Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-06-02
FATHER -IN.LAW TELLS STORY

Daughter Was Abandoned by Illus | band, Who Asserted First Wife Wa
 Killed on laporte Farm-Details o
 His "Confession."
 New York, June "Details of tn,
 marriage of his daughter, Sarah Ara
 bella, to Julius G. Truelson, Jr, of thi'
 city, who made the sensational state
 ment in Vernon, Tex, that he had aid
 ed Mrs. Belle Guinness of Laporte
 Ind, to dispose of bodies of persons ht
 asserted had been murdered by her
 were told by Cornelius P. vreeland oi
 Canarsie, N. Y. Vreeland said the only
 explanation he or his daughter could
 find for Truelson's story was that the
 young man wished to end his life ol
 was crazy. The latter theory was sup
 ported by Harry IrIelson. brother oi
 Julius, Jr., and son of the well to dc piano manufacturer of that name. Julius Truelson Is in the Texas jail charged with swindling by represent ing himself as Jonathan c. Thaw of Pittsburg. The dispatches from Yer 1 non say he bears the marks of long dissipation and seems to be addicted to drugs. In his confession to the TexA sheriff he says he married Mae Francis O'Reilly of Rochester, lured her to the Guinness farm at Laporte. where he helped to dispose of her body after Mrs. Guinness put her to death. He told the sheriff further he intended talk. ing his second wife, Sarah Arabella yreeland, daughter of c. P. vreeland of Canarsie x. Y., to whom he was married in March last, to have her killed by Mrs. Guinness, but received a letter from the archmurderess telling him that the sheriff was making in- quiries.
 First Wife Has Disappeared.
 Truelson first met Mrs. Guinness, the confession continued. in the Sherman House in Chicago after he had read her matrimonial advertisement in Il Danish paper. He accompanied her to Laporte. Mrs. Guinness told him, he asserted, that he could make money by Eelping to dispose of persons who died under her care in her illegal practice of midwifery.
 This confession was denied after ward by the young prisoner. but Mae O'Rellly has apparently disappeared, and dispatches from Laporte say a ring marked with her name was found in the ruins of the Guinness home.
 My daughter was introduced to Tru- elson several months before the mar riage," said yreeland. ''The two took a liking to one another. and Belle got my permission to be married. The cer- emony was performed on March last fin Jersey City. The two went to Mont real. where the young man said he had business.
 About a week afterward I got a let ter from Truelson's father in which he said his son already was married, and had the father known of the second affair he would have warned me in time. Meantime my daughter arrived fin Montreal. About eight days after the wedding her husband told her he must leave her for a day or two to at- tend to business. The report that he showed her a letter from Mrs. Gun ness is false. Until the murder stories appeared in the newspapers Belle never had heard of the woman. But Julius didn't come hack. Instead I had to pay Sl00 to obtain my daughters re lease from a cell in Montreal. as a bad check given by Truelson had made trouble. She came back here to live and has neither seen nor heard from 1Tuelson since"
 vreeland added that inquiries wers being made through his lawyer. VII Ham Wilson. 10 learn whether Mae O'ReIlly was alive at the time of Tru- elsOn's marriage with Miss vreeiand. The result Of the investigation. yree- land asserted. would determine wheih- CT his daughter would bring action for annulment or for divorce.
 Truelson's brother Harry said that Julius was in the Elmira rpformatory at the time the scOnfesSion- had him aiding Mrs. Gunness.
 My brother Is crszy.- said Harry Truelson- He was struck on the head hy q trolley car at Twenty-third street and Broadway Ere years ago and has been crszy since He usS.paroled from Elnira rsformstory oa the Ist of last January. and be was a prisoner when Mrs Gunness was active killing per sons. He vss sent to the reformztsry for dessrting from the army and navy- HIs story is ridicui0us