The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1910-01-14
TELLS OF
MURDERS
RAY LAMPHERE CONFESSED HIS
PART IN GUINNESS GRIMES.
SHE USED cHLoRoFoRm AND AXE
AFTER PUTTING MEN TO SLEEP,
SHE CUTS HEADS OFF.
HOW A DAKOTA MAN WAS KILLED

Lamphere Did Not Garry to His Tomb
The Secret of the Guinness Murders
Confessed Them to Methodist
Preacher When End Was Near
st Louis, Jan. 13.-Ray Lamphere'
who died recently in the Indiana penl'
Tertiary at Michigan City, while serV-
ing a life term for completely IN the
murders on the farm of Mrs. Bella
Guinness. near La Porte, Ind, did not
carry secrets of the Guinness charnal
farm to the tomb with him, according
to n copyrighted story in the Post Dis
patch today. When he believed death
was near he confessed.
The confession was made to Rev.
DIR. A. E. Schell, formerly pastor or the
La Porte Methodist church, now pres
ident of Iowa Wesleyan university at
Mount Pleasant, Ia, and held by him
inViOlate as a secret Ol Ihe Colll'SSiO'
al. The Post Dispatch says the Rev.
DIR. Schell would verify if he would
consent to break the silence, the con
fession it publishes. The Post Dis
match. however says the confession 1t
publishes was made to man of unas-
sailable character.
Helped Bury Three Victims.
Lamphere, according to the confess
sion, had a guilty knowledge of the
murder of three men at the Guinness
home during the time he lived there,
about eight months, in 1907, and he
assisted Mrs. Guinness in disposing of
the bodies of the three men.
He said he thought he had not re-
ceived as much of the profits OF the
transaction as he considered himself
entitled to, and he went to the house
at night with a woman, chloroformed
Mrs. Guinness, her three children and
Jennie Olson. He and the woman then
searched the house, finding between
$50 and $40.
The light they used was a candle
and they left the house without know
ing they had left spark that soon
burst in flames.
Choroformed, Then Beheaded.
Mrs. Guinness method of killing her
victims Lamphere said, was by the
chloroforming them and then, if the
drug did not itself kill, to sever the
heads with an axe. Each time man
was to be murdered, according to Lam
phere, she sent him to purchase chic
reform.
Lamphere said he saw one of the
men killed and aided in burying all
three. These men were Andrew Hell
gelein and probably Ole Budsberg and
Tonnes Petersonlien.
How South Dakotan Was Murdered.
Andrew Helgelein came from South
Dakota with a check for S2,S932O.
This was cashed and Helgelein was
given to understand he was nothing
more than a farmland. Lamphere was
sent on an errand to Michigan City to
remain all night. He returned to the
Guinness home and through hole IN
the floor heard Helgelein groan in dis
tress. He was begging Mrs. Guinness
to send for a doctor.
1t was choral she had given him,
according to Lamphere. He said Hell
gelein fell to the floor and Lamphere
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.
Quarrels With Her over Money.
Shortly after Mrs. Guinness and Lam
phere Quarrelled over money and he
was ordered off the farm. She put
her money in the bank the afternoon
before Lamphere, seeking money, chic
reformed all in the house and set fire
TO the place.
Lamphere said he was drunk the
night he visited the place. He thought
he would find 81 500. Lamphere said
the chloroform he used was a part of
the quantities he bought for Mrs, Gun
ness.