The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1908-05-07
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the story.
Bessie Wallace. the young woman
arrested. was secluded from interview
ers today She Is held as the most
important witness I'm the case.
I.smphere has revealed that his
former employer had urged him TO
insure his life in her favor. asserting
that Mrs. Guinness offered 10 pay the
premiums on such a policy provided
that he agreed To marry her. He also
said that he believed that his refusal
TO fall in with her plans had caused
the enmity which the latter manifest
ed toward him. resulting In his arrest
on three occasions and his trial before
lunacy commission on fourth.
The Chamber of Horrors.
In his cell Lamphere was asked con
corning a secret room In the Gun.
was ever admitted except Mrs. Gun
ness herself She had the key and
kept the door locked constantly In
the night hours no one in the house.
hold was ever near that room. That
the authorities believe was the cham
Der OF horrors, whose walls must have
been spattered with the blood OF the
ill-fated victims OF the woman's greed
for gold and passion for blood.
II never was I'm that room" Lam
phere said. II knew that there was
room In the house that was al
ways kept locked, and there was also
IA room In the basement, q sort OF Ice
box. that no one ever knew much
Oh II xx,a To- nj m a IN a
of accommodating several persons"
This place, near door which led
cut to the barnyard. is believed to
hate been the temporary morgue for
the victims. So many bodies have now
been found that the authorities be
lieve the woman saved her victims and
disarticulated the bodies in groups
and buried them that way. sewed up
in gunny sacks, adding chloride of lime
to The earth 10 aid disintegration.
Wanted other HeIeeiein.
Additional light on the methods by
which Mrs. Guinness caused the deaths
on her farm. one mile north of here,
OF the persons who are supposed 10
have fallen victims to her lust for
money. was shed this morning by Asa
X. Helgelein, brother OF Andrew Hell
gelein. OF Mansfield s. D., whose dis
membered corpse Is among the nine
thus far found. Helgelein told the
coroner that not only had his brother
been in communication with the wo-
man. but also that she had written
to him after Andrews disappearance
in an attempt to induce him to visit
this city,
Sell your brothers stock and some
here and we will hunt your brother
together" was the gist OF the epistles
written in Norwegian. and as yet only
partially translated. The letters are
1ealously guarded by Helgelein. under
orders OF Ralph n. Smith. prescott.
ing attorney. but enough was revealed
to show that the woman had not hest
tated to attempt to gain q hold over
the nearest relative OF her latest vie
tim.
An amazing development In the
Guinness wholesale murder mys-
terry came yesterday when In
formation placed In the hands
OF the officers here establish
Guinness, whose body was supposed
to have been found I'm the basement
OF the burned home with her three
children. with a Norwegian matrimo-
ni.l agency near lola. wis. Another
important feature is the arrest OF Bes.
sic Wallace. girl who Is believed to
know many OF Ray Lampheres Sc
crets and who Is thought to hold the
key to the solution OF the tragedies.
There is evidence rapidly accumu.
lating that Mrs. Guinness was the act.
ual head OF the organization. which
was in reality murder bureau. the
persons answering its advertisements
being sent TO the Guinness farm to
meet the "affinities" they sought, and
thus lured to death at the hands OF
Belle Guinness, the ogress OF the
"house OF a hundred locks" and her
alleged partner In crime. Ray Lam.
phere.
Positive evidence that several OF
the men and women whose bodies
are now In the morgue at La Porte
were sent 10 the Guinness farm by the
Norwegian agency has been given
Sheriff Smulzer.
A spirited contest over the will OF
Mrs. Guinness has been threatened by
Chicago relatives. In consequence OF
the revelation OF the horrors at her
Indiana home. Mrs. Guinness left
property valued at $4,000 TO the Nor.
wegian Children's association. OF Chi.
cage. Mrs. Edward Howard. a niece
OF the supposed dead woman. her
mother. Mrs. Nellie Larsen and two
relatives in Norway probably will con.
test.
A new phase OF the manifold trag-
edy is that Anton Olson, father OF
Jennie Olson Guinness, the murdered
adopted daughter OF Mrs. Guinness
had engaged Chicago lawyer to re-
gain possession OF his child Mrs.
Guinness was Max Sorenson's wife
when she adopted the Olson girl. II
Is reported that when last seen alive
by members OF her fathers family.
the girl had queer looking burns all
over her face and hands. She did not
explain their presence.
LA PORTE. Ind. May with the
unearthing OF the ninth body I'm the
yard OF Mrs. Belle Guinness home
making a total OF i2 definite murders
charged to her, the authorities have
become more thoroughly possessed OF
the idea that the woman may have act
ed as murder fence" disposing on
the victims OF others whose bodies
were shipped to her from Chicago
that she might bury them with the
corpses Of her own individual murder
mill, The evidence adduced from dray
men who brought heavy trunks and