The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-06-02


sheriff he says he married Mae Francis
O'Reilly Of Rochester, lured her to the
Guinness farm at Laporte, where he
helped to dispose of her body after
Mrs. Guinness put her to DEATH He
told the sheriff further he intended TAX
ing his second wife, Sarah Arabella
Vreeland, daughter of G. p. Vreeland
married in March last, to have her
killed by Mrs. Guinness, but received
letter from the archmurderess telling
him that the sheriff was making in
quiries.
First Wife Has Disappeared.
Truelson first met Mrs. Guinness, the
confession continued, in the Sherman
House in Chicago after he had read
her matrimonial advertisement in
Danish paper. He accompanied her to
Laporte. Mrs. Guinness told him, he
asserted, that he could make money by
Helping to dispose of persons who died
under her care in her Illegal practice
OF midwifery.
This confession was denied after
ward by the young prisoner, but Mae
O'Reilly has apparently disappeared,
and dispatches from Laporte say ring
marked with her name was found in
the ruins of the Guinness home.
My daughter was introduced to Tru-
elson several months before the mar
rage" said Vreeland. 1.-THE two took
a liking to one another, and Belle got
my permission to be married. The GER
emony was performed on March last
in Jersey City. The two went to Mont
real
"About week afterward l got let
ter from Truelson's father in which he
said his son already was married, and
had the father known of the second
affair he would have warned me in
time. Meantime my daughter arrived
in Montreal. About eight days after
the wedding her husband told her he
must leave her for a day or two to at
tend to business. The report that he
showed her a letter from Mrs. Gun
ness is false. Until the murder stories
appeared in the newspapers Belle never
had heard of the woman. But Julius
didn't come back. Instead l had to
pay 500 to obtain my daughters re-
lease from cell in Montreal, as a bad
check given by Truelson had made
trouble. She came back here to live
and has neither seen nor heard from
Truelson since"
Looking Up Truelson's History.
Vreeland added that inquiries We're
being made through his lawyer, VIII
liam Wilson, to learn whether Mae
O'Reilly was alive at the time of Tru-
elson's marriage with Miss Vreeland.
The result of the investigation, Vree-
land asserted, would determine wheth-
er his daughter would bring action for
annulment or for divorce.
Truelson's brother Harry said that
Julius was in the Elmira reformatory
at the time the confession" had him
aiding Mrs. Guinness.
MY brother is crazy" said Harry
Truelson. HE was struck on the head
by trolley car at Twenty-third street
and Broadway five years ago and has
been crazy since. He was paroled from
Elmira reformatory on the LIST of last
January, and he was a prisoner when
Mrs. Guinness was active killing per-
sons. He was sent TO the reformatory
for deserving from the army and navy.
His story is ridiculous"
Laporte reports say that as result
of a statement made to the authorities
by Harold Chapman, former en-
ployee of Mrs. Belle Guinness, men UNI
der the direction of Sheriff Shutter
began searching for bodies in a hither-
to unsupported place.
Chapman says that he was instructed
one day by Mrs. Guinness to build a
wire fence around a certain part of the
back yard. Mrs. Guinness superintend-
ed the work and watched every move
very carefully
At a certain point she wanted Chap.
man to make a crook in the fence.
There was considerable argument over
the matter, Chapman said, but finally
he yielded and made the bend around
the place where Mrs. Guinness said she
had 'favorite horse" buried
Hogs roofing up the ground below the
private cemetery of Mrs. Belle Gun
ness, brought to the surface two hui
man bones. One was from an arm
and the other from a leg. The hogs
dragged the bones around the hog
yard for some time before the find be-
came known. AS result Sheriff Smut
ger began turning the surface Of the
hog run and dragging the pond which