The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-05-08
CHAMBER
 OF HORRORS Secret Room Found in Guinness Home. LIST OF DEAD GROWING Coroner and Prosecuting Attorney
 Still Working on Case. Early Yesterday Afternoon Two Men Broke Into Shed Where Bodies
 Are Kept and Disturbed
 The Corpses.


 cation of another of the bodies dug up in the Guinness farm. near here. as that of Ole B. Budsberg of lola, Wis, and evidence that he, like Andrew Helgelein of Mansfield s. D., had been brought into Mrs. Bella Guinness's net through matrimonial advertisements" was one of the clarifying features of today's developments in the complica. ton of the case.
 The Identification of the bundle of bones and flesh as the remains of Buds berg was made by the mans sons, Mat Budsberg. aged 29. and Oscar H., two years his junior. The young men ar- rived here this afternoon.
 A soaking rain which fell contin. ually for twenty four hours prevented further excavation about the farm, and Sheriff Smutzer devoted his day to unearthing possible evidence which may be upsed in the trial of Ray Lamphere on the charge of having caused the deaths of Mrs. Guinness and her three children. The result of his investigations were such that Ralph T. Smith, prosecuting attorney for the district, announced that he will seek the immediate indictment of Lam- phere and will endeavor to have the case called for trial at the next term of court, which is scheduled to start May II.
 Early Trial Fixed.
 T Ihmphere will be on trial within three weeks" said Mir. Smith. "So far as the State is concerned. the case is complete. and I am ready to present the evidence to the court and jury ! am satisfied that we have collected 1 testimony of such a character that
 Lamphere's responsibility for the deaths in the fire will be established beyond reasonable doubt" iO,sr csh sha~ ok ternoon, two men. thought to be from Michigan City, caused considerable Rp- prehension by breaking into the car riage house on the-~<Guinness farm, where the nine oadavers have been kept since their exhumation. The men raised 2 window of the building and, ff-cne-of tifenas hNd already made ffs way l into the morgue when discovered by q watchman. The latter, D. M. Hudson, ordered the men away and sent mes senger to summon a deputy sheriff from La Porte. The fntruders disappeared before the officers arrived and efforts to discover their identity failed.
 It is thought, however. that the men were led by mere curiosity to desire a close view of the gruesome skeletons.
 Ray Lamphere who is in jail here. still protests his innocence. Prosecu- ting Attorney Smith, however, says he has positive proof that Lamphere had guilty knowledge of the Guinnes mur- ders. if he had not indeed participated in them.
 The prosecutor is in possession of
 letters, written in November. which he
 Is carefully guarding. These letters,
 written to Andrew Helgelein, by Mrs Guinness. are said to contain references
 which indicate Lamphere's guilt That
 he killed Mrs Guinness and her chill dren and set fire to the house in order k@ AL
 involve him. Is the theory Of the prose-
 cution.
 A Secret Room.
 In his cell, Lamphere was asked con- cerning a secret room in the Guinness country mansion to which no one was 1 ever admitted except Mrs. Guinness herself. She had the key and kept the
 door locked constantly. In the night | hours no one in the household was ever
 near that room. That the authorities
 believe was the chamber of horrors
 whose walls must have been spattered
 with the blood of the ill-fated victims of the woman's greed for gold and 1 passion for blood.
 q never was in that room" Lam phere said. T knew that there was a room in the house that was always ] kept lock ed and there was also room l in the basement, sort ot ice box, that | no one ever knew much about. It was
 big place, capaole or accommodating | several persons.
 This place near the door which led
 out to the barn yard. is believed to have been the temporary morgue for l the victims. So many bodies have now
 been found that the authorities believe
 the woman saved her victims and dis articulated the bodies in groups and buried them that way, sewed up in
 gunny sacks, adding chloride of lime | fn a{d diafnfaHraffnV7 l Added light on the methods by which Mrs Guinness lured to her death farm | one mile north of here, the persons
 who are supposed to have fallen vic- l tims to her lust for money. was shed
 today by A K. Helgelein.. brother of
 Andrew Helgenein of Mansfield, s. D..
 whose dismembered corpse Is among l the nine found yesterday and today. Helgelein told the coroner's jury that
 not only had his brother been in com | munication with the woman, but also
 that she had written to him after An drew's disappearance, in an attempt to induce him to visit this city
 Sell your brothers stock and come here and we will hunt your brother to- | gether." was the gist of the epistles
 written in Norwegian and as yet only partially translated. The letters are | jealously guarded by Helgelein, under | orders of Ralph H smith. prosecuting
 attorney, but enough was revealed to show that the woman had not hesl- tated to dare to attempt to gain a
 hold over the nearest relative of her | latest victim.
 | Roy Lamphere. accused of first de- gree murder in connection with the in- | cineration of Mrs. Guinness and her | children, revealed yesterday that his | former employer had urged him to in. | sure his life in her favor, asserting
 that Mrs. Guinness had offered to pay
 the premiums on such @ policy, pro.
 vided that he agreed to marry her.
 Hold Long Conference.
 A. K. Helgeleln of Mansfield. S. D..
 was in conference with pr. c. B. Mack
 coroner for the county until long af.
 ter midnight. The steps by which the 1 Norwegian farmer became infatuated 1 with the Indiana woman were can. l vassed once more but only partia
 progress was made toward clearing
 the mystery. Helgelein told again O. | the secrecy with which his brother hat
 shrouded his movements before his de