The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1908-11-24
new TURN IN
MURDER TRIAL
WITNESSES TESTIFY AS 7
STRANGE CIRCUMSTANCES.

LAPORTE. Ind. Nov. 21.-The SEN
sation of the afternoon session of the
Lamphere trial was the stories told
by Daniel M. Hutzen and his daugh-
tiers, by Fred Hickman, and by John
A. Anderson, Who saw a strange wo-
day before the fire. Hutzen and his
daughters declared on the witness
stand that they saw Mrs. Guinness on
July 8, but they were unable to dis
tinguish her features through a black
veil. Hutzen, a neighbor Of Mrs. Gun
ness, and one of the men hired by
Sheriff Shutter to dig the ruins for
bodies at the time of the fire, declared
he knew Mrs. Guinness 81 well that he
could not be mistaken.
He said:
II saw her on the road ear the hog
pen on July 8. I was returning from
town with a hay rack and saw two
people at the Guinness place. She had
on a light skirt, black waist, wide
brimmed hat, a white veil on the hat
and a black veil that came down to
her chin. There was a man with her.
He weighed about $50 pounds and had
a gray mustache and gray hair. When
1 got within two wagon lengths they
got into their buggy and drove on and
l tried to follow them. They got
ahead of me and I did not like to fol
low them. There was too good a
chance of getting a chunk of lead.
The buggy had a low running gear
and a black top. The horse was a
gray one with dapples on his hips as
large as a half dollar.' On cross
examination the witness said he did
not see the woman's features OF face.
but could tell from her build and walk
that it was Mrs. Guinness.
Evelyn, the 11-year old daughter of
Hutzen, who followed her father on
the stand testified that she saw Mrs.
Guinness in "hay time" nea the woods.
She was in a buggy with asman. They
passed her in the road. The girl said
that Mrs. Guinness had on two wells
a black one and a white one, the black
one being over her face. The girl
said: i55&@
when | saw her, she turned her
face away from me-"
Eldora Hutzen, 8 years old, sister of
the preceding witness, said:
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the road. l saw Mrs. Guinness go by
with a man. She had on a double veil
and a white brimmed hat. I did not
know the man."
John Anderson, another neighbor OF
Mrs. Guinness, saw the strange wo.
man with Mrs. Guinness Saturday be.
fore the fire. This is the woman
the defense contends must have been
murdered by Mrs. Guinness and whose
body they aver was the adult body
found in the fire ruins.
Fred Ryckman testified that he had
worked for Mrs. Guinness three diff.
ferent times. One afternoon at her
direction he dug a hole five feet deep
and five feet long. Later an automo-
bile with two men arrived. Mrs. Gun.
ness was in town but upon her in
structions the witness told them the
key was under the mat. They went
into the house, he said, and there was
some drinking. Before he went home
one of the men gave him a glass Of
wine and on the way home he became
unconscious and did not know any
thing until the next afternoon. One
OF the men gave Mrs. Guinness money
to pay him, he said.
DIR. Walter F. Hams will go on the
stand Monday to tell of the finding of
poison in the stomachs of Andrew
Helgelein and the supposed Mrs. Gun
ness and two of her children.