Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-01-15
Rev. DR.. Schell, President of Iowa
Wesleyan University, Breaks
His Long Silence.
TELLS HOW HE SECURED 1T.
Hc Gives Story to the World TO Relieve
Himself From Further
Responsibility.

Chicago. Jan 15.-The Tribune prints
the following this morning under a
Mount Pleasant Ia, date;
The Rev. DR.. f. A. Schell, president
OF Iowa Wesleyan university. broke his
long silence today and gave to The
Tribune the confession of Ray Lam
phere, made to him in the county jail
al Laporte, Ind, in April. 1905
Dr.. schell authorized the publication
Of the confession and described how II
was given to him. When seen by
representative of The Tribune In his
office at Iowa Wesleyan university he
dictated the following statement of his
reasons for making public the confess
sion:
DIR. ScHELL'S REASONS.
"In view of the conflicting reports
which continue to keep alive interest in
the Guinness case and the interroGa-
tions which must continually arise In
the minds of solrowinS friends and
realizing that the principal facts al
ready are made public, have conclud-
ed to relieve myself of further RESPONSE
bility by communicating to the public
through the Chicago Tribune the de-
tails of my three conversations with
the late Ray Lamphcre In the jail at
Lnportc, the statements he made to me.
and the circumstance under which
they were made
Here follows the story of DIR. Schells
visits to Lamphcre, after which the
statement continues.
Il promised not to tell the proSecut-
Ing attorney, and after some two hours
OF general conversation about Mrs.
Guinness he told me the story of the
night as follows:
LAMPHDRE'S STORY.
az had been intimate with Mrs.
Guinness from June, 1907, while as car
penter and man OF all work l was
around the house. Three times at her
request l purchased chlorofoIn and
once l dug u hole in the hog lot for
her and helped her put in the body of
some one who she said had died sud-
denly about the house. and She thought
the easiest way was to cover him up
and say nothing about 1T
"Lamphere went on to say that he
had no suspicious of Mrs. Guinness
having murdered anyone until one
night when he returned suddenly from
Michigan City and, having bored
some holes through a wall, saw her
administer some chloroform to a man
and hit him in the back of the head
with a hatchet. He then said that he
had taken money from Mrs, Guinness
several times making her 'dig-up or
he would tell on her. Once she gave
him $50; at another SIS and again
s5 He then would go 20 the saloons
and when he was sober once more,
he would find the money all gone On
Sunday night after he and q neGress
he mentioned had been drinking.
about IL o'clock the two went together
to the Guinness house. letting them
selves in by key which he had and
going quietly SO as not to disturb
another hired man. who was In the
house With some OF the chloroform
which he had purchased for Mrs
Guinness before Helgelein disappeared,
and part of which he put into another
bottle, the two gave Mrs. Guinness
some chloroform. holding 1t under her
nose until she became quiet. The. lit
tie boy was in bed with her. They
then gave some to the two children
who were in bed in another room. !
asked him to explain how all were
together when found He said he did
not know, that he was pretty drunk.
but that was the way he remembered
it.
SEARCHING GUINNESS HOUSE.
"They then searched the house fo'
the large sum of money which they
felt sure was hidden in the house bu
found only small amount He die
not set the house on fire. though h'
said he was not certain that the ne
gress did not do 1t, for she was a.
drunk as he. He stoutly protested tha
he had not arranged a candle SO th&
it would burn down and later set FIR
To the place: that he had nothing IL
his mind more than to get mone.
enough TO have big time with.
He and the negress left, the hous
together and at a certain point In IN
road she went home and he went run
ming away, greatly afraid because II
saw the house burning. advised hin
TO tell the story to the prosecuting at
torney and save the county the cost o
the trial and his sisters the expense !
defending him l told him woul
zee Atty Smith and ask. him to b
easy on him and allow him to consul
with a lawyer before a plea of Guiit
was made. / met Smith almost imIne
dlately after leaving the Jail and tol
him Lamphere was going to confess
II advised him to arrest the neyref
but he attached no Importance 10
and | urged him to let Isamphere nav
a lawyer He asked me il Lsamphe'
had confessed and I made an cvasiv
answer"