New-York tribune., 1908-05-07
MURDERS TOTAL NINE
-FOUR MORE BODIES FOUND
Tkeory AdUanced That Mrs. Guin-
ness Is Still 4Hre.

tending show that the nine disInembered
bodies unearthed yesterday and to-day had been
shipped to Laporte, probably from Chicago, came
to light Testimony of draymen who had carted
trunks and boxes to the Guinness home lent
color TO this supposition. The Laporte police also
received information that two trunks,
signed 20 MRS. Belle Guinness Laporte. Ind"
gre held in an express Office in Chicago The
sis-ance Of the Chicago police in unravelling the
przzie sought at
There was also developed to-day theory that
7he woman did not die in the fire which de-
sfroyei her home the night Of April IS and
that she is still alive and in hiding. probably in
Chicago. This theory is strengthened by the
fact that the head OF the body OF the woman
found il the ruins of the Guinness home after
The fire is still missing, although every effort
has been made by the authorities TO find il.
Unless the head is found officers will subject
the body TO careful examination TO
learn whether not the herself
killed the fire substituted the body of an
ether woman for herself and then fire to the
house. In case this is proved it is thought like
iy that Mrs Guinness was also guilty OF the
murder of her three children
TWO BODIES IDENTIFIED.
Two of the nine mutiated bodies were iden-
tilted this afternoon with reasonable certainty
Antoine Olson, of Chicago. viewed the body
supposed TO be that Of Jennie Olson, sixteen
years old, foster daughter Of Mrs Guinness and
pronounced it 10 be that of his daughter.
sister of the girl. Mrs. Leo Olander, Of Chicago
confirmed the fathers Identification
Ask Helgelein, whose inquiries regarding his
missing brother Andrew led to the first dis
roveries on the death farm, became sure to-day
that the largest and best preserved of the
bodies is that OF his brother Against this
Identification however is the result of the au-
Never He found conditions which. to his mind,
proved that the perished long after Andrew
FJslxeleia disappeared, last January DR. Meyer
said that the body showed evidences of having
been in the ground less than two weeks ASK
Vslgelein however, refused TO be convinced ny
these findings. and his certainty led the coroner
10 accept his identification for the present
Roy Iamphere. who is held on charge OF
first degree murder as result Of the fire that
DESTROYED the Guinness home and caused the
deaths Of Mrs. Bella Guinness and her three
cbfl5-e, gave no new evidence to-day. despite
-.pested ouestionings. Ralph W Smith. prose-
cutting attorney. asserted tonight that a con-
>essjon lis not necessary, SO far as Lampnere IS
concerned
I'VE have evidence in the shape Of letters
connecting Ianaphere with alleged murders at
rbe Guinness farm he said The exact nature
Of these letters was carefully guarded by Mr-
Smith.
FIRST OF TO-DAY'S BODIES FOUND
The first Of tbe bodies found to-day were un-
covered ry the gang of excavating unoer
the direction OF Sheriff Shutter They came
,,nnn another disturbed spot within six feet OF
the place where four bodies were dug up yes
-erday and upon excavafing three feet down
str1ck = wooden box, which fell TO pieces as
their spades hit it. Upon taking away the dirt
the men found the skeleton of q man lying face
downward The body lad been dumped in care
lessly On top Of it debris, including IT.
tie tin stove evidently q baby's playthins-
The second body was found early in the after
noon II vas buried four feet deep, and was
evidently that OF an adult but 1t is not yet
known whether Of q man woman. 1t had
been disrnernbered like the others
Late in the afternoon two additional bodies
we're found, making four to-day and total OF
nine since yesterday OF the last two bodies
one was evidently that Of q woman, and II was
impossible TO distinguish whether the other was
that Of z man woman Both were found
in hole close to where the last body was found
u connection with the belief that the persons
vho.e bodies have been found were killed In
Chicago or in some other place and sent to her
FOR burial Il developed this afternoon that John
A Welker uveryraan Of this place. last sum-
,ner and during the summer of 1905 delivered
eight trunks at the home Of Mrs Guinness,
Another trunk vas taken there by Michael
Tracey. expressman.
Clyde Sturgis. employed by Foster and De
rsrrno. another livery concern, remembered that
he took two similar trunks I'd the place about a
year ago. in addition. several heavy boxes,
marked variously Potatoes" and wall Paper
were carted to the house at different times.
Leo Wade, assistant TO Welker. asserted that
his experience in taking the trunks to Mrs
Guinness unpleasant
MRS. GUINNESS GUARDED TRUNKS.
She wouldn't let Weiker and me into the
house with some Of the trunks, he said. We
put IL the front porch Another. at her or
de-s, carried. the house after dark There
~as no light tn the house, and she did not strike
or. rhe-a We entered with the trunk. She LED
uE through two dark rooms into third and
cpered another door. But told Welker had
had enough and dropped the trunk in the
third room ald left"
Sturgis said that the trunks which he took 10
The farmhouse were old. heavy and were strong
ly corded
Mrs Guinness told r1e 70 carry them into a
ceilarxay Of the house I started TO uncord
hem for her. but she told me 10 leave them
alone and mind my own bus.ness, go got out
II these trunks contained dismembered
corpses, disposal OF the bodies at the farm
would have been comparatively simple Joseph
Naxson man Of ali work at the Guinness place
since last February: Roy Lamphere. the pris-
oner in the case. and Fred Brickmsn, a neigh
Dor. have toid OF digging trenches in the barn
.ard at Mrs. Guinness's directions.
Mrs Guinness was woman Of great physical
strength. and those who know her assert that
TO drag two hundred pounds across a yard
would have been comparatively easy for her.
drayman wko delivered furniture to the house
when Mrs Guinness arst moved there in 1900.