The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-05-12
SEARCHING FOR NEW MYSTERIES Workon Guinness Farm
 Continues. NO MORE BODIES FOUND Clearing Away the Debris Out of
 Basement. Physicisn's Report on Bodies of Helse- Iein and Miss oisen Declares
 that Beth Met Unaaturai
go MORE BODIES FOUND ESCAPE

LaPcrte, Ind. May 11--Mrs. Belle Gunness's farm failed to reveal new mysteries, but progress was made to- wards solving the puzzles already in- volved in the homestead, which has wit messed the tragic deaths of at lease fourteen persons.
 Heavy showers today made excavat- ing impossible. but between the down pour. Sherin Smutzer. and Louis Schultz worked on the apparatus with which Schultz is to sluice the ashes in the cellar of tho Gunness house that burned on April 2s. The heavier pieces of debris and the bricks were cleared from the south half Of the basement. and 1t was thought that the mining operations will start in earnest tomorrow. This operation Is to be carried on to find evidence pear ing on the identity of the woman's hody found In the debris of the burned house and supposed to be that of Mrs Guinness.
 Dr. J. H. William Meyer sent to tho Coroner his finding resulting from the autopsies on the bodies supposed to be those of Andrew Helgeiein. of Mans. field. S, D.. and Jamie Olsen. the fos- ter daughter of Mrs. Gupness. wno disappeared in 1e06 Dr. Meyer re- ported that . mass of hair had been found in the clenched fist of Helgciein and that the fingers grasping 1t had heen severed above the first phalanx.
 Ralph ", Smith. the Prosecuting At- torney. today . denied the interview credited to him in which he is credited. to have said a gold. hand ring In the possession of the prosecution, was found on a finger of the left hand, of the char%ed corpse said to be that of Mrs Gunnesa
 Teaches. Denies story.
 ~e.k the school attended by the Gunn~sa children. denied the story that on the morning preceding the Are at the Gun ness home. the three 0urness chiidrer had come to school crying. eorpiair- ing that their mother had peatens them because they had startsd to epter the cellar of ttssts hea4e Bha testfraosx ness had pfAeed sA scadawee sin sthe seei. lar long before theaire was started. |, Dra Meyefss report on the bodies ot Hei9eJein and Miss Olsen decIa'red that both had met unnaturst deaths. Tn. the case of the young woman, the condi- tion of the corpse precluded any pos- sibility of determining the manner in which she was murdered. Decay caus- ed largely by lime had destroyed tho tissues so that the orgaDs. are scarce ly susceptible to chemical analysis and there is not enough flesh left to show evidence of wounds. The crumb- ling skull revealed none,
 Helgelein,s body had been in the ground only. a few nionths at most and 1t gave evidence of death struggle. The clenched hand which contained hair. had been. mutilated and the other hand had been severad at the wrist. Of this body, the official report says:
 From the findings it Is evident that the man died an unnatural death- but at whose hands or how, cannot be de. termined by the examination so far. The hair in the hand is likely from the head or his murderer or the stonl- ach may show what poison if any killed him."
 sta tement, said:
 ."It would have perhaps been more accurate if I had said from the per- son of his murderer instead of from the head The hair is short and of a reddish brown tinge and was found matted between the first and second fingers of the hand, the bulk of 1t being in the upper part of the palm"