The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1908-05-19
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IN ONE NIGHT
AUTOPSY SHOWS ONE OF UNI
IDENTIFIED WAS WOMAN.
INVESTIGATING GRIMES
coroner's Jury Investigating Deaths
on the Farm-seven Are Still Uni
dentified-The Prosecutor Receives
Threatening Letters.

dentifled-The Prosecutor Receives
Threatening Letters. &
Laporte, Ind, May 18.-The autopsy
held today on the remains OF the seven
unidentified dead exhumed from Mrs.
Guinness private burial ground was
completed this evening, and revealed
the fact that n of the seven was a
female.
This has aroused new interest in
the story Of Emil Greening, of Okla
homa City, who was employed by Mrs.
Guinness in the fall of 1904. Greening
worked for Mrs. Guinness at the time
that Jennie Olsen disappeared, and his
story was to the effect that on a. Fri
day in September, a man and woman
came to the house and that night Mrs.
Guinness asked Greening to sleep in
the barn, for the couple, whom she
said were the professor and his wife,
from the Los Angeles college which
Jennie Olsen was to attend, would
spend the night at the house and
would require Greetings bedroom. In
the morning Greening saw nothing Of
Jennie o Of the man and woman
and was informed by Mrs. Guinness
that they had left on an early train,
taking Jennie along.
Four in One Hole.
This body, which is now declared to
be that of a woman, was taken from
the same hole al was that of Jennie
Olsen, and in that hole also we're the
bodies Of Ole Budsberg of lola, Wis,
and the remains Of a male person. All
the bodies were dismembered, but the
trunks of the four were such that 1t
was possible to identify the bodies OF
Jennie Olsen and Mr.. Budsberg and it
was made possible by today's autop.
sizes to determine that one of the other
two raj a female.
The theory now advanced is that
Mrs. Guinness may have on the same
night, the night that Greenfng slept In
the barn, murdered not only Jennie
Olsen, but also the man and woman.
To Coroner Mack, Sheriff Smulzer and
Prosecutor Smith this, was almost in
conceivable, but considered in the
light Of recent developments, nothing
appears impossible for this arch-mur-
deress. The stomachs of the four vic
Tins in this hole have been removed,
and the contents will be analysed for
poison. The disappearance Of jennie
Olsen, as we'll as the couple, occurred
in September 1906, while sBudsberg
was disposed Of in May, 1907. His
body was nearer the surface than the
other three and his could have been
the last placed in the hole. @
Lamphere's Watch Traced.
The mystery surrounding the watch
found on the person of Ray Lamphere
when he vas arrested, was cleared to-
day when j. G. Ramden of Manfred,
N. D., who came here yesterday to In
vestigate the disappearance OF his hall
brother, John Moe Of Elbow Lake,
Mimi, identified the timepiece as the
one owned by his half brother, when
he left home. The numbers Of the
watch correspond with the numbers IN
Mr.. Noes possession. Lamphere said
Mrs. Guinness gave him the watch,
MI. Ramden is positive that his broth.
er was murdered by Mrs. Guinness,
but he was not able to identify any OF
the remaining skeletons, and so will
not be able to provide proper burial
for his brother.
The bodies of the seven unidentified
dead will be buried tomorrow In the
potter's field. Christian services will
be conducted over them, and q small
stone will be erected with an inscrip.
ton telling the circumstances of their
death. The body Of Jennie Olsen has
been turned yer to her relatives. Ole
Budsberg's body was today shipped to
lola, Wis, for burial.
Threatening Letters.
Prosecutor Smith today received an
other threatening letter from Brook
Ign, N. Y. He Is threatened with
death unless he resigns his office anG
drops the Guinness investigation.
He also received q. threatening let
ter from Washington, D. O. Chief o
Police Cochrane is in receipt OF q let
ter from New York, saying his lift
will pay the forfeit unless he ceases
his activity.
Another probable !, victim of Mrs
Guinness came to light today when In
vestigation was started for Abraham
Phillips Of Bellington, w. Va, VIII.
left there in 1907 to come to Laport'
to marry a rich widow, name unknown
He left a farm and other property Il
West Virginia, but took a large sun
OF money with him. He has not beel
seen since.
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