Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-12
VISITS LAPORTE
TO HELP SOLVE
GUINNESS CASE
BROTHER OF LAST MURDER
VICTIM IN COURT
WoMAN's LETTERS MAY CONVICT
RAY LAMPHERE
Prosecution Will Contend That, Jeal-
GUS of HeIgelln, Accused Man
Killed Arch Murderess
and Children

7 APORTE, Ind, Nov 11.-For the
purpose of rendering every as
- sistance possible to the author
tiles in their efforts to unravel the
great Guinness murder mystery, A. j.
Helgelin, brother of Andrew Helgelin,
the last known victim of Mrs. Gun
ness, arrived in Laporte today from
Aberdeen, s. D.
He will be one of the main witnesses
for the state, for through him Pros
ecutor Smith will introduce a number
of letters received from Mrs. Guinness
during the time he was trying to find
some trace of his brother.
Mrs. Guinness claimed the brother,
after visiting her, had gone to Nor
way on a trip.
At the time she wrote, his dismem-
bered body lay in her private ceme-
terry, where she had buried it after
securing the $4,000 which he had
drawn from his Aberdeen bank
through Laporte bank.
These letters were all written in
Norwegian for Mrs. Guinness could
not write English, and in them are
many references to Lamphere,, Of his
threats against her and her children,
and of Lampheres jealousy because
Andrew Helgelin had been a guest at
her home.
She refers to Lamphere as that
crazy Lamphere," and that jealous
Lamphere."
Letters Strong Evidence
1t is considered by the state that
in the letters of Mrs. Guinness to A. K.
Helgelin it has evidence of the strong
est possible moment to support the
theory that Lamphere, jealous of Hell
gellns attentions, and aneerod be-
cause he thought he had been sup
planted in the affections of the widow,
assisted the widow in putting Hell
gelin out of the way and afterward he
became revenged upon her by setting
fire to her house.
With ten jurors tentatively accept
ed by both sides, court adjourned this
afternoon until tomorrow morning, In
order that a fourth special panel of
20 veniremen could be summoned. The
ten men accepted are all farmers.
To date 81 talesmen have been exam
ined and n of these have been either
excused for cause, or peremptorily
challenged and excused.
Reports that additional skeletons
have been found at the Guinness farm
have been in circulation on the streets
but these stories have arisen from the
fact that K. NJ Hudson, one of the
chief witness for the defense, had
picked up some bones several days
ago which are declared by experts to
be those of a dead hog.
The trial of Ray Lamphere has been
recently complicated by the statement
of Charles Hudson, 2 farmer, who says
he saw Mrs. Guinness at her farm in
July, or three months after the dis
covery of the various tragedies. Hud-
son says the woman was walking about
the place with an elderly man early in
the morning and that they fled when he
approached them.
Many persons believe Mrs. Guinness
killed her children, burned her home
and left the country to escape arrest
for the many murders she had COM
mitted. The bodies of eight of her vic
Tins were dug up on the farm.
The theory of the prosecution is that
Lamphere, who worked as farm hand
for Mrs. Guinness, was implicated with
her in some Of these murders and killed
her and her children and burned the
house to hide the other crimes.