Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 November 1908 — DISLIKED LAMPHERE [ARTICLE]

DISLIKED LAMPHERE

So It Would Appear of Mrs. Gunness from Expressions in Her Letters. WHAT SHE WROTE HELGELEIN Lamphere’s Movements the Morning After the Fire Taggart Not to Seek a Toga. La Porte, Iml., Nov. 17.-—Prosecutor Smith phiyml another tnnnp card when, with A. 11. Helgelein, of Aberdeen, s. I)., cm the stand he offered In evldeneb and read to the Jury copies of three lotions written by Mrs. Belle Gunness to him during March and April, this year, in which references to “that crazy Lumphere’’ are made. Likewise these letters portray the methods employed by the areh-nmmicr-ess ip allaying the suspicions of the relatives of persons she had murdered. Even with Andrew Ilelgeleln lying disnieinlsucd In her*private burylnggrotmd she was asking his brother Asle K. Helgelein to come to La Porte to Investigate* and bring plenty of money with him. That she bad designs on his life, too, is confidently believed .by that man. The state made excellent progress during the day.

Woman’s References to Lampbere. Some of the expressions with reference to Laiutkhere used In her letters to Helgelcin are these: “But this Lampbere liegan to find so many wrong tilings to talk about, until at last they took and arrested him, end they bad three doctors to examine him and see if lie was right. They found him not quite crazy enough to put In a hospital. But perfectly sane he is not • * * Others have told me that Lampbere was jealous of Andrew [Helgeleiu] and for that reason troubled me this way. * • * This Lamphere drang so much. * * * I think It Is one of this half-crazed Lamphere who has started it all. • • • Lamphere he did not know anything about Andrew’s trouble, but he has lately found so much to trouble us with. * * • Lamphere, who now has been arrested so many times for all the bother he had been. * * * I was pretty sure that Lamphere had in some •way taken ids letters.” , Morning After the Fire. 1 Ell Hoover, who lives north of the* Guinness farm, testified to seeing a man rtmnig across the fields early iu the morning o>f April 28tb. He was not able to say that It was Lamphere The man wore an overcoat Lamphere had one on that morning. John, Ross, a cousin of Lampbere, testified that on the morning of the 28th Lamphere came to his place, about three and a half miles northeast of the Ounnesis farm, shortly before 0 o'clock, to borrow a broad-ax. He told him that he had Won the. (iunness house burning. Ross, who knew of the Gunness-Lam-phere troubles, told Lamphere he would probably be “pulled.” The latter replied: “I hope the straight of it will come out.” Lampbere told the witness that he had been in Michigan City. Told of Seeing the Blaze. John Westbrook, for whom Lamphere was working, and with whom he had come from the 'fire, testified that Lamphere appeared at bis place at 0:30 a. m.. April ‘2Bth, and told of seeing a fire which he learned was the Gunness house. He said he did not know whether tlie folks got out er not.

DUST IN A MILL EXPLODES Four Men Seriously Wounded and Property Worth $20,000 Wiped Out by Fire.” Crawfordrfville, Ind., Nov. 17. —Four men were seriously injured and a dozen or more slightly hurt by an explosion In the outs rooms of the main building of the American Milling company’s stock food factory «t Linden, ten miles north of here. The explosion was caused by spontaneous combustion of dust. The building at once caught fire and the whole factory was destroyed. The loss Is $20,000, partly covered by insurance. The moat seriously injured are: George Smith, Roy Mangus, Warner Keefe aud John Clark, all employes. The main factory building, a large two-story frame structure, caught fire immediately after the explosion. The explosion put the fire system out of commission, and on this account it was impossible to make headway in fighting the flames. Has Trouble Coming to Him. Linton, Ind., Nov. 17.—Mayor G G Riley, the first Republican mayor of Linton, is considering making public the names of the men who are going to give him a whipping just as soon as his term expiree. He says the list is growing day by day and by the time he has completed his term that he will have h list of fifty er more.