The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-13
MURDER TALE OUT
Alleged Confession of Rag LAM
phere Made Public.
Story of Guinness Cliarnel Farm
Is Revealed.
GUILTY KNOWLEDGE
OF Death of Three Men Was
Held by Him.
WOman's Favorite Methods
Woman's Favorite Methods
We're ChIOroform and Ak.

st. Louis, Mo-. Jan. 13.-Ray Lara
phere, who died recently in the IN
diana penftentiary at Michigan City,
while serving a life term for compile
ity in the murders on the farm of
Mrs. Bella Guinness. near Laporte,
Ind, did not carry the secrets of the
Guinness charnel farm to the tomb
with him, according to a copyrighted
story in the Dispatch today
When he believed death was near he
confessed.
The confession was made to the
Rev. DIR, E. A. Schell formerly pas
tor OF the Laporte Methodist church,
now president of the Iowa Wesleyan
university at Mt Pleasant, La, and
neld by him inyielate as a secret of
says DR.. Scheu would verify if he
would consent to break the silence
the confession 1t publishes. The Post
Dlspatch, however, says the confession
was MADE to man of unassailable
Knew Of Three Murders.
Lamphere, according to the confess
sion, had a guilty knowledge of the
murder OF three men in the Guinness
nome during the time he lived there,
aoodt eight months in 1907, and he
assisted Mrs. Guinness in disposing of
the bodies of the three men He said
ne thought he had not received as
much Of the profits of the transaction
as he considered himself entitled to
and he went to the farm house at
night ve1th a woman, chloroformed
Mrs Guinness, her children and Jennie
olson. He and the woman then
searched the house, finding between
$50 and $40.
a,.d they left the house without know
Ing they had left behind spark that
! soon burst into flames
Mrs. Guinness method of killing her
| chloroforn them as they slept and
| then if the drug did not itself kill to
| sever the heads with an ak.
Each time man was to be muir
| dered, according to Lamphere, she
sent him to purchase ehloroform.
Lamphere said he saw one of the men
killed and aided in burying all three.
| These men were Andrew Heigelin and
probably Ole Budsborg and Tonnes
Petersen Lien.
Killed Olson Girl.
Helgelin, Lamphere thought, was
| the third husband of Mrs. Guinness
AT the time of the Lamphere trial it
was thought Jennie Olson had been
, killed by Mrs. Guinness. Lamphere
! however, details how Mrs. Guinness
had secreted her in the house after
she returned from visit and she was
chloroformed by Lamphere and his
accomplice.
Mrs. Guinness informed Lamphere
of the coming of her cousins The
first man to be killed was, from Min
| nesota. He never awoke from his
sleep in the Guinness house In the
darkness, Lamphere was ordered by
Mrs. Guinness to dump a gunny sack
and its contents 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 re-
ceived money from Mrs. Guinness.
! Within a month another man arrived
| He wanted to know his rights before
| paying off the mortgage on the Gum
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. Lamphere re-
ceived money once more from Mrs.
| Guinness and he said he became the
trusted ally of Mrs. Guinness.
| Then Andrew He1gelein came from
South Dakota, with a check for 81
$500. This was cashed and Helgelein
| was given to understand he was nothing
more than q 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 Helgelein groan in dis