The Cairo bulletin., 1910-01-14

st. Louis, Jan. 13.-In a copyright
ell story today the Post Dispatch pub
lished what it claims was confess
sion by Ray Lamphere, who died re-
Gently in the penitentiary at Michigan
City, Ind, while serving a sentence
for setting fire to the home of Mrs.
Belle Guinness, near LaPorte. 1t is
known that Rev. DR.. E. A. Schell, for
merly of LaPorte, heard Lamphere's
confession
Jennie Olson Burned.
The confession shows that Mrs.
Guinness and her three children were
chloroformed by Lamphere, who was
rObbing the house, with a woman ac
complice; that Jennie Olson was not
killed by Mrs. Guinness; that the chlo-
r"Fo"r used bv Lamphere was part of
that he bought for Mrs. Guinness to
K..l tnree men, one of whom was An.
drew Hegelein and the others proba
bly, Ole Budsherg and Tonnes Peter
son Lien, and that one Of these men
probably Len, was the third husband
of Mrs. Guinness.
The Post Dispatch says that Schell
would not consent to talk nor would
he verify the confession it publishes
II. according to the paper. was oh
tained from man of unassailable
character and truthfulness, whose
standing in the community where he
lives is such that his word is accepte,t
without question.
Schell interviewed at Burlington,
Ia. today said he had not divulged
any such confession. A staff cores
pondent of the Post Dispatch saw
Schell at Adair, Ia, last Sunday He
refused then to give the public the
confession Lamphere made
Mrs. Guinness Perished.
1t establishes the fact that Mrs.
Guinness died. that the adult body
found in the ruins OF the Guinness
farm house was hers. She was In the
deep sleep that chioroform induces,
when the smoke crept up through
creyices and smothered her She
died as she lay with the head of her
little boy pillowed on her breast He
too, died without waking.
Neither Of them knew aught of it
when the two little girls, Myrtle and
Lucy, not so thoroughly chloroformed
as the woman and the boy, awoke -
their peril ran into theh mothers
room, threw themselves upon the wo-
man. beseeching help she could not
give. They perished there with the
woman and boy, mercifully suffocatel
before the flames reached them. An
other, also chloroformed, perished III
like manner.
Jennie Olson, niece and adopted
daughter of Mrs Guinness who, it was
believed was murdered by the woman
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 Lampheres confession, but was in
the house the night it burned, and
burned to death.
Another Mystery.
There was an unconvincing partial
Identification by the relatives of Jen.
ME Olson of parts of the girls body.
dug UP in the yard The identity os
the girl buried in the yard thus be-
comes another mystery.
Mrs Guinness mad fatal mistake
in believing that she could safely
break with Lamphere under the mis-.
taken belief that Lamphere's compli.
city in aer crimes would keep him 81.
lent.
Found Less Than $40,
Lamphere said he let himself into
the house the night of the burning of
the Guinness home, Chloroform was
administered and a search made, but
less than $40 was found.
Then he and the woman whom he
says accompanied him, went away,
according to Lamphere. as dawn was
breaking, and he looked back and saw
the flames bursting from the Guinness
house. AS he hurried forward the
voices of the morning were to him
the shrieks of the burning children.
When the officers came to arrest him
there was only one question he couli
ask. and that was about the children.
and it brought the dreaded answer
The Fate Of Budsberg.
inquiry at LaPorte by the Post Dis
ateh showed that Ole Budsberg, Of
lola. Wis, who sold his farm and went
10 LaPorte with the money. and