Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-05-17
TO SEARCH BARN
LOT NEXT MOVE
SUSPECTED SPOT WILL BE
DUG INTO
LAPoRTE LOOKS FOR CROWD OF
MoRRlpLY CURIOUS
Identification Of Jawbone and Body
Are Considered Conclusive Find
lnss In Guinness Mysteries.
Problem Up to Courts
BY Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
LAPORTE, Ind, May 16.-Work at
the Guinness farm today was without
especial result. The screening of the
ashes was finished and the task OF
cleaning the place begun.
Miner Louis Schultz worked all day
will. his new and larger sluice box, but
made no effort to pan out the tailings.
The sheriff said he expects to search
the ground before the old barn next
week. This is one OF the suspected
spots which have not been explored. the
work having been delayed for lack OF
funds.
The restaurant, hotel and livery
stable proprietors are preparing for an
other big crowd tomorrow. The rail-
roads are also prepared to handle an
increased number of passengers, and II
is likely IL fair weather results last
Sundays sights will be repeated. when
$1,000 morbidly curious went to the
farm.
The burial last night of Andrew M.
Helgelein marks the beginning OF the
final stage of the Guinness farm mys-
teries, so far as human knowledge IL
concerned. Two more corpses, sup
posed to have been those of Jennie
Olsen and Ole o. Budsberg, have been
partially identified, but to the identity
of the remaining cadavers no clew ex-
lists that gives promise of fulhllment.
The relics taken from the death farm,
such as watches and rings, may uitl-
mately lead to the determination that
some certain missing individual was
caught in the Guinness trap, but this
will give almost no aid in Identifying
any particular body. The potters' field
is most likely to be the ultimate resting
place of these seven bodies.
Two Conclusive Findings
Yesterday witnessed two conclusive
findings regarding the bodies unearthed
in the barnyard or taken from the
smoldering ruins of the farmhouse.
One, by the dentist who bridged Mrs.
Guinness lower jaw with artificial teeth
and established that the piece or Jaw
bone found in the ruins was from her
skull: the other subscribed to by the
experts show that the first body taken
from the barnyard of the farm was
that of Andrew Helgelein.
The finality of these conclusions
leaves few major matters which are
capable of solution to be brought to
light. The methods by which the VIC
tins of the farm were put to death
probably may never be known. Today
there is a total lack Of evidence on this
point. The identity of the seven corpses
remaining unknown is another puzzle.
and the extent to which Lamphere
shared in the secrets of Mrs. Guinness is
a third. Only the last of these may be
determined, and until the man Is
brought to trial and either acquitted or
convicted nothing approaching certainty
will be known on this point.
The state asserts that 1t has positive
evidence against Lamphere aud the de-
Tense as positively states that the
prisoner cannot be proven guilty.
Courts Must Decide
The circumstances which have be-
come known are almost equally bal
anced, so far as Lamphere's part in the
tragedy is concerned, and judicial pro-
cess only can make clear their relative
value. The case has, in short, reached
-tage where only the courts, through
"a Ind jury and open trial proceedings,
can be relied upon to settle the ques-
lions which are to be brought before
them. The grand jury. it is announced,
will begin to investigate the evidence
gathered by Sheriff SmulZer and Prose-
cutor Smith on Monday.
It's findings, however, Will shed little
light on the subject and the details OF
its deliberations are not likely to be-
come known.
OF late the developments have been
negative in their nature.
The widespread interest which the
whole affair created is evidenced by
the amount of press matter that has
been handled. Over a score of special
writer's have been here, and investiga-
ton shows that they have sent out
close to one million words of reading
matter In the last ten days. The
amount of news space taken up by
photographers and cartoonists relating
to the Guinness farm is tremendous.
The local photographers have reaped a
harvest. and almost every train during
the first few days of the sensation
brought men or women aimed with
cameras and tripods.