The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1908-05-23
CASE MAY Be
VENUED TO PORTER
Unprejudiced Jury Cannot
be Found, it is Said,
in Lap orte.
new VICTIMS SKULL FOUND
LaPOrte May Feed Upon Sensation
All Summer, According
to Indications.

1t Is probable that the trial of Ray
Lamphere, who is charged with COM
pIicity with Mrs. Belle Guinness in the
murder of Andrew HeIgeIin and others
of Mrs. Guinness victims, VIII be venued
to the circuit court in Valparaiso, in the
adjoining county.
1t is anticipated that there will be
great difficulty in obtaining an I'M
prejudieed jury in LaPOrte county.
When it became apparent that the case
would be tried outside of LaPOrte,
Judge Virgil s. ReIter of the Lake SUI
DeriOr court was asked If there was any
possibility of it's being venued to the
court at Hammond or Crown Point.
No Chance to Get 1t Here.
Judge Reiter said that the law re-
qufres that a case be venued to an adj
joining county unless it is deemed adj
visabIe to go farther away for the ac-
commodation of the witnesses. He also
said that a case of the kind would
ordinarily go from a circuit court to
another circuit court
1t could go to superior court by the
agreement of the parties but he said
he did not believe that the attorney for
the defense in a murder case would
agree to such change for the reason
that decision might be reversed on
that account.
LaPorte expects to be fed on sensa-
tionalism all summer, Prosecutor Smith
and H. w. Worden, attorney for Ray
Lomphere, having agreed upon holding
the trial of Lamphere during the pres
ent term of tour, probably the latter
part of June or the first of July. I'm
less change of venue is taken by the
defense. Circuit Court Judge C. Richter
probably will preside.
Indictments Are Returned
In returning seven true bills against
Ray Lamphere this afternoon the La
Porte county grand jury also indicted
Mrs. Belle Guinness for the murder of
Andrew Helgelein of Mansfield, S. D.
No warrant was issued for Mrs. Gun
ness, as she was declared officially
dead by the verdict of Coroner Mack.
but in order to vote true bill against
Lamphere as an accessory in the killing
of Helgelein it was necessary to indict
Mrs. Guinness as the principal
New Victims Skull Found.
simultaneously with the return of
grand jury indictments aaginst Lam
phere, Sheriff Smetzer today recovered
a human head from the catch basin at
the Guinness farm.
Whether the head is that of a. hither-
to unsupported victim or is the missing
head of a body previously exhumed, is
not certain. There are grounds for
suspicion that the head is that of a new
body, although the authorities lean to
the belief that Mrs. Guinness threw the
head alone into the catch basin and
then buried the remainder of the uni
Identified body in the chicken yard.
Found in Remote Position.
A head was missing when four bodies
were exhumed from one grave, after
the discovery of the body of Andrew X,
HelgeIein. The head found today is
badly decomposed, but not to such an
extent as the body to which the author
tiles believe it belongs It has dark
hair elinging to it and a guess would
place the victim as a man of middle
age. Mrs. Guinness disposed of the head
in a place of remote from the graves
of other victims is one of the many un-
known quantities which figure in the
Guinness story.
Murder Bills Are Specific.
The indictments returned against
LampheNe were even more sweeping
than had been generally anticipated
They assure criminal trial which un.
doubtedly will attract attention all oye1
the country. There are three indict
ments charging Lamphere with the
murder of Mrs. Guinness and with arson
by setting fire to the dwelling house
Three counts of this indictment ar,
similar in form and are for the death:
of Myrtle Sorensen, Lucy Sorensen, anc
Philip Guinness. the children who wer,
with Mrs. Guinness in the house at the
time OF the burning of April %.