Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-05-13
RINGS ARE
PULLING
INITIALS IN BANDS NOT THOSE
OF MURDERESS
AUTOPSY PHYSICIAN MAKES HIS
REPORT
Many Pairs Of Scissors Bent Like
Surgical Instruments Found
In Ruins of Guinness
Home
BY Associated Press.

F1OfnC
By Associated Press
LAPORTE, Ind, May 12.-Evidence
to establish the identity of three addi-
tional victims of Mrs. Bella Guinness
was the most positive development of
day filled with contradictory happen
ings.
Both prosecution and defense received
setbacks from the discoveries and reve-
lations, but on the whole substantial
progress was made toward bringing the
case to the stage where 1t will be
transferred to the courts.
The reports of the four physicians
who conducted the postmortem exam
ination on the bodies found in the ruins
of the Guinness home were given to the
coroner's jury this morning. They rail-
to establish the manner in which the
woman and three children met death,
and it is probable that the coroner's
jury will return an open verdict regard
ing them.
The procedure in Indiana does not
provide for coroners' juries, so the find
ing will be the individual conclusions of
DIR. c. S. Mack.
Unexplainable evidence which has
heretofore been suppressed was made
public in the Guinness tragedy today.
1t is contained in the report of DR.. j..
Lucius Gray, who performed the
autopsy on the body which the authori-
ties have steadfastly claimed is that of
Mrs. Guinness.
DR.. Gray in his report tells of three
rings which were found on the corpse,
and also reveals the fact that the right
hand, hitherto declared missing, is still
In existence The rings which might be
expected to reveal the identity of the
wearer only add to the mystery or the
case Two Of them contain inscriptions,
one being "P. S. to J. s., August 22,
'94," and the other "P. G. to j. s., March
5, '95.'
Mrs. Guinness husband was Peter
Guinness. but the identity of u. s." and
"P, S." is a puzzle which none of the
local officials would attempt to explain
this morning.
Jennie Olsen, it is suggested, may
have been the owner of the ring, but
the sizes of the circles taken in con-
nection with the date and the fact that
she was born in 1879, preclude this as
a definite conclusion.
DR.. Gray made his disclosures in the
official report, which he handed to
Coroner Mack and refused to discuss
the matter. The report says;
with the body, but disconnected,
shrunken fingers contracted to the
palm Clutched in the hand was piece
of burned cloth exhibit No. u. A band
ring with small diamond set found on
second finger of right hand exhibit No.
%. An adult hand and about one-third
of the forearm of the left side was
with the body and a gold ring with
small diamond set was found on the
third finger with the engraving p. S.
to ]. S.. August %, '94,' and a gold
band ring engraved inside p. G. to j.
S., March 5, '95' Exhibits Nos. 8 and a."
Describes Clothing
DR.. Gray also described at length the
remnants of clothing and nightrobes
found with the four bodies. One of the
nightrobes was that of an adult.
The gown was trimmed with lace and
ribbon. Remnants of a child's night
dress and several undergarments were
also found.
DR.. Gray's report concludes as fol-
lows:
From the examination of this adult
female it is impossible to determine
the exact cause of death"
Accompanying the findings of DIR.
Gray was a report by DIR. j. H. Will
liam Meyer on the body of the male
infant found in the ruined house. 1t
describes the condition of the corpse
as already revealed, the finding being
that the cause of death could not be
determined Reports from DR.. H. III.
Long and DIR. f. T. Wilcox on the
other bodies are expected during the
day.
The mining operations which have
been proposed by Sheriff Smulzer for
several days started in earnest today
in the ruins of the Guinness home.
Louis Schultze, who was employed by
the sheriff to sluice the ashes in the
cellar completed his apparatus early
and began the tests to determine
whether his arrangements We're of the
character demanded by the work at
hand
Additional evidence regarding the
methods by which the persons whose
corpses were found on the Guinness
farm met their deaths was unearthed
this morning. Almost two dozen pairs
of scissors, bent and curved in the
fashion of surgical instruments. are
said to have been lonod in the ashes
in the cellar, az 1 atd1tlon three
knives, two of surgical character,
and another an unnialaah HE dirk,
were picked ur a The hsence of
evidence to tie r-. ry { IS believed
that the Sri1 llIg have aasn the chief
weapon employed ll l.e cries of mur-
ders Az ..uer hand could easily
have .liogea l ike weapon be-
tweo1 the ffl of rAe victims and PEN
etroted the heart
rha faet that ere was no mark of
.oaretratiuF woulds on Andrew Hell
6aiein' body = a possible refutation
~ this ,htor'. But it is pointed out
fia- H.luetatn, according to the find
snes ~ d. j. H. William Meyer, as
made pl olc yesterday, succumbed
ooIN ~ yr a fierce struggle, in which
he too a handful of hair from the
narsa. of his murderer. Chloroform
ONE other deadening drug is
ught TO have been used to subdue
5Ae death struggle of the South Da-
xota farmer, after which some deadly
poison was used to encompass his
death.
IA au t1e other bodies found on the