Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1908-05-12
aEoReE ANDERSON OF rARklo,
MO, SPENT NIGHT AT FARM,
BUT ESCAPES MuRDEREss;
GOES TO TESTIFY.
TOLLS TIGHTENING
AROUND LAMPHERE
EVIDENCE SECURED THAT Hell
GELEIN HAD TUFT OF HAIR IN
cLINcHED HAND THAT coRRE-
sPoNDs WITH SUSPECTS.

cLINcHED HAND THAT coRRE-
sPoNDs WITH SUSPECTS.
st. Joseph, Mo-. May 11-"Be-
cause / had no money I now be-
lieve Is the only thing that saved
me from being murdered by Mrs.
Guinness near Laporte," said Geo.
Anderson of Tarkio, Mo-, last
night, as he boarded the Rock
Island flyer" for Chicago, where
he will offer his personal testi-
mony and letters written him by
Mrs. Guinness, to the authorities.
Anderson, who Is a Swede and 80
years old, believes the woman is
still alive and that she set fire to
the farmhouse herself.
Anderson Had Marrow Escape.
Two years ago while at Mon
teith, Mich, he answered one of
Mrs. Guinness advertisements
posing himself as a wealthy far
mer. She wrote him to come on.
He did SO, but upon finding he
had no money she was incensed,
but told him to spend the night at
her place. He went to bed but
was awakened and found the
woman bending over him. He
spoke to her and she ran out Of
the room. Greatly frightened, he
did not close his eyes after that
and at daylight he left the place.
Laporte, Ind, May IL. - The au
thorities of the county today are busy
weaving together the shreds of evi
dence relied upon to connect Ray
Lamphere with the deaths at the Gun
ness farm, and will have their case
as complete as possible when the
grand jury meets next week AS YET
the defense has not revealed to any
great extent what attitude it will as
sumo. Neither Lamphere nor his coun
sci will discuss the matter with any
one further than to claim that Mrs
Guinness Is still alive and that she
fired her own house that burned hel
children to death.
While Prosecutor Smith denounces
this theory as absolutely improbable
yet this impression is becoming wide
spread, despite the almost total alb
sence of evidence to support it.
The weather again today was very
threatening. Some rain has fallen
though not in sufficient quantities tt
delay the sheriff's operations at the
Guinness farm.
HegeIein Fought for Life.
That Andrew Hegelein did not give
up life without a struggle is evidenced
by the fact that in one of his clinch
ed hands was brown tuft of shor
hair, which is said to correspond
closely with the hair covering the
head of Ray Lamphere. This new
phase of the mysteries disclosed il
the deposition of DR.. Myer, one of the
an exhaustive examination of Hege
examining physicians who went int
lein's body.
Morbid Crowd at Farm Sunday.
Twenty thousand people swarmet
into Laporte yesterday to make a Ro
man holiday Of murder farm
They came In trains, in automo
blles, bugg1es. wagons, and on bicy
cles and hundreds walked from neigh
boring towns to see the ruins of tn,
home and the private burying GROUND
of this most fendish murderess O
the age.
The scene at the Guinness grave
yard" farm was the strangest in muir
der history annals. Never before ha.
anything been enacted to equal it.
Men and women were drawn from
far and near by the uncanny fascina
tion Of terrible crimes, and whe1
they approached the grewsome seen,
they were met by hawkers sellfns
popcorn, peanuts, lemonade and DOS
tai cards.
On the edge of a hole from which
two of the bodies of the female Blue
beard had been dug, man had erect
ed an Ice cream booth and dispensed
pink ice cream and cake to the visit
orS.
Evidence of Woman's Crimes.
William Brogiski, Polander, livins
with farmer neighbor of Mrs. Gun
ness, was called upon during tn.
years of 1906-O7 to dig three holes i,
the barn lot of the Guinness place. HI
was told by Mrs. Guinness the hole,
were to be utilized for rubbish anc
farm refuse. Mrs. Guinness designat
ed the dimensions of the holes which
Brogiski says were about six feet lon,
and four feet wide. In all of thes;
holes bodies have been found.