Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1908-05-21
y DEATHS LAID
TO MRS. GUINNESS
Semi.official Report Is Given
Out at Laporte-List Includes
Supposed Victims.
10000 VISIT MURDER FARM
Picnic Parties Romp Around Death
Garden'-Seeks to Identify Man
From Minnesota.

| From Minnesota.
Laporte, Ind, May 15.-Denials by
lLaporte officials that the Rev. r. A.
Schell had revealed to them the sub
stance of his conversations with Lam
phere, and the discovery Of evidence
that Mrs. Bella Guinness was aided by
an accomplice In Turing her victims
to the farm were the chief develop
ments in the case yesterday,
Points to Accompllce.
The evidence regarding the aids Of
Mrs. Guinness came in letter from
a resident of Cleveland, addressed to
the local chief of police. 1t told of the
writer's having met stranger in that
city last August who gave him a pho
tograph of "a rich widow who resided
in Laporte." and tried to persuade
him to come here to see the woman.
The photograph is fairly good pho
tograph Of Mrs. Guinness and was evil
IDENTIFY taken some time ago.
| Louis Schultz, the miner who Is
sluicing the ashes and cinders from
the cellar of the Guinness house, turn
ed over to Sheriff Shutter a number
Of pieces of fused metal which he had
found in the tailings of the sluice box.
Several of these relics are globules
and believed to be bits OF gold
Schultz also found some small pieces
Of bone. One of these, the sheriff
says, is thought to be portion of a
vertebrate.
Woman Feared Lamphere.
A new witness regarding Mrs. Gun.
ness fear OF Lamphere was found
yesterday. Bertha Schultz, a clerk in
a local dry goods store, said that the
woman was in the store several days
before the fire and told her that she
was afraid Lamphere would set fire
to the farmhouse.
Jawbone That Of Arch-Murderess.
| Laporte, Ind, May 1.-THE identi-
fication of the piece of jawbone taken
from the ruins of the Guinness farm
house as a portion of Mrs. 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
had escaped"
This statement was made by Mrs.
Ralph N. Smith, prosecuting attorney,
10 OF MI Fol
Dr. C. P. Norton, dentist, who found
that the piece Of charred bone pre-
sented evident characteristics which
he had observed while working on
Mrs. Guinness teeth.
Search Continues.
The search of the premises yester.
day revealed almost nothing of impor-
lance. The screening of the ashes
produced several additional bits Of
bone, but none Of them is of sufficient
size or well enough preserved to fur
nish convincing proof OF their origin.
The first Of the Guinness victims to
be inferred with Christian rites was
buried last night in Patton's cemetery,
on the outskirts of Laporte. The
corpse was that OF Andrew K. Hedge
iein OF Mansneid, ,. u. The body was
released for burial last evening, after
Coroner Mack had received the re-
ports OF the Bertillion experts who
have examined 1t and compared their
findings with figures taken from the
records OF the Minnesota penitentiary
at saltwater.
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IN 4 seni-oficial report given ant ~
the authorities. Should # he nroved
later that Mrs. Guinness il alive and
that the headless body of 4 woman
found IN the ruins il that OF another
victim the total number viii he q.
creased ~ four. counting the three
children who persisted ii the Are ana
the total number Of murders for which
Mrs, Gunness vim have to answ6r win
reach twenty-sfx.
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