Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-05-09
Mrs. Guinness May Have Killed
Him, She Thinks.
DISAPPEARED IN JUNE, 1906
Stories Of Two Other Men Who Van.
ished Mysteriously.
DIGGING ON FARM RESUMED
Counsel for Arrested Servant Denies
That Man Possesses Letters From
Suspected Woman.


LAPORTE, Ind. May 9.-The work Of
digging on the Guinness farm was re-
sumed today, only one man, however. be
Ing put at work. Up to 10 o'clock there
had been no developments and no trace
Of additional bodies had been discovered.
The authorities are endeavoring to trace
young man named Canary. who II is
believed. may have been one of the vic
Tins of Mrs Guinness.
A letter was received this morning from
his mother at Pine Lake. Ind, saying that
her son. who was about twenty years Of
age. had disappeared and that she has
had no word from him for almost two
years. 1t is known that young Canary
worked for Henry Bizge. who lived about
a quarter of a mile from the Guinness
farm.
He disappeared in June. 1905. Mrs.
Canary declares that the boy was not
bright and that he once burned an empty
cottage for the pleasure Of seeing II de-
stroyed. 1t is known that he was at the
Guinness place at various times.
Another Disappearance.
About one year ago man arrived in
LaTorte from some place I'm the state OF
New York. He said that he had made
arrangements to work for Mrs. Guinness.
and that she was going to buy a horse
and buggy, which he had. He has never
been heard from since he went to the
Gunness farm and his buggy was today
found i'm a shed on the Guinness place
The story given out by Mrs. Guinness
that Jennie Olson went to attend the
Lutheran school at Fergus Falls, Mimi.
has been proved false. A letter received
I I.,- &tx< \. If ..ft ttn..A ia
stitution declares that Jennie Olson was
| never there and that they never heard OF
| her.
The threatened clash between the au-
| thorities and H. B. Worden, the attorney
of Roy -Lamphere, over his right to see
the prisoner was averted today, Mr.. Wor-
den having been admitted to the jail
where he talked with Lamphere for more
than an hour Mr.. Worden strongly
denied the story that any trunk had
been found containing letters written by
Lamphere to Mrs. Guinness and he also
asserted that there was absolutely no
truth in the statement that Lamphere
desired to confess or that he had any
thing to confess.
Vanishing Husband.
Mr. Worden is investigating a story
that on the night of the burning Of the
Guinness home and short time before
IL was destroyed a farmer who attempted
to drive past the place was stopped and
turned back by two masked men. The
name Of the farmer is not known at
present.
James F.. Lowe "A hardware merchant.
who has lived i'm Laporte all his life and
was acquainted with everybody In TINS
vicinity. says that Mrs. Guinness once
entered his store to purchase a buggy
whip. She was accompanied by a mar
with Scandinavian features. Mrs. Gun
ness introduced him as her husband, re
marking that ii was too bad that she
must live here, while her husband was
comnelIed to reside i'm Minnesota. Mr..
Lowe never saw the stranger again
A great crowd of sightseers Is eXpected
tomorrow to view the Guinness farm Al
extra force of deputies anu guaros VIII
he duty to see that the 1ehces anu
appurtenances of the place are rot dis
mantled and carried OFF by relic hunters.
Twenty-one Witnesses.
Yesterdays developments, beyond the
discovery of one more body on the farm.
centered mainly about Lamphere's posi-
BILE connection with the deaths.
Many more witnesses were interviewed
nv the, prosecuting officers. and at least
two were subpoenaed formally. TINS
brings the present list OF witnesses 10 II
Most important of the evidence secures
Yesterday was the trunk which Lamphere
left on the farm Of John Wheatbrook
where he was employed since February
last il was secured early yesterday
MOI ming. but II was not until well along
L., the evening that the fact that the au-
tbo,ities had found ii became known.
The Whea tbrook farm is in the vicinity
of Springville, hamlet seven miles
north of here. and I'm the neighborhood
where I.amphere spent his boyhood. His
father was formerly a justice of the peace
in that township. and the earlier habits
of Lamphere are TO be investigated b.
the Pinkertons, who are aiding Sheriff
Smutzer. Letters from Mrs. Guinness
found in Lamphere'S trunk urged him
to return 10 the farm and bring his sweet
heart with him. These letters were sent
TO Springville, and the investigation to be
made there may result in locating the
sweetheart" mentioned by Mrs Guinness.
Not Mrs. Guinness Body.
DIR. Harry II. Long. for two terms coro-
ner of Laporte county, who assisted In
the post-mortem examination over the
body supposed to be that of Mrs. Gun
ness. declares positively that the body In
the morgue is that of woman who
weighed fully fifty pounds less than did
Mrs Guinness; also that il is five inches
shorter than Mrs. Guinness. DIR. Long
says Mrs. Guinness is still alive.
DR.. Longs statement lis as follows: "ln
my opinion. the body of the woman found
in the house Is not that of Mrs. Gun
ness.
"A strange coincidence is that the fore
heads of all the children were burned al
the same place. This is extraordinary.
skull crushed by a blow at any point
and then subjected to fire would be more
likely to burn away at that point than at
q sound place. as the heat and fire would
reach the bcny structure and thus at
tack the cartilages from both sides. The
theory that her head had been entirety
burned away is disproved by the fact
that. being subject to the same intensity
of heat and flame, and being harder. II
could not have burned away as easily. as
the skulls of the children.
Mrs. Guinness Appearance
''The body at the morgue is not that OF
Mrs Guinness because II is not correctly
proportioned. IT is that of a rather plump
woman Of the general contour of Mrs.
Guinness but weighing between 10 and
1a0 pounds. Mrs. Guinness weighed fully
22J pounds.
..The arm that was burned of was found