The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1910-01-20
MINISTER BARES
LAMPHERE'S TALE
DIR. SCHELL, TO WHOM MRS. GUN
NESS HIRED MAN CONFESSED,
DISCLOSES SECRETS.
NEGRESS IS IMPLICATED.
Accomplish of Charnel House Ogress
Slew Her and Her Children to
"Get Even"
DENIED BURNING THE HOUSE

MOUNT PLEASANT, Ia, Jan. 10
Rev. Dr. Z. A. Schell, president of Iowa
Wesleyan university, has broken his
long silence and given the Chicago Trib-
une the confession of Ray Lamphere,
made TO him in the county jail at La
porte Ind. in April. 1908.
The confession. which hitherto has
been held as a privileged communication
by the minister, was given with all the
detail of the three conversations in
which Lamphere laid bare the secrets OF
the Guinness charnel house.
1t describes the killing Of Mrs. Belle
Guinness and the three children who
persisted in the burning of the Guinness
house Lamphcre admitted killing the
four persons, but denied setting fire to
the house.
Lamphcrcs confession duplicates ne
grcss as an accomplish. description
is given Of the killing Of Andrew Hell
grlcin, which Lamphere says he Wit
messed. lie assisted in the burning OF
he bodies of two other men
Minister Authorizes Publication.
DR.. ScheG authorized the publication
of the confession and described how 1t
was given to him. When seen in his Of
nee at the Iowa Wesleyan university he
dictated the following statement ol his
reasons for making public the confession:
In view of the conflicting reports
N"''H "H'4'''' ~ N'1 or ,,.,
th' Guinness ''No an" iH' '"''' ''-'' '',i'o
WHcR must continuity ar'S' III NV
minds of Borrowing friends and recoguiZ-
ing that the principal facts already are
made public. ! have concluded to relieve
myself If further responsibility by com
municatnS to the public the details Of
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cuhiStn noes uhder "h''h ih'y were
made
ccbaI,o Ctor,y of Confaeeio,
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mcut Of the confession, written several
months after his conversations with
Iampncrn.
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MN a"H perhaps I" receive ms confession.
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i"usu MN iIIatrd IN the extreme,
hands twItchod. and his nervousness VAS
panty n"llrcaoi" stated that had come
10 see HIM. feeling thai conversation with
some on" might relieve his feelings ana help
him 70 alnurss iIr said that he supposed
they would hang him, but that hr was limo.
cent OF murder
lie denied that ne had SGT the house on
fire aHd related Ia me how he had slept at
morning, then 1od stortnd for the hone Of
Tgrnin hat hmg anrry ~, YRS .H' ,;npn Mos
ana no longer WORKING for her, he hurried
parn in tTc r n .onn rs r,I roI Io.s
further gt ghout : o'rlork