Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-06-01
Julius TrueIson, Jr., Declared He
Was an Accomplish OF Mrs.
Guinness in Murders.
HE TOLD A VERY LURlD TALE,
Said lie Took His Wife To the Farm to
Have Her Disposed of--Family
Believe Him Insane,

Laporte, Ind, June with the re-
turn today OF Sheriff Shutter from
Vernon, Tex, where he went to inves.
tigate the alleged confession of New
York man named Julius Truelson, Jr,
VINO wrote to Prosecutor Smith that he
had been an accomplish of Mrs, CUM
ness IN several of her murders, the de.
tails of the sequal TO that confession
VIII become known The sheriff is not
bringing Truelson back with him for
the reason that 1t is claimed the con-
fession doees not hold good, having
been made by the prisoner in order to
escape forgery charge in Texas,
Iruelson has since retracted the confess
sion.
The Confession If true. would solve
many of the mysteries of the Guinness
murder farm, and would hang both
Truelson and Ray Lampherc the La
porte suspect now under indictment,
The Vernon, Tex. prisoner Is % years
old aud claims to be the son of a
wealthy manufacturer
Truelson has been in Jail there since
March -. charged with swindling by
representing himself to be Jonathan q.
Thaw OF Pittsburg, a cousin of Harry
X. Thaw. and passing many forged
checks.
According TO the alleged confession of
Truelson, Ir., he took his wife, Mae
Frances y Reilly of Rochester, n. Y,
TO the Guinness farm to have her put
out of the way and helped Lamphere
bury her and assisted i'm disposing OF
six other bodies at the Guinness farm,
Mae OReilly is missing The police of
Rochester tried 10 days ago to find her
and reported that she mad disappeared
about the time Truelson, according TO
tho confession took her to Laporte t.
have her killed SO that he could marry
again Jewelry bearing the name of
May F. O'Reilly was found in the GUM
ness ruins. Further Truelsom CON
fessed" that ne intended TO take his
second wife, Sarah Arabella Vreeland,
daughter of c. p. Nreeland of East
Ninety-third street. Cauarsie. Il, r.,
with whom he eloped in March last, to
the Guinness farm.
All that prevented him, the confess
sion" says, was a letter from Mrs.
Guinness telling him that the sheriff
was making inquirlese regarding the
disappearance of some of her victims
and that he should come alone.
In his confession" Truelson said ne
can read Danish we'll enough 10 under
stand but cannot speak the language
and THAT early In 1904 he read Mrs
Guinness matrimonial advertisement
in a Danish paper published in Milwau-
kee and by correspondence arranged
To meet her in the Sherman house. Chi
cago.
From there he accompanied her to
La Porte, staying over night. and was
told that, although he had no money
and was too young 20 marry her, she
could put him in the way of MAX
ing considerable money by helping 10
dispose of bodies Of persons who dled
under her care. Truelson decared II
the confession" that Mrs. Guinness
told him she was practising as a mid
wife 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 IL required
two to do the work.
BELIEVE HE is INSANE.
New York, June Julius g, Truel-
son, the young man whose alleged con-
fession I'm connection with the Guinness
farm mystery and his subsequent re-
traction was made public today. is be-
lieved by his family to be mentally nm
sound. His brother Harry said Julius
had been irresponsible since he was
struck by a trolley ear I'm Broadway
here 1--WE years ago julius sustained
a serious injury To the skull NJ that
time. the brother said.and Harry thinks
his brain was affected. Harry SAID
this story told by Julius of his con-
nection with the Guinness farm affair
could not possibly he true. as julius
was serving a sentence in Elmira re-
formatory at the time covered by the
alleged confession. Young Truelson'
family is in fairly good circumstances
They say they have exhausted every
effort I'm an unsuccessful attempt to re-
form Julius, and that they VIII have
nothing more to do with him.