The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1908-05-14
MURDERESS HAD
MAN ACCOMPL|CE
sSTRANGERS WITH MONEY WERE
LURED TO GUINNESS DEATH
HOUSE FROM CITY.
COILS ABOUT LAMpAERE
Being Strengthened Every Day De
spite Statement From Authorities
That Rev. Scheil Has Told
Nothing.

La Porte, Ind, May i3.-Denials by
the La Porte officials that the Rev
Dr. Schell had revealed to them the
substance of his conversations with
amphere and the discovery of evi-
dence that Mrs. Bella Guinness was
aided by an accomplice in Turing her
alleged victims to the murder farm
were the chief developments in the
case today.
Evidence regarding the aids Of Mrs.
Guinness came in a letter from a resi-
dent of Cleveland, addressed to the
local chief of police. 1t told of the
writer's having met a stranger in that
city last August who gave his pho
tograph of "a rich widow who resided
in La Porte" and tried to persuade
him TO come here to see the woman.
The photograph is a fairly god likeness
of Mrs Guinness and was evidently
taken some time ago
Evidence in possession of the state,
which will prosecute Roy Lamphere,
accused of numbering Mrs. Guinness
and her children, has led to the con
clusion that adventurous men who set
foot within her house aud met their
their hackcdup bodies were then hid
den in secret chamber of the hOuse
of mystery until they were buried in
tho yard.
That Mrs. Guinness purchased quan-
titles of choral from druggists in La
Porte and surrounding cities has been
established, and witnesses, whose
identity is being guarded, will be pro
duced to give testimony to this fact.
Witnesses Multiplying.
Eidence that will be presented to
the grand jury against Lampherc.
though not completely in hand, will
be furnished by a number OF witness
es. Deputy Shcriffs Mari and Aus
tiss, who arrested Lampi1ere at the
Wheatbrook farm the morning after
the burning of the Guinness home,
will be the first witnesses. John Ross,
Lamphere's cousins and Rev. DR..
Schell, pastor of the La Porte Metho-
dist church, will also be called, though
attorneys for the defendant will fight
against the minister's testiiying on
the ground that anything related to
him was done in professional con
fidencC.
An alarm clock may add an import
ant link in the chain of evidence of
the Guinness family and the burning
of their home Lizzie Smith, the ne
gress with whom Lamphere spent
much time after leaving Mrs. Guin-
ness employment. told the authorities
that Lamphere had come in early the
night of the fire and had gone to bed,
setting the alarm clock for 4 so in the
morning.
Contradicted BY Clock.
Where is the alarm clock?' asked
the deputy sheriffs who went to Lizzie
Smiths house the same day after
Lampheres arrest at Wheatbrook
They did not wait for her to find it
but picked it up themselves, and
found the arrow on the alarm dial
pointed to o'clock. Lamphere, even
when arrested, said he had arisen at
i;30 to walk to his work at the
Wheatbrook farm. The alarm clock
will he introduced in evidence. This
is regarded as important. because the
Guinness home was discovered on fire
about 80 in the morning. giving
Lamphere plenty of time to have gone
from Lizzie Smiths to the Guinness
farm and set the house on fire.