Omaha daily bee., 1908-11-23
DEFENSE OF Ray LAMPHERE
Three Witnesses shy They Saw Mrs.
e Her FARM On
July o.

LAPORTE, Ind, Nov. 22.-The sensation
of the Saturday session of the Lamphere
trial was the stories told by Daniel NJ.
Hutson and his daughters. by Fred Ryck-
man and by John Anderson, who saw a
strange woman with Mrs. Gunness on the
Saturday before the fire. Hutson and his
daughters declared on,the witness stand that
they saw Mrs. Gunness on July 9, but
they were unable to distinguish her fea-
lures through a black veil. Hutson, a
neighbor of Mrs. Guinness. and one Of the
men engaged by Sheriff Smutzer to dig in
the ruins for the bodies at the time of the
fire. declared he knew Mrs. Guinness SO
we'll that he could not be mistaken. He
said: O.
IT saw her on the road near the hog pen
on July 9. I was returning home from
town with a hay rick and saw two people
at the Guinness place. The woman had on
a light skirt, black waist, wide trimmed
hat, a white veil on the hat and a black
veil that came down TO her Thin. There was
a man with her. He weighed about 1855
pounds and had a grey mustache and grey
hair. When I got within two wagon lengths
they got into their buggy and drove on
and I tried to follow them. They got ahead
OF me and l did not like to follow them.
There was too good a chance of getting a
chunk of lead.
The buggy had a yellow running gear
and a black top. The horse was a grey
one, with dapples on its hips as big as a
half dollar"
On cross-examination the witness said
that he did not see the woman's features
or face, but could tell from her build and
walk thai 1t was Mrs. Guinness.
Evallne. the 11-year-old daughter OF d.
M. Hutson, who followed her father on
the stand, testified that she saw Mrs. Gun
ness in 'hay time near the woods. She
was in a buggy with a man. They passed
her in the road. The girl said that Mrs.
/ Guinness had on two wells, a black one and
a white one. the black one being over her
face. The girl said;
when / saw her she turned her face
away from me-"
EIdora Hutson, . years old. foster sister
of the preceding witness. said:
II was playing by the big gate by the
road. saw Mrs. Guinness go by with a
man. She had on a double veil and a wide
brimmed hat. I did not know the man.
John Anderson, another neighbor of Mrs.
| Guinness, saw the strange woman with
Mrs. Guinness Saturday before the fire.
This is the woman, the defense contends,
that must nave been murdered by Mrs.
Guinness and whose body they aver was
the adult body found in the fire ruins.
Fred hickman testified that he had
worked for Mrs. Guinness three different
| times. One afternoon, under her direction
he dug a hole five feet deep and fly
feet long. Later an automobile with two
men arrived. Mrs. Guinness was in town
but upon her Instructions the witness told
them the key was under the mat. They
went in the house. he said, and there ws'
some drinking. Before he went home one
OF the men gave him a glass Of wine and
on the way he became unconscious and die
not know anything until the next after
noon about 4 o'clock.
One of the men gave Mrs. Guinness
money TO pay him, he said.
DIT. Walter S. Haines will go on tn
stand Monday to tell of the finding o
poison in the stomachs Of Andrew Hedge
Iein and the supposed Mrs. Guinness ant
two OF her children.