Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-05-11
made in the yard. where ten caoaVers
have been unearthed.
Dug His Brothers Body Up.

1t became known Yesterday that it was
the fate OF AISLE Helglein to dig up with
his own hands from Mrs. Guinness corpse
plot the moldering. mutilated fragments
of the body that had once been his brother
Andrew. the last of the many victims or
the missing murderess. Until now thu
secret OF just how the hunt Tor victims
started has never been told. Sheriff
Smultzer knew. and SO did County AttOr-
they have kept silent
Yesterday. however. your correspondent
found the man with whom the surviving
Helglein drove back in town Immediately
after he had eXhumed his brothers body
For certain reasons this mans name cam
not be given.
Il was driving past the Guinness place"
he told your correspondent. last Tues
about the fire there the night before and
the finding of four bodies in the ruins.
and l naturally 'rubbered at the place
when l was passing. AS | drove by
Sheriff Shutter came down with a
strange man. whom he introduced as
AISLE Helglein and ordered me to take the
stranger back to town, he was in ii
hurry. I said would. and he got in. He
was pretty excited. but had good con-
troll OF himself. considering what he had
just been through. In his broken English
he told me all about it.
He said when Mrs. Guinness wrote him
his brother had gone away he did not
believe IL. because his brother WASH the
Kind or man to stay away four months
without letting him know where he was.
When he heard the house was burned he
came to LapOrte. The more he thought
Of 1t the more he was sure that Andrew
had been murdered. He said that as ne
was standing up on the hill he wondered
how the woman could have disposed of
the body if she had really killed his
brother. Burying ii was the first thing
he thought of.
Hired Man Dug the Hole.
so then he asked Joe MaxsOn. the
Guinness hired man. If he knew of any
holes being dug around there lately. Joe
told him yes, that couple of months or
SO ago Mrs. Guinness had told him to dig
a hole in the garden to put some rubbish
in. Joe said he did dig the mole and Mrs.
Guinness filled 1t up some time when he
was not around.
II went and got spade said Helg
1ein. and went into that garden and be-
gan digging where Maxson said he had
dug the hole Not six inches under the
surface hit a bunch of rubbish-tin
cans. old pals and rags and SO on.
kept on till | had got all the rubbish out.
The very first stroke of the spade after
that cut into the gunny sack that held
my brothers body"
That was all the digging Helglein did
put WITH mat single stroke o! ms SPADE
he dug up not only his brothers body.
but the most startling tale of crime in
many years.
Many persons here are still confident
that The woman has escaped, and tale
is being told OF a mysterious automobile
being heard on the McClung road about
dawn of the day of the fire. The mre
started a about o'clock. just as 1t was
getting light. and farmer who lives
couple OF miles beyond the house of
|, tor ink hsa nd
hum past his house a a high speed. Be
fore lie got wide awake the noise died
away. but he locked at his watch and /;
was 4:1j o'clock. This is pretty flimsy
testimony. but the yarn is being investi-
gated.