Connecticut western news., 1908-05-21
FIND GUINNESS TEETH.
Coroner Now Convinced Corpse
 Is That of MurderesS.
IDENTIFIED BY HER DENTIST
Sheriff Still Investigating Reports of Missing Men - Trial of Ray Lam phere Will Probably Not Take Place This Spring.


 This Spring.
 Laporte, Ind, May 20. - Louis Schultz, the expert miner, found in the ashes of the Guinness house the upper and lower bridges, containing what the officials here pronounce the false teeth of Mrs. Belle Guinness, who. 1t is thought, murdered a dozen persons. The lower set of teeth tally exactly with the description and diagram fur nished by pr. I. r. Norton, the dentist who built the bridge and who identi- fled the teeth positively as those of Mrs. Guinness. In view of the unmis- takable evidence, Coroner Mack stated that he would probably render an off, cial finding that the burned adult fe- male body was that of Mrs. Gunpess.
 Dr. Norton, who built the lower bridge, said:
 1.-The upper jaw was probably bridg- ed in Chicago, but the work done in the lower jaw I can positively identify as that done by me about year ago. At that time I made a lower anterior bridge for Mrs. Guinness, consisting of six dummies and two crowns for the two remaining teeth, making a total of eight teeth, and swung them from the lower two cuspids. The gold in the rear of the crowns was of solid IS carat and bears my private style of workmanship, thus eliminating any possibility that the teeth are those of any one else" !, Lamphere Trial Far of.
 The grand jury continued its labors on the case of Ray Lamphere, charged with the murder of the Guinness fam fly. Prosecutor Smith is of the opin- ion that the entire week may be con- stunned before the grand jury is ready to make its, report. There is little ex- pectation that the trial of Ray Lam- phere will take place this spring, al though State Attorney Smith made the statement that he will be ready for trial next week
 Sheriff Smutzer is Investigating the claim that William Riedinger, farm CT at Delafield, Wis, was one of Mrs. Gunness' victims. In a letter received from David Hickman, a friend living at .Waukesha, Wis, he tells of the dis appearance from home of Riedinger. who left for some place in northern Indiana 'to marry a wealthy widow"
 A month later his hired man, John Heintzelman, received letter instruct ing him to sell the stock and farm i'm plements and put the money in the bank Although the letter was unsign- ed and not in the handwriting of Ried- finger, the hired man followed the in- structions and deposited 5000 in the bank, where it still is, for Riedinger never returned and was not heard from after that.
 Miss Jennie Graham of Waukesha. Wis, is seeking her brother, who left home to marry a rich widow in Indiana and was never heard from after that.
 What is considered proof that Hen " Gurholdt of Scandinavia, Wis, came to Laporte and was put out of the way by Mrs. Guinness was supplied when Sheriff Smutzer received a letter con- taining a description of Gurholdt's watch, which tallies with one of the watches found in the ruins of the burn ed house.
 Coroner Mack prepared his reports on the five remaining skeletons of uniden- tified dead, but no formal findings were entered. The seven unidentified dead were buried in the potter's field. Woman Employed Agent.
 A letter received by Chief of Police Cochrane from a man in Cleveland who describes an alleged advance agent or solicitor for the Guinness mat rimonial bureau compelled the authori- ties to give more serious attention to the theory that the murderess worked with an accomplice and that further digging will find more of her victims buried about her den of crime.
 The inventory of the Guinness estate shows that the proprietress of the mur- der farm was near the end of her re- sources. She had spent all except $720 of the $3,O0O which she took from Helgelein last January.
 That Mrs. Guinness, murderess, held small Christmas party at her house Christmas night, 1906, and the next day murdered all of her guests was the startling deduction from a further examination of the bodies as yet uni identified.
 The positive identification of the watch found in the possession of Ray Lamphere, held on charges of arson and murder, as that of John Moe, the Minnesota farmer, was another devel- opment in the investigation. Body Found Is Woman's.
 To the astonishment of the physi- clans who made an autopsy upon the seven remaining bodies and skeletons found in Mrs. Gunness' private grave yard one of the bodies proved to be that of woman. The six others were remains of men.
 This discovery corroborates in detail the statement by Emil Greening once Mrs. Guinness chore boy, who has been interviewed in Oklahoma City. Greening said that after the party held at Mrs. Gunness house Christmas l day, 1906, and the next day, Dec. 26, he noted the disappearance of all the guests. When he asked Mrs. Guinness