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\UV' Ml wj 11ivi;».Kmnk .7. Knapp. curate of SI. Peter's clmroli. lie said he took his Inlilfi to Roches! nr, fo I he Powers hotel, ;md deserted her in two weeks. He etilltiiwl in the n;ivy in May, 1 ilOH, ;md lhen wrote to Mrs. GimncsB Hint ho would rmiK! t.u her whenever she wan led him. Jic dewrled the navy and war. dlwhorK ed. passed worUilesa checks aml wii'iseni.iuieod to Elmlrn reformatory.On being paroled on October 20, Ulllii, he said he corresponded with Mrs. (*inmess, ?iiid 1h.il .she sent, for him lo conu* to 1,11 Porto. Ho arrived there ou Christman night and the tame nightmet Lath|ihcie am! helped lmry thebody of a girl. He later Ruined fromLamphm that It wus Jennie. Olsen, Mi's. (Jnuness told hi in she was a patient on whom she Twd opernied nn suecesMfully. H« covered , ..e discrepancy between this story anti the Tael I hat Lntphere did not go to work regularly for Mrs. (lunnefls until the Rummer of 1007 by saying I^iiiipheie told him he was working I here; only oetil-sknmlly at curpeulurliig jobs in 1000.The confession rims on (hat Trnfil-son remained three days, on the second night helping lmry the hotly of n man Lumphurc said was John Moe, Truelnon tied it red thal then lie realised Mrs. Guimiw was nut practicing midwifery, but murder, and that he confronted her and said he wauled to gel out of it. but was induced by the promise of |f»OG to remain another night and help bury two more bodies. He said Larnplicre told him these were an old man and a woman.Knew of FaotE Never Printed.Strangely this fils the facts for the only thing the autopsy discovered about ihese two bodle6 burled in the an me hole with Jennie Olsen arid John Moe was the sex. and that from the teeth It appeared they were old persons. Tills fact. Sheriff Sniutzer says, was never given to any paper.TnrHson said hr rei-tived $aOfl from Mrs. dimness and went back to Chicago and New York. Uesides (lie numey lie stole two gold wmches from .Mrs (limnass' room nnff pawned (hem about ihi* fullouiag August. I!in7, hi New York, in I he name of .1. .1. .limns —one for $25 at (lOldsielu'H, SIxt.li Avenue and Thhty-acroiid street, and one In a pawnshop on the east, side of Ninth avenue, between I’Vsriy-seeond and Forty-fourth streets, where he got $15.Tliu confession says that he went to Saratoga late in Moy* 1UU7. to locate .Mac 0‘Riclly and told her he hnd made it homo for her in Indiana on a fnnn: Urn I he took her to Ln Porte, and the llrst week iu.JnnH, J607, had Mrs. Guineas kill her with chjprnl hydrate, and Hint ho and Lamjdiere. buried her in the field near the rilihdftd (rack, hack of ihe house, lie: declares he cun locate the spot.He said Mrs. fhiJiiiesH refused to kill his wife unless lie would stay to help dispose of another victim, which he agreed to do. The next night he nnrl Lampltere hurled In the uumis hole the body of a man who, Limiidicve said, was Frank Riediager, nf Delnllold, Wis.T a farnnw who has been reported as missing. For iliia burial they used a wheelbarrow.“Was it trim or wood?” he was risked. •‘vVond. lie* refilled.The whi-elbnmiw has not been nicn-t foned lit the papers, hut I here is u
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Fort Wayne News
Fort Wayne, Indiana, US
Thu, Jun 18, 1908
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