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DR. SCHELL TELLS STORY AS RELATED BY LAMPHEREChicago. Jun. l.V The Tribune prints today a special from Mt. Pleasant Haying :Rev. Dr. K. A. Schell, president ofthe Iowa Wesleyan university, brokeIds long silence today and gave to the Tribune the confession of Ray Latn-pherc, tnadc to him In the county Jail at La Porte. Ind., In April, 1U08.latmpherr’s confession, as made tolt;Or. Schell, in part is as follows:*‘J had been intimate with Mrs. Oun-tiess from June, 1907, while, as carpenter and man of all work, r was nround tin house. Three timqr at herrequest I purchased chloroform andrneo T dug a hole in the hog lot forher and helped her put in the body of some one she said had died suddenly *bout the house, and she thought the easiest wav was to cover him up and eav nothing about it.**Continuing, Lamphere said that one night, having bored sonic holes through a wall, he saw Mrs. thinness administer some chloroform to a man and hit him In the back of the head with a hatchet. He then said that he had taken money from Mrs. Gunness several times, making her dig up or hewould iell •*!! hatOn Sunday night, after he and a nc-gress he mentioned had been drinking, abopt U o'clock, the two went to the GunnetfH home. They chloroformed Mrs. Gunness and the two children and then searched the house for the largesum of money which they felt sure washidden there. They found, however, only a small amount. He did not setthe house on tin, although he raid hewas not certain that the negress did not do it, for she was as drunk as he.
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Anaconda Standard
Anaconda, Montana, US
Sun, Jan 16, 1910
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