The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1908-05-15
.LAPoRTE OFFICIALS SAY THEY
KNOW NOTHING OF 1T.
mo new SENSATIONS
Scores Of Letters Inquiring About
Visitors to Guinness Farm Have
Been Received by officers-Prison-
er's Watch Identified.

Laporte officials that kev. DR.. 3. A..
Schell had revealed to them the sub
stance Of his conversations with Lam
phere and the discovery Of evidence
that Mrs. Belle Guinness was aided by
an accomplice in Turing her victims
to the farm, were the chief develop
ments in the case today. The denials
came from G. s. Mack, coroner, A. q.
Shutter, sheriff, and r. M. Smith,
prosecuting attorney.
In addition H. w. Worden, attorney
for the prisoner, issued a formal
statement that he had given his client
strict instructions not to discuss the
charges against him, and concluding:
1.-THE fact is that Lamphere has
never made a confession to any one
and never will. He has nothing to
confess" M
Yesterdays developments exhaust
ed most Of the sources from which
have sprung the sensations OF the
case and the authorities ase new con
fronted with the task Of e~ndeavoring
to find the corroborative details Of
the main points already deduced and
forming the missing links in the chain
Of testimony with which they are
binding the more or less scattered
parts Of the battling cas- into a coher-
emit whole.
States Case Weak.
Just how successful they will be in
this work is not likely to be revealed
until Ray Lamphere is brought to
trial. Prosecutor r. N. Smith has evil
IDENTIFY modified his previous deter
mination to rush the case into court,
finding that the states side may be
strengthened In many places. He in.
sists that the evidence already avail
able is sufacient to prove the states
contentious, but the recent activity
OF the defense and the strength Of its
forces show that a desperate fight Is
to be made on behalf Of Lamphere.
Coroner Mack reports the results
Of the Investigation Of all known bod
les but that supposed to have been
Ole Budsberg Of lola, wis. The four
burned bodies found In the ruins Of
the house are dead issues so far as
further investigation by the coroner
is concerned.
Remains Badly D~ecomposed.
None Of the other bodies have been
identified to any degree and it is
scarcely likely that they will be, be.
ing decomposed fragmentary masses
Of flesh and bones. What develop
ments do come probably will be in
the directions Of establishing identity
of that Of the mysterious men who
were aeen to enter the farm house
but never to leave It. Yesterday three
such persons were connected up with
the Guinness woman, the cyl! lence re
garding John Moo Of Elbow Lake
MINI, and Henry Gerholt Of Scan
dinavie, Wis, being almost conclusive
The fate Of George Brady Of Tuscola
H., is less certain.
Moe was traced to the fsrm by
means Of the banking transaction
which preceded his visit.
Banks 20 Furnish clews.
The facts were shown s!artlingly
similar to those brought to light II
the cases Of Ale Budsberg and An
drew Helgelein. Each Of the mer
cashed a check, draft or note for
considerable amount at one Of thu
local banks and at the desks of thu
cashiers, all the trails ended. OH
Gals Of three Laporte banks held
conference today to determine tn,
most effective way in aiding the au
thorities in untangling the murde'
mysteries. It was decided that thu
First National Bank Of Laporte, thu
Citizens Savings bank and the Stat
Bank Of Indiana should furnish a. lis
Of all transactions in which Mrs. Gun
ness had deposited or receive,
monov with q r~onnn1ata 1iat NJ %hi