Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-06-01
BELIEVE MRS, GUINNESS ALIVE
MOVE OF DEFENSE IN LAPoRTE
MURDER CASE.
Expect to Prove That Woman Sent
Letter to a Man as Late as
May 4.

LAPORTE. Ind. June HERMAN w
Worden of counsel for Ray Lampnere.
held on a charge of numbering Mrs.
Guinness and her three children by SET
ting fire 10 their home. in statement
indicates that the defense will make
determined effort to prove that Mrs
Guinness Is alive.
We have every reason to believe that
she is alive" said MIR. Worden. Il ex-
pect letters tomorrow which will indl-
cate the readiness of the man who re-
ceived letter from Mrs. Guinness as late
as May to come 10 Laporte TO prove the
fact"
With the return today of Sheriff Smut
ger from Vernon. Tex. where he went
TO investigate the alleged confession of a
New York man named Truelson. VINO
wrote TO Prosecutor Smith that ne haa
been an accomplice of Mrs. Guinness in
several of her murders. the details of the
sequel to that confession will become
known The sheriff is not bringing
Truslson back with him for the reason
that 1T is claimed the confession does not
hold good. having been made by the
prisoner in order to escape forgery
charge in Texas.
An Alleged Confession.
The confession. If true. would solve
many of the mysteries OF the GUINNESS
murder farm at Laporte Ind, and
would hang both Truelson and Ray
Lamphere. the Laporte suspect now un-
der indictment. The Vernon. rex. pris-
oner is julius G.. Truelson. jr.. twenty
two years old. and claims to be tn. son
Of wealthy manufacturer
Trueson has been in jail here since
Marcn ~. charged with swindling by
representing himself to be Jonathan g.
Thaw of Pittsburg "a cousin Of Harry h.
nd naSSipQ forged checks.
According to the alleged confession.
Truelson. jr.. took his wife. Mae Frances
OReilly of Rochester. y. ". to the Gun
ness farm to have her put out Of the
way. and helped Lamphere bury her. and
assisted in disposing Of six other bodies
at the Guinness farm.
Retracts His Story.
Truelson. jr.. has since retracted the al
legged confession. Nevertheless Mae
O'Reilly rs missing. The police of Roch-
ester tried ten days ago tn find her and
reported that she had disappeared about
the time Truelson. according to the CON
fession'' took her to Laporte TO have her
killed so that he could marry again. Jew
elry bearing the name OF Mae +. OReilly
was found in the Guinness ruins.
Furthermore. Truelson "confesses that
ne intended to take a. second wife
Sarah Arabella Vreeland. daughter of c.
l.. l.. with whom he elored in March last
TO the Guinness farm.
All that prevented him. the confession
says. was a letter from Mrs. Guinness
telling him that the sheriff was making
inquiries about the disappearance of some
of her victims and that he should come
alone
Too Young to Marry.
In his confession Truelson said he
can read Danish well enough to under
stand. but cannot speak the language
and that early in 1904 he read Mrs. Gun
ness matrimonial advertisement in a
Danish paper published in Milwaukee. and
by correspondence arranged to meet her
in the Sherman House, Chicago.
From there he accompanied her 10 La
porte. staying over night. and was told
that although he had no money and was
too young to marry her she could nut
him in the way of making considerable
money by helping 10 dispose of bodies of
persons who died under her care
Truelson declared in thu confession
that Mrs. Guinness told him she was prac-
tfcing as midwife. Illegally and that
many OF her patients died. and ii was
part of her contract to dispose of the
bodies. She said she had one man. but II
required two to do the work.
Believed Mentally Unsound.
julius G. Truelson. the young man
whose alleged confession in connection
with the Guinness farm mystery and his
subsequent retraction were made pub
lie today is believed by his family to
be mentally unsound. His brother Harry
said Julius had been irresponsible since
he. was struck by a trolley car in Broad
way here five years ago. julius sustained
serious injury TO the skull at that time
the brother said and Harry believes his
brothers brain was affected Harry said
the story told by julius of his connection
with the Guinness farm affair could no,
possibly be true. as Julius was serving a
sentence in Elmira refofmatory at the
time covered by the alleged confession.
Young Truelsons family are i'm fairly
good circumstances. They say they hayt,
exhausted every effort in an unsuccessful
attempt TO reform Julius and that they
Will. have nothing more to do with him