The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-05-10

ut has been asserted that fractures
caused by some blunt instrument had
been found On the skulls. Neither was
there any kind of brain hemorrhages,
and the heart and lungs of at least
two children revealed the same con-
ditions found in these organs in the
body of their mother. The hearts We're
all dilated, and full of clots and the
lungs had collapsed. This condition is
found in the organs of persons who
have died of suffocation. and the cir
cumstance is taken as another evidence
that the theory is untenable that Mrs.
Guinness, having killed her children,
substituted another woman's body for
her own and then escaped after set
ting fire to the house."
One of the circumstances on which
that theory is based Is the fact that
the body of the burned woman Is much
smaller than Mrs. Guinness was.
The intense heat to which the corpses
were subjected, according to Dr. Meyer,
would. however, fully account for this
circumstance.
The fact that no head has been found
for TIL. womans body recovered from
the ruins of the burned house, and the
inclination to suspect her capable of
this heinous crime of infanticide. seem
to be tho mainstays of those who main
tain that Mrs. Guinness still lives.
Was in Hot Place.
AS to the absence of the head those
who believe that Mrs. Guinness was
burned to death say that the upper
part of the woman's body found in the
ruins was in an exceedingly hot place.
One arm was crooked about the body
of the youngest child. Both corpses
We're almost incinerated. so far as the
backs were concerned, the spines being
exposed and the shoulderblades partly
consumed.
A strong refutation Of the theory
THAT the head of the woman had been
cut off before the body was burned
was found in the fact that the upper
end of the spine projected two inche
or more above the charred flesh OF
the shoulders.
No bodies We're found to-day, al
though excavations were made in sew
eral parts of the barnyard and the
search for bodies is to be abandoned
for few days. Sheriff Shutter an
nounces that he will endeavor to pro-
cure additional evidence regarding the
identity of the corpses found in the
basement of the burned house.
The crowds of visitors to the farm
were augmented to-day In Laporte
there was constant stream Of sight
seers visiting the morgues where ten
of the fourteen bodies are lying.
And "somcthing Was Doing"
New witnesses regarding Ray Lamp
here's alleged connection with the
deaths at the farm were discovered
to-day
The most important OF these were
William Slater and John Rice. The
latter asserts that on the day when
Helgelein is supposed to have been
killed he and Lamphere drove to Michi-
gan City. They returned about o'clock
at night and Lamphere alighted Wher
they reached point opposite the GUM
ness farm and cut across the fields
toward the house. remarking that there
would be something doing there thai
night.
| Slater and Lamphere occupied the
same bed on many occasions following
the prisoners dismissal from the GUM
| ness farm.
He says that Lamphere told him tina
he had run Helgelein out of Mrs. GUM
nests house at the point Of a revolver
on one occasion. but that the South
Dakotan returned later and remained.