The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-06-05
A GREAT STORY
Of A PRISONER
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| vertiSement in a Milwaukee paper,
answered it, met her in Chicago and
was offered employment by her. He
said she told him she practiced an
| Illegal form of surgery, and occasion
| ally had bodies to dispose of, and
that she would pay him well for
helping her.
He said he married Mae Frances
! O'Reilly at Saratoga, n. Y, August
4, 1904, deserted her two weeks la
ter, entered the navy, deserted, pass
ed bad checks, was sent to the Ell
mira reformatory, got out in Octo-
Der, 1906, and went to Laporte, ar
irving there on Christmas night. The
same night. he said, he helped Lam
| phere bury the body of a girl who,
! he learned later was Jennie Olsen
First Wife's Death.
! He remained three days, he said,
helped bury three more bodies and
got $500 from Mrs. Guinness Then
he left, stealing two gold watches,
which he later pawned in New York
! He found his wife in Saratoga in
May, 1907, he said, and got her to
accompany him back to the Guinness
| place.
On condition that he would stay
and help her, he said, Mrs Guinness
agreed to kill his wife This she did
with choral hydrate, he said, and
| field. In the same hole, the next
night, he declared, they buried the
body of Frank Riedlanger of Della
field, Wis, who has been reported
as missing.
| Tells of HeIgelein's Death.
The next crime Truelson confess
ed to was the burying of the body of
Andrew Helgelein. He said Mrs
Guinness sent for him when he was
in New York; that he arrived in La
porte on the morning of Jan IA,
! last, was concealed all day in the
! Guinness house, and at 8 O'Clock that
night, when Lamphere returned from
| Michigan City, sat in card game
with Lamphere. Mrs Guinness and
| Helgelein.
| During the game, he said, the
murderess poisoned Helgelein's beer,
and he and Lamphere carried the
unconscious victim to the door of
! the secret butchery room Mrs. Gun
ness would not let them inside, he
related, but dragged the body in her
self, and told them to wait
| In a short time he declared, she
dragged it out and wrapped it in
bagging and they buried it.
Coin Toss With Lamphere.
Mrs. Guinness, Lamphere and him
self discussed means of concealing
the crime, he said, and Mrs. Guinness
asked Truelson to fire the house and
go with her to San Francisco
Truelson said he advised stand
ing pat" to divert suspicion. He and
Lamphere left at 3 o'clock in the
morning. On the way to town he
and Lamphere discussed what Mrs
Guinness might do to them. Lam
phere he declared, said he was afraid
she would do away with both of
them, and suggested killing her first
He also said Lamphere suggested
knocking the kids" in the head, as
well as the "old woman" and set
ting fire to the, house. To determine
which one should do this, Truelson
related, they tossed a coin and the
lot fell to Lamphere.
From Laporte, Truelson said, he
went to Chicago, thence to st. Louis,
then to Fort Worth and Vernon.
After signing a long confession in
GLIDING these statements, Truelson
told Sheriff Williams of Vernon Gin
confidence" that it was all lie,
that he had never been near the Gun
ness farm, and that during the per-
iod covered by his confession of
crime he had been in confinement,
either in the New York Reformatory
at Elmira or in government prisons,
for deserving from both the army
and the navy