The Washington herald., 1908-05-06

lapOIlSs Ilu-t May o.-A hulead4e tIul
der was discovered at the Guinness home
this morning, when Sheriff Butler, Of this
county. began a search for the body Of
Andrew Heldgren, Of Aberdeen. S. Oak,
who left Aberdeen for Indiana as soon
as he heard Of the destruction Of the
Guinness home ana the burning OF Mrs.
Guinness and her three children.
At depth Of four feet under ground,
at a spot near where the house stood.
the body Of Andrew Heldgren was
found. In another place the body Of
woman was dug up. It is thought to be
that Of Jennie Olsen Guinness, a sixteen
year-oId girl, whom Mrs. Guinness had
reared and who disappeared in Septem-
Der. 1906, when it was said she had gone
10 Los Angeles, Cal, to attend school
May he HeIdgren.
II appears that Andrew HeIdgren be-
came acquainted with Mrs Guinness
through a matrimonial agency. At that
time Heldgren spent almost month vis-
iting Mrs Guinness and others in this
city. lie was supposed to have started
on a trip to Norway and Sweden. He has
never been heard of since. At that time
Mrs. Guinness was trying to make a loan
from local bank.
When Heldgren learned Of this ne Of
fered 10 lend her the money. Early in
January she borrowed $500 from him.
Just before that HeIdgren had drawn
from Aberdeen through a local bank
s3.O00 Heldgren's body was found to be
dlsmembered, and the arms legs. trunk,
and head put In different sacks and
buried.
The finding Of the bodies of Heldgren
and Miss Olsen added to the zeal or the
searchers, and within an hour twenty
nzn were 0igging ia the yard where the
Ganness home stock one week ago.
Wherever the earth appeared soft. the
diggers went at their work with enthusi-
asm, and in a little while three bodies
were added to the two that were found
earlier In the day. One was that OF II
woman, and the other two were the partly
decomposed bodies of men but all unrec-
ognizable.
Five Persons Murdered,
That all OF the five persons were muir
dered there can be no doubt. for each Of
the bodies. except Heldgren's, was strip
ped of all clothing and buried less than
four feet under ground. The manner Of
the burials shows that they were done
hastily and it is believed that Mr.. Gun
ness and the murderess in each instance,
and that the male victims were men who
had come to see her in answer to matri-
moniGI advertisements.
Two of the bodies We're found buried
upon an old section Of a mattress or bed
tick. and above this was found the body
of Miss Olsen. It Is now believed that
the girl was murdered through fear that
she would reveal the crimes of which Mrs.
Guinness was guilty, and her murder com
mitted at about the time that the two
men were murdered and buried in the
yard.
The fact that they were buried beneath
her. and that the bodies or skeletons
show practically the same stage of de-
cav, fixes the murders some time in jan
uary. 1906 al which time the Olsen girl
was missed and Mrs. Guinness reported
that she had gone to Los Angeles to at
tend school.
House Of Mystery.
Mrs. Guinness home has been for five
years a house of mystery. She did not
tell where she came from. and when her
husband died shortly after. the circum-
stances were such as to direct suspicion
TO her.
She said that a meat cleaver had fallen
from a shelf in the kitchen and killed
him, and a deep cash in his head corrob-
Grated the story so far as the cleaver was
concerned. There was no evidence to the
contrary and a verdict of accidental
death was returned by the coroner.
Then she began TO advertise for a hus-
band, and from time to time men were
seen around her house. but their coming
and going attracted little attention.
During nearly all the five years Of her
residence here, Ray Lamphere was a
hired hand on her farm, and is believed
by the authorities to have knowledge of
the crimes. IL he did not actually partici-
pate in them.
The Guinness home was burned one
week ago, and Mrs. Guinness and her
three children perIshed in the fire. The
Charred remains of the four victims were
found. excepting the head Of Mrs Gun
ness, and it is thought that she was MUIR
dered before the house was set on fire.
LampheTe is being held on suspicion Of
having murdered the woman. He was
known to have been in love with her and
20 have been jealous of others who paid