Show I LAMPHERE CONFESSES MURDER OF WOMAN FIEND AND HER CHILDREN PASTOR GETS STORY Accomplice of Mrs Bella Gunness sun Gun ness Eases His Conscience Before Claimed by Death in Indiana State Penitentiary CHLOROFORM USED TO PUT VICTIMS TO SLEEP House Set on Fire by Accident After Lamphere and a Wo Woman Woman man Who Went With Him Had Ransacked It I MUCH MYSTERY REMAINS I St Louis Jan a copy copyrighted righted story today the publishes what it claims was the con confession confession of Ray Lamphe who died a afew few days ag in the Indiana penitentiary penitentiary I at Michigan City when servI serving ing a sentence for setting fire to the I home of Mrs Irs Bella BeIJa Gunness near La Laporte Laporte porte md Ind It is known that the Rev Dr E A Schell formerly of Laporte heard confession conf shows now that Mrs nun Gun Gunness ness and three children were b by Lamphere who was robbing the tho house with a woman accomplice that Jennie Olson was not killed h by Mrs Gunness that the chloroform used by Lamphere was faS part tt t that he bought for Mrs Irs Gun ness DESS to kill three men one oZ of whom was as Andrew the others probably Ole BUdsberg and Tonnes Petersen Lien and amI that one of those these men probably Lien was the third husband of Mrs GunneN The patch says sas that It If the Rev Dr SetteR Schell would consent to talk hI u would verify the conCession It pub Story Said to Be Relf Reliable le leThe The lilon eLon according to the paper w s d t a of un s antI and stand Lg g In the community where h he lives Is such that his word Is accepted without The Rev Dr Schell at Burlington Ta la today after heaTing the confession conCession which t printed said ho he had rot divulged any su suh h confession to any person A staff correspondent of the 1 pa 1 ocr saw the Re Rev Dr Schell who Is pres presIdent Ident of oC the Iowa Wesleyan Veslean university at Mount Pleasant Ta Ia Last Sunday ht he refused to give ghe to the pUblic the cOn Lamphere made on the ground that It Is pledged by the secrecy of Ule Startling Features of Confession The confession conCession Is startling In Its van vari variant vanare ant are from theories held based on In alt all available The conCession establishes hes that Mrs Irs s Is dead The adult body n Ii the smoking ruins of the Gunness farm was the body of oC Mrs Bella Gun ess She was In the deep sleep that I when the smoke pt up through the and red her She dl died with the head of her boy pillowed on her breast Mo Ho too as she sho was as died without waking The two little girls Myrtle and Lucy riot not so thoroughly awoke nd ran into their mothers room where thEY perished Jennie Olson niece and adopted daugh augh daughter aughter I ter of Mrs lIra Gunness who It has been was murdered by the woman more than a year ear before the tho house was I and whose body was believed to have been buried In the farm Carm yard ard was nt murdered by Mrs rs Gunness accord according ng ing to confession conCession but was burned to death in tile the fire that de destroyed destroyed the house She also had been An Added Mystery A Assuming that Lamphere Lamphare told the truth about Jennie Olson the Identity of oC a airl tint irl burled In the yard adds another mst mys ms t t ry i to the se sc Mrs Irs Gunness made tile the mistake of be lieving that she could break with under the belief that Lam Lain Continued on Page Ten I i s j L i i ij j c I IV V r rl l 4 Jk E k a I 4 1 c I t i t ti i i 4 r l J I ij it 4 I e Belle BeIle Gunness the Indiana Murderess and Her Three Children Who Perished with Her in Their Burning Home Ray Bay Lamphere Before His Death Confessed to Guilty Knowledge of Her Crime and to Being Cause of Her Death LAMPHERE CONfESSES MURDER Of WOMAN fiEND AND CHilDREN Continued from Page One complicity In tier her crimes would keep him silent let himself Into the house the night of the fire Ire The chloroform was administered and a search for money was made made but less than 70 0 was found The Then he and the woman who he says him went away according to Lamphere and I it was when lie he was away toward the country where he was to work that day that ho he looked back house and sw saw flames bursting from the Had Guity Guilty Knowledge Lamphere according to tile the confession had I a guilty knowledge of the murder of three men In the Gunness home during the time he lived there about eight months in 1907 and he assisted Mrs Gun Gunness ness In disposing of f the bodies or of three men He sid said lie he thought h he had not received as much of tle the profits of the transactions as he considered himself entitled to and he went to the farm house at night wih with witha a woman Mrs Gunnes Gunness her tut three children and JennIe Olson le lie and the woman searched the house finding between SO and 70 o The light the they Used sed wa n a and the they house without wal Ule they had left behind a sark spark that soon burst Into lames Mrs tames Gunness metO method killing her vic thus Lamphere sid said to chloro chloroform for form them as the they slept and then i if the drug did not Itsel itself kill to sever the heds heads with an ae axe Ech Each time a man was to be according to she sent ent him to purchase chloroform Lm Lamphere lere said he saw ona or of the the men klec nd aided in burying ono aU all three them An Andrew n drw drew and probably Ole Buds Budsberg Budsberg berg and Tonnes P th was tile the third husband of Mrs rs Gunness At the time of the Lamphere trial It was thought Jenni had ben been kled killed Olst by l Mrs Gunness Lamphere however how Mrs r had secrete secreted her In the house after she returned from froma a l visit and site she by and his accomplice The First Victim Mrs Gunness Lamphere of the coming of her cousins The Tue first man manto manto to b be klc killed wa was from Minnesota le lIe never neer awoke from his sleep In the Gun Gunness Gunness ness houfe house In the darkness Lamphere was ordered bY Mrs Gunness to drop a aon ak on k and 0 its I contents In In a hole on k and 0 its I contents In In a hole Is content a that had been mace made by another farm farmhand farmhand hand for rubbish Mrs Gunnes Gunness never told him what be be became came of the man but Lamphere received money from Mrs Gunness Within a month man arrived He wanted to know hIs rights before paying of off the mortgage on the Gunness farm and Mrs Gunness took him hini to St Joseph Mich Lamphere thought where they were mar ned nedA A few nights ater after they came back ther there wa was another burying Lamphere r en money once more from Mrs Gun floss nos anti amI he said he became the trusted nU ally of Mrs Gunnes Gunness Murder of Then Andrew came from South Dakota with a check for S This was cashed and was given shen to understand he was nothing more than thana a 8 farm hand Lamphere was sent on an ernd errand to Michigan City to remain al all night night lk lic returned to the home and through a h hole le In the foor floor hear heard gran groan In distress lt III was as begging toe tor Mrs Ir Gunness to send for a a doe doc doctor torI I It was chloral SIlO she had given lein according to Presently fel fell to the foor floor and Lampher said he saw Mrs Ira Gunness strIke the pros prostrate form and end the plans mans life Ufe Lamphere the following night burled buried this b body wIth Mrs Gunness assistance Shorty Shortly aCer after Mrs rs Gunness and quarreled over money and tie he was ordered oft the farm She put tier her mone money In the bank anle the afternoon before beloro Lamphere s seeking mom mone al in the house robbe robbed nd set fr fire to the place Thought He Would Find 1500 al he iruni the night he lu visited the thi place lie He thought lie he Would uld fluid J 11 said te the chlOroform lie peed I a j L was a part of the quantities he bought for Mrs rs Gunnes Lamphere did not desire the death of the Gunness and Jennio Olsen Ills His first question when lie he was arrested on s suspicion of havIng having set Ret fire to the hous house was whether the hoc had es esp p He did not even Intend to ki kill Mrs Irs Gunness Although he confessed to greater rimes crimes he did not admit that lie he intentionally started the tre fire in whIch Mrs I Gunnes Gunness and the children perished Once he wa was willing to enter a formal plea of guilty to fo that charge In the hop hope of len leniency leniency but when he learned that In the confession of of arSOn would be Involved a confession luse fused of the family lie he re re refused Inquiry at Laporte by the patch shows that Oe Ole O 0 of lola Wis Wis who sold his farm and went to Laporte with the mone money and whose bod body was foun buried In the Gunnes farar farmyard ma may have ben been one of the themen themen men as near as can b be as ascertained went to Laporto Laporte about the time that went to live at the Gunnes farm tann The other man who Is believed to have been the second victim of Mrs Irs Gunness while Lamphere was there was Tonnes Peterson Lien of Rushford Minn Inn whose disappearance and supposed death the says sas Is made public for forthe forthe the first time timeA A few dos days ago Samuel Peterson Lien Liena I a brother of Tonnes went to Laporte looking for him To T II H Worden orden at torney tomey for Lamphere lie he told his stor story He and Tonnes lived together near Rush ford on a farm Sam had been a sailor and a rover He trec tired of life In Minne Minnesota sot sota and went west For two years ears lie he heard nothing from hIs brother Saw Womans Advertisement When hen he came back recently Magnus Anderson for whom Tonnes lint had worked told Sm Sani that Tonnes had sen seen an ad advertisement ot of Mrs Ira Gunness in a Nor Kor Norwegian paper had corresponded with her herand herand and hall had sold the far farm wih had nad sewed the tue mone money in hIs coat sleeve for him and Tonnes had gone to Laporte to marry the widow WilOW Gunness That was the last ever heard of him Worden oren asked the brother If Tonne Tonnes had anything b which he could be idea Iden Sam said Tonnes had a heavy heay silver sUver watch on the ease case ot of which he hc Sam had scratched the initials T L Yorden Worden remembered such a watch as one of those found in the ruins of the Gunness house The body of this man has been found Mr Worden Voren sid said the most Lamphere would ever eer tel tell him was that he was In the celar cellar of the Gunness house the night that was killed and that lie he heard him groaning an l askIng that a doctor b be sent for |