Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-11-15
DOCTORS GIVE TESTIMONY
Defense Fought in Vain to Exclude
Dental Plate
FOUND IN THE FIRE RUINS
Dentist Testifes That Bridge Core.
sponded to His Diagram of Work
Done for Mrs. Guinness.


the murder of Mrs Belle Guinness and
her three children forged several strong
links in the chain to prove that the adult
female body taken from the ruins OF the
Guinness house May was that of the
archmurderess. Witnesses testified to
seeing on the fingers Of Mrs. Guinness
during her life the two rings introduced
in evidence and testified to as having
been found on the fingers of the dead
woman.
DR.. I. P. Norton. Mrs. Guinness dentist.
furnished probably the strongest and
most convincing proof yet introduced of
the identity of the body by fully Identify
| ing diagrams of Mrs. Guinness mouth
describing the dental work which he did
for her and then fully and completely
Identifying the gold crowns and false
teeth found in the ruins as being those
which he made for Mrs. Guinness.
The defense scored one point when Dr.
]. w. William Meyer. state witness,
| gave 1t as his opinion that death was due
| to contraction of the heart, like some
case Of poisoning, possibly strychntne
| The indictment against Lamphere is for
| first-degree murder by arson. Dr
| Meyers testimony In certain degree
supported the evidence of Dr. Long, who
gave 1t as his opinion that death might
| have been caused by strychnine poisoning.
| In contradiction to all of this is the testi-
mony of DR.. ]. T. Gray. considered by
| the state one of it's best witnesses. TO the
| effect that symptoms were there of death
| from suffocatiOn.
Strong Point for State.
The defense realized the strong point
for the state in the plates in Mrs. GUM
ness mouth, and so made every effort to
prevent them from going to the jury, but
Judge Richter ruled that they were adj
| Missile for the purpose of showing the
condition Of the woman's mouth and the
work done by DR.. Norton, to which he
thereupon testified in detail.
The diagram showing this work was
| then shown the jury. DR.. Norton testl-
| fed that after the bodies had been found
| in the ruins but before the gold crowns
and bridgework had been found In the
ruins he had made the diagrams for the
coroner. and when the teeth and bridge
work were found in the ruins they htted
| the description exactly. The bridgeWork
and gold crowns found in the ruins were
| then offered in evidence.
When DR.. Norton was asked II he had
ever seen them before he replied. Il con-
| structed them for n ), Bell Guinness.
Jurors Identified Remains.
| Fred Zahrn and August 4. Anderson,
members of the grand jury which indicted
Lamphere, testified that they reviewed
| the remains of Mrs. GUINNESS and the
children at Cutters morgue, and that
they were present when certain rings
| were found on the fingers of the small
| boy The rings were identified In court
| by both witnesses
Mrs Frances J. Flint, nefghbor OF
| Mrs. Guinness. testified that she had
known Mrs. Guinness during all of the
time that the latter lived in Laporte
or,tlX 1iSi
| A plan of the interior of the mouse was
then offered in evidence by the state
and identified by the witness as BENG
correct When shown the two rings
taken from the fingers OF the dead woman
she fully identified them as belonging TO
Mrs. Guinness, and testified to having seen
them numerous times.
Identification by Neighbor.
A body which was identified by her
sister as being that of Jennie Olson was
found in Mrs. Guinness private burial
ground on May 8. 1t was in shallow
grave with two other bodies.
Mrs Flint testified that Mrs. Guinness
had been uniformly kind to the children
The witness told of visiting the Guinness
place on the morning of the fire and be-
ing present when the four bodies were
found in the ruins ard taken out. She
testified that at that time she was aDie
to identify each body as it was taken
out, and that the bodies were those Oh
Mrs. Guinness and the three children.
Jeweler Identifies Watch.
Herman Elbogan,s a jeweler, testified
that September IL, 1907, he repaired a
watch for Ray Lamphere. He identified
| the watch in court and said the number
of the case and works correspondent with
the numbers in his records. as did also
his private marking in the watch.
He then identified watch offered by the
state as one he had repaired for Mrs.
| Guinness and showed that the numbers
| on the case and works and his private
markings correspondent with the numbers
| in his records.
| H. E Koch, photographer. identified a
photograph of Mrs. Guinness and the three
| children taken by him September Il, 1904.
| This was the original of the photograph
| which. has been used SO much in the news
| papers.
Coroner Tells of Bodies.
| Coroner Mack was recalled for direct
examination. He told of the removal of
the stomachs from the bodies of Mrs.
Guinness and two of the children. The
stomach of the third child was SO badly
burned that it could not be examined.
These three stomachs, he said, were sent
through n D. Mccormick of this city
to Dr. Walter Hanes Of Chicago for
analysis.
| Dr. Mack also testified that, not includ-
| ing the four bodies taken from the ruins
| of the Guinness home, there were ten
| bodies and one extra skull eXhumed on
the Guinness farm. The Enclosure in which
| they We're found was fully described by
the witness. who also detailed the condi-
ton in which he found the bodies. He
testified that the body Of Andrew Hedge
| lein of Aberdeen, S. D.. the last of the
Guinness farm victims. was dismembered.
but was in a fair state of preservation.
| 1t had been sewn in sacks and buried in
| quicklime. He also testified to the re-
moYal of Helgelein'S stomach and sending