The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-11-20
LAMP HERE WAS
NOT SURPRISED
Testimony of Deputy Sheriff
Who Arrested Man SuS-
peGted of Murder.
ALMOST MADE CONFESSION
WOULDN'T PLEAD GUILTY ON
ACCOUNT OF HIS MOTHER.

Laporte, Ind. Nov. 19.-Deputy Sher-
IFS Anstiss and Mari testified Mis- aft
ernOon that Ray Lamphere made adj
missions amounting TO "a partial con-
fessiOn to setting fire to the home of
Mrs. Belle Guinness on the morning OF
April 2S. Anstiss had not concluded
his testimony when court adjourned.
Sheriff shutter who was on the
stand part of the day. told of his eff
forts to unravel the Guinness mystery
and the clews which he followed. The
Truelson chase to Texas was brought
in and exposed as clever scheme
worked by a man in Jail in Texas. who
thought he would be able 10 escape his
troubles there by confessing that he
was an accomplice of Mrs. Guinness.
Arrest of Lamphere.
! Deputy Sheriff Mari testified that on
the evening of April 2S he went to the
home of John Wheatbrook to arrest
Ray Lamphere. Just as Mari entered
the gate Lamphere came out of the
door Mari testified that he said:
Pay get your coat and go to town
with me-"
Lamphere's reply was:
did those three children and that
woman get out of the building?''
Mari asked, What building?"
Lamphere answered, That building
near town."
Lamphere wanted to inform Mr..
| WheatbroOk, who was in field. of his
arrest, and Mari accompanied him On
the way Mari asked him where he was
when he saw the fire Lamphere re-
| Piled
when / got along by the house the
| smoke was coming out of the windows
and around the roof"
Mari said that he asked Lamphere
if he saw anybody around the place,
and he said No"
Hint as to Crime.
The witness testified that Lamphere
said on another occasion that after he
had been discharged by Mrs. Guinness
she wanted him to return to work, but
he was afraid. When asked what he
was afraid of he replied that it would
not be fair to his lawyers to tell.
| Deputy Sherik Anstiss was then
called. He corroborated Sheriff Smut
ger in saying that Lamphere- told the
| officers that a man named Helgelein,
wanted in South Dakota for murder
and robbery. was at Mrs. Guinness
house. Investigation showed the story
to be a canard. Later Lamphere also
told Anstiss that Helgelein had left on
the $40 train
Conversations With Prisoner.
Witness testified to having had sew
eral conversations with Lamphere after
his arrest Anstiss said: 4.
I asked him about the Helgelein
matter ard he told me first he was in
Michigan City all night, but when I
told him John Rye had told me that he
came back with him on car he did
not deny it Then 1 said to him:
When you saw Mrs. Guinness killing
Helgelein. why did you not tell Smut
zer?' He said: I don't want to talk
about it But you won't deny IT,? I
said. and he replied, No, sir
When l talked to him about the Gun
ness fire he told me he would pIeac
guilty to arson if it were not for his
poor mother" concluded the deputy
sheriff.
On cross-examination. Attorney Wor-
( den brought out the fact that he had
told friends of Lamphere that although
( he had believed Lamphere guilty at
! first, he had changed his mind after
! the report of Dr. Hams on finding the
poison in the stomachs.
Preachers Testimony Wanted.
DIR. E. a. Schell. who was pastor of
the First Methodist Episcopal church
| in this city at the time of the fire, will
go on the stand tomorrow. if he comes
here. He is being impOrtuned to TESTIFY
concerning an alleged confession made
| to him by Lomphere.
| Sheriff Shutter also testified that
when the body of Mrs Guinness was
uncovered the neck or spine bones eX-
/ tended about three inches beyond the
point of the neck where the rest of the
/ body was burned off, but that in NOV
/ ing the body the vertebrae fell away.
/ The state by this evidence sought to
show that it was out of the question to
consider that the head had been cut Off
and that it had simply burned off, the
heat being more intense there than at
any other point.
! On discrimination il was brought
out that Mrs. Guinness had visited the
sheriffs office three times during the
winter with reference to the charge
that Iamphere was annoying her. and
on one of these occasions he observed
/ the rings which were offered in evil
dence as having been found on the I'M
I eray~c Of no admit bOQV