The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-01-14
BY Associates Press.

st. Louis, Jan. 13.-Ray Lamphere,
who died recently in the Indiana peni-
tentiary at Michigan City, while serv-
ing a term for setting fire to the
home of Mrs. Belle Guinness, near
LaPorte, Ind, did not carry the Nse-
crets of the Guinness charnal farm to
the tomb with him, according to a
copyrighted story in the Post-Dis-
patch today. When he believed death
was near he confessed.
The confession was made to the
Rev. DIR. Il. A. Schell, formerly pas
t9r OF the LaPorte Methodist church.
now president of the Iowa Wesleyan
University, and held by him inviolate
as a secret of the confessional. The
Post-Dispatch says the Rev Mr..
Scheel would verify, if he would con-
sent to break the silence, the confes-
sion it publishes. The PostDispatch,
however, says the confession 1t pub
fishes was made TO a man of unassail-
able character.
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 three bodies. ~
as much of the profits of the transac-
tion as he considered himself en-
titled to and he went to the farmohuse-
at night with a woman, chloroformed
Mrs. Guinness, her three children and
Jennie Olson, He and the woman
then searched the house, finding be-
tween $50 and $40. 81
The light they used was candle
and they left the house without know
ing they had left behind spark that
soon burst into flames.
ALL MEN CHLORoFoRMED.
Mrs. Gunness's method of killing,
he said, was first to choloroform them
as they slept and then if the drug
did not kill, to sever the heads with
an axe Each time man was to
be murdered, according to Lamphere,
she sent him to purchase chloroform.
Lamphere said he saw one OF the
men killed and aided in burytng all
three. These men were Andrew
Helgeleim and probably Ole Budsbers
and Tonness Petersen Lien.
Lien, Lamphere thought, was the
third husband of Mrs. Guinness. At
the time of the Lamphere trial it was
thought that Jennie Olson had been
killed by Mrs. Guinness. Lamphere,
however, detailed how Mrs. Guinness
had secreted her in the house after
she returned from visit and she was
chloroformed by Lamphere and his
accomplice.
FIRST ONE NEVER AWAKE.
The confession says Mrs. Guinness
informed Lamphere of the coming 1T
her cousins. The first man to be
killed was from Minnesota. He never
awoke from his sleep in the Guinness
house. In the darkness Lamphere
was ordered by Mrs. Guinness to dump
a gunny sack and it's contents in IL
hole that had been made by another
farm hand for rubbish.
Mrs Guinness never told him what
become of the man, but Lamphere re.
ceived money from Mrs. Guinness
Within a month another man arrived
He wanted to know his rights before
paying off the mortgage on the Gun
ness farm and Mrs. Guinness took
him to St. Joseph, Mich, Lamphere
thought, where they were married.
ANOTHER BURYING.
A few nights after they came back
there was another jburying. Lamphere
received money once fore from Mrs
Guinness and he said he became hel
trusted ally.
Then Andrew Helgelen came in
from South Dakota with check fol