The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-05-19
CELEBRATED XMAS
BY KILLING FOUR
Carnival of Death at the Gun
ness Home Near La
porte.
THE GRAND JURY TRIAL.
MUCH TESTIMONY OF VALUE TO
THE STATES CASE AGAINST
LAMPHERE is BEING SUBMIT.
TED DURING THE SESSIONS.

LdpOFle, InQ., May IL DtN+I-
opments in the Guinness case
last night indicate that Mrs. Belle
Guinness celebrated Christmas, 1906,
by killing four people-perhaps on the
same night-and burying them in the
same grave This startling theory was
advanced last night following an au-
tOpsy made of two unidentified skele-
tons by Drs George r. Osborn and F.
T. Wilcox, who showed positively that
one of the skeletons hitherto thought
TO be that of q man is that of a wOm-
an. 1t came from the grave in which
four bodies, including that of Jennie
Olsen, were found.
All of the four dismembered bodies
were in the same stage of nonpreser-
walton, and, coupling the story of Emil
Greening, a former hired man, now
living in Oklahoma City, Okla, and
the known facts about the disappear
anCe of John o. Moe. it appears that
Jennie Olsen. Moe and a musical pro
fessOr and his wife We're all murdered
at Christmas time. 1906.
1906, which he spent at the Guinness
farm. where it is practically certain
that he was murdered. Jennie Olsen's
disappearance with a professor and
his wife, who were going to take her
to California" according to Mrs. Gun
ness, has been placed at the same
time, the exact date being uncertain.
Man in Woman's Clothes.
Greening. in statements made in
Oklah City, has stated that man
and d woman. whose voice sounded
like a mans. and who he suspected
was man dressed in wOmans cloth
ing, were at the Guinness house the
last night he saw Jennie Olsen alive.
Greening was told to sleep in the barn
that night and the next day he was
told that Jennie had gone with the
strangers.
1t is known that Mrs. Guinness pre-
pared for this slaughter weeks ahead.
The grave in which the four bodies
We're found was dug two months ahead
by Briiski. a Polish laborer who did
odd jobs for Mrs. Guinness. The pre-
ceding October Mrs. Guinness was
making girls dresses. and when ask
| ed by one OF the neighbOrs what she
! was doing, said that the Dire sses were
for Jennie Olsen, who was going away
to school 1t may be presumed from
the shrcds of evidence now in the pos
session of County Prosecutor Smith
that Mrs. Guinness had plotted to kill
three persons on this occasOn-the
! sO-called professor. his wife, and Jen-
ME Olsen-but Moe, with his S14.5OO.
arrived in answer to Mrs. Guinness
matrimonial advertisement just in
time to join the party and to be killed
and buried with the others.
Men who uncovered this large grave
with the four corpses say that each
body had been butchered and disarti-
culated in the same manner
Before the Grand Jury.
/ The following witnesses appeared to
testify before the grand jury in Lam
phere's case Yesterday:
Mrs. Elizabeth Smith.
David Havens. Eli Hoover. Peter
! Garrison, John WheatbrOok.
John Ross, w. P. Humphrey, Ber-
=.
! Nina Shoemaker and Mrs. William
| Flynn.
! Negro" Lizzie Smith was brought
/ in by the sheriff's officers. She was
in rage, and Cuarreled with the dep
uty at the door of the grand jury
room. Finally. when after an hour she
had rot been called, she left the place,
declaring she would not come back
| She IS counted upon to testify as to
! the precise time that Lamphere left
her house the morning of the Guinness
| fire. Her statement that Lamphere
| did not get up that morning until 4:3O
has been contradicted by Lamphere
| himself and several other witnesses.
David Havens, who was supposed by
| the counsel for Lamphere to have
been ordered out of town by Sheriff
! Shutter. was on hand to testify, hav-
| ing been brought from Gallon, Mich.
| Havens and Peter Garrison We're the
men who uncovered the first bodies in
the cemetery of Mrs. Guinness. They
described to the jury the positions in
which the cOrpses lay. Eli Hoover,
| John Westbrook. John Ross and Jacob
/ Warwick described the movements of
Lamphere just after the Guinness fire
Hoover saw a man coming from the
direction of the Guinness place. skulk-
/ ing along near the woods. then run
ming as II frightened. Hoover did not
| recognize the man. but the other wit
ness took up his story and Shove
that the person who was hurrying
away across lots was Lamphere An
other of the witnesses. ". P. Hum
phrey, was there early at the Guinness
/ fire. He climbed a ladder and looked