The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-05-13
GIVES REPORT
 OF AUTOPSY Believes Body is Mrs. Guinness. FINDING IS MADE PUBLIC Dr. Gray Refuses to Discuss the
 Matter. A Methodist Minister visitins in Bai- timore Tells of an. Interview
 He Had With Ray
 Lamphere.

La Porte. Ind. May 12.-Evidence to establish the identity of three addit. iopal victims of Mrs. Bella Guinnee4 was the most positive development ok day filled with contradictory hap- penlngs here today.
 Both prosecution and defense receiv@ ed set backs from the discoveries and revelations. but on the whole substan- tial progress was made towards brings ing the case to the stage where 1t will be transferred to the courts.
 The reports of the four physicianA who conducted the post mortem sx- aminations on the bodies found in the ruins of the Guinness home April a4 were given to the coroners' jury this morning. They fail to establish ths manner in which the woman and her three children met death and 1t i4 probable that the coroner's jury will return an open verdict regarding them.
 Prosecutor R. N. Smith Is still cole lectinR evidence which he asserts will connect Ray Lamphere with the deaths of Mrs. Guinness and her three chiI. dhen and in his work he Is being aid- ed by the SherIff and the Pinkertcn operatives whom the latter has caiied In as helpers.
 It Is possible that the case against Lamphere may be presented to the grand jury before the coroner jury r6AC0e3 a 0GciSfOn III tue uAAktGt. The reports to the coronera jury to~ day are by Drs. ]. 1. Gray, H. II Long. J. Fl. William Myer and T. F. Wilcox revealed several circumstancee the ex- iStence of which will be carefully guarded from public knowledge. This is particularly true of the document signed by Dr. Gray and having to do with the adult body supposed to be that of Mrs. Guinness pr. Gray ds- clined to discuss his reports.
 The news as brought to light con- corning the boAy are as follows:
 That the right arm is practically complete and that most of the lefe Hitherto the complete arm had been known as the left and the ri6ht arm was supposed to have been completely consumed in the fire.
 That three rings. two containing in- scrIpticns. had been found on the hands.
 That with the body had been discov- cred fragments of bedciothing and of a feather mattress. the remains of four night dresses. one of an adult and the others those of a child, and fragments of adult underwear.
 sfgwald Olsen said that Mrs. Gum ness,s maiden name was "Paulsen" or "PoIsen" He said that she had no middle name and that he had never heard of any nickname.
 The rings presented a puzzle which thus far has not been solved. The Inscriptions contain initials which are unacountable except upon one hypo~ thesis, that being that the ornamen*R were the property of Peter Gnnness's first wife. that he presented them 70 Mrs. Guinness, or that she obtained poaf session of them after his death and that she wore them on the night the house was burned.
 The new victims of Mrs. Gunnes& are supposed to have been John Moe of Elbow Lake, Minn.; Henry GerhaN of Scandinavia, Wis. small town neSF lola, from which Ole O. Budshurg camA and George Brady of Tuscolas Ill., The evidence that these three were vls% tims of Mrs. Guinness is somewhat ine definite.
 Preacher Talks of LamRhsre.
 Baltimore, May l2.-That Ray LamS nhere. charged with the burning Of the Gunness home and the death of it's ocr cnnants near La Porte, Ind. made q abatement connected with the ease to Rev. E. A. Schell of La Forte, was admitted by Mir. Schell today. The latter, however who is a pastor ce the Meth odist Episcopal Church at L@ Porte and a delegate to the hAetnoaiak Episcopal Geneal Conference here. re- fused to divuIge anything as to it's nature.
 My lips are sealed" said Mfr. schelL "I got these things as in the confess sionaI. I found that the prosecuting ots ncers were sweating Lamphere and appealed for fair play in his benalr. ! thought that he should be allowed "a have a lawyer and I told them so-
 But I advised Lamphere to tell the prosecuting attorney exactly what ne told me and I think he will do se. He seems to be a thoroughly penitept man.
 T received a message from La Porte this morning saying there was a con fliet between certain statements maoe by Lamphere and asking me 70 tell what he had said to me-" continued Mr. sehell. T replied that I could not. aa what he told me was given m conA~ dence and as minister.
 MT. Schell said that he has no douhk that Mrs. Guinness is alive.
 Pressed tonight as to the details Nk the statement made to him by LaFn- phere, he said that the statement di9 not include a confession that LaFas phere set fire to the Gunness house, but related exclusively to matters that had transpired Q month or more ago