The sun., 1908-05-10

was told by Mrs. Guinness 10 drive 10 Miohi-
gan City 10 meet one Joseph Moo, who she
said was relative coming to visit her.
He had never heard Of Moo but he went.
being told 10 wait until the next morning
II Moo didn't come that night. Moo didn't
come and when Lamphere returned next
day he was met by Mrs. Guinness, who
wouldn't let him into the house, but told
him to take the day on and amuse himself
in town. This he did and when he got back
two men told him that Helgelein had gone
away on an afternoon train. Nobody ever
saw Helgeen again until his lime eaten
body was dug up in the corpse patch last
Tuesday.
URGED HELdELEIN's BRoTHEB TO CONE.
In the meantime Helgelein had deposited
in the First National Bank Of Laporte the
5000 he brought with him from Aberdeen.
Late in January, the bank records show,
he drew all this cash. Not dollar Of 1t has
ever been accounted for. Nobody doubts
that Belle Guinness got II all right, Yet 1t
was the disappearance Of Andrew Helge-
lein that opened up the entire mystery.
Andrew had brother, AISLE, who also lived
in Aberdeen. When Andrew went away
he told his brother he was going TO Laporte
10 marry Mrs. Guinness. When this two
weeks went by and no word came from
Andrew his brother wrote 10 the woman
and got reply which shows that she had not
only planned his murder to compass his
silence but that she hoped to make 1t as
profitable as we'll Here is what she wrote
TO the inquring brother;
DEAR Goop BROTHER or THE BEST FRIEND
HAVE IN THE WORLD. IL Ia with tears
flooding In my eyes and my heart overbur-
deued with grief that write you about your
dear brother my sweetheart. He Is gone from
here, | know not where As | think OF him
my heart bleeds. May God bless him
wherever he may be- loved him tenderly.
From the first time | saw him knew that
he was the man that ! loved He came here
and was In my home for, oh, such short
time All was pleasant between us and the
last words had with him were those OF love
! could scarcely restrain myself from throw
ing my arms about his neck every time l
saw him. lie was the best man In the world,
Where he has gone | do not know. As
/ I
where he Ia and II he is safe. would do
anything in the world to find him. He left
nv house seemingly happy. and since that
time in January have not seen MIN.
will 20 to the end Of the world to locate
him. love him and will help you out. Sell
of, everything that he owns, get together
as much OF your own money as you can ana
come here during the first part OF May. We
will then 20 and seek him Bring the money
all m cash. II will be easier to handle II
this way,
on. nv dear good near brother-in-lav.
what a happy reunion we will have when
We find my own Andrew. | will fly to his
arms and never. oh, no never, be separated
from him again. DO not neglect to bring
the money in cash will be ready to 90
when YOU arrive. Yours In great sorrow.
Mrs BELLE GUINNESS,
II was on April % that this letter was
written The surviving brother was still
debating what TO do about it when he read
on April 2s that the Guinness house had
been burned and that Mrs. Guinness and her
three children had died in the flames. He
took the first train for Laporte, told Sherih
Shutter his story and went out to the Gun
ness place. Examination Of Joe MaIson,
the Guinness hired man. revealed the fact
that this woman had recently told him TO
dump some manure on some soft spots
in the wire fenced garden. The digging be-
gan at once and the very first body turned
up was that Of the missing Helgelein.
II had been badly mutilated. The arms
and legs had been cut of and the head had
been severed, but all the parts we're there,
done up in a gunnysack. This body, like
all the others recovered, looked as II an
attempt had been made 10 destroy 1t COM
petely with quicklime. Indeed, the at
tempt had succeeded with all but the skele-
ton, the hair and few fragments scarcely
recognizable as the traces Of human flesh.
The story of the subsequent exhumations
is not pretty tale. Dan Hudson and Joe
Maxson did 1t all, closely watched by the
plump little Sheriff. They got Ave bodies
on Tuesday, two on Wednesday, two on
Thursday and one on Friday.
e" Tis terrible hard work. said little
stoop shouldered Dan this noon as he leaned
awhile on his spade. Aye, andIa bit on
pleasant
Joe said nothing at ALL He's what the
neighbors call mot quite bright is Joe,
and indeed with the possible exception OF
Lamphere this description appears to have
applied pretty consistently to all the hired
men Mrs. Guinness has employed since
first she came to Laporte.
THEN BUDsBERo cAME-AND VANISHED.
The case Of Ole Budsberg closely parallels
that OF Andrew Helgelein. Budsbergs
body has been identified by his two sons.
They say that he got in correspondence
with Mrs Guinness by means OF a matri-
monial "ad" in Scandinavian paper, just
as Helgelein did, though when Helgelein
began hi, grewsome courtship his prede-
cessors body had been for months rotting
amid the quick lime in that garden OF hor-
ror
Budsberg finally succumbed to the seduc-
tive letters Of Belle Guinness in the month
of March 1907 Him, too, the neighbors
saw driving to the Guinness farm behind
the dapple gray mare, Him, too they saw
a number Of times wandering about the
farm. with his sinister sweetheart, and once
or twice they saw the strange pairdrive by
on their way to town, but presently they
saw him no more.
The only trace Budsborg left on the town
Of Iaporte was as in the case Of Helgelein,
in a financial transaction He and Belle
Guinness went together to the local savings
bank and arranged that through that bank
and the Farmers Savings Bank Of lola, Wis,
a mortgage collection Of $1,000 should be
made. The collection was made, the money
came and the local bank placed it to Buds