New-York tribune., 1908-05-08
RAIN STOPS SEARCH
L4PORTE DIGGING H4LTS.
Secret Room IN Mrs. Guinness S
Home Thought Charncl House.

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another of the bodies dug up on the Guinness
farm near here as that OF ole p. Budsbers, Of
lola Wis and evidence that he. like Andrew
I9elSelejn of Mansfield. :. n. had been brought
snto Mrs G,linness's net through matrimonial
advertisements. was ono Of the clarifying teat-
r--es Of to-day's developments in the complicated
case The identification Of the bundle of bones
and flesh as the remains Of Budsberg was MADE
by the mans sons Mat and Oscar H Budsoeig'
ho arrived here this afternoon
4 soaking rain. which fell continuously for
4w,enty--four hours. prevented further excava-
lion Of The premises to-day. and Sheriff Smutzsr
devoted the day 10 unearthing possible evidence
that may he used in the trial of Ray Lamphere
on the charge OF having caused the death OF Mrs
Guinness and her three children
Postponerent of grand jury action on the case
AGAINST I.amphere was decided on tonight at
conference Of officials Of La Porte County. The
action was taken the advice of G j Smith,
a Chicago detective. who was called here by the
local authorities to aid them in solving the
mystery of the nine bodies dug up on the Guin-
ness farm this week. While Ralph n Smith
prosecutor of the county had announced in the
afternoon that he was ready TO proceed before
the grand jury which had been scheduled TO
meet next Monday, evidence unearthed to-
day led TO tie change in plans.
Prosecutor Smith said that the postponement
IF grand fury action WAS not due to discovered
weaknesses in the case Of the state.
we will produce witnesses 10 prove that
1-srnphere was seen around the Guinness house
before the fire broke and that he was seen
running awav later We shall also prove that
IRE Was set TO the place in revenge for actions
1aken against him by the woman. after they had
fallen out and that this disagreement was due
"a : ousrreI over the murder of Hegelein. in
which crime Lamphere vas implicated. accord
ing 70 our evidence
During the Sherif-s absence this afternoon
rso men, thought 10 he from Michigan city,
caused considerable apprehension by breaking
.nto the carriage house on the Guinness farm
where the nine cadavers have been kept since
their exhunation The men raised window
on the south side of the building. and one of
Them had already made his way into the morgue
when discovered by a vatctman. The latter.
u n Hudson. ordered the men away, and sent
q messenger to summon a deputy sherlf from
I.aporte The intruders disappeared before the
officers. arrival and efforts discover the
identity of the men we're frUitless-
In his cell to- day LamPhere was asked con-
,,erninx q secret room in the Guinness country
mansion 10 which no one was ever admitted
except Mrs Guinness herself She had the key
and kent the door locked constantly. In the
night hours 10 one in the household ever
near that room That the authorities believe,
was the chamber Of horrors whose walls must
have been spattered with the blood Of the, i'll
Sated victims Of the womans cred fer gold and
passion for blood
Il never was in that ROOM" Lamphere said,
81 knew that there was room in the house that
was always kept locked. and there was also a
room in the basement a sort Of icebox, that
10 one ever knew much about 1t was a big
place. capable of accommodating several per-
sons"
This place near door which led out to the
harvard. is believed to have been the temporary
,norgre for the victims. SO many bodies have
now been found that the authorities believe the
woman saved her victims and disarticulated the
bodies in groups and buried them that way,
sewed up in gunnysacks.- adding chloride OF
lime TO the earth TO aid disintegration.
Coroner Mack put in a busy day to-day taking
long depositions from the father. sister and
, brother Of 3ennie Olsen and also from Ask Hell
j selein, Of rrarshheld s L. These documents
detail at considerable length the known relations
between Mrs Guinness and these two Of her
victims. Helgelein's statement proved Of special
interest in that IL confirmed many of the previ-
Gus reports regarding the methods by which Mrs
Guinness drew the South Dakota farmer into
her web.
The Olsen testimony detailed the early life Of
Mrs Cuinness's foster-daughter and also re
~ealed that the woman had refused at one time
% return the girl TO her father.
The statement made by Miss olsens sister
Mrs May Olander. contained some fresh evi-
rience regarding the actions Of Mrs Guinness
following the death Of her second husband Mrs
.olander said that she had visited the Guinness
farm some Two weeks after the mans death and
had been told that he was killed in a hardware
store Of LaporIe, when sausage grinder feli
srom shelf and struck him on the head The
records Of the county show that AIRS Guinness
aesfified at the inquest that the sausage grinder