Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-05-06
TWO MORE VICTIMS
ON GUINNESS farm
Story of the Guinness Tragedies
Bids Fair to Rival the Fam
Gus Bender Murders
WAS WOMAN THE MuRDEREss?

Presumed That Grimes Were Com :
mitted for Money -Woman's Two
Husbands Met Violent Deaths.
La Porte, May 6-The seventh BODY
was found on the Guinness farm this
afternoon, buried four feet deep. 1t is
evidently that of an adult, but the sex
Is unknown. It had been dismem-
bered like the majority of the others.
LaPorte, May 6-The skeleton of the
{ sixth body was unearthed on the
Guinness farm at IL o'clock today. The
body is that of an adult and was found
In a pine box, face downward. 1t had
been buried probably two years. 1t has
not been identified.
La Porte, Ind, May 6.-From out OF
the mass of tangled and sensational.
evidence which indicates that Mrs.
Belle Guinness was one of the most
monstrous murderers Of the century,
and that her beautiful, Wel-kept farm
q mile from LaPorte, was a clearing
house of assassination and crime, there
developed today the startling theory
that the woman did not die in the fire
which destroyed her home the night OF
April %, and that she is still alive and
in hiding, probably in Chicago.
This theory is strengthened by the
fact that the head of the body of the
woman found in the ruins of the
Guinness home after the fire, is still
missing, altho every effort was made
by the authorities to locate 1t, unless
the head is found today. The officers
will make postmortem examination
Of the. remains OF Mrs. Guinness and
subject them to more careful analysis
to learn whether or net the woman
was herself killed in the fire or had
substituted the remains of one of her
female victims for herself, then set fire
to the house in order to cover up the
crime. In case it is proved Mrs. GUM
ness did substitute the body OF anoth-
er woman for her own, it is very like
" she is also guilty Of the murder of
her three children.
The Mystery Deepens.
The mystery Of the Guinness farm is
far from solution. With every passing
hour developments add to the story
with amazing rapidity and before the
end OF the day it is expected by the
county OFFICIALS that they will have
evidence Of one of the most fiendish
plots in the history of the country, one
that will rival in every way the famous
Bender case of Kansas. In many of it's
details the Guinness case resembles
that of the Bender family, wealthy
men being lured to a pretty country
home Of Mrs. Guinness, to be robbed
OF their money; then the assassinated
buried on the farm. Ray Lamphere,
who is suspected of numbering Mrs.
Guinness and her three children, after
having engaged with her in the ten
Years crime, is locked up in the La
Porte county Jail. When he was told
last night Of the finding of the bodies,
he exclaimed:
my God, are there five bodies? al
ways thought something was wrong"
The exclamation was made when
States Attorney Smith was putting
him thru the third degree
Search for More Bodies.
The police are today making a care
ful search of Guinness premises. The
concrete floor which Mrs. Guinness
had put in the basement two years
ago will be torn up, as it is thought
there may be another burial beneath
It. So far five bodies, three men and
two women, have been unearthed.
This makes total of nine people
who were victims of the fire which de-
stroyed the home of Mrs. Guinness or
were murdered while the woman who
met her death in the flames was the
mistress. The victims are:
Alice Olson. aged 16, adopted daugh-
ter of Mrs. Guinness.
Andrew Helgelvin, S5, suitor of Mrs.
Guinness, from Aberdeen, S. D.
Two unknown men.
One unknown woman.
Mrs. Belle Guinness, 3S, mother of
three children, Myrtle, IL: Lucy, 9;
Philip 5.
Husbands Died Suddenly.
It is pointed out as opposing the
theory that Mrs. Guinness is alive, that
the day before the Guinness home
burned, the woman deposited $500 in
the state bank here. She was worth
about $4,000 and her passion for
money is given as the incentive for
the crimes committed. The theory
that she might be alive includes the
supposition that she feared Lamphere
was about to expose her thru jeal-
ousy.
Mrs. Guinness maiden name was
Bella Raulson. She was of Norwegian
descent and in 1888 married Max Sor- |
enson, q Swede, who died under suss
picious circumstances. She later mar
ried Philip Guinness, who came to a |
violent death. The woman claimed it |
was an accident, and that sausage |
grinder fell on him in the kitchen OF
their home. Eoth carried life insur-
ance aggregat ting $4,000.
Sheriff Smotzer and prosecuting at |
torney Smith expect to make another /
effort to secure confession from
Lampfere tl,is afternoon In his cell
Today Lamphere stalks suilenly back