Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-01-13
He Had Guilty knowledge of Muir
der of Three Men in Gun
ness Home.
WoMAws METHODS TOLD.
Chloroformed Her Victims While
They Slept, Then Used
An Axe.
He Didn't Get Enough of the Profits.
He Thought. So Chloroformed
And Killed Her.

St Louis, Jan. BRAY Lamphere.
who died recently in the Indiana penl-
tentiary at Michigan City, while scrv-
ing life term for completely in tho
murders on the farm OF Mrs Bella
Guinness. nea- LaPorte. Ind, did net
carry the secrets OF the Guinness char
mel farm to the tomb with him. &C
cordng to a copyrighted story in the
Post-Dispatch today. Whom he believed
death was near, lie confessed
The confession was made TO the Rev.
DIR. L. A. Schell. formerly pastor OF
the LaPorte Methodist church. now
president OF the Iowa Wesleyan uni
versity at Mount Pleasant, Iowa, and
held by him inviolate as a secret of the
confessional The Post-Dspatch says
DIR. Schell would verify, IL he would
consent TO break the silence, the cor
fession 1t publishes. The Post-Dls-
was made to a man of unassaiIable
character.
LAMPHERE's GUILTY KNOwL-
EDGE
Lamphere. according to the confession,
had guilty knowledge OF the murder
of three men in the Guinness home dur
ing the time ne lived there, about
eight months In 1907. and he assisted
Mrs Guinness in clsposng OF the bod
les of three men.
he said he thought he had not re-
ceived as much of the profits of the
transactions as he considered himself
entitled to and he went to the farm
house at night with a woman. cnloro-
formed Mrs Guinness. her three chill
| dren and Jennie Olson. He and the
woman searched the house, finding be-
| tween $50 and $40.
The light they used was candle and
! they left the house without knowing
| they had left behind spark that soon
| burst into flames.
MRS. GUINNESS METHOD.
Mrs. Guinness method of killing her
| victims, Lamphere said. was first to
| chloroform them as they slept and then
| if the drug did not itself kill, to sever
| the heads with an axe, ..
Each time man WAS to be murder
| ed, according to Lampherc. she sent
| him to purchase chloroform. Lamp
| here said he saw one of the men killed
/ and aided in burying all three. These
| men were Andrew Helgelein and prob
| ably ole Budsberg and Tonnes Peter
| son Lien.
Helgelein, Lamphere thought, was
the third husband of Mrs. Guinness.
At the time of the Lamphere trial 1t
was thought Jenie Olsen had been kill
ed by Mrs. Guinness. Lamphere. how
ever, details how Mrs. Guinness had
| secreted her in the house after she re-
! turned from a visit and she was
choloroformed by Lamphere and his
| accomphce.
FIRST VICTIM.
Mrs. Guinness informed Lamphere OF
the coming of her cousin. The first
man to be killed was from Minnesota,
He never awoke from his sleep begun
in the house In the darkness Lam
phere was ordered by Mrs. Guinness
to drop n gunny sack and Its con-
tents in a hole that had been made by
another farm hand for rubbish
Mrs. Guinness never told him what
became OF the man, but Lamphere rs-
ccIved money from Mrs. Guinness.
Within month another man arrived.
He wanted to know his rights before
paying off the mortgage on the Gun
ness farm and Mrs. Guinness took him
to st. Joseph. Mich. Lamphere thought.
where they were married.
A few nights after they came back
there was another burying. Lamphcre
received money once more from Mrs-
Guinness, and, he said, he became the
trusted ally OF Mrs. Guinness.
Then Andrew Helgelein came from
South Dakota with a check for S2,SS3..Q.
This was cashed and Helgelein was
given to understand ile was nothing
more than a farmland.
Iamphere was sent on an errand to
Michigan City to remain all night. He
returned to the Guinness home and
through hole in the In the floor heard
Helgelein groan In distress. he was
begging Mrs Guinness to send fo; 4
doctor.
GAVE HELGELEIN CHLORAL.
1t was chloral she had given Helse
lein, according to Lamphere. Presently
Helgelcin fell to the floor, and Lam
phere said he saw Mrs Guinness strikS
the PROSTATE form and end the mans
life,
Lamphere. the following night. buried
this body with Mrs Guinness assist
ance. Shortly after Mrs. Guinness ana
I,amphere Quarrelcd over money SliI
he was ordered off the farm. She put
her money in the bank the afternoon
before I3nphcfc seeking money. Sntoe
oformed all in the house, robbed ana ser
fire TO the place
Lamphere said he was drunk the
night he visited the place. lie thongnt
he would find Sl.500
Lnmphcrc said the chloroforn he used
was q part of the quantities he bouGnt
for Mrs. Guinness.
Lampherc did not desire the death OIL
the Guinness children and Jennie Olsen
His first question when he was arrest
ed on suspicion of having set nre 70
tho house was whether the children nad
escaped He did not even intend 70
kill Mrs. Guinness.
Although he confessed to greater
crimes, he did not admit that he inten-
tionally started the fire In which MIS-
Guinness and the children pcrisheu
once he was willing to enter r. formal
plea OF guilty to that charge In tne
hope of ieniency. but when he learned
that in the confession of arson would
he involved confession of murderips