Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-05-09
TRUNKS MAY THROW LIGHT.
Letters Found May Connect Lamphere
With Murder.

| IIaPOrte, lnQ., May 9--DlSCONeTy yes
| terday of blood covered AK and
trunk containing important letters that
may shed light on the mystery of the
/ Guinness murders and connect Ray
Lamphere more directly with the
crimes followed the eXhumation of the
i tenth body from the soil of the murder
| farm that now occupies the soocked at
i tention of the nation.
/ The trunk, the property of Lamphere,
accused of the latest murders in the
wholesale tragedy, was found yesterday
) in barn at the Wheatbrook farm near
/ Springville, where Lamphere had been
! employed since Feb. s, after his quar-
rel with Mrs. Guinness.
! In the trunk were letters written to
/ the prisoner by Mrs. Guinness entreat-
1 ing him. to return. In one of the letters,
/ which are being examined by Prosecut-
! ing Attorney Smith, Sheriff Shutter
and Chicago detectives, was this sig
nificant paragraph:
'Come back to me. You must come
back. You may bring your new sweet
heart with you. provided she has mon
/ ey enough"
Many others 3 letters We're found
! which the prosecuting attorney refuses
/ to nake public. In the trunk were
found number of women's gold rings,
some of them jeweled Whether any of
them were the property of Mrs. GUM
ness or of possible woman victims is
a question for the authorities to deter
mine.
| "A few hours after the trunk had been
seized at John Wheatbrook' farm and
secretly brought to Laporte. Lam
phere summoned a friend to the Jail.
He knew nothing about the discovery
of his property.
| When his friend reached the Jail
Lamphere said to him:
IT think I have something that I
can say to the public without hurting
my case want you to go to my at
| torney, Mr.. Worden. Tell him / want to
see him, and that / want some clean
clothes, and also tell him for Gods
sake to send to the barn at the Wheat
brook farm in Springville and get my
trunk. Wheatbrook will show anyone
he sends for it where it is. want 1T
taken away from there"
| Hours before this message was de-
livered to Lamphere's attorney detec-
tives had found the trunk and had
brought it here. More important rev.
elations are expected after the con-
tents of the trunk have been exam
| ined
After learning of the trunk seizure
last night, Attorney Worden counsel for
Lamphere, was refused admission to
the Jail. He thereupon announced
that he would seek his clients release
today on a writ of llabeas corpus.
The tell-tale ak, Redeemed with what
is believed to be human blood, was
found on the Guinness farm in a wood
shed, buried under a pile of rubbish.
Sheriff Shutter and his aids uncov-
| cred it while searching the shed for
| traces of more victims.
The tenth body to be taken from the
Guinness barnyard was unearthed by
Sheriff Shutter and Chief of Police
Cochran early in the day, and con-
troversy prevailed between them and
the coroner for some time whether the
bones were of one human skeleton or
| two. Later. when the bones were
sorted carefully it was decided that but
one body had been found and Coroner
Mack so officially reported last night.
| Other developments of the day in the
investigation included the following:
| That the mysterious trunks shipped
| from Chicago from time to time to Mrs.
Guinness murder mansion contained
uuicklime instead of bodies of victims
as was first suspected; that the quick
l. lime used to hasten decomposition OF
her victims' bodies was purchased In
| Chicago and shipped by the Woman's
confederate, because she dared not pur-
chase such quantities in LaPorte for
fear of arnusing SUSPICION.