The Mena weekly star., 1908-05-21
TIE GUINNESS CAS[||
BEGINNING OF THE FINAL srAn| OF THE SENSATIONAL IN.
 DIANA MYSTERY.
LA PORTE ASSUMING ITS NORMAL eIu
Eacitement Incident to the Grewsons Discoveries of Last Week Rspida DecreasIng-Was a Prolific Field i9 Newspaper Correspondents-Nsa1 100000 Words Sent Out.


 Laporte, Ind. May 17.-The bura2 Friday night of Andrew NJ Helgees marks the beginning of the final staa of the Guinness farm mysteries so nE as human knowledge is concerna Two more corpses, supposed to huj been those of Jennie Olsen and 0aI o. Budsberg. have been partially dss tiiied but to the identity of the remain ing cadavers no clew exists that giya| promise of fulfillment. The relics sf en from the death farm, such n| watches and rings, may ultimately lal| to the determination that some cel tain missing individual was caught q the Gunness trap but this will gin| almost no aid in identifying any IgI ticular body. The pottersfieId is most likely to be the ultimate resting phnl of these seven bodies.
 The case has. in short. reached q stage where only the courts, througA grand jury and open trial procecdiHsl can be relied upon to settle the aus tions which are to be brought beiar1 them. The grand jury. it is announce will begin to investigate the eyidernl gathered by Sheriff Smutzer and Prs ecutor Smith on Monday It's iindnul however, will shed little light on tAsl subject and the details of it's deliben tions are not likely to become known
 Of late the developments have ben negative in their nature. The idents| cations of Friday were exceptions ofl ly to a rule which bids fair to aeN come more general each day, Th authorities have been busy larger with running down clues which have proved to be false or misleading aM the possibilities of fresh discovers are remote The investigations q Sheriff Smutzer at the farm are benz undertaken in a manner that alme' assures positiyeness of results but iis very thoroughnes of the work meas that it must be slow and tedious
 Laporte, in fact, is settling back 2 it's wonted calm Fewer curbstone ae baters regarding Mrs. Guinness and na affairs are held and the excitement cident to the sensational discovers of last week Is decreasing.
 The widespread interest which " whole affair has created is evidenesl by the amount of press matter v" has been handled. Over score ol sl" cial writers have been here and z vestigation shows that they have sem out close to 100000 words of FeaT ing matter in the last n days.
 Close estimates of the amount z copy which has been handled S'Os that one telegraph company has ,l"s mitted more than 100000 wofas that time, while the other has ssss care of about 155,000. About 5VVyM words have been sent through ~ mails and material for close 10 lq0e'x words has been transmitted ny "'. distance telephone. Indications o that many writers and corresponasps have visited La Porte to collect '"s terial for special articles, but lheie no method of estimating the aipv~s, ~,. of their contributions accurately ' amount of newspaper space taSen x by photographs and cartoons rela.'' to the Guinness farm is tremenaou'.
 The local photographers have ff'E l',, q harvest and almost every tram ss ". ing the first few days of the selsa'@ brought men and women armed Y" cameras and tripods an
 The high tide of the press 'ne om was reached May 9 when nearly eD%. words were sent out over tne N graph wires. Since then ihe ahV~s has steadily dwlndled, last nighl sps N ing total of less than S0,0oo lo' Y 24 hours ending at midnight