Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-05-07
-Four More Dismembefed
Bodies Dog Up on the
Guinness Farm
Testimony Of Dfaymen Leads
to the Idea Murders Not
Committed There
Many Trunks and Boxes Re-
ceived by Express by
the Woman

Laporte, Ind, May 6.-A possible
solution of the Guinness farm mystery
which was deepened today when four
additional bodies were found in the
barnyard, developed late this after.
noon. Evidence that the nine dis
membered corpses unearthed yester-
day and today had been shipped to
this city, probably from Chicago,
came to light, the testimony of dray-
men who had carted trunks and boxes
to the Guinness home bearing this out.
In addition, the local authorities re.
ceived information that two trunks
consigned to Mrs. Belle Guinness, La
porte, Ind, were being held in the e3-
press Office in the larger city, and the
assistance of the Chicago police in.
unraveling the puzzle was sought at
once.
Ray Lamphere, who is held here on
charge of first degree murder, grow
ing out of the fire which destroyed the
Guinness home and caused the deaths
OF Mrs. Guinness and her three chill
dren, offered no new evidence, despite
repeated questionings. Ralph N.
| trict, asserted, however, that confes
sion is not necessary so far as Lam
phere is concerned. eve have posi-
tivee violence in the shape of letters
connecting Lamphere with the recent
murders at the Guinness farm" he
said.
An attempt to identify one of the
corpse as that of Ole B. Budsberg of
lola, Wis, was also started by the
sheriffs' Office here. In response to
telephone message sent there this
morning, word, came tonight that a
member of Budsberg's family had left
there for this city.
The increasingly divergent charac-
| ter. of the gruesome mysteries has
| aroused the entire community. Stirred
| by waves of horror which have swept
over the town as each additional bun.
die of decaying bones and flesh has
been discovered, the county commits
sioners of Laporte county resolved to-
day to use every resource at their
command toward finding an answer
to the puzzles which confront the
peace officers. The board canvassed
the situation and decided to offer a
reward of $1,000 for the solution of
thee nigma. This, it is expected, will
be promulgated tomorrow.
The Guinness farm was mecca for
curious sightseers today When Sher-
| if Shutter and his assistants reached
the place this morning he resumed
the sakof delving for bodies.
| Of the nine cadavers seven thereof
are males. Ali are remains of adults.
the two smaller bodies found yester-
| day, and which were at first thought
| to have been those of children, prov
| ing otherwise, when the bones had
been removed by the coroner and his
assistants today.
The best clue which has yet been
| found came to light Immediately fol-
lowing the discovery of the last three
| bodies today. John A. Walker, a liv-
| eryman, and Leo Wade, his employee,
told of having carted heavy trunks to
! the Guinness farm in the summer
and autumn of 1906. Clyde Sturgis,
employed by Foster & De Garmo an
other livery concern, remembered that
he took two similar trunks to the
place about year ago. In addition,
several heavy boxes, marked 'pota,
toes" and wall paper" were carted
to the house at different times.
Wade asserted that his experience
in taking the trunks to Mrs. Guinness
was not one which he would care to
repeat. She wouldn't let us into the
house with one of the trunks" he said.
1--WE put it on the porch before the
front door. Others, at her orders.
We're carried out after dark. There
was no light in the house and she did
not strike one when we enteredd with
the trunk. She led us through two
dark rooms and opened another door,
i But told Walker had had denough,
and we dropped the trunk in the third
room and left"
Sturgis said the trunks which me
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