Los Angeles herald., 1908-05-14
MURDERFSS HAD
ACCOMPLICF IN
LURING VICTIMS
OFFICIALS KNOW NOTHING OF
CONFESSION
LAMPHERE'S ATTORNEY DENIES
HE MADE STATEMENT
GIobules of Gold Panied Out by Miner
Believed to Be from Filings
In Mrs. Guinness
Teeth
Ev Associated i,ress.

| lfy ASsOCldteu fTcSS.
| LAPORTE Ind, May 13.-Denials
| by Laporte officials that Rev. DR.. T.
| A. Schel had revealed to them the
substance of his conversation with
Lamphere and the discovery of evil
! dence that Mrs. Bella Guinness was aid
ed by an accompice in Turing her vic
tins to the farm, were the chief devel-
opments in the case today. The denials
came from DR.. c. S. Mack, coroner;
| A. e. Shutter. sheriff, and r. Nj.
| Smith, prosecuting attorney.
In addition Fl. w. Worden, attorney
for the prisoner, issued a formal state
ment that he had given his client strict
| instructions not to discuss the charges
against him and concluding:
"The fact is that Lamphere has
never made a confession to any one
and never WILL He has nothing to con-
| fess."
Yesterday developments exhausted
most of the sources from which have
sprung the sensations of the case and
the authorities are now confronted
with the task of endeavoring to find
corroborative details of the main points
already deduced and of forging the
missing links i'm the chain of testimony
with which they are binding the more
or less scattered parts of the battling
case into a coherent whole.
await IampneTe irIdi
Just how successful they will be in
this work is not likely to be revealed
until Ray Lamphere is brought to trial.
Prosecutor r. S. Smith has evidently
modified his previous determination to
rush the case into court, finding that
the states side may be strengthened
in many particulars. He insists that
the evidence already available is suf-
ficient to prove the states contentious.
but the recent activity of the defense
and the strengthening of its forces
show that a desperate fight is to be
made on behalf of Lamphere.
Coroner Mack has received and made
public the results of his Investigations
on all the known bodies except that
| supposed to have been Ole Budsberg
of lola. Wis.
| The four burned bodies found in the
ruins of the house are dead iseues so
| far as further investigation by the
coroner Is concerned. None of the other
! bodies has been identified to any de-
gree and it is scarcely likely that they
! Will be. being decomposed fragmentary
| masses of flesh and bone. What de-
velopments do come probably will be
in the direction of establishing identity
OF more of the mysterious men who
were seen to enter the farm house but
never to leave it.
Yesterday three such persons were
connected up with the Guinness woman,
the evidence regarding John Moe of
Elbow Lake. Mnn and Henry Ghrelt
of Scandinavia, Wis, being almost con-
elusive.
Traced by Banking
The fate of George Brady of Tuscola,
ILL.,, is less certain. Moe was traced to
the farm by means of the banking
tranactions which preceded his visit.
The facts were shown startlingly sim
liar to those brought to light in the
cases of Ole Budsberg and Andrew Hell
gelein. Each of the men cashed a
check, draft or note for a considerable
amount at one of the local banks. and
at the desks of the cashiers all the
trails ended Officials of the three La
porte banks held a conference today to
determine the most effective way in
aiding the authorities in untangling the
murder mysteries 1t was decided that
the First National bank of Laporte, the
Citizens Savings bank and the State
bank of Indiana should furnish list
of all transactions in which Mrs. Gun
ness paid out a deposit or received
money. With a complete list of this
knowledge, Prosecutor Smith thinks he
will be able to secure valuable informa-
ton.
Scores of letters asking about sup
posed visitors to the Guinness farm have
been received, but the vast majority of
these epistles are either illegible or
anonymous. Bursberg and Moe were
found through inquiries emanating
from the Farmers State bank of lola,
Wis, the letters being complete in de-
tail and definite as to dates and places.
Such letters are sure to receive con-
sideration by the local authorities.
Coroner Mack today received from
Usage City, Kas., inquiries concerning
Emil Tell who left that city about
month ago to come to Laporte. Tell is
said to have had $4,000 with him when
he left the western town, and his rela-
tives have heard nothing from him
since The writer of the letter neg
lected to mention any physical peculi-
arities by which Tell might be identi-
fled.
Identifies Watch
One of the watches found in the ruins
of the Guinness home was shown to-
day to be a watch of Ole Budsberg, one
of the supposed victims of Mrs. Gun
ness from lola, Wis. Prosecutor Smith
said that the silver watch taken from
Lamphere when he was arrested has
been declared by AISLE Helgelein to re-
semble the one which his brother An
drew owned Lamphere's watch was
present to him from Mrs. Guinness.
B. ]. Hunter, the mail carrier on
whose route the Guinness farm is stu
ated. said today that Mrs. Guinness
carried on her matrimonial business
under three different names. He de-
clared that he had delivered scores of
letters to Mrs. Guinness under the name
of Mrs. Belle Sorenson." Mrs. Belle
Guinness" and MRS. Jennie Hinkley"
Sheriff Smulzer is authority for the
statement that several more globules of
gold have been panned out by Louis |
Schultz the miner who is sluicing the
ashes on the Guinness farm. The sheriff |
Ia certain that the discoveries are por-
tions of gold filings from the teeth of
Mrs. Guinness.