The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-05-09
GREWSOME LIST
STILL GROWING
Ten Bodies Reward the Efforts
Of Searchers at the Guinness
Murder Farm.
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MOTIVE FOR CRIME FOUND
Impvrtant Witness in Notorious Case
Said to Be at Present Residing
in Oklahoma City.-New
Grave Opened

Laporte. Ind. May 9.-One more
body was added to the death roll OF
the Guinness farm yesterday, the
grewsome relics now numbering ten.
Coroner Mack had first announc-
ed that the grave opened yesterday
morning contained one complete
cadaver and portions of second
but later said that what he had at
first believed to be an additional
thigh and arm bones are in reality
pieces of the first set.
Developments in the case came
thick and fast yesterday evening,
and each additional circumstance
brought to light being of nature to
strengthen the charges against Ray
Lamphere, who is accused of first
degree murder because of the
deaths of Mrs Belta Guinness and
her three children.
Lamphere yesterday sent re-
quest to his attorney, P. w. Worden,
asking the latter to send to the farm
of John Wheatbrock for the trunk
which Lamphere left there when he
was arrested, April 2S. But before
this word had reached the attorney
the trunk had been confiscated by
the local authorities. 1t contained
number of letters written by Mrs.
Guinness TO Lamphere after the lat
ter had taken employment at the
farm of John Wheatbrock near
Springvale, seven miles north of this
city. The exact dates of these letters
were not announced, but that they
were recent. was evidenced by the
fact that Lamphere went to the
Wheatbrock farm Feb. 8, 1908. The
woman wrote to Lamphere urging
him to return to her farm and to
bring your sweetheart with you if
she has money enough The identi-
ty of the woman is mystery, and
neither does Mrs. Guinness mention
the amount deemed necessary FOR
her reception at the Guinness farm.
Along with the letters were found
several woman's finger rings, some
of which were of unusual size, and
may have been the property of Mrs.
Guinness.
Peter Colson, a new witness in
the case, told R. N. Smith, the prose-
cutting attorney, that Ray Lamphere
had acknowledged attempts to
blackmail Mrs. Guinness. This is
considered as definitely establishing
motive for a disagreement between
Lamphere and the woman which re-
suited later in the burning of the
farmhouse.
Mrs. Leo Greening said that hel
son, Emil, who formerly worked or
the notorious farm, saw two strang.
ers at the place the night that Jen-
ME Olsen disappeared in November
1906. Emil Greening is now said tC
be in Oklahoma City and the sher
ifs office will try to communicate
with him in the hope of establishing
the fact that Mrs, Guinness had ac
completes in the murders at he
place.
Mrs. Guinness Caught
Syracuse. N. Y, May "a WON
an believed to be Mrs. Bella Guin
ness passed through this city east
bound at 1915 o'clock yesterda,
morning. Two Syracuse detectives
boarded the train and went to Utica
A telephone message from tn,
Rochester police notified the Syra
cuse police that the woman wa
thought to be Mrs. Guinness. TIL,
Rochester authorities were told b,
another passenger in the Pullman
car that she answered the descrip
ton of the alleged murderess. Sh,
and an older woman, according t.
the Pullman conductor, boarded tn,
train at Ashtabula, Ohio The WON
en- were asleep when the train reach
ed here and when aroused by tn,
officers offered to prove that the.
were from Allentown, Pa. The off
GERS remained on the train to Civ,