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ANOTHER BODY FOUND
Ten Known Victims Now III
Indiana Tragedy.
SCORE MAY STILL BE THERE

Sheriff Believes That Many Will Yet
De Found-Last Body Was Least
Preserved and Was Completely
Dismembered.
La Porte, Ind, May 9.-One more
BODY was added to the death roll a
the Bella Guinness farm, making .
total of ten corpses and skeletons ex'
humed in the yard, besides the foul
bodies found in the ruins OF the farm
house that burned on April 2S. Cor
oner Mack at first announced that the
grave opened contained one complete
cadaver and several bones of sec
ond skeleton, but later he said that
what he had at first believed to be adj
ditional thigh and arm bones, in real
thy belong to the body recovered.
Resumption of excavation at the
Guinness farm again drew an immense
crowd of spectators. The rush OF vlsl
tors has become so great that livery
men have established regular bus
line from La Porte to the farm. Hun
dreds of men and women made the
trip by this means, and added to the
throngs who had walked or driven gu,
in private vehicles.
The scraps of humanity were found
in the barn yard, which had -alread!
given up nine cadavers, and were dis
covered under circumstances similar
to those which prevailed on Tuesday
and Wednesday. About four feet be
low the surface, the excavators en-
countered bits of bone and burlaps
and q few strokes more of the spades
and hoes revealed skull, decom
posed torso and leg and arm bones.
The body was by far the least pre-
served of any of the ten gruesome
relics. In addition to the usual traces
of lime, the body showed that less
skilful hand had dismembered it. The
legs had been, as usual, severed above
the knee joint, but the bones were
splintered. The shoulder blade was
shattered, in cleaving the head from
the body. The skull was lying neal
the pervis. Nothing but a jumbled
heap of decayed flesh and crumblins
bones was left to indicate the identity
Of the person. It was thought, how
ever, that the body was that of
woman, as a pair of women's OXFORD
shoes and the metal frame of a wo
mans purse were found in the grave
Sheriff Shutter declared that in his
belief, at least, score of bodies would
be found in the graveyard" in the
woman's premises.
81 am sure" he said, that this barn
yard is filled with human bones. There
is every indication that we will find
body after body until we have mum
Der which will be astounding. Every
thing points to the fact that we are
only beginning on this dark mystery
A number of other soft spots" have
been scraped out by the workers, and
after the present pit is exhausted these
will be dug up. These soft spots mum
Der about six, and are scattered
throughout the little fenced-in yard
where the murder victims were buried
Sheriff Shutter abandoned the pit
explored, and transferred operations
to q likely spot near the burned build
ing, some distance removed from the
burial ground thus far explored, bui
no results were obtained. The d,
ging continues.
While the investigations were goins
on at the farm, Prosecutor Smith. aid
ed by Deputy Sheriff Roy Mari. wa
collecting additional evidence concern
ing Lamphere's alleged participation
in the deaths of Helgelein, Mrs. GUM
ness and her three children. Lamp
here is accused of first degree muir
der because of the deaths OF Mrs.
Guinness and her three children.
It is the prosecutors theory that
Lamphere had gained knowledge OF
the means by which Andrew Helge-
lem was done to death; that the pris-
oner attempted to use this knowledge
to extort money from the woman. and
that she became frightened at his
threats and undertook the series OF
prosecutions against him, which re-
suited In his trial before a lunacy com
mission, and in his being thrice ar
rested at her instigation; that Lamp
here attempted to wreak vengeance
on her for these actions, and for her
refusals to give him money or to con
tinue the relations which had existed
between them prior to the appearance
in January of Helgelein; that the fire
1T the Guinness home was started by
Lamphere, but that he had no idea
of causing the deaths of Mrs. Guinness
and the children.