Albuquerque citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1907-1909, 1908-05-07
|, yCdvdtiOn Of Yard Continues
u the Hope of Finding
CdddverS of Miss
ing People.
.LURED HER VICTIMS
BY MATRIMONIAL AO
Mrs. Guinness Advertised for HuS.
band and Required Applicants
to Visit Her on the Farm
Girl Held to Testify
Before Grand jury.


La Porte, Ind, May THE grisly
story of the private graveyard at the
farm of Mrs. Belle Guinness. a mile
north of al Porte, is still in the early
chapters. Today It is estimated that
the number of persons murdered at
the place through the lure of a matri-
monial bureau will run from twelve
to twenty.
The exhumation yesterday Of four
dismembered bodies wrapped in bur-
lap brings the total victims known to
have been murdered to nine. Includ-
ing the bodies of Mrs. Guinness and
her three children, which were dis
covered after fire had destroyed the
house April 2S, the total deaths to be
| Investigated and accounted for Is
thirteen, with the possibility of more
| developing when the sheriff and his
force eXcavates further In the yard.
Additional light on the methods by
| which Mrs. Guinness caused the
deaths on her farm was shed this
morning by A. X. Helgeiin. a brother
of Andrew Helgelin, of Mansfield, S.
D.. whose dlsmembered corpse is
| among the nine found yesterday. Hell
| gelein told the coroner that not only
! had mis- bro. Il been correspond
ence with tn woman. but that she
| had also written to him after his
! brothers disappearance and attempt
| ed to induce him to visit her. In her
letter she said:
"Sell your brothers stock and come
here and we will hunt your brother
| together"
The rain may interfere with further
excavations today, but it is believed
that more bodies will be found. 1t is
| thought that Mrs. Guinness estab-
| lished communication with her VIC
| Tins through a matrimonial agency
and that she secured some % them
| through the following advertisement
that appeared I'm a Chicago news
| paper:
Precautionary widow who
owns a large farm in one of the fin
est districts in La Porte county. Indi-
ana, desires to make the acquaintance
| of gentleman equally well provided
with view of joining fortunes. No re-
/ plies by letter considered unless send
er is willing to follow answer with
| personal visit
Bessie Conkln, a young woman re-
siding at Michigan City. Indiana,
whose former home was at La Porte,
| has been arrested as an important
witness and will be here for the trial
| of Lamphere. She was a friend Of
Lamphere who is accused of compile
! ity in the murders at the Guinness
home. She is not accused of COM
/ plicity but her testimony is considered
/ important and she will be locked up
until the grand jury can hear her
| testimony next week. 1t is said that
Lamphere, while talking with Miss
Conklin. made threats against Mrs
Guinness, and said he had informa-
tiOn that would land her in the peni-
tentiary.
The motive for the wholesale mur-
ders has not been fully established.
The circumstances surrounding the
dis isappearance of Helgelin and Ruds-
berg, of lola, Wis, are however, so
similar as to give a clue to the object
of the persons who committed the
crimes. Helgelin had secured $4,000
through the First National bank here
shortly before he was lost track of.
Rudsbers negotiated the sale Of
mortgage through the La Porte Saw
ings bank, which yielded him $1,000.
He drew this money April 6, 1907. No
record OF his further appearance in
the flesh has been found.
Except those Of Jennie Olsen and
Helgelin, only one of the corpses bears
traces of a likeness TO an individual.
That was one OF the first found and
has on the skull patches of black hair
and on the lip the scraggly remains
of black mustache.
OF considerable Importance in the
developments OF the entire case is the
result Of the autopsy on the body of
Helgelin, as announced by DR.. II. ].
Meyer today:
''The chief popularity OF the cad
aver" he said, sis its immense size. 1t
is so large that no ordinary man or
woman could handle 1t alone. The
mutilation is Of the same character as
that on the other corpses, although
the freshness of this specimen reveals
details which were not forthcoming,
so far as the rest of the bodies are
concerned.
THE dismerhberments are the work
OF an expert. The legs had been sew
Grad above the knee Joints with