Los Angeles herald., 1910-01-14

daughter of Mrs. Guinness. who it has
been believed was murdered by the
woman more than a year before the
house was burned and whose body
was believed to have been buried in
the farm yard, was not murdered by
Mrs. Guinness, according to Lamphere $
confession, but was burned to death
in the fire that destroyed the house.
She also had been chloroformed.
Who Was Other Girl?
Assuming that Lamphere told the
truth about Jennie Olson, the iden-
tity of a girl buried in the yard adds
another mystery to the case.
Lamphere let himself into the house
the night of the fire. The chloroform
was administered and a search for
money was made, but less than $40
was found. Then he and the woman
who he says accompanied him went
away, according to. Lamphere, and
it was when he was hurrying toward
the country where he was to work
that day that he looked back and saw
flames bursting from the house
Lamphere. according to the confess
sion, had a guilty knowledge of the
murder of three men in the. Guinness
home during the time he lived there,
about eight months in 1907, and he as
sisted Mrs. Guinness in disposing of the
bodies of the three men.
He said he thought he had not re-
ceived as much of the profits of the
transaction as he considered himself
entitled to and he went to the farm
house at night with a woman, chloro-
formed Mrs. Guinness. her three chill
dren and Jennie Olson.
Searched the House
He and the woman searched the
house, finding between $50 and $40. Ihe
light they used was a candle and they
left the house without knowing they
had left behind a spark which caused
the flames.
Mrs. Guinness method of killing her
victims, Lamphere said, was first to
chloroform them as they slept and
then, If the drug did not itself kill, to
sever their heads with an ak.
Each time man was to be muir
dered, according to Lamphere, she sent
him to purchase chloroform Lam
phere said he saw one of the men
killed and aided in burying all three.
Thess men were Andrew Helgelein
and probably Ole Budsberg and Tonnes
Petersenlien. Helgelein, Lamphere
thought, was the third husband of Mrs.
Guinness.
At the time of the Lamphere trial it
was thought Jennie Olson had been
killed by Mrs. Guinness. Lamphere,
however, details how Mrs. Guinness
had secreted her in the house after she
returned from a visit and she was
chloroformed by Lamphere and his ac-
complice.
Lamphere said he was drunk the
night he visited the place. He thought
he would find $1500.
Lamphere did not desire the death OF
the Guinness children and Jennie Olson.
His first question when he was arrest
ed on suspicion of having set fire to
the house was whether the children
had escaped. He did not even intend to
kill Mrs. Guinness.
Although he confessed to more
atrocious crimes, he did not admit he
Intentionally started the fire in which
Mrs. Guinness perished.
Once he was willing to enter a for
NAL plea of guilty to that charge in
the hope of leniency, but when he
learned that in the confession of ar
son would be involved a confession of
numbering the family he refused.
May Have Been Slain
Inquiry at La Porte by the Post-Dis-
patch shows that Ole o. Budsburg of
lola, Wis, who sold his farm and went
to La Porte with the money, and whose