Omaha daily bee., 1908-05-15
VICTIMS At La PORTE
Ten Watches Discovered in Ruins,
More Than There Are Bodies.
DIGGING WILL BE RESUMED SOON
Tests of Gold Discovered in Ashes
VIII BE Made TO Ascertain
Its Purity ana Its
Origin.

| LA PORTE. Ind. May lathe Guinness
death farm today gave up more corrobora-
tive evidence as to the extent OF the trage-
dies that have made II famous.
| Two more watches were found in the
debris Of the ruined house and these, taken
nj connection with nine previously discov-
cred, show that at least more persons than
had been discovered met death on the place.
The bodies OF nine male victims have been
unearthed yet the record Of watches be-
longing to men is ten.
| Sheriff Smutzer announ led after the find
ing of today that he will resume digging
operations, with the hope OF ,uncovering
additional skeletons. The excavation when
It takes place probably will be done under
the flooring in the basement Of the barn.
This building was moved short time ago
and some Of the men who performed the
work have told the authorities that Mrs.
Guinness watched every move they made
and kept guard about the place during the
intervals Of work.
Sheriff Shutter when the watches were
found today sought an interview with
Prosecutor Smith
The state Announced this morning that
evidence that Lamphere had endeavored
to blackman Mrs. Guinness has been Sc
cured from former resident Of this city,
who is now at Chesterton, Ind They assert
that a man named Charles Nelson will
testify that he saw Mrs. Guinness give
1900 to Lamphere. Prosecutor Smith argues
that this sum is far in excess of any
amount which might have been due to
Lamphere for the class of service which
he performed on the farm.
Bits of Gold in Ashes.
The possible determination that the
globules of metal found by the
mining operations on the Guinness
farm yesterday were bits of gold used
by a dentist for filling in or crowns
on the womans teeth is likely to be a de-
velopment of Importance in the case today.
The specimens were turned over to a local
jeweler last night and 1t is expected that
he will report on them soon. The tests
which are necessary, one by applying fluids
TO the metal, and the other involving calcu-
latlons of the weight, are comparatively
simple to experts and the general confirma-
tion of the relics will also be taken into
consideration. The fact that these products
of the sluce box failing are globular is
taken as prima facie evidence that the
metal is gold.
DR.. 1. r. Norton, who pronounced the
pseudo specimen found Tuesday to be a
blI Oh Bllueu picture AIdHlln61 salu ySbNSi-
day that gold of the fineness used by dent
lists always bubbles into globules under a
fusing heat and the specimens in question
are supposed to have been in the hottest
part of the ruined Guinness home for
twelve or more hours.
The mystery has reached a stage where
the determination of such facts is of major
| Importance. The discovery Of additional
bodies is a remote possibility and the identi-
fcation OF any of the seven cadavers re-
naming unmarked is even more distinctly
to be expected.
Yesterdays developments did little to
elucidate the unsolved problems arising
from the corpse-sown farm, The letter
from Cleveland concerning the attempts of
an ;accomplice of Mrs. Guinness TO draw
another victim into her net served to
strengthen the idea that the woman was the
center of system for numbering and fleece
ing those persons who followed the trails
of bait which led to the barnyard cemetery
on the place.
PittsburE Man Missing.
PITTSBURG, Pa. May 14.-Mrs. John H.
McJunkin of Corapolis, a suburb of this
city, has begun a correspondence with the
sheriff at La Porte, Ind, in the hope of
clearing up the mystery of her husband S
disappearance nearly two years ago.
According to Mrs. McJunkin she believes
her husband is one Of the victims OF the
Guinness farm mystery. She says he left
this vicinity in December, 1906. following a
correspondence with a La Porte woman.
Mr.. McJunkin carried 500 when he disap-