The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1908-05-08
Eleven Bodies Found Buried iB
Farmhouse Yard.
HAD BEEN MURDERED.
of John Helgelein Over Dis
appearance of His Brother Leads
to Discovery of Murdered Bodies
of Two Men, Woman and Two
Children in Yard of Woman Re-
Gently Burned to Death.

A dispatch from Laparte, Ind, Says
one of the most grewsome murder
mysteries ever unearthed in that Sec
ton of the country came to light
Tuesday when the bodies of five per-
sons, all Of tlrem murdered, were
found in the yard in the home Of
Mrs. Belle Guinness, who, with three
Of her children was burned to death
on the night of April 28.
So far only two of the bodies have
been identified. These are Andrew
Helelee, who came to that city from
Aberdeen, S. D., for the purpose OF
marrying Mrs. Guinness, whose ac-
quain he had made through
matrimonial bureau. Tht other is
that of Jennie Olson Guinness, asChi-
cago girl, who had been adopted by
Mrs. Guinness. She disappeared in
September, 1906, and it was said had
gone to Los Angeles to attend school.
The other bodies were those of =
man and two children, apparently 12
years old.
The body of Helgenein was dis
membered and the arms, legs, trunk
and head were buried in different
parts of tn yard. 1t is believed by
the authorities that Guy Lamphere,
who has been under arrest since the
burning of the Guinness home, on
the charge of numbering Mrs. Gun
ness and her family, committed the
Helgelein crime, Lamphere is a car
penter and the manner in which the
body of Hlgelcin was dismembered
leads to the belief that it was done
by somebody familiar with the use
Of saw. s
In some quarters it is believed that
Mrs. Guinness may have known some
thing Of the murderers of the five
people.
A possible solution Of the Guinness
farm mystery, which was deepened
Wednesday when four additional bod
les were found in the barn yard, de-
veloped Wednesday night. Evidence
tending to show that the nine dis
membered corpses un3arthed Tues
day and Wednesday had been ship
ned to Laporte, probably from Chi
cago, came to light. The testimony
of draymen who had carted trunks
and boxes to the Guinness home lent
color to this supposition. The La
porte police also received information
that two trunks, consigned to Mrs
Belle Guinness, Laporte, Ind" are
help in an express Office in Chicago.
Two of the nine mutilated bodies
were identified with reasonable GER
tainty. Anton Olson, of Chicago,
viewed the body supposed to be that
of Jennie Olson, 16 years old, foster
daughter of Mrs. Guinness, and pro-
nounced it to be that of his daughter.
A sister Of the girl, Mrs. Leo Olan-
der, Of Chicago, confirmed the
fathers Identification.
Ask K Helegein. whose inquiries
regarding his missing brother, An
drew, led to the first discoveries on
the death haunted farm, became sure
that the largest and best preserved
of the corpses is that of his brother,
Against this Identification, however,
is the result of the autopsy PERFORM
ed on this body by DR.. J. H. Meyer.
He found conditions which, to his
mind, proved that the man perished
1ono oftar Andrew EIe1apein diSap.
peared last January. DR.. Meyer said
the corpse showed evidence Of having
been in the ground less than two
weeks. ASK Helegein, however. re-
fused to be convinced by these find
ings, and hiscertainty led the coroner
to accept his identification for tho:
nresent