The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-05-07
SEARCH FOR BODIES
IS BEING PUSHED
BY THE SHERIFF
He Is Confident That He viii
Find at Least Twenty More
Bodies Before He Has Com
pIeted Hideous Work.
ESTABLISHED THAT CUPID
WAS THE LURE OF WOMAN
tEvidence Also, That Bodies
Were Shipped to the 'Hor-
ror Farm" From Norwegian
Agency in Chicago.
ESTABLISHED THAT CUPID
WAS THE LURE OF WOMAN

Laporte Ind, May 7.-ProsecutOr
Smith acknowledges that Ray Lam
.phere has told him enough of the
crimes at the Guinness home to hang
him. Smith refuses to give the details.
The search for bodies continues. A
cement floor will be taken up soon.
Seven gold watches have been found in
the ruins of the house They may
possibly aid in the identification Of
the bodies Many photographs have
been found. but the features are eff
faced The belief is strengthened that
Mrs. Guinness lured her victims
through the medium of matrimonial
advertisements in several papers. Pos
tive evidence is also in the hands of
the sheriff which shows that bodies
were shipped to the Guinness farm by
a Norwegian agency.
Bessie Conklin, friend of Lamphere
lis being held as an important witness
She claims Lamphere said he knew
!. .pough to send Mrs. Guinness to the
e llows.''
:. dozen soft spots have been located
an will be excavated. The sheriff eX
pee 5 to find at least twenty more bod
les.
A Mrs. Belle Guinness and hel
chill, rem alive?
A. of the evidence collected SO far
and it is pitifully meaSer. indicates
I,
in chicago were actuated chiefly by
- ne lust for money. Men were lureC
to the Laporte house and disappeared
after their money had been secured
If they escaped the Chicago, syndi
cate killed them there presumably
and shipped the dismembered bodies
TO Laporte for disposition. Children
it Is intimated, were adopted" anC
killed for a price.
Where Were They Killed?
Whether all the victims of the
S1eath-dealing hand of the suspected
woman were murdered within the
brick walls of Mrs Guinness secluded
nome on the McClung road is Ques
ton and there is evidence of a suS
picious nature relating TO trunks Sc
cretly dispatched from Chicago anC
delivered at the Guinness castle o
death within the past Year that leads
the authorities to believe that some
of the victims were made way with
outside OF Indiana and sent here fol
burial.
Two trunks, ii is reported, have
been held in Chicago. They are saic
to have been consigned to Mrs. Gun
ness few days before the fire de
stroyed her home. and with il. accord
ing 70 the generally accepted convic
zion. the life of the woman herself.
OF the many victims Of the arch
criminal. the last of whom was prob
ably the alleged murderesS herself
only the bodies consumed in the fire
and two disinterred from the murder
graveyard have been identified. Hell
geleinS body was positively identified
by his brother, and this evening tn,
body of Miss Jennie Olson, adopted
daughter of Mrs. Guinness, was identi
fled by Anton Olson. her father. O
Highlands. Ind. and her sister, Mrs
Arthur Olander, OF Chicago.
me other was so dlSlntegrated be
cause of the use of Quicklime that i
is almost impossible 10 determine
what was their sen Two at least O
the bodies, one OF Jennie Olson. arr
believed 10 be those of women. One
taken up late today from the fourth
soft spot" uncovered in the tragic
barnyard. appeared from an eXamina
ton OF the pelvic bones TO be that o
woman.
Question sothersome.
This is the question that confront.
the police. who are seeking the solu
ton Of the many mysteries which en-
velop the former home of Mrs. Gun
ness, where nine days ago were fount
four charred and blackened bodies
and where many dismembered bodie