Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1910-01-14
LAMPHERE IS MRS. GUN
NESS MURDERER


u onttilucVi from rage l. tOiuthb -
paper. was obtained from a mar OF
unassailable character and truthful
ness, whose standing in the commune
ty where he lives is such that his word
is accepted without question.
The Rev. DR.. Schen at Burlington,
Iowa. today, after hearing the confess
sion the Post-D Dispatch printed, said
he had not divulged any such confess
sion TO any person. \ staff eorre-
spondent OF the paper saw the Rev.
DR.. Schell, who is president Of the
Iowa Wesleyan university at Mount
Pleasant, Iowa. last sunday He re-
fused 10 give to the public the confess
sion Lamphere made on the ground
that II is pledged BY the secrecy Of the
confessional.
The confession is startling in its
! variance from the theories hitherto
held, based on all available evidence.
The confession establishes that Mrs.
Guinness is dead.
The adult body found in the smok-
ing ruins of the Guinness farm house
was the body Of Mrs. Bella Guinness.
She was in the deep sleep which
chloroform iuduces when the smoke
crept up through the creviees and
s%mothered her. she died with the
head of her little boy followed on
her breast. He. too, was chloroforn-
ed. ana died without waking. The
two little girls, Myrtle and Lucy. not
SO thoroughly chloroformed. awoke
and ran into their mothers room
where they persisted.
Jennie Olsen. a niece Of Mrs. Gun
ness, who, il has been believed, was
murdered by the woman more than a
year before the house was burned and
whose body was believed To have been
buried in the farm yard, was not MUIR
dered by Mrs. Guinness, according to
The confession, but was burned to
death in the fire that destroyed the
house. She also had been chloro~
formed,
Assuming that Lamphere told the
truth about Jennie Olsen. the iden-
tity Of a girl buried in the yard adds
another mystery to the case.
Mrs. Guinness made the mistake Of
believing that she could safely break
with I-amphcre under the belief that
Lamphere's completely in her crimes
would keep him silent.
Lamphere let himself into the house
the night Of the fire. The chloro-
form was administered and IA search
for money made, but less than $40.
was FOUND.
Thcn he and the woman who he
says accompanied him went away, ac-
cording to Lamphere. and it was when
he was hurryine away toward the
.....t hon L.. .A.. -, ri ,I.f
day. that he looked back and saw
flames bursting from the house.
Inquiry al Laportc by the Post-Dis-
patch shows that Ole Budsburg, of
lola, wis. who sold his farm and
went to Laporte with the money, and
whose body was found buried in the
Guinness farm yard, may have been
one OF the men.
Budsburg, as near as can he learned,
went 70 La porte about the time Lam
phere went 70 Hive at the Guinness
farm.
The other man, who is believed to
have been the second victim OF Mrs.
Guinness while Lamphere was there,
was Tonnes Petersen Lien, Of Ruch-
ford, Mimi, whose disappearance and
supposed death. the Post-Dispatch
is made public for the first
time.
a Few days ago samuel Petersen
Lien, brother of Tonnes, wen to La
porte looking for him. To II. w.
Worden. attorney Tor Lamphere. he
told his story. He n Tonnes lived
together near Rushford on a farm.
sam had been a sailor and a rover. |
He tired of life in Minnesota and
went west. For two years he heard
nothing from his brother.
When he came back recently Mag
nus Anderson. for whom Tonnes had
worked. told sam that Tonnes had
seen an advertisement of Mrs. Gun
ness in a Norwegian paper. had cor
responded with her ana had sold the
larm.
Anderson had sewed up the money
in his coat sleeve for him me Tonnes
had gone to Laporte to marry the
Widow Guinness. That was the last
heard Of him.
Worden asked tho brother n Tonnes
had anything by which he could be
identified Samuel said Tonnes had q
heavy silver watch. on the case Of
which he. samuel. had scratched
l.
Worden remembered such u watch
rs onc of those found in the ruins of !
the Guinness house. The body of this
man has not been found
Mr.. Worden said the most Lam-l
phcre would ever tell him was that he
Was IN tho cellar of the house the /
that Iclgelf WAS Killed and
he heard him grooming and ask
ing that "a doctor De sent FOR.