The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-05-19
STATES ATTORNEY SURE
MRS. GUINNESS IS DEAD
Part of JaWbones and Skull in
Ruins Believed to Be Hers.
LAPoRTE MYSTERY SOLVED
Drag Pond For More Victims of MUIR
der Farm-12 Watches Found
Lamphere's Father Tells of Mys.
terious Man He Saw.

Lamphere's Father Tells of Mys.
terious Man He Saw.
Laporte, Ind The most impor-
tant evidence yet found in the ruins
OF Mrs. Belle Guinness home consists
OF fragments of q jawbone, some skin
with a patch of hair and two yerte.
brae These are believed to be the
head of the woman whose body was
found in the debris, and if this is true
it will do much to dispel the belief
that Mrs Guinness is alive and sub
stituted a headless corpse in the
house before it was set afire.
The numbers of watches and of the
works have been taken, as each of the
twelve timepieces was recovered from
the ruins, and it is hoped to trace al
least some of the victims by them
Besides the two watches found a
small gold-plated souvenir ring, prob
ably that of a child, bearing the fig
ures 1906" was sluiced out.
Digging on the farm has been
again stopped, as it has been decided
to first drag the pond in the vicinity
for bodies which Mrs Guinness might
have weighted down.
Identification of the piece of jaw.
bone taken from the ruins of the Gun.
ness farm house as portion of Mrs
Belle Guinness skull bears out most
conclusively the contentious of the
State regarding the identity of the
bodies found in the cellar on April %
1T is the clinching bit of evidence
which should set at rest the rumors
that Mrs. Guinness has escaped"
This statement was made by Ralph
N Smith, prosecuting attorney. II
followed report from DR.. G. P Nor
ton, a dentist, who found that the
piece of charred bone presented char
acteristics which he had observed
while working on her teeth.
The first of the Guinness victims to
be buried, except by her, was laid in
the grave by lantern light in a GENE
terry on the outskirts of Laporte. The
body was that of Andrew K Hell
gelein, of Mansfield, S. OAK, the
trap to which Mrs. Guinness lured her
victims. The body was released for
burial after Coroner Mack had estab.
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The search of the Guinness premises
revealed little of Importance. The
screening on the ashes produced sew,
eral additional bits of bone, but none
of them is of sufficient size or well
enough preserved TO furnish proof of
their origin.
Some relics showing that Mrs. Gun
ness had made a study of surgical
lore were picked up. Charred leaves
of books, on which sufficient print
remained to show that the folios were
devoted to anatomy, were found.
Another ruined book was a treatise
on hypnotism.
The fact that more watches have
been found than there are known vic
tins of Mrs. Guinness blood thirst.
ness, and that more persons who are
known to have disappeared after
starting to her place, or a place sup
posed to have been hers, have been
reported than there are bodies, suf-
fees to keep alive interest in fur
Their search of the murder farm The
following are persons whose disap-
pearance after being with the woman
at some time or other is conceded.
Andrew K Helgelein, Aberdeen, S.
D.; Ole Budsberg, lola, Wis; John
Linboe, Chicago; Lee Porter, Edin-
burg, ILL.,; John Moo, Elbow Lake,
Mimi; George Berry, Tuscola, Ill. !;
Henry Gurholt, Scandinavia, Wis. !;
Olaf Jensen, Christiania, Norway;
Emil Tell, Usage City, Kan; Charles
Edman, New Carlisle Ind; Herman
Konitzer, Chicago; Axel Gunderson,
Green Lake, Wis; Ole Olsen, Battle
Creek, Mich. Lindner Nikkeben,
Huron, s. D.; Andrew Anderson,
Lawrence, Kar; Johann Sorensen,
st. Joseph, Mo.
One of the weapons the murderess
used in dispatching her victims was
stumbled upon in the ruins by Dr.. d.
l.. Jones, of Hillsdale, Mich
The blade, four and half inches
long, is of razor steel, sharp as sur
geon's knife, and in shape resembling
the bistoury blade with which AFTER
les are severed and deep missions
made. The metal handle, with wood
trimmings burned away, was found
with the blade, which can be pulled
out from one end thus concealed
within the handle.
with this blade" said Dr.. Jones,
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victim to the heart or have reached
his jugular vein with certainty 1t
also could do better service than a
large butcher knife in cutting up the
body" .-k
81 believe that Mrs. Guinness and a
man killed her children and the wom-
an whose body has been found, and
that they escaped" said the father of
Ray Lamphere, the farm hand, who
is under arrest, charged with having
burned the farm house. when l
stopped at tho house after Ray had
left Mrs. Guinness met me at the
kitchen door and invited me in, but
she first closed the door into another
room.
Before she did this I detected the
voice of a man talking with the chill
dreD. This man was not the farm
hand, Maxson, for I saw him in the
yard. 1t will be necessary for the
prosecution to account for this man,
He is character of whom nothing
has been printed
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