The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-05-07


here, and we will hunt your brother to-
gether.' was the gist of the episties
written in Norwegian and as yet only
partially translated. The letters are
jealousy guarded by Helgelein, under
orders of Ralph N. Smith. prosecuting
attorney. but enough was revealed to
show that the woman had not hesitated
to dare to attempt to gain a hold over
the nearest relative of her latest VIC
tim.
Roy Lamphere, accused of first de-
gree murder, in connection with the in
cineration of Mrs. Guinness and her
children. is expected to be a centre of
interest today. Efforts to connect him
more closely with the appalling series
of violent deaths will be made by the
public prosecutor, although that official
asserts that sufficient evidence to con-
Wet him of completely in the murders Is
already in his possession. Larnphere
revealed yesterday that his former en-
ployer had urged him to insure his life
in her favor, asserting that Mrs. GUM
ness had offered to pay the premiums
on such a policy.
Lamphere has made a statement
about a closed room in the Guinness
home, to which, he asserted. he was al
ways denied admission, which is par
TALLY corroborated by the evidence of
Joseph Maxon, who was working on the
farm when the house caught fire April
%. Maxon asserts hat he had never
been allowed access to the second-story
of the farmhouse, where the closed room
was located.
The Investigators here believe that
Mrs. Guinness established ~communica-
ton with her victims through a paper
printed in Scandinavian, such a prem
Use accounting for her relations with
Ole B. Bugsberg, the farmer of lola,
Wis, whose ons are expected here to-
day. It Is reported that the lola men
will bring with them copies of the adj
vertisements which brought him to
Mrs. Guinness and eventually to his
death.
The prosecutor is in possession of
letters, written In Norwegian, to An
drew Helgeiein by Mrs. Guinness, |
which are said to contain references
which indicate Lamphere's guilt. That
he killed Mrs. Guinness and her chill
dren and set fire to the house in order
to prevent any revelation that might
involve him is the theory of the prose-
cution.
Following the autopsy or the body
supposed to be that of Helgelein, DR..
J. H. Meyer today said:
1.-THE chief popularity of the cadayer
is it's immense size. 1t is so large
that no ordinary man or woman could
handle it alone. The mutilation is OF
the same character as that on the
other corpses, although the freshness
of this specimen reveals details more.
The ACKNOWLEDGMENT was the work of
an expert"
Woman Received Many Trunks
One theory. strongly presented and
upheld by good evidence, is that all of
the men, women and children whose
bodies found graves on the Guinness
farm did not meet their death there.
Expressmen tell of delivering a NUM-
her of mysterious trunks TO the GUM
mess farm within the last two years.
There were between nine and a dozen
of these trunks, and possibly all of
them contained dead bodies.
A possible solution of the mystery
may be found in two trunks consigned
to Mrs. Belle Guinness, Laporte, Ind -
and now held in an express office in
Chicago. Assistance of the Chicago po-
lice has been sought, and the trunks
will be opened at once.
1t would appear from this hat Mrs.
Guinness was In league with a band of
m~urderers, who may have operated In
several parts of the country, and that
her part of the work was to bury the
bodies shipped to her and cover up all
evidences Of the crime.
There is no cas- to believe that all
Of the bodies of persons done to death
on the spot or shipped to Mrs. GUM
ness have yet been discovered. The
farm may still be thickly planted with
the dead. Only the suspicious spots,
where the earth appeared to have been
turned within a year or two have been
excavated, and the yield has been nine
bodies.
In the cellar Of the house there is q
heavy cement floor. Sheriff Shutter
probably will have this floor dug up
and the ground beneath it explored to-
day and expects to ind other bodies.
AT present 1t looks as though the dis
coveries demand that the whole sixty
acres of the farm be turned over in the
search.
Because of the heavy rain, it was de-
cided shortly before noon that no
further digging would be done upon
the Guinness farm today. The work
will be resumed tomorrow.