Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-05-09
LAMPHERE's TRUNK SEIZED.

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 She Has Money Enoush"-Hunt For
 Woman's Farmland.
 Laporte, Ind, May 9.-One more body
 was added to the death roll of the Bella Guinness farm, making a total of ten
 corpses and skeletons exhumed in the
 yard besides the four bodies found in
 the ruins of the farmhouse that burned [ on April 2S. Coroner Mack at first an
 nounced that the first grave opened
 contained one complete cadaver and
 several bones of a second skeleton, but
 later he said that what he had at first
 believed to be additional thigh and arm
 bones in reality belong to the first body recovered
 The announcement by Coroner Mack that two bodies had been discovered only served to increase the rush of cu- riosity seekers. The scraps of humanl- ty were found in the barnyard, which had already given up nine cadavers. About four feet below the surface the excavators encountered bits of bone and burlaps, and few strokes more of the spades and hoes revealed. skull, a decomposed torso and leg and arm boneS
 Body Badly Dismembered.
 The body was by far the least pre- served of any of the ten grewsome relics. In addition to the usual traces of lime, the body showed that q less skillful hand had dismembered it. The legs had been, as usual, severed above the knee joint, but the bones were splintered. The shoulder blade was shattered in cleaving the head from the body. The skull was lying near the pelvis. Nothing but jumbled heap of decayed flesh and crumbling bones was left to indicate the identity of the person. It was thought, however, that the body was that of a woman. as a pair of women's Oxford shoes and the l metal frame of woman's purse were found in the grave
 Sheriff Smutzer transferred operations to likely spot near the burned build ing, some distance removed from the | burial ground thus far explored, but no results were obtained Digging is still going on.
 Sheriff Smutzer is pressing to the ut. most the search for the murderess.
 'The real extent of her criminal ca. reer may never become known" he said
 And I do not believe she is dead. She was too expert and clever crim. inal to be caught and killed by any one in the very house where she had slain so many.
 But the search will not slacken. have men at work searching for more bodies here, and I will turn up every foot of ground near the house till we find them all. And we will find Mrs Guinness. The missing head from the female body found in the ruins with the Guinness children is sure proof to me that the mother murderess did not perish there. Her gold teeth were not in that woman's mouth"
 T am confident" said Coroner Mack. that score more victims will be dug up. am receiving letters and tele. grams from various parts of the cour. ;ry-from the Atlantic to the Pacific giving descriptions of missing men and begging me to advise them if bod. 1 ies answering the furnished descrip tions have been found.
 There Is no telling the extent ol the womaa's operations. the number of men she butchered in her slaughter house. believe that when the full has been completed nc story in the annals of crime in the United States will be equal to the tragedies which will have been un. folded"
 While the investigations were going or at the farm Prosecutor Smith. aided by Deputy Sheriff Roy Marr, was collect Ing additional evidence concerning Ray Lamphere's alleged participation in the deaths of Andrew Helgelein. Mrs. Gun ness and her three children. Lampher is accused of first degree murder be cause of thi deaths of Mrs. Gunnes, md her three children.
 Lamphere sent 2 request to his attor 1ey, H. W. Worden, asking the latter 10 send to the farm of John Wheat brook for a trunk which Lamphere Jeff here when he was arrested after the burning of the Gunness house.
 But before this word had reached tho attorney the trunk had been seized by he police. It contained a number 0. etters written by Mrs. Guinness tt .a''''''~ '~''"- had takeI