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There are records in these places which correspond in every detail except that the articles pawned are given as diamonds instead of watches. In the 6th avenue pawnshop it was a diamond stud pawned on Aug. 19. 1907. On Aug. 8, 1907, the article pawned at the 9th avenue place was a diamond ring.Truelson worked for six weeks from the middle of January to the end of February last* as a salesman for the Welsbach Gas company, at 1133 Broadway, New York. He got a salary of $15 a week and 10 per cent commission on the sales he made. He was not a success and quit the place voluntarily.A Washington dispatch says Truelson deserted from the army in 1905. In the same year he enlisted in and deserted from the navy. For some offense in New York state he was sent to Elmira reformatory, from which he was paroled in 1906. He w’as then arrested by the naval authorities, convicted of desertion and imprisoned at Portsmouth. His sentence expired in 1907.From Montreal, Can., comes the following telegram: Investigation shows that the story told by Julius Truelson In his alleged confession as to the part he took in the Gunness affair is true so far as his reference to visiting Montreal with bis wife Is concerned. He stopped at the Place Vlger hotel In March and left his wife here penniless. Her mother sent her money to take her home.A Vernon, Texas, press dispatch says: Julius G. Truelson, of NewYork, who confessed to being implicated in the crimes of Mrs. Belle Gunness of LaPorte, Ind., will be brought to trial here at once on charges of forgery. He must answer several charges alleging forgeries aggregating $S00. Since his repudiation of his “confession the authorities here declare his statement was a piece of fic-of their inhabitants and may reflect their influence on succeeding occupants. How important it would seem in viewing the circumstances in this sense, that the Gunness fire occurred,and it looks like a dispensation of providence that the house was destroyed to the last splinter. In the light of late results of the public sale, it is quite probable that if the shocking crimes had been brought to publicknowledge without the burning of the house, the building and farm would have gone under the hammer to the highest bidder and some fanatical fool with more money than sense, would be found speculating on the curiosity and shortcomings of average understanding, setting up a “castle of criminology” in Northern Indiana, a disgusting mark of hideous history which all the higher attributes of human mind would bid us forget as soon as possible. Were it generally understood that the personal effects of Mrs. Gunness transmit or reflect an ora of evil, though unknown and unseen, men would be about as keen to buy them as a mother would be to buy rattle snakes as play things for her children. Five hundred buggies at the public sale, bearing their burdens of humanity thither to buy relics, keepsakes, memorials of a she-devil whose like has not been known, Is rather a sad commentary on the intelligence of those who spent the high dollar to obtain blood-spattered goodsthey should be ashamed to own, and which may some day lead them Into folly.In response to requests from relatives of Mrs. Belle Gunness in Norway, Carl F. Faye, acting consul for Norway in Chicago, is expected to come to LaPorte in an effort to learn facts with which to reply to these letters. Numerous inquiries concerning the murderess have been received at the Norwegian consulate. The letters are from persons seeking missing rela-
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La Porte Weekly Herald
La Porte, Indiana, US
Thu, Jun 11, 1908
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