Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1908-05-21
Dentist Declares Fragment
Found Is From Missing Skull
of Mrs. Guinness.
HtLGtLfIN'S BODY INFERRED
Released for Burial After Identified.
ton Is Established Still Dig
ging on Farm.

Laporte, Ind May 15.-Denials by
Laporte officials that the Rev. r. A.
Schell had revealed to them the sub
stance of his conversations with Lam
phere and the discovery of evidence
that Mrs. Bella Guinness was aided by
an accomplice in Turing her victims
to the farm were the chief develop
ments in the case yesterday
A threatening letter came to Prose
cutor Smith yesterday. 1t is brief
typewriter communication, post
marked Brooklyn and reading: "If you
don't stop search for Mrs. Gunness
you'll he a dead man in two weeks.
This applies to the sheriff. the chief Of
police and other officials"
Points to Accomplish.
The evidence regarding the aids of
Mrs. Guinness came in a letter from
a resident Of Cleveland, addressed to
the local chief of police. 1t told Of the
writer's having met stranger IN that
city last August who gave him pho
tograph of "a rich widow who resided
in Laporte,' and tried to persuade
IL.
The photograph is fairly good pho
tograph Of Mrs Guinness and was evi
IDENTIFY taken some time ago.
Louis Schultz, the miner who is
sluicing the ashes and cinders from
the cellar OF the Guinness house, turn
ed over to Sheriff Shutter a number
of pieces of fused metal which he had
found in the tailings of the s1uice box
Several of these relics are elobules
and believed to be bits CT gold
Schultz also found some small pieces
of bone One of these, the sheriff
says. is thought to be a portion of a
vertebrae.
Woman Feared LampAere.
A new witness regarding Mrs. Gun
ness fear Of Lamphere was found
yesterday. Bertha Schultz, clerk in
local dry goods store, said that the
woman was in the store several days
before the fire and told her that she
was afraid Lamphere would set fire
to the farmhouse.
Laporte, Ind, May 1.-THE ldenti-
fication of the piece of jawbone taken
from the ruins of the Guinness farm
house as a portion of Mrs. Guinness
skull bears out most conclusively the
contentious of the state regarding the
identity of the bodies found in the
cellar on April %. 1t is the clinching
bit of evidence which should set at
rest the rumors that Mrs. Guinness
had escaped
This statement was made by Mrs.
Ralph N. Smith, prosecuting attorney,
last night. 1t followed report from
DR.. C. P. Norton. dentist, who found
, that the piece of charred bone pre-
sented evident characteristics which
he had observed while working on
Mrs. Guinness teeth.
Search Continues.
The search of the premises yester-
day revealed almost nothing of impor
lance. The screening Of the ashes
produced several additional bits of
bone but none of them is of sufficient
, size or we'll enough preserved to fur
nish convincing proof of their origin.
The first of the Guinness victims to
be inferred with Christian rites was
buried last night in Patton's cemetery,
on the outskirts Of Laporte. The
corpse was that Of Andrew X. Hedge
lein Of Mansfield, S. d. The body was
released for burial last evening, after
Coroner Mack had received the re-
ports of the Bertillion experts who
have examined it and compared their
findings with figures taken from the
records of the Minnesota penitentiary
at Saltwater.