Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-05-13
LAPORTE MURDER
CASES UNSOLVEO
SIuicing of Powdered Debris from
Cellar of Guinness Farm House
May Result in Discoveries.
RAY LAMPHERE MAY CONFESS
Rev. T.. y. Schcll of Laportc Thinks
lie VIII Tell Whole Truth
ON Witness Stand.

'N'-
Laporte, Ind, May lS--Unless the
sluicing of the powdered debris taken
from the cellar Of the ruined Guinness
farm house results in startling discov-
cries today the production OF further
tangible evidence in the tragedy is
not unlikely. Yesterdays develop
ments exhausted most of the sources
from which sprung the sensations OF
the case and the authorities are now
confronted with the task of endeavor-
ing to find tho corroborative details ~
the main points already deduced and
of forging the missing links in the
chain OF testimony with which they
are binding the more or less scattered
parts of the battling case, into a CO.
herent whole.
Just how successful they will be in
this work is not likely to be reveal
ed until Ray Lampherc is brought to
trial. Prosecutor II. n Smith has
evidently modified his previous de-
termination to rush the case into
| court, finding that the states side may
be strengthened in many particulars.
| lie insists that the evidence already
available is sufficient tn prove the
state contentious, but the recent ac-
uv1ty of the defense and the strength
| ening of its forces show that des-
| perate fight Is to be made on behalf
| of Lamphere
Coroner Mack has received and
| made public the results OF his inVes-
legations on all the known bodies ex-
cept that supposed to have been ole
| Budsberg Of lola, Wis. The four
| burned bodies found in the ruins of
the house are dead issues so far as
| further investigation by the coroner
is concerned.
NO BODIES IDENTIFIED.
None Of the other bodies has been
| identified to any degree and it is scarce
ly likely that they will be. being de-
| composed fragmentary massese OF flesh
| and bone. What developments do
| come probably will be in the direction
of establishing identity of more of the
mysterious men who We're seen TO enter
| the farm house but never to leave it.
Yesterday three such persons were con-
nected up with the Guinness woman,
| the evidence regarding John Moe of
Elbow Lake, Mimi, and Henry Gerholt
| of Scandinavia, Wis, being almost con-
elusive. The fate of George Brady or
Tuscola ILL.,, is less certain.
Moe was traced to the farm by means
of the banking transactions which pre-
coded his visit
The facts were shown startlingly sim
ilar to those brought to light in the
cases Of ole BudsbarT and Andrew
Helgelein Each of the men cashed a
check, draft or note for considerable
amount at one OF the local banks ana
at the desks of the cashiers, all the
trails ended
OfAcIaIs ~ rho tbrso Tanorta hanks
boId n ,on sa,ance tod,y ta de,s,,,,i,,,.
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a,tborIties IN ,ntoneIi,g mo ,I1,,.1er
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t Ky s.e' Nat,oai @ 90 M NV, M
t,itigars' Sa,'tr,s h,rly ana ia s,at..
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ness paw ~ uePosIrsa pr '~9ei ~,
ili'l!ey " ~ q -. w. '''o
hiO"ie !oS'ou'or smith lllliss he
WI! DC apie 10 SECURE Nd'u"oio lhio'-
NATION
SCORES OF INQUIRIES.
scores OF letters ASKING hpout sup
posed visitors to the Guinness farm
nave peeh received put lhe vas. ma
1ority of these epistles are either IL
legiole or anonymous Budsberg and
Moe were i"lnd through inquiries
emanatlng IRON the Farmers state
pank OF loia, WIS" ule letters peilS
complete IN detail ana dehhlte as TO
dates ana places Such Ielters hre
sure 10 receive consideration py the
local authoritles'
coroner MACK To-Day recelNeu from
Usage Ilty, haL'' inquiries concern
ing Emu Ieil' VINO lett tilal cltx- Ap LOU,
hhoh,h asp 10 come 90 90 o ahiSt , Ell
~ s,nu 10 hhVf han ssuVV VIII Nun MN
his relatives have heard nothing from
nm s,nSe n+m M,lt on, o v.S tet1or
',t,n,.,,s, a.. n,i'ib ,roii ,,idpii ~ ida,
I Iias' 'S ~ '''S"' w
- ~ ,,o ,,.,,,.los fo,,d IN t,,o ~
TIC ee VI ~ e'' cut,,rsss hon,n vas sbo,,,,,
tnS.v 10 ha "a W'atcb ~ Ole na,dshere
go 20 ,be s,nnnsnd yictir,s ~ Mr.
G''i,,ass srn,I toIa WIS 1ettcr
va" recoiyod today nv Coroner Mack
fro,, IoIa saving mat Eudshurg's watch
no a., o,,or faced poid ti,ne-niece No
t7teees Wltb n M Is wnitbarn move
,,ant - ietyals No 1Aoit944 Tho do.
scrint,on iallies according 10 Prosecutor
smith with one of the watches found
in me ruins
Prosecutor smith said that the sill
YER watch taken from I.amphere when
he was arrested mas been declared by
AISLE Heigelein TO resemble the ono