Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-05-12
FIND CRAVE ROBBED,
Body Missing From Cemetery
 Near Guinness Farm.
MAY BE MYSTERIOUS CORPSE

Woman's Remains Discovered In Ruins
 of House Do Not Bear Scar Known to
 Have Been on Murderess - Hair In
 HeIselein's clinched Fist.
 Laporte, Ind, May 12.-The belief will not down that Mrs. Belle Guinness, the multimurderess, may still be alive desplte the partial identification of her 'headless body in the ruins of her house of death. A clew tending to strength en 1t developed in a sensational man. ner.
 It was discov cred that seldom vls- ited cemetery few miles away from her farm had recently been robbed of body. A laborer passing through It found disturbed grave and an empty cofiin Chief of Police Cochran and two detectives are Investigating
 They heard, though not authoritative. ly, that it was woman's body which had been stolen. If this proves to be so, they and many others firmly be- lleye the first theory-that Mrs. Gun ness left corpse without head to impersonate her while she fled after the house was fired.
 No Scar on Strange Corpse.
 Another indication that the slayer of dozen may have escaped is found in the assertion by physicians who have examined the body that it does not bear a long scar across the chest. Mrs. Guinness had suchsa scar, according to her nephew, John Larson of Chicago He will point out to the doctors where the scar was.
 The proving of the identity of that headless body is still the chief aim of the investigators. A method which is probably unique in murder tracing will be put into operation. Louis Schultz, an experienced miner from the west, will "sluice and pan" the ashes from the burned house in an effort to find traces of gold from the gold front teeth of Mrs. Guinness.
 There were exciting side lines which almost relegated this end of the mys- tery to the background, though in pub lie interest 1t is still the most engross- ing point. The foremost was the dis covery that Andrew Helgelein, one of the victims, had put up fight for his life before he was added to the wo- mans death list.
 Hair In Helselein's Fist. Dr. J. H. William Meyer sent to the coroner his findings resulting from the autopsies of the bodies supposed to be those of Andrew Helgelein of Mans field, s. D., and Jennie Olsen the fos- | ter daughter of Mrs. Guinness, who disappeared In 1906. Dr. Meyer report. l ed that a mass of hair had been found ] in the clinched fist of Helgelein and | that the fingers grasping It had been | severed above the first phalanx. An attempt is to be made to Identify the hair with that of Ray Lamphere, un- der arrest on suspicion of killing Mrs. | Guinness and aiding her in the mur- ders that preceded her own supposed death.
 The convenlng of a jury gave Ralph N. Smith, the prosecuting attorney, lit tie opportunity to further his investiga- tlons into the Guinness case. He took time to deny an interview credited to him In which he is asserted to have said that gold band ring in the pos. session of the prosecution was found on finger of the left hand of the chnrred corpse said to be that of Mrs Guinness. He said that he made no such statement and that the facts al. legged in 1t were without foundation.