Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1908-05-15

| cglent condition as II the man had died
yesterday. Furthermore, the dismember-
meut was not done by any carpenter. 1t
was tie work Of an expert anatomist-
| The arms and legs are severed with
| clean straight cuts. The shoulder joints
were dlGarticulated by somebody familiar
| with such work, as there IS not, III my
| opinion, any probability that the body is
that Of Ije!gelein. as it is in such shape
| that positive Identification would be the
easiest thing in the world"
Negress Is Suspected.
Prosecuting Attorney Smith said today
that lie would cross examine Lamphere
in an effort to obtain a confession from
him He further said that a negress
named Lizzie Smith. who killed a prom
! inent attorney at LapOrte, knows. in his
! opinion. something of the murders at
! the Guinness house.
Wants Bodies Removed.
! John Larson Of 992 Francisco avenue.
! Chicago, % years Of age, a nephew of
! Mrs. Guinness, is here trying to arrange
| to take the four bodies found in the ruins
/ of the fire to Chicago, which he believes
are the bodies OF his aunt, Mrs Belle
Guinness, and her children, Myrtle,
! Lucy and Phillip. The womans body is
| headIess. The nephew made a despOsi-
/ ton before the coroner, DR.. Charles S.
| Mack, and statement to the newspa-
! DerS today WHlCn throws IlgHI upon the
/ life and past history Of Mrs. Guinness.
He said: MY aunt was born in
| Trondhjem, Norway, where she still has
a sister and brother living. Her maiden
name was Belle Paulsen. She was 4S
years old and came to this country
4 twenty-siX years ago. My mother is her
sister.
MY aunt had weakness for adopt
! ing children. She was q queer woman
! and there was cstrangPment in the fam
lily for about fifteen years. My aunt
wanted to adopt my oldest sister, -
years Of age, but my father objected.
This caused the estrangement, She
, adopted Jennie Olson when Jennie was
S months old When first she met peo-
pie she was cordial. Later she would
appear Indifferent TO them. She was
married ut the age of 81 to Max Soren-
son. He died suddenly after eating
supper. His wife had found him dead
in a room upstairs. This was in Austin
Ill. There were rumOrs that SOrensOn
was poisoned. l understand the body
was exhumed, but nothing was done
otherwise.
Got Insurance Money.
Her second husband was a. Guinness,
whose death was also unusual. A meat
cleaver fell on him IN his home and
fatally injured him. In addition he was
scalded He died without making any
| tin the house in which she lived was
burned Later she lived at North Eliza
beth street and Grand avenue, Chicago,
where she conducted a confectionery and
stationery store, but did not own the
building. That place, too. was burned
out and she got insurance money. There
was a report that that fire was started
| by her"
Death of First Husband
Relatives of Mrs. Guinness declare
that her first husband, a man named
| Larson, died under mysterious circum-
stances when the couple lived in Chi
cago. 1t was said at the time that
death was due to heart failure, but
there was some talk of exhuming The
! body. This was not done, however.
La Porte first knew Mrs. Guinness in
1900 when she purchased the home of
Matte Attic, one of the most notorious
women in northern Indiana, after the
| latter'S death She had two children,
! and about Il year later it was announced
that she was married to Guinness the
ceremony having taken place at the
Guinness home III Wisconsin. Mrs.
| Guinness declared that she met her sec
ond husband through a matrimonial
agency. a great deal Of money was
spent in improving the place in this part
| of the state.
Men Become Jealous.
parently uneventful last August when
Lamphere began working for her. He
was a handy man around the farm and
| did much rough carpenter work. Then
! Andrew Helgelein, the North Dakota
: bachelor. came to the farm and jealousy
sprang up between Lamphere and Hell
gelein, resulting in Lampheres dismissal
| from the place.
Lamphcre renewed his attentions to
| Mrs. Guinness, and she had him arrested
for alleged treSpass and he was fined
More trouble followed. Helgelein mys-
teriously disappeared in February, and
it was on account of this that Lam
phere, it is said, thought that he had
, some chance of gaining a place in the
| household. The fatal fire occurred on
April 81. after Mrs. Guinness had de-
posted her will in a safety deposit vault
in the city bank. She deposited some
thing like $1,000 in currency.
Four Bodies Found.
An examination of the debris disclosed
! the finding of a woman's body, supposed
| to have been that of Mrs. Guinness. and
those Of her daughters, Myrtle SorensOn,
II years old; Lucy SOrensOn, years
old and their half-brothcr, Philip GUM
| ness, years old. Lamphere was then
arrested on the charge of setting fire to
the home and causing the death of the
family.
| Lamphere made the first statement since
his arrest to newspapermen last night.
The discovery had not been disclosed to
him when he was brought into the pres
ence of the reporters.
Five bodies" he gasped, GIVE bodies?
That woman | knew that she was
bad, but that's awful"
Lamphere Is Suspicious.
Chewing tobacco nervously, he listened
to detailed account of the description
of the bodies.
Il don't know anything about it," he
insisted for q time. I always suspect
ed that she killed Helgelein, and now 1
am sure of it. As for the others, l
don't know anything beyond what l sus-
pect. Things that l know look different
to me now, and it may be that things l
noticed were more serious than l
thought they were.
The girl must be Jennie Olson. l
never believed she was in California.
l never heard of any letters coming from
her"
Mystery in Trunk.
He was silent moment, and then
when pressed for an explanation of
things he had noticed he said:
well, about year ago there was
man with 4 black moustache who came
to the farm, and Mrs. Guinness told me
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