The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-05-07
More Bodies Found.

his men were turning up the earth and
refuse. Finally the sheriff appealed TO the
police to keep the crowd back.
More Bodies Found.
Relieved of the hindrance. the eXcava-
tors redoubled their efforts. and within
half an hour were rewarded. First
few scattered bones were turned up, then
9, skull was uncovered. Digging around
this another corpse was exposed. and be-
yond this second yet another.
One of the bodies in this second char
mel pit is believed to be that of a woman.
The other two and that found earlier are
probably thsse of men. OF the nine cada-
yers, seven, therefore, are those of males
All are remains of adults. the two smaller
bodies found yesterday and which were
at first thought to have been those OF
children proving otherwise when the bones
had been inspected by the coroner and
his assistants today.
Cadavers Came in Trunks.
The best cIew which has yet been found
came to light Immediately following the
discovery of the last three bodies today.
John A Weiker q liVeryman, and Leo
Wade, his emplOye, told of having carried
heavy trunks to the Guinness farm in
the summer and autumn of 1906. Clyde
Sturgis. employed by Foster & De Garmo,
another livery concern remembered that
he took two similar trunks to the place
about a year ago In addition several
heavy boxes marked various potatoes
and wallpaper were carted to the mouse
at different times.
Wade asserted that his experience in
transporting the trunks to Mrs. Guinness
was not one which he would care to re-
peat
Drayman Was Nervous.
"She would not let us into the house
with one of the trunks he said. I'VE
nut it on the porch before the front
door. The other. at her orders, was car
ried out after dark. There was no light
i'm the house and she did not strike one
when we entered with the trunks. She
led us through two dark rooms into a
third and opened another door. But told
Welker had had enough and we dropped
the trunk in the third room and left.
Sturgis said that the trunks which he
took to the farm were old, heavy and
strongly corded.
Mrs Guinness told me to carry them
into the cellarway on the east side OF
the house. / started to uncord them for
her. but she told me TO leave them
alone and mind my own business, so l
got out"
If these trunks contained dismembered
corpses, disposal of the bodies at the
farm would have been comparatively SIM
pie. Joseph MaXOn, man of all work at
the place since February last; Ray Lam
phere. the prisoner IN the case, and Fred
Brickman neighbor, have told of dig
ging trenches in the barnyard at Mrs.
Guinness directions.
w CTHdH " SECdi ShiCHSht.
She was a woman of great physical
strength and those who knew her as
sert that to drag 80 pounds across a
dooryard would have been comparatively
easy for her. One drayman who dellv-
cred furniture to the house when Mrs.
Guinness first moved there in 1900 recalled
| today that she aided him in carrying sew
eral heavy pieces up stairway.
"She could lug weight as well as most
men ] have worked with, he declared
L nh Tool Gfr nj
the dead woman the authorities are not
at all convinced that Mrs. Guinness was
unaided in her horrifying work
THE large body found yesterday is that
of a man weighing well over 200 pounds, "
| said DR. Meyer in explaining the result OF
! his autopsy on the corpse. Il doubt II
any one woman or any one man could
| have handled it.
Case of Lamphere.
Raw Lamphere is the person toward
whom the hand of official suspicion is
| pointing in this connection. His acknoWl-
| edgement of intimate relations with the
woman; the admission that he had been
/ in the vicinity of the Guinness house on
I the morning of the fire. and. above all.
| the letters which Prosecutor Smith is SO
| of evidence thus far revealed against
| him. Then there is the testimony of sew
| eral townspeople that they saw him wear
| ing Andrew Helgelen's fur-lined overcoat
|
from view No other man is known "a
! have been so deeply in the good graces
1 of the woman as Lamphere.
Motive for the Murders.
| A motive for the wholesale murders has
| not been fully established. The ciTcum-
/ stances surrounding the disappearance
| of Helgelein. and Ole B. Rudsberg of lola
! Wis, are. however. so similar as to give
| A clew as to the object of the person OF
! persons who committed the crimes. Hedge
| lein had secured 5000 through the First
/ National bank here shortly before he was
/ lost track Of Rudsberg negotiated the
| sale of mortgage through the La Porte
| Savings bank. which yielded him 81 goo
| He drew this money April 6. 1907. Nc
| record of his further appearance in the
| flesh has been found.
! Except those of Jennie Olsen and Hedge
| lein only one of the cOrpses bears traces
| of a likeness to an individual. That was
one OF the first found. and it has or
| the skull patches of black hair and OF
the lip the scraggly remains of a BLACK
| mustache.