Show nAY FIA LAMPHERE MADE CONFESSION Rev Dr Schell President of Iowa Wesleyan University Breaks His long Silence EllS HOW HE SECURED IT ITlIe lIe lic Story to the oriel to Himself From n Chicago Jan Tribune prints the mornIng under a Ia date The Tho He Rev Dr E A Schell president Qt a IOWA university broke hl hI I long n silence toda today and gave to The Tribune the confession of Ray flay Lam ph ere made to him In the tho county jail t I at Ind In April Dr DI Schell authorized the publication I of the confession and described how It 11 J was iven to him When hen seen b by a representative of oC The In his hiso o tice at Iowa esl n university ho dictated tho th following statement of his reasons for making public the tho slon DR REASONS 4 In view of the conflicting reports which continue to keep alive Interest In Inthe inthe the Gunness case and the which must continually arise In inthe the thc minds s of friends and that the principal facts al I are made public I have ed to relieve m myself of further by communicating to the public through the Chicago TrIbune the tho do de tails of my e conversations with the late Ray In the tho Jail at the tue statements he ma made e to me and the circumstances under whIch the they were made Her follows the story lolY of Dr I visIts to after whIch th the continues I 1 promIsed not to tell the prosecutIng Ing attorney and after some two hours ot of general conversation about Mrs h hc told me inc the tue sto story of oC the as f follows lows LAPI ES SToy 1 1 had been intimate with Mrs 1 Gunness from June 1907 hiie as as cr car carPenter Penter and man of f al all wok WoI I wa waI was I around the house Three times at her hel I chloroform and once onee I du dug a hole holo In the hog lot for her and helped d her put In the bod body of iome one who said Id had died suddenly sud suddenly denly about the house and she thought j the easiest va a was to cover him up and say nothing about It J I 3 F Lamphere went on to y that ho 10 I no Mie r Gunness an anyone on unU until ono I f t he returned suddenly from Michigan Ct City and havIng bored r c SCle holes through a wal wall sa saW her admInister some chloroform to a man and hf hit him In the back or of the head with a hatchet He then said that he heI heg I J g had 1111 tal taken n money from Mrs Gunness times malting her 01 or orlie lie le would tel toil on her hel Once she sho gave I f him 50 at another Ui 1 and again 1 r c He then would go to the tho saloons ld when he wa was sober once more moret f f t 11 e would find the mone money al all gone On Sunday night after he hc and a t he mentioned had been drinking t about 1 fl the two went together er erto I to the Gunness house letting thom them r selves In h by a leo key which ho he had and going so io os as not to disturb another hired man who vho was In the house With some or of the chloroform which he had for Mrs Irs Gunness before disappeared and part of which he put iut Into another bol bottle Ie the two Save gave Mrs Gunness seme chloroform holding I it under tinder her lose until she became quiet ulet The lit litte littie tie te boy was sas In bed wih with her They then gave some ome to the thc two children H who were In bed bcd In another room I 1 askel to explain how al all were together when found ire He saId he didiot dId dIdot ot leow know that that lie he was pret pretty drunk hut but that was the wa way he remembered t SEARCHING GUNNESS HOUSE They hey then searched the house for forthe forthe the largo large lum sum or o money which they thoy felt sure uro wa was hidden In the house hous but round only a smal amount amount He did ld not set et the house on fre lire though ho he saId lie ho was not certain that the ne gross gress did do It for she was as drunk as a lie he He stoutly stout protested that that be had not arranged n a candle so that I it would burn hurn down and later set fre fire I to 10 the place that lie he had nothing In hs mind more than to get I enough to have hae a hi big time wih with He and the leC left the hOIE together and at a certain point In th the she he went vent home and lie he went rui ruining Ul ning awa away sleat greatly afraid because he h haw tv aw the house burning I advised him to tell teU the story to the a at attorney t tumey torney and save the county the cost CORt of the trial and hi his stel the expense it defending him I told hm him I him him t La ho he ee Atty Smith and ask lee At easy on him and alow allow hUn him to consul consult with n a law lawyer er before a of o WIS made 1 met Smith almot after leaving the tho jai jail anit amI told lately I bini Lamphere was going to confess I I 1 advised him to arrest the but lie he attached 10 no Importance to It and I 1 urged him to let inv inva a lawyer lie He asked asked me If c cha answer ha had confessed and r I made an evasive |