The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1908-05-14
TENTH VICTIDl IS
ADDED TO roll
ONE MORE BODY DUG UP IN MRS.
GUINNESS BARNARD
NEAR LAPoRTE.
Probably Was a Woman-Wltness
Found Whose story Tends to Prove
Lamphere Knew Of Crimes and
Tried Blackmall.

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Coroner Mack at first announced
that the grave opened in the morning
contained one complete cadaver and
portions of a second, but in the eve
ming said that what he had at first
believed to be additional thigh and
arm bones are in reality pieces of the
first set
Developments Of the Day.
Other important developments Of
the day included the following:
Peter Colson, a new witness in the
case, told II. N. Smith, the prosecuting
attorney, that Ray Lamphere had
acknowledged attempts to blackmail
Mrs. Guinness. This is considered as
definitely establishing a motive for a
disagreement between Lamphere and
the woman which resulted later in the
burning of the farmhouse.
Mrs Leo Greening said that her
son Emil who formerly worked on the
notorious farm, saw two strangers at
the place the night that Jennie Olsen
disappeared In November, 1906. Emil
Greening is now in Oklahoma City,
and the sheriff's office will try to COM
municate with him in the hope of es-
tablishing the fact that Mrs. Guinness
had accomplices in the murders at
her place
Finding Of One More Victim.
The resumption of excavation at the
farm again drew an immense crowd
of spectators. The rush OF visitors
has become so great that some of the
local liverymen have established a
regular bus line from the downtown
district to the farm.
The premature announcement by
Coroner Mack that two bodies had
been discovered only served to In.
crease the rush of curiosity-seekers.
The scraps of humanity were found in
the barnyard which had already given
up nine cadavers. About four feet be-
low the surface, the excavators en-
countered bits of bone and burlap and
a few strokes more of the spades and
hoes revealed the skull, a decomposed
torso and leg and arm bones.
Less skllfully Dismembered.
The body was by far the least pre-
served of any of the ten grewsome
relies. In addition to the usual traces
of lime, the evidences we're that a
less skilful hand had accomplished the
! ACKNOWLEDGMENT of this corpse. The
legs had been, as usual, severed above
the knee joint but the bones we're
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shattered. The skull had been sep
arated and was lying near the feet. II
was thought that the body was that of
woman, as a pair of woman's oxford
tie shoes and the metal frame of a
woman's purse were found in the
grave.
May Have Been Shipped There.
Budsberg's Corpse Recognized.
Laporte, Ind, May 8.-The identifi.
cation OF another OF the bodies dug
up in the Guinness farm near here as
that OF Ole B. Budsberg of lola, Wis,
and evidence that the, like Andrew
Helgelein of Mansfield, 8. d., had
been brought into Mrs. Bella Guinness
net through matrimonial" advertise
ments was one of the clarifying fea-
lures Of Thursdays developments In
the case.
The Identification of the bundle OF
bones and flesh as the remains OF
Budsberg was made by the mans
sons, Mat Budsberg, aged 20 years,
and Oscar H., two years his junior.
The young men arrived here Thurs.
day afternoon.
Lamphere Case Postponed.
Postponement of grand jury action
In the case against Lamphere was de-
cided upon Thursday night at a con-
ference OF officials of Laporte county.
The action was taken on the advice
OF G. j. Smith of the Pinkerton agency,
who was called here by the local
authorities to aid them In solving the
mystery.
A new and important witness has
been found in the person OF Louis
Roule, a saloonkeeper. He was taken
to the conference OF oficials and
there told of conversations with Lamp
here in which the latter asserted that
he had all kinds OF discriminating In
formation which might be used
against Mrs. Guinness.
Young Woman Arrested as Witness.
A witness whose evidence Is likely
to be of importance is a young woman
who was arrested at the instigation of
Prosecutor Smith. She gave the
name of Bessie Wallace. Just what
information she has tha. is vital to the
case was not revealed by Mr.. Smith,
but he said that her presence was OF
such Importance to him that he had
her taken into custody that she might
not leave here. Roy Mari, deputy
sheriff, found her in Michigan City
and brought her back TO the county
jail here, She was released on bail,
bonds of $500 being signed by Mrs.
Jessie Morse. Michigan City.
Miss Wallace is said to have re-
ceived attentions from Lamphere and
to have been upon quite intimate
terms with him. II IL reported that he
told her that he knew enough about
Mrs. Guinness TO send that woman to
the gallows and that he would some