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City, bit in a card game wiLU Lump-hero, Mrs. Cunncss and lleirelein, while the murderers poisoned IloBJtfin'a beer; tlia.1 the two men carried the unconscious victim to the door of Die secret butchery room; that Mrs. Gun-ness would not Iul them iiiBldo, but drilled the. body hi herself and told them to wait; that in a short time shu dragged It out, wrapped in bulging, and they buried It.• For this job, Tmelson said, Mrs. GuttJiwu gave him $650. Hlo luuc trip to I lie Uun iiessj farm was described by him In great detail. He was going to rnHft his second wife, Belle Vrecland, then, not to murder her, but to stay imtfl his parents’ anger over his marriage had subsided. He wroLc to airs. GiinnosH from Quebec at the Chateau Frnnlenuc on March 10, Lhat he would arrive with his wife in a week, and told lier to reply lo him ut. the Palace Viger hotel. Moulreul. She did write there, bui (old him to come alone, became it was gelling too hot for her, with the sheriff inquiring nhout Hegc-ivin’s disappearance.He said hln wife saw the lpller post-murked LaPorte and accused him of receiving a let for from HHolh’er girl and that he assured her It way a business letter and nut written In a wu-mun’s hand, but Jus wife cried because ho would 110! Iol her read ii.The next day, March 12 or IS, the confession rends, Tniplson wen I In Detroit, Llienue lo LaPnrle a ml arrived lute that. nlghl. to II nd l.fimphiwc nt I he Gun ness house. Tntclsmi, lo corroborate (his stmomcM, gave I ho nmm ot J. D. Mmil i;uinlt;:ry, u lawyer of Tunmto. whom be itirl on the train. nml who, Truelson said, should remember his gel ting lt;ilir nt 1 .it Porte. The Ihrec dtR-cussed of concealing the crimes, jnuti Mrs. (hinnrss wanted Tmelsmi to j fue the house ami go wltli her tu San L Knmr.isro. jTells of Tossing Coin for Murder.TniMsnn said Ik* advised standing' pat to divert suspicion'!. He and Lamp-here fi.TI. at 1 o'clock in Die morn ini;. On the way ti lown lie and Lamphcre ; iMscuascil wlmt Mis. fiummss might i ilu to them and Laniphere. he declared. ‘said lie was ah aid she ivuultl do away with both of them :md suggested
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Fort Wayne News
Fort Wayne, Indiana, US
Thu, Jun 18, 1908
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