Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1910-01-14
Declares He ChIoroformed
CharnaI House Mistress and
Others, After Robbing Them.
Poorly Paid for Crime
ASSISTED IN DEATH
OF SEVERAL VICTIMS
Details Horrible Methods Em-
prJed by Woman, Whom He
Helped in Her Deeds State
ment Made to Minister

ST. LOUIS. Jan. 1S.-Ray Lamphere.
Who died recently in the Indiana Pen, at
Michigan City. while serving a term for
setting fire to the home Of Mrs. Belle
Guinness, near LaPorte. Ind, did not car
~ the secrets OF the Guinness charnal
farm to the tomb with him. according to
q copyrighted story in the Post Dispatch
today. When he believed death was near
he confessed.
The confession was made TO the Rev.
Dr. Z. A. ScheIl. formerly pastor Of the
LaPorte Methodist church. now president
OF the Iowa Wesleyan university at
Mount Pleasant. Iowa. and held by him
inviolate as a secret of the confessional
The Post Dispatch says the Rev. Mr.
echeH would verify. IL he would consent
20 break the silence. the confession II
publishes. The Post Dispatch, however,
saws the confession It publishes was made
20 q man OF unassailable character.
Lamphere, according to the confession.
had a guilty conscience for the murder
of three men in the Guinness home during
the time he lived there about eight
months IN 1907, and he assisted Mrs Gun
ness IN disposing OF the three bodies
CHLOROFoRMED INMATES.
He said, though. he did not receive as
much profit out OF the transaction as he
considered he was entitled. so he went
70 the farm house at night with q woman,
chlorofcrmed Mrs. Guinness. her three
children and Jennie Olson. He and the
woman then searched the house. finding
between $50 and so.
The light they used was a candle and
they left the house without knowing they
had left behind a spark that soon burst
into names
Mrs. Guinness method OF killing her
rfrttrnz Lamphere said. was first to
chloroform them as they slept and then
q the drug did not kin. to sever the heads
with an axe
Each time a man was to be mnrdered,
according 10 Lamphere. she sent him TO
purchase chloroform- Lamphere said he
saw one Of the men killed and aided in
buryfng all three. These men were An
drew HelgeIein, and possibly Ole Buds
berg and Tonnes Peterson Lien
HER THIRD HUSBAND.
Lien, Lamphere thought. was the third
husband of Mrs Guinness. At the time
OF the Lamphere trial. II was thought
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 chIoroformed by Lamphere
and his sccomplice-
The confession says Mrs. Guinness In
formed Lamphere of the coming OF her
cousins The first man to be killed was
from Minnesota. He never awoke from
his sleep in the FGunness house. In the
darkness Lamphere was ordered by Mrs.
Guinness to dump a gunny sack and its
contents in hole that had been made by
another farm hand for rubbish
Mrs. Guinness never told him what
became 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 on the mortgage on the Gun
ness farm, and Mrs. Guinness took him
10 st. Joseph. Mich. Lamphere thought,
where they were married
A few nights after they came back
there was another burying. Lamphere
receiver money once more from Mrs.
Guinness and he said. he became her
trusted ally.
CHECK is CASHED.
Inen Andrew delgeleln came from
South Dakota with a check for S2,S9S.2O.
This was cashed and HelgeIein was
given to understand he was nothing
more than a farm hand. Lamphere was
sent on an errand TO Michigan City to
remain all night. He returned TO the
Guinness home and through a hole in
the floor heard aelgelein groan in dis
tress. He was begging Mrs. Guinness
10 send for e-doctor.
II was choral she had given Hedge
lein. according to Lamphere. Present.
" Helgelein fell to the floor and Lam
phere said he saw Mrs. Guinness strike
the PROSTATE form and end the mans
life.
Lamphere the following night buried
this body with Mrs. Guinness assist
ance. Shortly after Mrs. Guinness and
Lamphere quarreled over money and he
was ordered OF the farm. She put her
money in the bank the afternoon before
IAmphere chlororormed every one in
the house
Lamphere said he was drunk the night
he visited the place. He thought he
would find $500. he said the chloro-
form he used was q part OF the guam
Ities he bought for MRS. Guinness.
FARMER BOY STOPS