Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-05-13
Concerning Indiana Muir
der Farm Come to Light.
Gold Crowned Tooth Is Found
IN Ruins Of House



TO establish the identity of three ad-
ditional victims Of Mrs. Belle Guinness
was the most positive development of
a day filled with contradictory hap
penings here today. Both prosecution
and defence received setbacks from
the discoveries and revelations, but on
the whole substantial progress was
made toward bringing the case to the
stage where it will be transferred to
the courts.
The reports of the four persons who
conducted the post mortem examina-
tons On the bodies found in the ruins
OF the Guinness home April % were
given to the coroners jury this MORN
ing. They fail to establish the man.
ner in which the woman and three
children met death and it is probable
that the coronef's jury will return an
open verdict regarding them.
The procedure in Indiana does not
provide for coroners' juries. SO the
nnding will be the individual conclu-
sions of Coroner Mack. DR.. Mack to-
day said that he had no idea as to
what his return would be.
The prosecuting attorney is not de-
pendent upon the coroner for findings
upon which to base grand jury or
other court action. The two officials in
this case are, in fact, proceeding al
Most independently Of each other.
Prosecutor r. N. Smith Is still col
lecting evidence, which he asserts will
connect Ray Lamphere with the death
of Mrs. Guinness and her three chill
dren and in this work he is being aid
4r;A foo hrnllOhf
to light today concerning the body
supposed to be that Of Mrs. Guinness
are as follows:
That the right arm is practically
complete and that most of the lett
forearm and hand are in existence.
Hitherto the complete arm had been
known as the left arm and the right
arm was supposed to have been COM
uletely consumed in the fire.
That three rings, two containing IN
scriptions. had been found on the
hands.
That with the body had been discov-
cred fragments OF bed clothing and OF
a feather mattress, the remains OIL
four night dresses, the one OF an adult
and the others those of children, and
fragments of adult underwear.
The rings presented a puzzle which
thus far has not been solved. The in
scriptions contain initials when are
uraccountable except upon one ny
Dothesis, that the ornaments were the
property of Peter Guinness first wire,
and that-~he. presented them TO MIS-.
Guinness or that she obtained possess
sion of them after his death and that
she wore them on the night When Tn"
house was burned.
THE new victims of Mrs. Guinness
are supposed to have been John Moe
OF Elbow Lake, Mimi; Henry Ger
halt Of Scandinavia, Wis, smaii
town near lola. FROM which Ole Buds
berg came, and George Berry of Tus-
cola, Ills.
La Porte, Ind. May 12.-The Min
if,e' operations which have been
promised by Sheriff Shutter for
several days, started in earnest to-
day in the ruins of the Guinness hom",
Louis Schultze who was employed )
the sheriff to sluice the ashes in the
cellar. began the tests to determine
whether his arrangements We're salts
factory. SchultZe yestt rday construct
ed a sluicing box nine feet long and a
foot square and connected it with the
tank Of the windmill near the house b..
means Of a line of heavy hose. An a.
tachment from q street sprinkler Is
used to distribute the water through
the box.
Additional evidence regarding the
me. hods by which the persons whose
corrses were found on the Guinness
farm met death was unearthed this
morning. Almost two dozen paris OF
scissors. bent and cruved in the
fashion of surgical instruments are
said to have been found in the ashes
in the cellar and in addition, three
knives. two of a surgical character and
an un,nistakable dirk were picked up
It is surmised that the dirk may have
been the chief weapon employed in the
murders. An expert hand could easily
have slipped the snake like weapon
between the ribs Of the victims anu
penetrated the hearts. The fact that
there was no penetrating wound on
Andrew Helgelein's body is possible
reputation OF this theory. But it is
pointed out that Helgelein. according
to the findings of DIR. J. h. WlIhaf'
Never. succumbed only after fierce
struggle III WHICH IG toIO q AoANANA -
hair from the person of his murderer
Chloroform or some other deadly drug
is thought to have been used to subdue
the death struggles of the South
Dakota farmer.
In all the other bodies there Is mega
tive evidence to disprove the dirk
theory The knives and scissors are
thought to have been used in dismem-
boring the bodies. Each corpse was
mutilated in practically the same
manner, the bodies Of the latest victims
showing expert anatomical work.
An interesting sidelight on the
character uf MIS-. Guinness has been
furnished by Mrs. c. O.. Lapham. of La
Porte, who for six years was her
neighbor. Mrs. Lapham says that on
the only occasion on which she called
upon her neighbor, her hostess sat near
an open window. A strong breeze
blew aside the folds of the loose house.
dress which Mrs. Guinness wore and
revealed about her body wide bel!
containing pouches of various Sizes and