The Washington times., 1908-05-08
GUINNESS SLAIN
GROW BY THREE,
FEARED EXPOSURE
Bones of Young Woman
Found Covered With
Quickline.
Sons Identified Remains
Father Who Answered
Matrimonial Ad.

La PORTE. Ind. Nay S-Three mora
bodies we're found today on The fsrr7
OF Mrs Belle Guinness. the -vona,
Blue Beard. making twelve thar hava
been dug up there, while arforna,y
Worden. counsel for RAY Iamphara
under arrest on suspicion Of having 80
hre 10 Mrs Guinness home, furnished a
motive IN fear that her crimes had
oSeh discovered theory that the woman
burned Up her own children and place5
a dead body in the house 70 pass Is be-
own
me last grcwsome ind makes the
to'S4 Known victims OF the arch-mur-
oeIess Feach the appalling number or
I eishteen- The first body uncovered
tooay vas buried within . few feet OF
the grave where the nine other victims
had been dug up. Il was little rDora
tian skeleton. but the authorities are
satisfied that il was the bOdy of.a. voun-
woman.
The skeleton was covered vith two
ard half feet OF household refuse ana
debris II had been wrapped II 3 gun
ny sack and covered with qIfck lime
10 hasten disintegratlon-
The legs and arms had been severed
from the BODY and had then been piled
around the head before burial took
place.
A few ceet beneath this body the ex-
cavators uncovered the rib OF another
person. apparently an adult They
worked slowly. unearthlng every once
IN while another bone OF a human
skeleton. Bones Of a third body were
IoeIlo l.l'-.--o aoo1l noon IN hole JsFo feet
from lhe grave where the dnds Of -he
morning were unearlhed-
Says Woman Feared Exposure.
Lamphere's counsel today declared
that his crOss-exaninaJion Of Ms Gun
ness during her second prosecution OF
Lamphere FOR trespass. was such that
Il must certainly have caused the WON
an 10 believe he knew she was a r7rsr-
ceress- he believes she imagined that
she was II immediate danger o. arrest
and exl osure. and iu desperation plan-
ned and execlted the master stroke OF
her criminalit.- By staying her oun chill
dren ard plac ng one Of the tots bodies
in the arms Of a cadaver- She lad in
tended this should be taken as her oys,
body.
Il asked her direct. accusing questions
about rhe deaths Of her two husbands
and their Insurance. said gVorfen- ~
believe this was the first time sre hel
ever beer directly accused rsrsces
she turned pale am convirce5 she
thought Lamphere knew and told ~
OF her crimes"
Lamphere's Experience.
Lamphere today told OF Ills exper.-
cnce IN the Guinness home. sayin--
I went 70 work for Mrs. Curuess
last summer one day she asked me
10 eat dinner with her. and a CAV or
two later she said I might as wei stay
there. one day she called me into The
house, and had me carry C. trunk up-
stairs.
she said it belonged TO a man from
Chicago who had visited there Andrew
Helglein had been there several days
vTheI. I saw him He was talking 10
me about the weather. when Mrs Gun
ness sent me out OF the room. She eX-
planned that she expected 10 se- some
money from Helglein-
Next day she sent me 10 Michigan
/ City 10 meet q man, instructing me 70
wait all night If necessary When I
got back the next afternoon she Iold
me Helsleiu had gone
II vas while Helglein was ar the
house that she wanted me q get some
chlorofoym 70 XIII a hog didn't set
Hunting for Mrs. Guinness
Private detectives engaged by the
county today began work on the mys-
terry. They were Impressed with the evi-
dence that AIRS. Guinness is stil alive
and are bending their efforts 20 locating
the woman MS George Olander, who
declared that the woman whose BODY
was found in the ruins OF the Gunaess
home was not Mrs GInuess was eX-
amined today by the detectives in The
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