The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1910-01-28
LAMPHERE TOLD ALL.
BEFORE DEATH HE CONFESSED
HELPING MRS. GUINNESS IN
WHOLESALE CRIMES.
DETAILS OF TRAGEDY TOLD
How the Borgis Lured Victims TO
Death Told by Accomplice-Con-
fesses 10 Killing Of Arch murderess
and Three Children.

-. l<OdiHs Jan lt.-INdg LdllpHtlNs
who died recently in the Indiana peni-
tertiary at Michigan City, while sery-
ing a term for setting fire to the home
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 Post-Dispatch. When he
believed death was near he confessed.
The confession was made TO Rev.
DR.. +. A. Sshell. formerly pastor OF
the Laporte Methodist church. now
president of the Iowa Wesleyan uni
versity at Mount Pleasant. la. and
held by him inviolate as secret OF
the confessional
Confession is Authentic.
The Post-Dispatch says Rev. Mr..
Schell would verify 1t ii he would con-
sent TO break the silence. the confes-
sion it publishes. The Post-Dispatch,
however. says the confession it pub
fishes was made TO a man of unassail-
able character.
Lamphere, according to the confess
sion, had a guilty knowledge OF the
murder of three men in the Guinness
homo during the time he lived there.
about eight months in 1907, and he as
sisted Mrs. Gunnesss 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 farm
house at night with a woman. chloro-
formed Mrs. Guinness. her three chill
dren and Jennie Olson. He and the
women then searched the house. find
ing between $50 and $40.
Chloroformed While They Slept.
The light they used was a candle.
and they left the house without know
ing they had left behind spark that
soon burst into flames.
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 ak.
Each time a man was to be murder
ed. according to Lamphere. she sent
him TO purchase chloroform. Lam
phere said he saw one of them killed
and aided in burying all three. These
men were Andrew Helgelein and prob
ably Ole Budsberg and Tonness Peter
sen Lien.
Trusted Ally OF Mrs. Guinness.
Lien, Lamphere thought, was the
.
the time of the Lamphere trial 1t was
thought Jennie Olson had been killed
by Mrs. Guinness. Lamphere. how
ever details how Mrs. Guinness had
secreted her in her house after she
returned from a visit and she was
chloroformed by Lamphere and his
accomplice.
A few nights after they came back
there was another burying. Lamphere
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 check for
s2,ss3.2O. This was cashed and Hell
gelein was given TO understand he
was nothing more than a farm hand
Lamphere was sent on an errand "a
Michigan City to remain all night lie
returned TO the Guinness home. and
through hole in the floor heard Hell
gelein groan in distress. He was beg
ging Mrs. Guinness TO send for a doc
tor.
lamphere Kills Mrs. Guinness.
II was choral she had given Hell
gelein, according to Lamphere. Pres
entity Helgelein fell to the floor and
Lamphere said he saw Mrs. Guinness
strike the PROSTATE form and end the
mans life.
I.amphere the following night buried
,hfS hodv with Mrs Guinness assist