The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-05-07
Search of the Guinness Grounds
by the Sheriff
Continues to Yield Results in
Mutilated Bodies.
HOW WOMAN WORKED
Men We're Lured Through {
Matrimonial Advertisement.
Was After a Brother of One of
Her Victims.

Her Victims.
Laporte. Ind, May additional
light on the methods by which Mrs.
Beil Guinness caused the deaths on
ner farm of the persons who are sup
posed to have fallen victims to her
lust Tor money, was shed early this
morning by Ask K. Helgelein, brother
OF Andrew Helgelein OF Mansfield. S.
d. whose dismembered corpse is
among the nine found yesterday and
the day before. Helgelein told the
coroner that not only had his brother
been in communication with the wo-
man. but also that she had written to
him after Andrews disappearance in
an attempt to induce him to visit this
city.
Sell your brothers stock and come
mere and we will hunt your brother
together, was the gfst of the epistles
written in Norwegian and as vet only
partially translated. The letters are
jealousy guarded by Helgelein under
orders of Ralph N. Smith, prosecuting
attorney, but enough was revealed to
show that the woman had not hesi-
tated to dare to attempt to gain a hold
over the nearest relative of her latest
victim
ieaiI! may interIere with further ex-
humation today on the death en-
shrouded farm of Mrs. Guinness.
Sheriff Shutter announced that unless
the downpour which began early his
morning ceases it will be impossible
to explore the lawn Of the homestead
where 1t is believed more bodies have
been concealed
Roy Lamphere, accused of first de-
gree murder in connection with the
incineration Of Mrs. Guinness and her
| Chfl0ran avnaofnd RI ho tn,, Of
| interest today. Efforts to connect him
! more closely with the appalling series
of violent deaths will be made by the
public prosecutor. although that Off
cial asserted yesterday that sufficient
evidence to convict the prisoner of
| completely in the murders is already in
his possession. Lamphere revealed
yesterday that his former employer
had urged him to insure his life in her
favor. asserting that Mrs. Guinness had
| offered to pay the premiums on such
a policy, providing he agreed to marry
herr He also said that he believed that
his refusal to fall in with her plans
had caused the enmity which she later
manifested toward him, resulting in
his arrest on three occasions and his
| trial before a 1unacy commission on a
a closed room In the Guinness home to
which, he asserted, he was always
denied admission, is partially cor
roborated by the evidence of Joseph
/ Maxson, who was working on the
farm when the house caught fire April
%. Maxson asserts that he nad never
4 been allowed access to the second
i story Of the farm house where the
closed room was located.
Ask K. Helge1ein of Mansfield s. D.
was in conference with DR.. C. S. Mack,
coroner OF the county, until long after
midnight The steps by which the
\ Norwegian farmer became infatuated
| with the Indiana woman were can
vas hr1f oy1x f;oJ
progress was made toward clearing
the mystery. Helgelein told again Of
the secrecy with which his brother had
shrouded his movements before his de-
was evolved to show that advertise
ments for matrimonial agency had
been printed In Scandinavian papers in
the northwest, Helgelein asserting that
a single sheet printed in Norwegian
and full of such notices had been CIR
culated among his acquaintances.
The circumstances lead the investi-
gators here to believe that Mrs. GUM
ness established communications with
her victims through this agency, such
a premise accounting for her relations
with Ole B. Budsberg, the farmer of
| lola, Wis, whose sons are expected
here today. It is reported that the
lola men will bring with them copies
Of the advertisements which lured
| their father to his death.
/ Bessie Conklin, young woman re-
siding in Michigan City, Ind, whose
| former home was in Laporte, has beer
| arrested by Sheriff Shutter and is be.
ing held in Jail as an important wit
| ness. The woman was a friend of Ray
| Lamphere. who is accused of compiled
ty in the murders at the Guinness
home. Miss Conklin is not accused o.
completely, but her testimony is con
sidered of so great importance that shs
| will remain locked up until the grand
jury hears her testimony next week
1t is said that Lamphere while talk
ing to Miss Conklin made threat!
| against Mrs. Guinness and said tha
| would hang Mrs Guinness.
HE told me that Mrs. Guinness hat
to be good to him, or he would mak'
it hot for her and send her to tht
gallOws," said Miss Conklin to Sheriff
. Smutzer. She also added that Lamp
) here was crazy Jealous over Mrs
Guinness.
Coroner Mack has received from
, Ask Helgelein deposition. accord.
ing to the statements, in which
Iamphere win be called upon for ar
| exclamation of some statements he Is
! said to have made.
Helgelein says in his deposition thai
Mrs. Guinness wrote him and in the
letter said that Lamphere told hel
! that he had met man from Mans
: field, S. D., who told him that Andrew
4 Helgelein was in Mansfield and In
{ tended to stay there for some time
! Mrs. Guinness said in the same letter
: that she had been expecting to heal
! from Andrew for some tfme-thai
. Andrew Helgelein had been in Chi
: : caeo for two days and had writer
I her not to write him until she hearc
! from him again, that he was goinf