Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-05-06
lAPORTE HORROR
GROWS IN DETAIL
Guinness Woman Pronounced
a MonstrouS Murderer.
HER HOME CHARNEL HOUSE
Body of Victim Employed as Sub
Stitute.
NuYY npEN TN HnTvYyCnNRE YYcr
HER HOME CHARNEL HOUSE
CHILDREN IN GREwS0ME LIST
Indiana Farm Termed a Clearing
House of Assassination-Law
Officers Procuring Clues.

LAPORTE, Ind, May 6-From out or
the mass of tangled and sensational evi-
Guinness was one of the most monstrous
murderers of the century and that her
beautiful and well-kept farm. a mile from
Laporte. was a clearing house of as
sassinations and crime. there developed
today the startling theory that the wom-
an did not die i'm the fire which DESTROYED
her home the night of April %. and that
she is still alive and in hiding probably
in Chicago.
Thls theory is strengthened by the fact
that the head of the body of the woman
round In the ruins of the Guinness home
AFTER the fire is still missing, although
every effort has been made by the au-
tnoritles to locate il. even to going
through the charred timbers piece Inv
piece.
Unless the head is found today tha
omcers will make a post-mortem exam
ihation OF the remains of Mrs. Guinness
ana subject them to more carefu,
analysis TO learn whether or moi tba
woman Was herself killed in the fire or
had substituted the remains of ona os
her Iemale victims for herself and then
set nre to the house In order IN co,,s,.
up the crime
In case 1T is proved that Afrs Chi
ness did Substitute the body of anotho,
woman for her own it is very li,,eI,, ,ha.
she was also guilty OF the murder NJ ba,-
three children.
Never before has this part of tb. s,a,a
oeen 80 excited by a crime. and all dav
yesterday and today a stream of neu,s.
paper men from throughout the west
poured into the city to dn, up the aetaiI,
Of the crime
An autopsy of the bodies of tuo ma,
one girl and two children unearfbed ycs.
.e1uay showed that all had been mur-
oefed. The bodies not dismembered We're
iouno 10 nave holes i'm the skull.
Details of the Crimes.
WIN hye bodies already unearthed 4,
Iorce OF men under the supervision of
SheriH Smutzer and Coroner Mack re-
sumed their search today i'm the hone of
finding other victims.
When Sheriff Shutter reached tbe cui,-
ness Iarm at dawn today he was met by
Joseph Maxson. a farmland. and the two
resumed their work of digging for NOR.
oooies. Inc search of today also includes
as one OF its objects the head of Mrs.
cha Jmrnness, arra Which Is missing from the
chaIred trunk 1t was in a yard used as :,
runway for hogs that four bodies wer.
unearthed yesterday about 100 feet soutl,
OF where the body of Helgelein was dug.
up. o
Lying on the mattress the decomposed
body of Jennie Olson Guinness. known
by the matted yellow hair of the eight
cen year, girl. was found four feet be-
meath the surface. and under the mat
tress the other three skeletons were found.
The headless body of Mrs Guinness lies
at the morgue. burned almost to a crisp
but as yet no analysis of the stomach
has been made. Fishtrap lake will be
dragged for the missing head
1t Is pointed out. as opposing the theory
that Mrs. Guinness is alive. that the dIs
before the Guinness home was burned
the woman deposited $1,000 i'm the state
bank here. She was worth about Saa.Ooo.
and her passion for money is given as
the incentive for the crimes committed.
y theory that she might be alive includes
the supposition that she feared Lamphere
was about to expose her through jealousy.
Bodies Shipped in Trunks.
That more bodies will be found is the
firm belief of the officers They have the
mystery OF five trunks shipped from Chi
cagO TO the Guinness farm 10 solve
These trunks all arrived in Laporte dur
ing the last four months and i'm view OF
the developments of yesterday and today
II is probable that these trunks contained
human bodies. which now lie hidden i'm
some secluded spot on the farm
III Is the opinion of the authorities that
Mrs. Guinness had accompIices in Chi
cago and that after prospective victims
had Deen iured TO that city to be robbed
and murdered their bodies were shipped
to this city In order to keep the Chicago
police from gaining knowledge of the
crime. w
1T is the intention OF the authorities 10
remove the cement floor of the hasemen-
OF the Guinness home. also Ia teaI dow,
raise wall which was discovered yester-
uay afternoon. Attention was attracted
10 the cement floor in the basement by re
potts tnat when Mrs. Guinness had il
iaio she acted in a mysterious manncr
and refused TO allow any visitors In antar
the cellar way. These reports boweyer
did not reach the sheriff and coroner ,,n,ti
last night, and II was for this reason thar
eAaInInation or the floor and wall was
postponed until today.
Sixth Body Unearthed.
Ihe skeleton of sixth body WAS I'M
earthed on the Guinness farm al no,,
today. The body is that of an adult 7,
was found In pine box, face down an,
had been buried probably two wears II
has not been identified
Further excavating which may reveal
more bodies on the corpse-strewn farm q,
Mrs. Bella Guinness. a mile north of here
Is promised today by A +. Smutzer
sheriff Of Laporte county. In addition.
Roy Lamphere. who is held on a charge
of having caused the deaths of Mrs GUM
ness and her three children. who were in
cinerated I'm fire which destroyed their
home April %. will be subjected TO an
other examination before Justice Smith.
1t Is the hope Of Mr.. Smith that Lam.
phere will shed light on the bodies found
in the barnyard of the Guinness home
yesterday. One Is believed TO be that OF
Andrew Helgelein of Mansfield s. d.
Another may be that of Jennie Olson a
foster daughter of Mrs. Guinness, who
disappeared in 1906. A third is partially
accounted for as that of an unidentified
man who visited the place two or more
years ago.
The other skeletons. thought to be those
of children. are unexplained, although
Lamphere told the sheriff last night that