The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-05-08
MRS. GUINNESS WAS
F|END FOR BLOOD
THE SHERIFF IS GATHERING NEW
FACTS IN MYSTERY.
SHE TRIED TO sLAY BROTHER
HE HAS A LETTER ASKING HIM
TO COME TO LA PORTE.
BUT HE NEVER MADE THE TRIP

Her Home For Slaughter.
la Porte, Ind, May 1.-THE sheriff
10 gathering new light on the grim
Guinness murder mystery.
All Of the evidence tends to indicate
that the woman was a human fiend.
1t developed today that she attempt.
ed to add her brother Aelsoien to her
list Of victims, after already disposng
Of one member Of that family.
The brother has a letter requesting
him to como to la Porte but he never
did SO.
Rain partially interrered with the
search this morning.
fAporte. Ind. May "a possible
solution of the Guinness farm mystery,
which was deepened when four add
tional bodies were found in the barn
yard has developed. Evidence that
the nine dismembered corpses I'm.
sarthed had been shipped to this city.
probably from Chicago, came to light
from the testimony of draymen who
had carried trunks and boxes to the
Guinness home bearing this out. In
addition, the local authorities received
Information that two trunks, consigned
10 Mrs. Belle Guinness, Laporte. Ind"
we're being held in an express Office in
Chicago, and the assistance Of the
Chicago police in unravelling the puz-
xle was sought at once.
Two of the nine mutilated bodies
were identified in a qualified way. An.
tone Olson of Chicago viewed the re-
mains supposed to be those of Jennie
Olson, the sixteen-yearold foster
daughter of Mrs. Guinness, and pro
nounced them those of his daughter.
A. Helgelein, whose inquiries re-
garding his missing brother, Andrew,
led to the first discoveries on the Gun,
ness farm, became sure that the larg
est and best preserved of the oorpsss
10 that Of his relative.
Lamphere Refuses to Talk.
Ray Iamphere, who Is held on .
charge of first degree murder, growing
out of the fire which destroyed the
Guinness home and caused the deaths
OF Mrs. Guinness and her three chill
Aren, offered no new evidence despite
repeated questionings. Ralph N.
smith, the prosecuting attorney Of the
district, asserted, however, that q
confession Is not necessary so far as
Lamphers Is concerned. I'VE have"
said he. positive evidence in tho
shape of letters that Lamphere knew
ot the murders at the Guinness farm"
An attempt to identify one Of the
corpses as that of Ole b. Budsberg OF
lola. Wis. was also started by the
sheriff's office here. In response to
telephone messages sent here, word
came that q member of Budsberg's
family had left there for this city.
The increasingly divergent charae-
ter of the grewsome mysteries has
aroused the entire community. Stirred
by the waves of horror which have
swept over the town as each addi-
uonal bundle of deoaying bones and
nssh has been discovered, the county
commissioners resolved to use every
resource at their command towards
finding an answer to the puzzles which
confront the peace officers. The board
canvassed the situation and decided to
ofYer a reward of 81, 900 for q solution
Of the enigma.
Mecca for sishtssers.
Tho Guinness farm was mecca for
aghtseeTs. When Sheriff SmulEet
and his assistants resumed the task OF
dslvtng for bodieV, teams, bicycles
and automobiles were lined along the
ornamental wire fence which sep
arAtss the wooden knoll on which the
residence stood from the highway
leading from Laports. Scores Of per
sons trudged to the place on foot and
by the time the first Of the days dis
oovsries had been made, the speots'
TORS numbered hundreds. The fact
that traces of another corpse-filled pit
had been found, was the magnet and
the crowd became 80 dense that the
road was choked. Finally. the sheriff
appealed to the police to keep the
crowd back.
Relieved of the hindrence, the 81
oavators redoubled their efforts, and
within half an hour were rewarded
rlrst, lew sCull0Eeu oohoS "oie
turned up, then q skull was uncovered
Digging around this another corpse
was exposed, and beyond this second
yet another,
One OF the bodies in this second
oharnel pit is believed to be that of q
woman. The other two, and that found
earlier are probably those OF men o.
tina nine oadaYerS seven therefore
are those OF males. All are remains OF
adults.
The best clew which has yet beer
found came to light Immediately fol
lowing the discovery OF the last three