The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1908-05-21
GUINNESS WOMAN
HAD ACCOMPLICE
CLEVELAND MAN WRITES ABOUT
ATTEMPT TO LURE HIM
TO THE FARM.
Was Shown Photograph - Officials
Deny DR.. sehelI Has Told Of Lamp
here's Statements - Prosecutor
Smith Receives Threatening Letter.

Laporte, Ind, May 14.-Denials by
Laporte officials that Rev. DR.. X. A.
Schell had revealed to them the sub
stance OF his conversations with
Lamphere, and the discovery of evil
dence that Mrs. Bella Guinness was
aided by an accomplice In Turing her
victims to the farm were the chief de-
velopments In the case Wednesday.
II. w. Worden, attorney for Lamp
here, issued a formal statement that
he had given his client strict injunc-
tions not to discuss the charges
against him, concluding: The fact is
that Lamphere has never made a con-
fesslon to any one and never will. He
has nothing to confess"
The evidence regarding the aids OF
Mrs. Guinness came in a letter from a
resident Of Cleveland addressed to the
local chief Of police, Clinton Coohrane.
II told OF the writer's having met a
stranger In that city last August who
gave him photograph Of "a rich wild
ow who resided in Laporte" and tried
to persuade him to come here to sec
the woman. The photograph is a fair
ly good likeness Of Mrs. Guinness and
was evidently taken some time ago.
Prosecutor Is Threatened.
Ralph N. Smith received letter
threatening him with death unless he
abandoned the prosecution Of the Gun.
ness affair. Another communication
20 the attorney purported 10 reveal
the fact that Mrs. Guinness is alive.
Emil Tell OF Usage City. Kan, is the
latest addition to the list Of possible
victims Of the farm. A letter inquir.
ing about him came to Coroner Mack.
Woman Feared Lsnphsre.
A new witness regarding Mrs Gun.
ness fear Of Lamphere was found
Wednesday. Bertha Schultz. a clark
In a local dry goods store. said that
the woman was in the store several
lays before the fire and told her that
she was afraid that Lamphere would
set fire to the farmhouse. Miss
schultz, II is said. will repeat this
conversation before the grand jury.
Parts Of Jawbone Found.
Laporte, Ind, May 15-Portions OF
'uman jawbones and a piece of skin
m which traces of hair are apparent
and which may prove to be a part Of
human scalp we're found late Thursday
IN the cellar of the Guinness farm
house. The prosecuting officers of the
county declared that these relics are
he most valuable to their case that
have yet been discovered
Helgsleln's Body Buried.
Laporte, Ind, May 16.-The first of
he Guinness victims to be inferred
with Christian rites was buried Friday
night In Patton's cemetery, on the
outskirts of Laporte. The corpse was
hat OF Andrew X. Helgelein of Mans
field, 8. D., the last man to meet his
death In the trap TO which Mrs. Gun
ness lured her victims.
The body was released for burial
after Coroner Mack had received the
reports of the Bertillon experts who
have examined 1t and compared their
findings with figures taken from the
records of the Minnesota penitentiary
at Saltwater. Two officials of the
Michigan City prison and Edward A.
Evans of the Chicago police identih-
cation bureau did the work. Both re
ports we're TO the effect that 1t was
he body of Helgelein.
Mrs. Guinness Certainly Dead.
The identification of the piece OF
iawbone taken from the ruins of the
Guinness farmhouse as a portion OF
Mrs. Guinness skull, bears out most
onclusively the contentious OF the
state regarding the identity OF the
bodies found in the cellar on April 28.
1t is the clinching bit of evidence
which should set at rest the rumors
that Mrs. Guinness had escaped"
This statement was made by Ralph
n. Smith, prosecuting attorney, Friday
night. 1t followed report from DR..
C. p. Norton. a dentist. who found
that the piece Of charred bone pre-
sented characteristic conditions which
he had observed while working on
Mrs. Guinness teeth.