The Washington herald., 1908-05-15
MORE BODIES SOUGHT
Death Farm Supposed to Con-
tain Other Victims.
TWO GOLD WATCHES FOUND
Man who Brought Let
fers TO Mrs. Guinness in a Grip Il
Being Run DOyEn-Boy saw Ray
Lamphere Running from Burning
House, and Identities Him ia Jail.

Laporte, no. MAY 1.-TWO HVfc
watches we're found in the ruins OF the
burned Guinness home to-day, making a
total of twelve that have been recovered. |
The authorities are convinced that there
are yet bodies to be found in the widows
burying ground, as the number Of watches
is greater than the number OF skeletons.
One watch has a gold case and Swiss
movement The other is q silver watch
with an Elgin movement. A railroad loco
motive is engraved on the back. Both
show effects Of fire. The authorities Wall
use chemicals to determine whether there
Is any inscription on them by which their
owners may be known.
There was also found to-day small
souvenir ring of plated gold. probably be-
longing 10 a child. bearing the inscription
1905" What connection this relic may
have With the awful tragedy Of the farm
Is not yet clear.
Some particles Of gold and a bone, sup
posed TO be from the head Of Mrs. Gun
ness, also were found
Man with GFiD Sought.
The detectives are running down the
story that Mrs. Guinness employed a man
TO gather up her mail IN various cities.
They have secured such a description of
him from many sources, all Of which tally
perfectly that they are confident he WIN
be arrested A. Carlson. conductor on
the Interurbsn Line between this city and
Michigan City, proved valuable witness
in this regard to-day.
For year or more he said. 81 have
noticed q man riding on my car who In
variabiy got of at station No. z. He al
ways rode out either from Laporte or
Michigan City at night and usually
reached station No about 10 o'clock.
He always carried q Strip.
after leaving the car he would hurry
into q woodland near by, where. time
after time. saw him meet woman in
buggy waiting for him In the shadows
He would give her the grip and she
would drive of with it toward the Gun
ness farm.
Il am convinced now the woman who
/ kept these constant and mysterious trysts
was Mrs. Guinness, and that the bag
which the man carried was filled with
answers 10 her matrimonial advertise
ments often. too, the man boarded my
car at station No. :.
HIS actions aroused my curiosity. /
discussed him with other conductors OF
the road. By comparing notes We learned
/ that after leaving one car and meeting
/ the woman he never failed TO take the
next car. either 10 Michigan City or La
porte"
The description Of the stranger who
/ rode In this car so frequently fits In with
! the description Of the stranger told OF
/ IA the letter Chief Of Police Ceehrane re-
ceived frotn Fred Hahe, Of Cleveland
Boy Identifies Lamphere.
The full story OF the identification OF
Ray Lamphere as the man seen running
/ from the Guinness home on the morning
OF the fire came out to-day.
John Solyam. fifteen years OF age. told
the officers he went to an outheuse on
the morning OF the fire and saw flames
shoot up from the Guinness hoHe. In a
moment flames burst out at another
] point.
he started toward the burning building.
AS he reached the fence on the south OF
the Guinness place a man ran out The
lad got a coed look at him as he passed
by on a run.
The deputy took the boy to the county
tail. The prisoners in the jail are in two
apartments. solyam was taken into a
| corridor. where seven or eight prisoners
were sitting They stood up in line
/ The deputy asked the boy TO point out
the man he saw running that morning.
The boy studied the features of each man
carefully and answered:
Il guess I am mistaken. I did not see
any Of these men,"
Il am sorry" said the deputy 7
thought maybe you would know the man
again. We might as well go out"
The deputy walked the boy around TO
another apartment, as If 10 go out, and
Lamphere was met face to face
There is the man I saw" exclaimed
the boy That's the man who ran by
me"
Are you sure Of it9"
Yes. an not mistaken. 1 did not
see him in the other crowd, bat this is
the man."
Lamphere smiled in a sickly way. and
declared the boy was mistaken. The lit
tie fellow sticks to his story of the iden-
tificatlon.
He will be taken before the grand jury
next Monday and will repeat the story
And so will the three witnesses who saw
Lamphere on the railroad crossing about
the time the boy said he ran in that di-
rection from the burning house.
story of Escape in Auto.
Mayor Lem Darrow was at Hobart to-
day. consulting with Deputy Sheriff GILL;
who said Mrs. Guinness and a man were
seen passing that town in an automobile
Gill declares the machine was running at
a terrific speed. It came from the diree-
tion Of Hobart and went toward Chicago.
A fast automobile leaving Laporte at 5
i a. M, just after the fire. could run 10
Hobart in two hours. GIL is confident the
woman in the machine was Mrs Guinness,
in spite Of the evidence which appears 10
show that she perished in the fire.
The mayor, who is assisting in Lam
pheres defense, believes there is some
thing in the story. and will give it fur
ther investigation.
The determination of Sheriff smulzer
to make further excavation of the Gun
ness farm is the result of a careful in
vestigation which disclosed the fact that
only ten bodies have been found, while
8 larger number OF persons Is known 70
have disappeared after having been at
Mrs. Guinness place. Ten bodies have
been found. but three OF these were wom-
en- or girls, and seven Of them men.
Mrs. Guinness Or gger Found.
The dagger with which Mrs. Guinness
is believed to have decapitsted her
victims was found to-day in the ruins
of the charmed house. It is four and a
half inches long. or razor steel.
II Physicians state it was unquestionably
especially designed for the use OF the
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