The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-05-10
BULLETIN.

tnlcdgO, ILL.,, May j ne latest ana
! most authentic clew as TO whereabouts
of Mrs. Bella Guinness was reached by
! the police late tonight in a letter from
Atlantic City The writer told of hav-
ing seen on PENNSYLVANIA flyer leav-
ing Chicago, Thursday night a wom-
an resembling Mrs. Guinness and who
acted qucerly." She alighted at
; Philadelphia Authorities of the lat
ter city have been wired to search
! for a woman answering Mrs. Guinness
description.
Laporte, Ind, May 9-Laporte set
+ tied down again today after the ex-
element following the Syracuse ar
rest to digging in the garden grave
yard of Mrs. Belle Guinness home
Sheriff Smulzer Is preparing for
| test Monday such as has never before
been made in the investigation of any
murder case. 1t will be an effort to
account for the missing head of a
body in the mOrGue, now generally be
! lieved to be the body of Mrs Gun
ness Sheriff Smulzer has employed
an experienced miner. whom he says
is now in LapOrte with his pan, era
die, rocker and all other parapherna-
liza of the primitive California gold
miner This miner, the sheriff de
n1i tn ri,- J.,
down to the cellar of the house Of
death" Monday morning and begin to
sift debris in search for gold. Never
before has gold been so eagerly
sought. A grain of it recovered from
those ashes will be valued more than
a pound of gold by the authorities of
Iaportc county. They will maintain
that if gold is found at point where
headlesS body was recovered, it will
prove that Mrs. Guinness head was
consumed by fire and that $500 worth
of the precious metal in her false
teeth was melted by the heat
Lamphere's trunk is still in the Of
fee of the states attorney Its con
tents are carefully guarded from pry-
ing eyes. What the letters from Mrs
Guinness to l.amphere may say is
known only to Sheriff Smulzer. the
states attorney. the sheriff's deputy.
William AnstisS. who is now a can
didate for sheriff of l.aporte county
and Ray Lamphere himself.
Questions Are Put.
These questions were put to Depu-
~ Anstis today: is there anything in
any of these letters which leads YOU
to believe Ray Lamphere was the aC-
compliCe of Mrs. Guinness in murd-
ers which peopled her private grave
Sard?"
Il cant say that there is" replied
the deputy
rs there anything in them 10 make
you think Lamphere assisted in the
murder of Andrew HelSelein?"
Il don't know that there is" was
I the deputy's answer, but believe he
has some knowledge of il"
"Helgelein was last seen January
IA, when he and Mrs, Guinness came
10 the First National bank in Laporte
70 collect q draft of 2.S93.20 on the
First National Bank of Aberdeen. s.
D., his home town. Lamphere has said
day Of January II and the night fol
lowing; that he returned TO the farm
in the morning and that Helgelein
was gone. He asked Mrs. Guinness
what had become of him and was told
he had departed for Michigan City.
] have evidence to prove. not beyond
reasonable doubt, but beyond a shad-
ow Of doubt, that Lamphere returned
to the farm before II O'Clock on the
night of January ii and the probable
tiles are that Helgelein was murd-
cred. dismembered and buried that
night. Lamphere at least got some
inkiing OF what was going on"
From the story told Sheriff Smulz-
er today by Detective Warren of Min
neapolis, who arrived today. il seems
that there is little or no doubt E J.
Tiefland of Minneapolis, was one of
the victims of the Unsuitable blood
gluttOn-Mrs. Belle Guinness. Ac-
cording to Warrens story Tiefland
left Minneapolis, August s. 1906. tell
ing relatives he was going to Laporte
70 visit MIS- Guinness. He took sey.