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A Possible Solution. Laporte, Ind. May %—A possible solution of the Guinness farm mys tery, which was deepened Wednesday when four additional bodies were found in the barnyard, developed late in the afternoon. Evidence that the nine dismembered corpses so far un earthed had been shipped to this city, probably from Chicago, came to light, the testimony of draymen, who had carted trunks and boxes to the Guin ness ‘home bearing this out. In addition, the local authorities re ceived information that two trunks, consigned to “Mrs. Belle Guinness, Laporte, Ind.,” were being held in an express office in the larger city and the assistance of the Chicago police in unraveling the puzzle was sought at once. Two Bodies Identified. Two of the nine mutilated bodies were identified Wednesday afternoon with considerable certainty. Antone Olson, 2410 Indiana avenue, Chicago, viewed the remains supposed to be those of Jennie Olson, the 16-year-old foster daughter of Mrs. Guinness, and pronounced them those of his daugh ter. A sister of the dead girl,Mrs. Leo Olander, 2818 South Park avenue, Chicago, accompanied the father and added her testimony regarding her sis ter’s characteristics. Ask K. Helgelein, 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 relative. Against this, however, is the result of the autopsy performed on this particu lar body by Dr. J. H. William Meyer. He found contradictory conditions which to his mind, at least, proved that the dead man perished long after Andrew Helgelein disappeared in Jan uary last, even going so far as to say that the corpse showed evidences of having been in the ground less than two weeks. Ask Helgelein, however, refused to be convinced by these find ings, and his certainty led the local authorities to accept his identifica tion, at least for the present. Lamphere Says Nothing. Roy Lamphere, who is held on a charge of first degree murder grow ing out of the fire which destroyed the Guinness home and caused the deaths of Mrs. Guinness and her three chil dren, offered no new evidence, despite repeated questionings. Ralph N. Smith, the prosecuting attorney of the district, asserted, ‘however, that a con fession is not necessary so far as Lamphere is concerned. “We have’ positive evidence in the shape of let ters connecting Lamphere with the murders at the Guinness farm,” he said. The exact nature of these let ters was carefully guarded by Mr. Smith. An attempt to identify one of the corpses as that of Ole B. Budsberg, Iola, Wis., was also started by the sheriff’s office here. In response to telephone messages sent there in the morning word came at night that a member of Budsberg’s family had left there for this city. The increasingly divergent charac ter of the grewsome moysteries has aroused the entire community. The county commissioners of Laporte
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Goshen Weekly News Times
Goshen, Indiana, US
Fri, May 08, 1908
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