The Detroit times., 1908-05-08

disappeared, Roy Lamphere was sent
TO Michigan City by Mrs. Guinness to
await the coming of man named
John Moo, her cousin. Mrs. Guinness
told Lamphere TO wait until midnight
for MODS arrival from Chicago, and
that II he did not arrive that Lam
phere should stay all night and come
back the next morning. The cousin
did not arrive. and I.amphere returned
to the Guinness home next morning
about O'Clock Mrs. Guinness met
him at the door and told him he could
have the day off and go to town.
He accepted the invitation and spent
the day in town. He returned the
next morning and she said: You did
not get back in time 10. see him be-
fore he went"
Lamphere asked whom she meant.
and then she told him Helgelein had
left for Chicago on the AFTERNOON
before. That was the last heard of
Helgelein.
Bessie Conklin or Wallace, as she
was sometimes known. a young wom-
an residing In Michigan City, Ind.
whose former home was in Laporte,
arrested by Sheriff Shutter, is being
held in jail as an important witness.
The woman was a friend OF Roy
Lamphere, who is accused OF COM
piicity In the murders at the Guinness
home. Miss Conklin is not accused
of completely.
Ii is said that Lamphere, while talk
ing To Miss Conklin, made threats
against Mrs. Guinness and said that
he had information which IL disclos-
cd, would hang Mrs. Guinness.
He told me that Mrs. Guinness had
TO be good TO him. or he would make
it hot for her and send her to the gal
lows" said Miss Conklin to Sheriff
Shutter. She further said that she
was ready to disclose all that Lam
phere told her, adding that she was
IN love with Mrs. Guinness and was
crazy with jealousy"
Coroner Mack has received from
Alse Helgelen deposition according
TO the statements In which Lamphere
will be called upon for an explanation
OF some statements he is said to have
made.
Helgelein says in his deposition
that Mrs. Guinness wrote him and in
the letter said that Lamphere told her
that he had met a man from Mans
field, s. D., who told him that Andrew
IIelgelein was In Mansfield and In
tended tn stay there for some time.
Mrs. Guinness said In the same let
ter she had been expecting to hear
from Andrews for some time-that
Andrew Helgelein had been In Chi
cago for two days and had written her
rot tc write him until she heard from
him again. that he was going to New
York and thence to Norway. The
statements OF Mrs. Guinness do not
agree with that of Lamphere.
Letter Disappears.
Mrs. Guinness wrote also that the
letter of Andrew was left in the kitch-
en- while she went out to milk and
that Lamphere had stolen ii or II had
been burned. She Enclosed a piece of
the letter which had been found in
the barn where Lamphere had been.
In answer TO a question as to how
much money Andrew had she said she
did not know, but she had gotten
some OF II and had given a mortgage
on her place.
\ Also Helgeleln has searchedA the
records OF Laporte but can find no
record of such a MORTGAGE
Mrs. Guinness I'm answer to another
question said in the letter that An
drew left her place about l O'Clock
Jan. Is OF l6. and her l1-year.old
daughter drove him into town as he
was going to Michigan City to re-
main over a day.
Several days ago Lamphere told
the police officers that Andrew Helge-
lein left on the $40 train on the Lake
Shore road, offending to go to Chi
cago.
Coroner Mack turned over to a 10