Show RAY LAMPHERE MERE PURI PLAYS IN LUCK Jury Found Him Guilty of Ar Arson Arson Arson son Although He Was Tried for Murder CASE WILL BE APPEALED SENTENCE WAS TWO TO TYONE YEARS IN PEN Laporte Ind Nov Xo 26 Ray Lamphere Lamphere Lam Lamphere phere charged with the murder of Mrs Urs Belle Belie and her three children by setting fire to the Gunness GunneSH house April 28 was this evening found round guilty of ot arson by the jury which had had the th case since last evening Within five minutes after the verdict was reported Judge Richter had sen sentenced sentenced sentenced the defendant to the state prison al a t Michigan City for tor an indeterminate term of ot from two to years fined him and disfranchised him for five years Attorney Worden Vorden for the defense said tonight that a motion for tor a new trial would be made and should it be re refused refused fused an appeal to the Indiana supreme court would follow folio The Indiana su supreme supreme supreme preme court is two years year behind in Its work and so this case could not be reached until after he had served the minimum time of his sentence Mr Worden declared the verdict to be ridic ridiculous ridiculous ulous If SIr he was guilty at all an said the attorney attorn C he was as guilty of ot mur murder murder murder der He should have been acquitted Based on Instructions The motion for a anew new trial wilt will be based on the courts instruction that the jury could find Lamphere guilty of ar at arson arson atson son p Should the case be carried to the su supreme supreme supreme preme court and sent back for tor retrial Lamphere could not be tried on any charge In this particular case excepting arson the crime of which he was con convicted convicted However in an event of that kind the state would elect to try him himon himon himon on one of the indictments probably the case f I Members of the jury jUr are reticent about discussing what occurred in the jury room but enough has been learned to know that but for two members Lamphere would have been found guilty guilt of ot murder or manslaughter the verdict being a compromise Several of the jury it Is understood held out ions Jon ong for tor murder In the first degree with witha a life sentence So far as could be learned none was for hanging Statement by Lamphere Lamphere in a statement tonight said that he ho was confident that the adult body In the fire was that of Mrs Gunness He reiterated his Innocence in the matter offsetting of setting fire to the house though admitting that he was walS wason walSon wason on the road and saw the fire that th t night He also declared that he did not see Mrs Irs Gunness kill I have no complaint to make about the ver verdict verdict dict diet Things looked pretty prett blue but bit the verdict might ml ht have been worse Tonight Toni ht all aU the members member of the jury made the following signed signet statement We Ve the undersigned jurors Impaneled Impaneled clod and sworn in the case of the state of Indiana versus Ray Ra Lamphere here hereby hereby hereby by say that It was our judgment in the consideration of this case that the adult body found in the ruins of the fire was that of Belle Gunness and that the case was decided by us on an entirely dif different different different ferent proposition |