The Irish standard., 1908-05-16
BANKS TO Be AN AID
IN GUINNESS MYSTERY
TRANSACTIONS OF OWNER or
DEATH FARM WILL SOON
BE RELATED.
THOROUGH PROBE
NEAR COMPLETION
Sensations In Connection with House
and Grounds at Laporte, Ind, Are
Thought to Have Been Exhausted
-Clews Are Being Run Down.

the three Laporte banks held confer
ence Wednesday to determine the
most effective way of aiding the au-
thorities in unlangling the Guinness
farm murder mysteries.
1t was decided that the First Ma
tional hank Of Laporte, the Citizens
Savings bank and the State Bank of
Indiana should furnish list Of all
transactions in which Mrs. Guinness
paid out, deposited or received money.
With complete list of all persona
with whom Mrs. Guinness during her
residence here had financial and bust
ness relations at hand, Prosecutor
Smith expects he will be able to Sc
cure further information
Evidence Of Accomplces.
What is considered the first con.
elusive evidence that Mrs. Guinness
had accomplices came to light Wednes.
day through letter received by
Chief Of Police Vincent Cochrane
from a citizen Of Cleveland, o. The
identity Of the letter writer was not
revealed. but the letter itself shows
that at least one attempt had been
made to persuade men to visit Mrs.
Guinness. Sheriff smutzer Is author
ity for the statement that several
more globules of gold have been
panned out. The sheriff is certain
that the discoveries are portions OF
gold filling from the teeth of Mrs,
Guinness
Developments Exhaust Sources.
Developments exhausted most of tho
sources from which have sprung the
sensations Of the case and the authori.
ties are now confronted with the task
Of endeavoring to find the corrobora
tive details Of the main points already
deduced and Of forging the missing
links In the chain Of testimony with
which they are binding tho more or
less scattered parts of the battling case
into a coherent whole.
/. Just how successful they will be in
this work is not likely to he revealed
until Ray Lamphere is brought to
trial. Prosecutor r. N. Smith has
evidently modified his previous dc,
termination to rush the case into
court, finding that the states side may
be strengthened in many particulars.
Desperate Fight by Lamphere.
He insists that the evidence already
available is sufficient to prove the
states contentious, but the recent ac
tivity OF the defense and the strength.
enlngofits forces show that a desperate
fight is to he made on behalf of Lam.
phere. With both sides OF the Lam.
phere case working behind the scenes
and with Sheriff Smutzer occupied
with slow-going slnicing operations Mt
the farm there is little in sight to
satisfy the public curiosity in the af
fair.
Coroner Mack has received and
made public the results of his investi-
cations on all the known bodies ex
cept that supposed TO have been Ole
O. Budsberg Of lola. Wis The four
+. burned bodies found in the ruins of
the house are dead issues so far as
further investigation by the coroner is
concerned, and he has also received
reports from the examining physicians
on the Hclgelcin and Jennie Olsen
cadavers.
To Probe Bank Dealings.
1t is considered probable that an in.
spection Of the books OF the banks
would reveal further evidence and
perhaps determine the fate of
several individuals whose relatives
have lost track Of them. The Of
ficials Of the Laporte financial in
stitutions, however, seem lOnth to i'm
part such information. If they have It,
although willing enough to reveal full
details when once the identity of a
particular transaction is known. Re
,, cause of this, the authorities arc in.
| vestigating every clew regarding
missing strangers which reaches them,
! provided that the information is suf-
! ficiently definite to give them basis
about supposed visitors to the Gun
ness farm have been received, but the
vast majority of these epistles are
either vague, illegible or anonymous.
Budsberg and Moe were found through
inquiries emanating from the Farm
ers' State bank Of lola. Wis, the let
ters being complete in detail and
definite as to dates and places. Such
letters are sure to receive considera-
tion by the local authorities.
Get Heigelein Measurements.
The coroner, DR.. G. r. Mack, has
received from the warden Of the Min
nesota pcnitentiary at Saltwater the
prison record and BertilIon measure
ments of Andrew Helgelein. who
served ten years in the state penlten-
tiary for burglary and arson.
A Pinkerton detective, who gave
out he was going to Warsaw to appear
before the grand Jury, is reported to
have gone in search of letters which
Mrs. Guinness is said to have had ad-
dressed to her under various aliases.
Night Riders Defy Troops.
West Union, o., May 14.--Night
Riders applied torch to the large
barn OF William Shell, four miles west
Of this city, almost under the very