sister
Says She Was Crazy For Money. !,
La Porte, Ind, May IA possibN
solution of the Guinness farm mystery
which was deepened when four ada1'
tional bodies were found in the barn
yard, has developed. Evidence tending
to show that the nine dismembered
eorpses had been shipped to La Porte,
probably from Chicago, came to light.
Testimony of draymen, who had cart
cd trunks and boxes to the Guinness
home, lent color to this supposltlon
La Porte police also received informa-
ton that two trunks, consigned to
Mrs. Belle Guinness, La Porte, Ind.
are held in an express Office in Chi
cago. Assistance of the Chicago police
in unravelling the puzzle was sought
at once.
Two of the nine mutilated bodies
were identified with reasonable Ger
tainty. Antoine Olson OF Chicago
viewed the body supposed to be that
of Jennie Olson, sixteen years old
foster daughter of Mrs. Guinness, and
pronounced it to be that of his daugh
ter. A sister of the girl, Mrs. Leo
Olander, of Chicago, confirmed the
fathers identification.
Ask X. Helgelein, whose inquiries
regarding his missing brother Andrew
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 brother. Against
this Identification, however, is the re-
suit of the autopsy performed on this
body by DR.. ]. H. Meyer. He found
conditions which to his mind proved
that the man persisted long after An
drew Helgelein disappeared last Jan
usry. DIR. Meyer said that the corpse
showed evidences of having been in
the ground less than two weeks.
Roy Lamphere, who is held on
charge of first degree murder as a re-
suit of the fire that destroyed the
Guinness home and caused the deaths
Of Mrs. Belle Guinness and her three
children, gave no new evidence, de-
spite repeated questionings. Ralph w.
Smith, prosecuting officer, asserted
that a confession Is not necessary so
far a. Lamphere is concerned. I'VE
have evidence in the shape OF letters
connecting Lamphere with alleged
murders at the farm he said. The ex-
act nature of these letters was care
fully guarded by Mr.. Smith.
The belief is growing in La Porte
that Mrs. Guinness was not burned to
death in the fire at her house, but that
the body supposed to be hers is really
that of another woman. The basis for
this belief is that the head of the body
supposed to be Mrs. Guinness is miss
Ing. The autopsy held Immediately
after the fire revealed that, while the
head was apparently burned off, the
rest Of the body was scarcely scorch-
ed. Many persons think that Mrs.
Guinness is now on her way to Nor
way.
Stirred by the horror experienced by
citizens as each additional bundle OF
decaying bones and flesh was discov-
cred, the commissioners of La Porte
county resolved to use every resource
at their command toward finding ar
answer to the puzzles that confront
the police. The board decided to offer
a reward of $1,000 for the solution of
the enigma.
The Guinness farm was thronged
with curious sightseers. When Sheriff
, Shutter and his assistants reached
the place they resumed the task OF
delving for bodies. Carriages, wag-
ons, bicycles and automobiles were
lined along the ornamental wire fence
which separates the wooded knoll on,
which the residence stood from the
macadam highway leading from La
Porte. Many persons also trudged to
the place on foot, and by the time the
nrst Of the discoveries had been made
the spectators numbered hundreds.
OF the nine cadavers, seven are
those of males. ALI were adults, the
two smaller bodies found Monday and
first thought to be those of children
proving otherwise when the bones
were examined by the coroner.
The best clew which has yet been
found came to light Immediately fol-
lowing the discovery of the last three
bodies John A. Welker, liveryman,
and Leo Wade, his employe, told of
having carted heavy trunks to the
Guinness farm in the summer and au-
tumn of 1906. Clyde Sturgis. employ
ed by Foster & Degarmo, another liv
cry concern, remembered that he took
two smaller 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.
II these trunks contained dismem-
bered corpses, disposal of the bodies
at the farm would have been compare
lively simple. Joseph Maxson, man
Of all work at the Guinness place since
last February; Roy Lamphere, the
prisoner in the case, and Fred Brick
man. . neighbor, hnve told of digging
trenches in the barnyard at Mrs. Gun
ness directions.