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 He Took His Wife 10 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.,
who wrote to Prosecutor Smith that he
had been an accomplish of Mrs. GUM
ness in several of her murders the de.
talis 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 a forgery charge IN Texas,
Truels0n has since retracbed 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 Lamphere, the La
porte suspect now under indictment.
The Vernon, Tex, prisoner is % years
old aud claims to be the son of a
wealthy manufactures.
Truelson has been in Jail there since
March 90. charged with swiudling by
representing himself to be Jonathan @,
Thaw of Pittsburg, cousin of Harry
X. Thaw, and passing many forged
checks
According TO the alleged confession of
Truelson Jr., he took his wife Mae
Frances O Reilly of Rochester, y. Y,
10 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 ORellly is missing. The police or
Rochester tried 10 days ago to find her
and reported that she had disappeared
about the time Truelson, according 10
the confession. took her to Laportc to
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 TrueIson "con-
second wife, Sarah Arabela Nreeland,
daughter of c. p. Vreeland of East
Ninety-third street, Canarsie. L. L.,
with whom he eloped in March last to
the Guinness farm.
An that prevented him, the confess
SION says, was 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 NO
can read Danish we'll enough To under
stand but cannot speak the Language,
and that early In 1904 he read Mrs.
Guinness matrimonial advertisement
in Danish paper published in Milwau-
kee ana Dy correspondence az "'tss
to meer 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 to marry her, she
could put him in the way of max
ing considerable money by helping TO
dispose of bodies of spersons who diei
under her care. Truelson declared IN
the confession" that Mrs. Guinness
told him she was practising as md
wife Illegally. and that many of her
patients died and il was part OF her
Contract 10 dispose of the bodies She
said she had one man, but II required
two to do the work.
RELIEVE HE is INSANE.
New York June l.--Julius G, Truel-
son. the young man whose alleged con-
fession in connection with the GUINNESS
farm mystery and his subsequent re-
traction was made public today, is be-
lieved by his family to be mentally I'M
sound His brother Harry said julius
had been irresponsible since ne was
struck by a trolley ear IN broadway
here five years ago. julius sustained
"a serious injury to the skull at that
tirne tho brother said.and Harry thinks
his brain was affected. Harry said
this story told by julius of his con-
nectjon with the Guinness farm arair
could not possibly be true, as Junus
was serving a sentence In Elmira re-
formatory at the time covered. by th'
alleged confession. Young Iruelson'
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 nave
nothing more TO do with him