Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1908-05-14
TALE OF HORROR
Eleven Bodies Found Buried In
Farmhouse Yard.
HAD BEEN MURDERED.

Anxiety Of John HelgeIein Over D;s.
appearance of Hi. Brother Ia-
to Discovery of Murdered Bodic,
or Two Men, II Woman and Tu.
Chiidren in Yard of Woman Re.
Gently Burned to Death
dispatch from Laparte. Ind savs
one OF the most grewsome murder
mysteries ever unearthed IN thai Co.
ton of the country came 10 ,,n..
| tuesday when the bodies of FIVE nor.
SUNS all or them murdered. were
.ouho IN the yard in the home O,
MRS Belle Guinness, who. with three
oI ner children was burned to death
on the night of April rs.
so far only two of the bodies have
been identified. These are Andrev
Heielee, who came to that CITY from,
Aberdeen. S. D., for the purnose NJ
marrying Mrs. Guinness. whose ac.
qualntance he had made through n
matrimonial bureau. Tht other is
'hat OF Jennie Olson Guinness. Chi.
cago girl, who had been adopted nv
Mrs. Guinness She disappeared in
September, 1906. and 1t was said had
gone to Los Angeles to attend school
The other bodies were those of
man and two children. apparently -
years old
The body OF Helgenein was dis
membered and the arms, legs. trunk
and head We're buried i'm different
parts of tn yard. II is believed nv
the authorities that Guy Lamphere.
who has been under arrest since tbe
burning of the Guinness home. on
the charge of numbering Mrs. Gun
ness and her family. committed the
Helgelein crime, Lamphere is a car
penter and the manner in which the
body Of Hlgelcin was dismembered
leads to the belief that il was done
by somebody familiar with the use
of saw.
In some quarters it is believed that
Mrs. Guinness may have known some
thing of the murderers of the FIVE
people.
possible solution of the Guinness
farm mystery, which was deepeped
Wednesday when four additional bod
les were found in the barn yard. de-
veloped Wednesday night. Evidences
tending 70 show that the nine dis
membered corpses unearthed Tues-
day and Wednesday had been ship
ped TO Laporte, proba bly, from Chi
cago, came to light. The testimony
OF draymen who had carted trunks
and boxes to the Guinness home lent
color TO this supposition The La
porte police also received information
that two trunks. consigned to Mrs.
Belle Guinness, Laporte. Ind" are
help In an express office in Chicago.
Two of the nine mutilated bodies
were identified with reasonable Ger
tainty. Anton Olson. of Chicago.
viewed the body supposed to be that
of Jennie Olson, 6 years old. foster
daughter of Mrs. Guinness, and pro-
nounced ii to be that OF his daughter.
sister Of the girl. Mrs. Leo Olan-
der. OF Chicago, confirmed tho
fathers Identification.
ASK X. Helegein. whose inquires
regarding his missing brother. An
drew. led TO the first discoveries on
the death haunted farm. became sure
that the largest and best preserved
of the corpses is that of his brother.
Against this Identification. however.
is the result of the autopsy perform
ed on this body by DR.. j. II. Meyer.
He found conditions which. to his
mind, proved that the man perished
long after Andrew Helegein disap-
peared last January. Or. Meyer said
the corpse showed evidence of having
been in the ground less than two
weeks Asa Heiegein, however. re-
fused to be convinced by these find
ings, and his certainty led the coroner
TO accept his identifcatic for ths
present.