Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1908-05-14
WOMAN ARRESTED
MAY Be MURDfRESS
Police Take Woman From Train
at Utica, N. Y, Who Re-
sembIes Mrs. Guinness.
ONE MORE BODY is FOUND
Total Death Roll of Murder Farm Is Now
Tighten Net Around
Ray Lamphere.
ONE MORE BODY is FOUND

A multi-murder mystery rivaling in
| horror the bloody crimes of Holmes
| in Chicago and the Bender family in
Kansas was brought to light last week
AT Laporte Ind The discovery OF the
| wholesale murders was brought about
| by A. K Helgelein of Aberdeen, S. D.,
who appeared in Laporte in search of
his brother Andrew Helgelein. He
| had information that his brother went
to Laporte to marry Mrs. Belle GUM
ness and that he had turned over his
money to her, and he became con
WINGED that Andrew had been the vic
tim of foul play
| Mrs. Guinness and her three chill
| dren were recently burned to death
in tia destruction of their home, and
Ray Lamphere, who formerly worked
on the Guinness farm, was arrested
on suspicion OF having set fire to the
house.
| Following A. G. Helgelein's investi
| cation into the disappearance of his
| brother, excavations were made on
| the Guinness farm, and the remains of
| five bodies were found on Tuesday,
one of which was identified as that of
| Andrew Hegelein. The excavations
We're continued on Wednesday, and
| the remains of four more bodies We're
discovered. Thursday heavy rain pre-
vented further search and the author
tiles put in the time collecting evil
dence against Lamphere. who is sus-
pected of heving been an accomplice
of the woman. Evidence was secured
that showed almost conclusively that
the bodies had been shipped in from
Chicago.
The authorities are convinced that
the victims were lured to their death
by fake matrimonial! advertisements.
Utica, N. Y, May 10. - The SYRIA
cuse police officials took a woman
from a train reaching here at :3S
this morning on suspicion that she
might be Mrs. Belle Guinness, the al.
legged Laporte murderess.
The officers We're informed from
Rochester that the woman answered
the description of Mrs. Guinness and
they boarded the train at Syracuse
Arriving at this station the woman
said that she was Mrs l.. A. Heron
and that she was widow from Chica-
go on the way to New York to visit
her sister. She resembles in many
particulars the pictures published of
Mrs. Guinness, but the officers are
In doubt as to her being the woman
wanted She declared herself the
widow of Chicago manufacturer who
died last January. The officers took
her back to Syracuse.
Another Body Found
Laporte, Ind. May 1O.-One more
body was added to the death roll of
| the Guinness farm yesterday, the
| grewscme relics now numbering ten
Developments in the case came
thick and fast last evening, each adj
ditional circumstance brought to ligh,
being of nature to strengthen the
| charges against Ray Lamphere, who
! IS accused of first-degree murder be-
cause Of the death of Mrs. Belle GUM
| ness and her three children. Lam
pierre yesterday sent request to his
| attorney, H. F. Worden, asking the
| latter to send to the farm of John
Wheatbrook for the trunk which Lam
phera left there when he was arrest
| ed. April o.
Trunk Is Confiscated.
But before this word had reached
the attorney the trunk had been con
| fiscated by the local authorities 1t
contained a number of letters written
by Mrs. Guinness to Lamphere after
the latter had taken employment at
the farm of John Wheatbrook. near
Springville. The woman wrote Lam
phere urging him to return to her
farm and ito bring your sweetheart
with you if she has money enough
terry.
Establishes Motive.
Other important developments Of
the day included the following:
Peter Colson, a new witness in the
case, told r. N. Smith, the prescott
! Ing s attorney that Ray Lannhene- had
acknowledged attempts to blackmail
| Mrs. Guinness. This is considered
definitely establishing motive for a
uASo1Si eehieHl petvlsen 1AdupueIe anu
| the woman which resulted later in the
| burning Of the farm house
| Mrs. Leo Grening said that her son
Emil. who formerly worked on the no
torious farm. saw two strangers at
the place the night that Jennie Olsen
disappeared, in November, 1906 Emil
Grening is now in Oklahoma City. and
the sheriff's Office will try to commu-
nicate with him in the hope of estab-
! fishing the fact that Mrs Guinness
had accomplices in the murders at
her place
Draws Curiosity Seekers.
The resumption of excavation at
the Guinness farm again drew an i'm
mense crowd of spectators. A prema-
1 ture announcement by Coroner Mack
that two bodies had been discovered
only served to increase the rush OF
curiosity seekers. The scraps of hui
mainly We're found in the barn yard
The body was by far the least pre-
seryed of any of the ten grewsorue
! relics.